BIOTA AFRICA biodiversity data nodes in Germany · Ethiopia 592 210 0 Egypt 0 223 770 Ghana 327 266 1645 Madagascar 19 215 1088 Mozambique 0 59 988 Tanzania 34109 0 0 Eritrea 176

Gerhard Muche

BIOTA AFRICA BioMonitoring Data Facility

BioCentre Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Germany

BIOTA AFRICA

biodiversity data nodes in Germany

"Biodiversity of Africa - Observation and Sustainable Management for our Future!"

International Congress, 29 September – 3 October 2008, at Spier, RSA

Version 20081002

Objectives of data management

• Applicability of data for a

wide array of scientific users

• An active, long-term data stock

Approach

• Gathering decentral

• Storage and purification at competence centres

• Establishing a central BioMonitoring Data Facility

• Co-operation with international networks

Data flow

data pool

at data nodes

Observing,

collectingby working groups

Compiling,

processing,

archiving,

using, …

Inventoring,

archiving, …

Data flow

data pool

at data nodes

Observing,


Data facility

Compiling,

processing,

archiving,

using, …

Inventoring,

archiving, …

at data nodes

Observing,


Compiling,

processing,

archiving,

using, …

making available

for a wide array

of (scientific) users

data pool

Data flow

Inventoring,

archiving, …

at data nodes

Observing,


Compiling,

processing,

archiving,

using, …

making available

for a wide array

of (scientific) users

data pool

data management

Internet

Data flow

Inventoring,

archiving, …

Data management

• Open access

• Data sharing protocol

• Online data bases website/co-operation partners

• Integration of data bases

Website of BIOTA AFRICA



by month


Hits

Files

Pageviews

Sessions

KBytes sent

by month

July August September (18.)

South Africa 227238 4642 69581

Namibia 3622 4708 4495

Uganda 178 3148 0

Benin 95 1559 1104

Kenya 9178 2930 2823

Burkina Faso 1889 2481 485

Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 2240 1843 1580

Botswana 0 880 0

Morocco 1873 1345 3186

Zambia 1470 121 0

Ethiopia 592 210 0

Egypt 0 223 770

Ghana 327 266 1645

Madagascar 19 215 1088

Mozambique 0 59 988

Tanzania 34109 0 0

Eritrea 176 0 0

visits by African countries

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Online data accesshttp://www.biota-africa.org










Tools for data handling

Text

VegDa

Specify, TurboVeg, Juice, Canoco, ArcGIS, Statistica,

R, Microsoft office

BIOTABase

from observing …

… to analysing

Thank you for your attention

and thanks to all

for contributing to the data nodes

and making them a success!

Documents

BIOTA AFRICA biodiversity data nodes in Germany · Ethiopia 592 210 0 Egypt 0 223 770 Ghana 327 266 1645 Madagascar 19 215 1088 Mozambique 0 59 988 Tanzania 34109 0 0 Eritrea 176