Biodiversity Information StandardsTDWG

Annual Meeting

The Global Invasive Species Information Networkproviding the backbone for invasive species information sharing

Database Interoperability

New Orleans, Louisiana19 October 2011

Annie Simpsonentomologist & librarian

data coordinator, BISON project

US Geological Surveyasimpson@usgs.gov

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Annual earthquake damage in US costs ~$4.4 billion

Let’s talk money…

Annual economic impact of invasive species is ~$123 billion!

2What is GISIN?

http://www.gisin.org

• Provides a global platform for sharing invasive species info via Internet

• Virtual organization (its own can of worms)

2Traditional vs. Virtual Organizations

(Rouse 2008) http://www.ti.gatech.edu/docs/Rouse%20NAEBridge2008%20HealthcareComplexity.pdf

Different groups with different backgrounds

Effective training

It’s about team work, and co-authoring will get you there.

Successful virtual organizations depend on inspiration... and perspiration.

GBIF and the CBD hosted an invasive species database experts meeting

5-6 Sep 2011

Encouraged collaboration among major invasive species data holdersCreated a draft CBD program of work for Invasive species information servicesDocument soon to be posted at http://www.cbd.int Another meeting planned in 6 months

CBD Strategic Plan's Aichi Biodiversity Target 9:

"By 2020, invasive alien species and pathways are identified and prioritized, priority species are controlled or eradicated, and measures are in place to manage pathways to prevent their introduction and establishment."

GBIF meeting participants included representatives from the Global Invasive Species Database, the CABI Invasive Species Compendium, FishBASE, DAISIE, NOBANIS, and I3N.

What do I mean by...A term is a name string (of a defined language), which is associated with a standard concept.A concept is the basic component of a vocabulary. It is a description derived from a specific instance.A vocabulary is made up of many concepts each of which can have any number of multilingual terms associated with them. Controlled vocabularies provide an effective way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval.An ontology specifies the concepts and relationships of a complex data model.A protocol is a specific set of communication rules for computer-to-computer interaction and is based on ontologies.

GISIN’s contribution to PoW: data models

GISIN’s six data models consist of 91 concepts: - 67 unique to GISIN - 11 from Darwin Core - 8 from Dublin Core - 5 from TAPIRGISIN will soon be posting our data models’ controlled vocabularies at http://vocabularies.gbif.org

GISIN chosen as the information system to NAISN

Formally organized in November 2010A non-profit organization consisting of centers of excellence in invasive species scienceLearn more about NAISN at http://www.naisn.org

1 Prevention

EDRR 2 Research 3

Info mgmt &Education

NAISN: Future Plans Create an invasive Species network to provide

on the ground services for coordination of:

Become Lightning Rod for IAS Funding

GISIN’s recent successes

Adopted as the info backbone of North Amer. Invasive Spp. Network

Small amounts of funding from diverse sources for meeting support

3 data models implemented, 3 more in preparation

2-year funding from Commission on Environmental Cooperation for expansion, tech support, and training

GISIN’s future plans

Providing registry of invasive species information systems at http://www.gisin.org/GISINlist.htm

Increasing our list of data providers, tech support, and improvingImplementation http://www.gisin.org

Posting our GISIN data model controlled vocabularies at http://vocabularies.gbif.org

Together we can harness the power within us all

to assemble and share knowledge

3 Questions?

TDWG BioBlitz, Woods Hole Massachusetts, October 2010