Online Resources And Data Sets

Axiell EMu

Also referred to as "KE EMu" from the prior company name "Knowledge Engineering". This is the software the museum uses to manage collections.

• Database integration with EMu

(https://www.resourcespace.com/knowledge-base/user/plugin-emu)

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Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

AMNH is a participating member of the BHL consortium of natural history and botanical libraries. We contribute digitized publications and field work to be accessed openly in a global "biodiversity commons." There is some overlap between DSpace and BHL. Like DSpace, this is useful for searching content within a resource and pulling graphic elements or images for the results page.

• BHL REST API Documentation
• BHL developer page

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Paleobiology Database

• PaleoBioDB API

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GPlates

GPlates is desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate-tectonics, by combining plate-tectonic reconstructions, geographic information system (GIS) functionality and raster data visualisation. GPlates enables both the visualisation and the manipulation of plate-tectonic reconstructions and associated data through geological time. GPlates runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

The GPlates model is currently the default for all paleo-coordinates downloaded from the Paleobiology Database. The PaleoBioDB uses its own implementation of the model to estimate the coordinates.

There is also an associated web service for visualizations of plate tectonic reconstructions called Paleomap Maker

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Computer Vision / Text Reading Implementations

• https://bitbucket.org/petermr/imageanalysis: Basic routines for processing scientific and similar diagrams. Primarily works on clear primitives shapes (lines, symbols, curves, polygons, clear text).

• https://sites.google.com/site/internationalengineersrg/tools: Image Processing Research Group software and tools.

• https://bitbucket.org/petermr/diagramanalyzer: Takes a set of graphics primitives from ImageAnalysis (mixture of paths and pixels) originating from diagrams and turns them into an approximation of the original diagram.

• https://github.com/HackTheDinos/saplingdetector: Derives phylogenetic tree data from images; text reading, pathfinding

• PLOS ONE Phylogeny Corpus (Testing data for image analysis)

• Google Vision API

• Facebook DeepMask and SharpMask

• ClarifAI

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Miscellaneous Resources and Other External Systems

• Library of Congress: persons, corporations, subject headings, format, titles, geographic locations, roles

• Getty, Thesaurus of Geographic Names: geographic locations

• AMNH local lists: persons, corporations, location of material, and anything else that does not have an authority

SNAC, International cooperative for entities

SNAC is also a database for entities using EAC-CPF. It has been called the "Facebook for dead people" because of the relational networks. The current beta prototype includes hundreds of thousands of records, mostly derived from catalog and finding aid (archives) descriptions. Because there is no automated way to pull records, this site may not be helpful in particular challenges, but we are planning to contribute many of our records to their database. Below is a rough visualization of their Whitney South Sea Expedition identity constellation.

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