A Computational- and Storage-Cloud for Integration of Biodiversity Collections

Author

Matsunaga, Andrea ; Thompson, Andrew ; Figueiredo, R.J. ; Germain-Aubrey, Charlotte C. ; Collins, Michael ; Beaman, Reed S. ; MacFadden, Bruce J. ; Riccardi, Giuseppe ; Soltis, Pamela S. ; Page, Lawrence M. ; Fortes, Jose A. B.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

87

Abstract

A core mission of the Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) project is the building and deployment of a cloud computing environment customized to support the digitization workflow and integration of data from all U.S. non-federal biocollections. iDigBio chose to use cloud computing technologies to deliver a cyber infrastructure that is flexible, agile, resilient, and scalable to meet the needs of the biodiversity community. In this context, this paper describes the integration of open source cloud middleware, applications, and third party services using standard formats, protocols, and services. In addition, this paper demonstrates the value of the digitized information from collections in a broader scenario involving multiple disciplines.

Keywords

biology computing; cloud computing; data integration; middleware; protocols; public domain software; U.S. nonfederal biocollections; biodiversity collection integration; biodiversity community; cloud computing environment; computational-cloud; cyber infrastructure; data integration; digitization workflow; iDigBio project; integrated digitized biocollections project; open source cloud middleware; standard formats; standard protocols; standard services; storage-cloud; third party services; Biodiversity; Cloud computing; Communities; Home appliances; Media; Portals; Standards; appliances; biocollections infrastructure; biodiversity; cloud computing; data access; data store; digitization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

eScience (eScience), 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eScience.2013.48

Filename

6683894