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Arctos Collaborative Management and Shared Data Economies

Emily Braker, Arctos Education and Training Officer

NMNH Digitization Workshop, May 2023

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>4.8 million records

52 Institutions

302 Collections

977K media

806K georeferenced localities

>39K citations|10,284 pubs

>37K GenBank links

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53 institutions

302 collections

>4.8M records

Data Snapshot

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Shared Data Environment

Controlled vocabularies and shared authorities

Highly structured and normalized data

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  • Connectivity
  • Collaborative decision making and data improvements
  • Automation: IPT packaging, bots, low quality/error/ ‘missed connection’ detection

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Agents

Taxonomy

Geography

Media

Publications

Projects

Arctos Virtual Private Database Model

with Shared Tables and Vocabularies

Shared

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Arctos Entity Relationship Diagram

All roads lead to agents!

Agents:

Collectors

Determiners

Preparators

Authors

Georeferences

Loan Contacts

Media Creators

Organizations

Etc.

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Relationships

Attribute Determinations

Transactions

Publications

Identifications

Name Variants

Media

Records

Addresses & Biographical Remarks

Projects

Georeferences

& Event

Assertions

AGENT ACTIVITY

Agent Activity Summary

Agent Activity for Robert L. Rausch

https://arctos.database.museum/agent/2570

Agents

Multiple

institutions

Familial, Academic, Professional

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Collaborative Edits

Suggest and Merge Duplicates

Find inconsistencies

Data Quality Tools

Summarize and filter activity

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Pathways:

  • Webservice Classifications (e.g., AntWiki, Nickel-Strunz 10, WoRMs, TPT) – via GlobalNames
  • Arctos Classification – local data (editable)
  • Cloning from external sources into Arctos Classification (editable)

Taxonomy

Clone External Classifications into Local Table

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Shared Localities

Georeferencing

Places

Any overlapping

collecting locality

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Locality resampled through time

1910

1960

2010

Examples:

Diverse taxa from same collecting event

= Efficiency, consistency, discoverability gains

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Digitization/Extended Specimen Tools

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Citations

5 institutions: DMNS, MSB, UAM, UCM, UMNH

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Media

API

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Projects

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LINKED PROJECTS

BERINGIAN COEVOLUTION PROJECT (BCP)

AGENTS

DESCRIPTION

MEDIA

USAGE

PUBLICATIONS

CATALOG RECORD

PROJECTS

Contributed: The Robert and Virginia Rausch Helminthological Studies

Contributed by: Beringian coevolution project

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parasite of MSB:Mamm:158238

RELATIONSHIPS

MEDIA

Locality

Agents

Citations

Parts & Attributes

Genetic sequences

Identifiers and External Linkages

MSB:Para:1252

Arostrilepis cooki

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Collated Project data

(multi-collection, cross-institutional)

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Secondary and tertiary Project products

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Primary source data

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PROJECT

PROJECT

PROJECT

Projects

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  • Link related records
  • Unreciprocated relationships bot to automate linkages

Relationships

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Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

MVZ:Mamm:225308

Tamias alpinus

Museum of Southwestern Biology

MSB:Para:27057

Rauschtineria eutamii

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COLLECTING EVENT

Cirque Lake, Inyo Co,

CA USA

8 July 2010

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MEDIA/FIELD NOTES

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Cited in 3

PUBLICATIONS

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3 DNA

SEQUENCES

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DNA

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ISOTOPE Analysis

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Cited in 1 PUBLICATION

HOST

PARASITE

5 MVZ chipmunks from same locality

2 MSB parasites from same lot

Tertiary Extension

DATA PRODUCTS

Tertiary Extension

DATA PRODUCTS

CITES 300

MVZ mammal specimens

DATASETS citing DMNS, UMNH and other MSB specimens

1 PROJECT: Grinnell Resurvey (NSF-funded)

2 PhD DISSERTATIONS

Relationship DATA PUBLISHED to GloBI

Dryad

DATASET

CT MEDIA hosted on

MorphoSource

NCBI

RELATIONSHIP

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Community

https://github.com/ArctosDB

Community

Decisions

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Webinars, Video Tutorials

Community-curated Documentation

Collaborative Learning

Shared Workflows

Shared Resources

Shared Interns

Virtual Coffee and Office Hours

Peer Mentorship (incoming collections)

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Wrap up

Collaborative Data Model:

  • Distribute tasks and increase efficiencies
  • Leverage community-sourced solutions and knowledge
  • Develop community-driven data practices and standards
  • Build data and human networks
  • Provide accessible and discoverable research-grade data

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CollaBEARative?

We put the BEAR

in collaborative!

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Learn More:

Arctos Website: arctosdb.org

Arctos GitHub: https://github.com/ArctosDB

Contact: arctos-working-group-officers@googlegroups.com

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