About MediaDive
The mission of MediaDive is to transform poorly structured media recipes into a standardized database. Therefore, we mined thousands of PDF and HTML documents and developed the database. We built the MediaDive web interface to share this development with the community. To ensure the quality of the media and continous improvement of the database, we developed an internal editor interface. Experts at the DSMZ are creating new media and curating the existing media using this interface.
If MediaDive is helpful to your research, please consider citing our paper:
Koblitz, J., Halama, P., Spring, S., Thiel, V., Baschien, C., Hahnke, R., Pester, M., Overmann, J. and Reimer, L. (2022) MediaDive: the expert-curated cultivation media database. Nucleic Acids Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac803
Have a look at our flash talk (a.k.a. ePoster) at the VAAM, where we introduced MediaDive to the community:
Roadmap
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June 2022
The name of the database was changed to MediaDive and the design was completely revised.
Revamping the RESTful API.
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February 2022
Large database update with plenty of new features.
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December 2021
The media curation of all DSMZ media is now performed by experts.
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September 2021
Updating the Media database and adding more features.
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July 2021
Finishing MediaDev, an internal curator interface for the media data.
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April 2021
BacMedia is live and open for everyone.
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March 2021
Polishing BacMedia website, improving documentation, preparing for deployment.
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February 2021
Finished manual curation of all extracted media data.
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January 2021
Building the first version of BacMedia.
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November 2020
Extraction of the media data from PDF and Word documents.
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October 2020
Start of this project.