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SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF
Free and Open Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data
www.biodiversity.aqwww.scarmarbin.be
Antarctic Environment
• Highest, driest windiest continent
• Fastest rates of change on the planet
• Heat sink in planet’s climate system
• High seasonality of light
• Marine: stable physico-chemical parameters
• Marine: low and constant temperature
• Marine: high productivity from phytoplancton
Antarctic (marine) Biodiversity
• Highly adapted to extreme (stable) environment
• High level of endemism
• Marine biomass and biodiversity second to tropical coral reefs
• Under-studied (especially the deep sea)
• Vulnerable to shifts!
• To understand these processes we need data
Antarctic Treaty
« In order to promote international cooperation in scientific investigation in Antarctica, as provided for in
Article III (1c) of the Treaty, the Contracting Parties agree that, to the greatest extent feasible and practicable: […]
Scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available. »
(our inspiration)
“Exchanging” biodiversity data
• science-based, adaptative conservation and management
• testing fundamental theories
• consolidation of the community
• establish a benchmark for undisputed evidence of change/shifts
Data availability
• what? where? when?
• widely disseminated, patchy, hardly accessible
• (expensive) data and expertise are vanishing (fast!)
SCAR-MarBIN & ANTABIF
• www.scarmarbin.be: marine biodiversity information network
• www.biodiversity.aq: biodiversity information facility
• Main funding: Belgian science Policy office
• International Polar Year 2007/08
• Census of Antarctic Marine Life
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Global Biodiversity Information Network
• Build an electronic ecosystem
• Offer free and open access to data and technology
• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata, in multiple contexts
• Remain community-driven, and collaborative
• Adopt strong standardization
• Work for science, conservation, management
General philosophy
[results]: webportal (s)
taxonomy, biogeography
vizualisation
open access
850,000 visitors
6,950,000 hits
35,000,000 dld records
V2 coming up
ANTABIF coming up
[results]: taxonomic data
all taxa
all species
valid species
0 3,750 7,500 11,250 15,000
• The first RAMS
• Board of 60+ editors
• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL
• 17,098 taxa (RAMS)
• Building a dynamic RAS
• 24,248 taxa (RAS)
[results]: geospatial data
1,275,799 records190 datasets
106 geodatasets5,235 taxa
Feeds OBIS, GBIFDownloadable
WebGISWebservices
ANTABIF technological ecosystems:Language: Ruby
Design patterns: MVC-ORMFramework: Rails(ActiveRecord) and YUI
Search engine: Full text (Elasticsearch-Lucene)Database: PostGresql GIS server: Geoserver
Spatial database: PostGISMapping client: OpenLayers
Web services: RESTish (all resources)Protocoles: DIF, dwcore, dwc archive, Tapir…etc
GBIF tools : HIT,IPTOS: FreeBSD
Hosting: BBPF (ULB/VUB joint IT Center)Metadata systems: GCMD (mirrored)N
uts
and
bolts
100% Open Source solutions
Antarctic Field Guidesafg.biodiversity.aqafg.scarmarbin.be
• Identification aid
• Best available pictures
• Descriptions
• Dynamically built from various sources
More Ideas... coming up
Georeferenced genetic data: CAML barcoding
Polar Macroscope working group: BiPolar analyses
Southern Ocean Biogeography Atlas: interactive Atlas
Getting the microbes in...
Discoverable
Data should be accessible soon after collection (online wherever possible) in a discovery portal such as the Global Change Master Directory.
The importance of METADATA
Open
Open Data is a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.—Wikipedia
Anything else than Open slows down processes.
Linked
The term Linked Data is used to describe a method of exposing, sharing, and connecting data [using] the Web.—Wikipedia
Web2.0 philosophy.
UsefulData from different projects, disciplines, and data centers should be easily understood and used in
conjunction with each other in standard tools and analysis frameworks
Data should be well described so to be useful for a broad audience.
Interoperable
Metadata and data should be readily interchangeable between different polar data systems to enable data discovery across multiple portals.
So we stop reinventing the wheel all the time...
SafeSafe from hackers, from obsolescence, from undocumented change, from loss, and from the ravages of time.
That’s quite a challenge!
www.biodiversity.aq
www.slideshare.net/scarmarbin
www.scarmarbin.be
bruno.danis@scarmarbin.be
Thanks for your attention!
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