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BotaniTours: Aggregating information about botanical points of interest in Scotland. Beatrice Alex and Claire Grover balex@inf.ed.ac.uk, grover@inf.ed.ac.uk Science Club, RBGE, Edinburgh, April 23rd 2015 TEAM Prof. Jon Oberlander, Dr.

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BotaniTours: Aggregating information about botanical points of interest in Scotland.

Beatrice Alex and Claire Grover balex@inf.ed.ac.uk, grover@inf.ed.ac.uk

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Prof. Jon Oberlander, Dr. Beatrice

Alex, Dr. Claire Grover, Tobias Mansfield-Williams James Reid

Dr. Elspeth Haston

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TEAM

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GOALS

Aggregate and mine information on wild plants and gardens in the Scottish Borders. Create a geo- and time-aware information service, a Yelp for plants and gardens. Create a web service and a mobile app as user interfaces. Users: anyone interested in wild plants around them (walkers, school children, the general public, tourists).

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BOTANICAL TOURISM

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DATASETS

Global Biodiversity Information Facility: geo-referenced

bservations of flowering plant since 2000 (25,947 geo-located

records, 2150 distinct species) and their common names (download on 1/9/2014) Wikipedia: plant descriptions Wikispecies: images Encyclopaedia of Life: images Flora Celtica: common names and historical plant usages Scotland’s Gardens: garden information Digimap’s Environment Roam: land use data

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DATA

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AGGREGATING FACTS

Species name Common name(s) Usage(s) Photos(s) and their attribution. Descriptions Rarity Terrain Flower colour, period and hight Garden name Address Opening Times Links back to all data sources

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LINKING

Link records of the same plant from different data sources via their scientific names or following links to other resources. Not always trivial due to different naming conventions. All aggregated data is stored in the BotaniTours (postgres) database.

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WEB SERVICE

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WEB SERVICE

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WEB SERVICE

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WEB SERVICE

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WEB SERVICE

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WEB SERVICE

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MOBILE APP

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MOBILE APP

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NATURE OF DATA

Datasets can contain some errors, inconsistencies or ambiguities.

Flowering plant observations located in the sea. Many observations located

n a 30x30km grid.

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NATURE OF DATA

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NATURE OF DATA

Type Frequency species 1,958 subspecies 103 genus 66 variety 19 subvariety 2 form 2

Sometimes data contains genus rather than species name (Mimulus Linnaeus, 1753)

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NEXT STEPS

Refine the existing web service and add more

information (plant characteristics, etc.). Add more geo-referenced data: NBN Gateway and BSBI records, set of known trees. Look for funding to collaborate with the RBGE on geo-referencing, linking etc. RBGE’s longterm goal is to add citizen science functionality.

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DEMO

http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ BotaniTours/

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THANK YOU

Question? Contact: balex@inf.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh Language Technology Group www.ltg.ed.ac.uk

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DISSEMINATION

Beatrice Alex and Claire Grover, Science Club talk at RBGE, Edinburgh, April 23rd 2015. Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Elspeth Haston, Tobias Mansfield-Williams, Jon Oberlander, James Reid. BotaniTours: A guide to botanical points of interest in the wild. Poster presentation at the DemoFest 2014, Edinburgh, October 30th 2014. Beatrice Alex. BotaniTours. Presentation and demo of BotaniTours at the SICSA Smart Tourism & Museums Galleries Scotland workshop, Edinburgh, June 5th 2014. Beatrice Alex. BotaniTours: Botanical Points of Interest in the Wild. Demo at the Digital Conservation 2014 conference, Aberdeen, May 23rd 2014. Jon Oberlander. Invited talk at the Information Access in Smart Cities (i- ASC) workshop at ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, April 10th 2014.

Science Club, RBGE, Edinburgh, April 23rd 2015