@conference {1414, title = {A Computational- and Storage-Cloud for Integration of Biodiversity Collections}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on e-Science}, year = {2013}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Beijing, China}, abstract = {A core mission of the Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) project is the building and deployment of a cloud computing environment customized to support the digitization workflow and integration of data from all U.S. nonfederal biocollections. iDigBio chose to use cloud computing technologies to deliver a cyberinfrastructure that is flexible, agile, resilient, and scalable to meet the needs of the biodiversity community. In this context, this paper describes the integration of open source cloud middleware, applications, and third party services using standard formats, protocols, and services. In addition, this paper demonstrates the value of the digitized information from collections in a broader scenario involving multiple disciplines.}, keywords = {appliances, biocollections infrastructure, biodiversity, cloud computing, data access, data store, digitization, EF-1115210}, doi = {10.1109/eScience.2013.48}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2013.48}, author = {Matsunaga, Andr{\'e}a and Thompson, Alex and Figueiredo, Renato J. and Germain-Aubrey, Charlotte C. and Collins, Matthew and Beaman, Reed S. and MacFadden, Bruce J. and Riccardi, Greg and Soltis, Pamela S. and Page, Lawrence M. and Fortes, Jos{\'e} A.B.} }