I've submitted an entry for the 2018 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. It's a couple of weeks before the deadline but I will be away then so have decided to submit early.
My entry is Ozymandias - a biodiversity knowledge graph. The name is a play on "Oz" being nickname for Australia (much of the data for the entry comes from Australia), and Ozymandias, which is a poem about hubris, and attempting to link biodiversity data requires a certain degree of hubris.
The submission process for the challenge is unfortunately rather opaque compared to previous years when entries were visible to all, so participants could see what other people were submitting, and also knew the identity of the judges, etc. In the spirit of openness here is my video summarising my entry:
Ozymandias - GBIF Challenge Entry from Roderic Page on Vimeo.
There is also a background document here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UglxaL-yjXsvgwn06AdBbnq-HaT7mO4H5WXejzsb9MY/edit?usp=sharing.I suspect this entry is not at all what the challenge is looking for, but I've used the challenge as a deadline so that I get something out the door rather than endlessly tweaking a project that only I can see. There will, of course, be endless tweaking as I explore further ways to link data, but at least this way there is something people can look at. Now, I need to spend some time writing up the project, which will require yet more self discipline to avoid the endless tweaking.
