Integrating heterogeneous databases in the Ocean Biogeographic Information System Phoebe Y. Zhang...

Integrating heterogeneous databases in the

Ocean Biogeographic Information System

Phoebe Y. Zhang J.F. Grassle

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) www.iobis.org

• OBIS is the information component of the Census of Marine Life, an international research program assessing and explaining the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine organisms throughout the world's oceans

• OBIS is an international science program to develop an on-line, open-access, globally-distributed network of systematic, ecological, and environmental information systems

”What lives where in the oceans and why”

OBIS History

• 1997:Some of the initial ideas for OBIS were developed at a CoML meeting

• 1998:Sloan funded Rutgers to develop a web-site to demonstrate the initial concept

• 1999: The first OBIS international workshop, DC

• 2000: NOPP funded eight projects to initiate OBIS

• 2001: NSF funded Rutgers to build a global portal for OBIS, OBIS becomes a GBIF Partner

• 2002:NOPP funded and other OBIS projects are interoperable through OBIS portal

OBIS International Committee• Mark J. Costello, Chair, Canada • Neil Ashcroft, United Kingdom• Geoff Boxshall, United Kingdom• Daphne G. Fautin, USA • Kim Finney, Australia • Rainer Froese, Germany • Dennis P. Gordon, New Zealand • J. Frederick Grassle, USA • Yoshihisa Shirayama, Japan

OBIS Secretariat

OBIS Members

• Bats Zooplankton (Deborah Steinberg)

• Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals (Daphne Fautin, Bob Buddemeier)

• Cephbase (Phillip Lee, James Wood )

• FishBase (William Eschmeyer, Rainer Froese)

• Fishnet (Edward Wiley )

• GMBIS (Dale Kiefer)

• Indo-Pacific Mollusc Database (Gary Rosenberg)

• National Ocean Data Center (Roz Cohen)

• Seamount Online (Karen Stocks)

• ZooGene (Ann Bucklin,Bruce W. Frost, Peter H. Wiebe, Michael J. Fogarty)

www.iobis.org

OBIS Portal services

Biogeographic Data servicesearch over 430,000 species-based, geo-referenced records

Name servicecommon name-scientific name, synonym translation

Mapping serviceoverlaying with environmental basemaps

Biodiversity modeling service

www.iobis.org

OBIS Architecture

OBIS Portal services

Biogeographic Data service

Name service

Mapping service

Biodiversity modeling service

What’s New:NODC World Plankton DatabaseFAO Data through FishBase

Plans for the near future

• Genetic Information service (under development)Genetic Information service (under development)

• Expand returned data types on biogeographic data

• Integrate HMAP, Gulf of Maine, Southampton open sea data, and other mature data systems

• Incorporate more mapping, analysis, and modeling tools into the portal and provide network-wide automatic service

– Provide more key environmental data sets, provide viewing tools – Envirodata and EASy Netviewer

Become an OBIS Member

• provide data service to OBIS users through dynamic, distributed query

• provide data service to OBIS users by sending a copy of the data to OBIS for dynamic serving

• provide other services that can benefit the whole OBIS community

Contact Phoebe Zhang: phoebe@imcs.rutgers.edu

Sponsors and Members

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation