ARTSDATABANKEN Norwegian Biodiversity

Information Centre

Nils Valland Senior advisor

13 Nov 2008

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The biodiversity centre at a glance

Formally established in 2004, full operation in 2005

The governing board is appointed by the Ministry of Research and Education

Annual grants: Ca 25 mill NKR

Administrative services from the University of Trondheim

More than 50% of the budget is allocated to buy services from research institutions

The Centre is fully independent from sector interests

The focus on international co-operation is increasing

The mission

The biodiversity centre is the official national source for information on Biodiversity in Norway

Our major role is to provide society with updated and easy accessible information on ecosystems, species and genes (populations)

Photo: Jussi EvertsenPhoto: Torkild Bakken

Photo: Jussi Evertsen

The biodiversity centre’s ”position”

Allmennheten Offentlig/Privat sektor

The public Management authorities, politicians, NGOs, schools, research institutions, land owners, consultant agencies…..

Museums, universities and research institutions

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National Red Lists

National Black Lists

Fact sheets

Species map service

Public species report service (observ.data)

Species tesaurus (name standards)

Classification system ecosystems and habitats

The annual conference ”Nature 200X”

Species project together with Sweden

Major products and services

Norwegian Species Map Service and Species Gateway (observations) -

status and accessibility

Species Map Service Species Observations

Letharia vulpina VUPhoto: Stein Hoem

Distribution Artemisia norvegica VU

Artemisia norvegica, Photo: Rigmor Wang

Species Map Service

The webmapclienthttp://artskart.artsdatabanken.no/

Search for species or taxonomic group Search in a hierarchic species tree Combined search with Redlist status Geographic search for county and municipality Choose institution, time span, Redlist status Visualise geographic presition as a quadrate around the points Change background map Objecttabels and detailed info

The majority of the objects are available on GBIFs dataportal (http://data.gbif.org)

GBIF• 2,5 mill posts (no. 15 among the 225 nodes, no. 11 among the nations) in Norway

GBIF 2,5 mill posts (no. 15 among the 225 nodes, no. 11 among the nations) in

Norway Natural History Museum, UiO is partisipant node Main office in Copenhagen (www.gbif.org) Using Biodiversity information standards (TDWG)

Species Map Service

Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre and GBIF-Norway co-operation agreement

Darwin Core 2 standard Only points (with geographic precition) Ca. 2 mill. hits pr. 1.oct. 2008 15 datasuppliers, mostly scientific institutions 4 new suppliers in 2008 Prognosis, ca. 5 mill. objects pr. 31.12.2008 Expenditure 7,6 mill. NOK during 2006-2008 for

quality control/preparing data, the institutions have spent the same on own efforts

Why geographic species information ?

Geographic georeferred and scientific quality controlled information is a prerequisite for the public administration to preserve species diversity

For the general public interested in nature, NGOs and the educational system

Common infrastructure for research institutions and universities

A scientific foundation for the Redlist 2010

Artemisia norvegica VU

Reasons for hiding data

Theathened species with sensitive geographic information

Uncertain data quality Data included in active, yet

unpublished research works

Bubo bubo EN

Basic prinsiples

dataowner manage his source data

make available data i standardized formats

establish data webservices for search, integration or download

The prinsiple is distributed databases available

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Data flow and roles

Dataowner make a ”copy” of primary databases codes with standardized dataparametres (Darwin Core 2 – norwegian edition)

The copy is stored in a nodedatabase delivering data online to Species Map Service and GBIFs dataportal

Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre delivers species names og Redlist status to the nodedatabases

Natural History Museum is the Norwegian GBIF partisipant node

Background topographic maps is delivered as WMS from Norwegian Mapping Authority (Norway Digital), Norwegian Polar Institute and the Directorate for Nature Management

Norwegian Species Map Service – from source to maps

Find species data Organise data-

production and dataflow

Quality control Coding species

data Make a mapclient

and webservices

Map service Application built on the .Net-platform

• Asp.Net 2.0. (Visual Basic and C#)

• Index-database in the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre

Webservices (C#) installed in the distributed sourcedatabases (Oracle, MS SQL, Postgre SQL, MySQL). These are running either on Microsoft or Linux-platform

Volume pr. 05.11.2008

278489 Redlist posts (8 %) in Species Map Service pr. 5.nov.2008

Plans for Species Map Service and GBIF

Improved functionality• refererable links to mapobjects (nov.2008)

• Downloading Excel-tables (nov.2008)

• new search choives (may 2009)

• new map navigation (may 2009)

• statistics (may 2009)

Webservices (WMS+GML) for external map applications (nov.2008)

• Redlisted species www.artsobservasjoner.no as

source (dec.2008) More GBIF-datanodes

Species Gateway (observations)

the digital field diary and a collecting funnel for new documentation

http://www.artsobservasjoner.no/

For whom ?

general public interested in nature

self-educated amateurs members of NGOs trained biologists in

non-scientific employment

biologists in scientific employment

Species Observations Copy of Artportalen.se 4 modules Adapted together with 5 NGOs

• NOF Norwegian ornithological society

• NBF Norwegian botanical assosiation

• NSNF Norwegian Mycological- and Ethnobotanical Society

• NEF Norwegian entomological society

• NZF Norwegian zoological society

Launched 5.may 2008 2630 reporters pr. 5.nov.2008 Over 36 mill.hits pr 5.nov.2008 Ca. 60 000 visits (unike IP-

adresses) in oct.2008

Growth in the number of observations pr. 5.nov.2008

Lansering5.mai 2008

Nr 250 00020.juni 2008

Nr 500 00026.aug 2008

Distribution of species observations pr. 5.nov.2008

15000 photos in Species Observations pr. 5.nov. 2008

Sterna hirundo Photo: Tommy Andre Andersen

Daphne mezereum Photo: Rigmor Wang

Erebia ligea Photo: Nils Valland

Lemmus lemmusPhoto: Nils Valland

Plans Business agreement with

Norwegian Biodiversity Network, SABIMA in 2009

Observation validation in 2009• Insects and Plants

Development of version 2.0. with The Swedish Species Information Centre aug.2008-febr. 2010• English version and language

support

• Improved functionality

Launching in 2010Zygaena viciae VU Photo: Åslaug Viken

The planned use of Species Observations in public environmental administration

Norwegian nature inspectorate SNO

Consulting firms as a reporting and datasharing tool

Harvesting data from municipal databases not yet available on the internet (Naturbase)

Including species observations statistics and daily observations on websites in the public environmental administration

Sharing data internationally in GBIF and EEA

Podiceps auritus EN Photo: Frode Falkenberg

Some observations of Podiceps auritus inSpecies observations