A tool for multipurpose use of online flora and fauna: The Biological Information Browsing Environment, BIBE

Heidorn, P. Bryan

doi:10.5210/fm.v6i2.835

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“…In this project, we are studying how the participants learn to identify species and when they fail. The objective of the BIBE project is to understand the information use and information needs of several groups of participants (Heidorn, 2001). The study of information use in this context is called biodiversity informatics.…”

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Complementary user‐centered methodologies for information seeking and use: System's design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE)

Heidorn

Mehra

Lokhaiser

2002

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Complementary, socially grounded, user-centered methodologies are being used to design new information systems to support biodiversity informatics. Each of the methods-interviews, focus groups, field observations, immersion, and lab testing-has its own strengths and weaknesses. Methods vary in their ability to reveal the automatic processes of experts (that need to be learned by novices), data richness, and their ability to help interpret complex information needs and processes. When applied in concert, the methods provide a much clearer picture of the use of information while performing a real life information-mediated task. This picture will be used to help inform the design of a new information system, Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE). The groups being studied are high school students, teachers, and volunteer adult groups performing biodiversity surveys. In this task the people must identify and record information about many species of flora and fauna. Most of the information tools they use for training and during the survey are designed to facilitate the difficult species identification task.

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Complementary user‐centered methodologies for information seeking and use: System's design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE)

Heidorn

Mehra

Lokhaiser

2002

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Essa flexibilidade torna a atividade menos complexa (Dallwitz et al 2000, Walter & Winterton 2007, Bittrich et al 2012) e aumenta consideravelmente as chances de identificação correta, mesmo com material incompleto. Dessa maneira, as chaves interativas podem contribuir substancialmente para a popularização da taxonomia e o avanço dos estudos florísticos, sistemáticos e de conservação (Dallwitz 1980, Jarvie & Stevens 1998, Dallwitz et al 2000, Heidorn 2001, Silva et al 2011, Bittrich et al 2012.…”

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Chave interativa para a identificação das espécies da Aliança Tabebuia (Bignoniaceae) no estado da Bahia, Brasil

2013

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Foi elaborada uma chave interativa para a identificação das 26 espécies da Aliança Tabebuia (Bignoniaceae) nativas do estado da Bahia, Brasil. A partir de uma página web, contendo caixas de seleção com caracteres botânicos, de marcação livre e não sequencial, vão se eliminando as espécies que não atendem aos critérios selecionados até a identificação completa do material. A chave está inserida em um site, contendo informações sobre Bignoniaceae, a Aliança Tabebuia e o estado da Bahia, bem como um glossário dos termos botânicos utilizados na chave e um banco de imagens. O sistema foi desenvolvido a partir das linguagens HTML e Javascript, é autoexecutável em CD-ROM e está disponível para download em: http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/alessandro-rapini/publications/ComputerProgram/. A utilização das chaves interativas facilita e dinamiza o processo de identificação dos táxons, contribuindo para a difusão do conhecimento biológico e elaboração de programas voltados ao reconhecimento e conservação da biota.

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“…More sophisticated versions include electronic keys created through character databases (e.g., Delta: delta-intkey.com, Lucid: www.lucidcentral.org). Some of these electronic field guides are now available on-line or for downloading onto PDAs (e.g., Heidorn, 2001; OpenKey: http://www3.isrl .uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/cgi-bin/schoolfieldguide.cgi), while others are being developed as active websites that can continually be revised and updated (e.g., Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/pacificis landbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm).…”

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First steps toward an electronic field guide for plants

Agarwal

Belhumeur

Feiner

et al. 2006

TAXON

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We describe an ongoing project to digitize information about plant specimens and make it available to botanists in the field. This first requires digital images and models, and then effective retrieval and mobile computing mechanisms for accessing this information. We have almost completed a digital archive of the collection of type specimens at the Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany. Using these and additional images, we have also constructed prototype electronic field guides for the flora of Plummers Island. Our guides use a novel computer vision algorithm to compute leaf similarity. This algorithm is integrated into image browsers that assist a user in navigating a large collection of images to identify the species of a new specimen. For example, our systems allow a user to photograph a leaf and use this image to retrieve a set of leaves with similar shapes. We measured the effectiveness of one of these systems with recognition experiments on a large dataset of images, and with user studies of the complete retrieval system. In addition, we describe future directions for acquiring models of more complex, 3D specimens, and for using new methods in wearable computing to interact with data in the 3D environment in which it is acquired.

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A tool for multipurpose use of online flora and fauna: The Biological Information Browsing Environment, BIBE

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Complementary user‐centered methodologies for information seeking and use: System's design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE)

Complementary user‐centered methodologies for information seeking and use: System's design in the Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE)

Chave interativa para a identificação das espécies da Aliança Tabebuia (Bignoniaceae) no estado da Bahia, Brasil

First steps toward an electronic field guide for plants

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