Danis antabif kickoff

ANTABIF

www.biodiversity.aq

Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility

ANTABIF•www.biodiversity.aq

•single access to ALL Antarctic biodiversity data

•Funding: Belgian science Policy office until end 2011

•International Year of Biodiversity

•Global Biodiversity Information Network

•Australian Antarctic Division

•Princess Elisabeth Station

ANTABIF

•PIC: Polar Information Commons

•APECS: Association of Early Career Scientists

•GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility

•AAD

•AMBIO

•EG-BAMM: Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals

Networking

ANTABIF

•SCAR-MarBIN: marine biodiversity

•EBA database: terrestrial biodiversity

•GCMD (metadata): all disciplines

•Additional data: GIS layers, Code,...

Data and Metadata

ANTABIF

• Search engine: Full text (SOLR-Lucene)Database: PostGresql GIS: Geoserver, PostGIS, OpenLayers Web services: RESTish (all resources)Protocoles: DIF, DwCore, DwC archive, Tapir…etcGBIF tools : HIT, IPT…etcHosting: BBPF Metadata systems: IMIS and GCMD (mirrored)

Technology: 100% Open Source

ANTABIF•Webpresence:

•www.biodiversity.aq

•share.biodiversity.aq

•scratchpads.biodiversity.aq

•metadata portal (GCMD)

•social networks

•Building NOW on bulletproof technology and standards

Preliminary results

Remaining questions

•Architecture: still some fine tuning to do

•MoU with AAD

•Taxonomy: scratchpads? RAMS? specific needs...?

•Microbes??

•Data Policy: GBIF/PIC/IPY/SCARMarBIN???