Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem

Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Markus Döring
Contact:

Markus Döring
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: +49(30) 838-50284
Fax: +49(30) 841 72 955
E-mail: m.doering@bgbm.org
Blog: http://www.pywrapper.com/markus/blog/

Function: 

Biologist (Biodiversity Informatics), Department of Biodiversity Informatics

Projects involved in:

  • EDIT (2006-now)
    European Distributed Institute for Taxonomy. Developing a platform for cybertaxonomy. [more]
  • Synthesys (2005-2006)
    Network Activity D: Development of an online specimen annotation system in JavaServer Pages, duplicate detection software and general data quality tools for specimen or observation records. Web based configuration tools for the TAPIR PyWrapper using the object oriented Python web framework CherryPy. [more]
  • Species2000 Europa (2004-2005)
    Extending the generic XML/CGI search interface of PyWrapper to the syntax (SPICE) of the dynamic Species2000 checklist. Connecting the IOPI Global Species Database and the Euro+Med Plantbase to Species2000 via extended PyWrapper. Implementation of simple search gateways, to link back from the Species2000 site to the full IOPI GPC information system and the BioCASE specimen network.[more]
  • IOPI GPC (2004-)
    Data management for the Global Plant Checklist of the International Organization of Plant Information.[more]
  • TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR) (2004):
    Design study for a unified protocol to replace DiGIR and BioCASE for search and retrieval of distributed data. Report and protocol draft (XML schema) prepared for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). [more]
  • A Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASE) (2002-2004):
    BioCASE workpackage lead for the National Node Network. Development of a Python based middleware (PyWrapper, an XML/CGI database interface), central data harvesting tools (Java) & cache database design (PostgreSQL), natural collection metadata standard specification (XML schema) together with an offline editor (MS Access), the BioCASE protocol specification (XML schema) for XML message based distributed searches on heterogenous databases and creation of the public website. [more]
  • Med-Checklist Vol.2, Compositae (2002):
    Data import and taxonomic editor development for the Berlin Model, a taxonomic concept database model (MS SQL Server).

Research interests:

  • Distributed information systems, SOA, semantic web
  • Domain modeling, ontologies. Especially in biological realms such as taxonomy, biological collections and observations
  • Biogeography, evolution, ferns

Memberships:

  • GBIF science subcommittee on Data Access and Data Interoperability (DADI)
  • TDWG Taxonomic Database Working Group active in TAPIR, ABCD & NCD subgroups
  • CODATA Task Group on Access to Biological Collection Data
  • GEMA German society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights

Publications:

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