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INBioSpecies of Costa Rica

EOL Global Content Summit18-19 January 2012

Jesús A. Ugalde-Gómezjugalde@inbio.ac.cr

National Biodiversity InventoryNational Biodiversity Inventory

GatheringGathering

PreservationPreservation

MountingMounting

Collection ManagementCollection ManagementLabelingLabeling

DigitizingDigitizing

IdentificationIdentification

Information system

Data access via Internet

Georeferenced data

Bar codes

Biodiversity informatics

• Natural History• Conservation Status

and Demography• Distribution• Uses• Taxonomic

Information• References

GoalsTaxonomic group Specimens

collectedSpecimens to species level

Species

Arachnids 2,293 1,871 95Plants 336,143 287,034 10,730Insects 3,047,339 934,163 13,597Fungi 49,597 20,965 2,497Mollusks 201,013 125,192 1,746Myriapods 1,059 49 2Nematodes 18,674 1,436 111Onychophora 83 13 2

Total 3,656,201 1,370,723 28,780

4,074 species

aprox. 4,500 species

aprox.500 species

Current status with respect to your goals

Organizational details

• Four Units– Arthropods, Botany and Fungi (Biodiversity

Deparment)– Informatics Developments

• Curators:– Arthropods 4, Botany 2, and Fungi 1– Technicians 4

• Collections

Challenges• Atta2 Implementation (May-2012)

• People can add comments.• Naturalistic observation on specimens

citizens: photos, videos, information, and automatic curation by expert.

• Data curation– Taxonomy– Geographic information– Images integration

• Species Pages– Complement written with assembled

• Finacial Resources• Species pages – more impact

Special opportunities

• Barcoding

• INBio Cyberhives– Virtual

classrooms for environmental education

• Plinian Core

INBio’s Web Site Statistics (2010)Monthly Average of Visited Pages: 770,513Daily Average: 24,885Top Ten Countries:

1.- Costa Rica, 2.-México, 3.- United States, 4.- Colombia, 5.- España, 6.- Perú, 7.- Argentina, 8.- Panamá, 9.- Ecuador, 0.- Venezuela

Most Consulted Information (according to Alexa.com):

64.2% are consults to species records.

www.inbio.ac.cr

Jesús A. Ugalde-GómezSanto Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica.Apartado 22-3100.Teléfono (506) 2507-8164 Fax: 2507-8270e-mail: jugalde@inbio.ac.cr

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