Biodiversity Information Networks
Free and Open Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data
www.biodiversity.aqwww.scarmarbin.be
SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIFAnton Van de Putte & Bruno Danis
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SCAR-MarBIN & ANTABIF
• www.scarmarbin.be: marine biodiversity information network
• www.biodiversity.aq: biodiversity information facility
• Core funding: BELSPO.be (until December 2012)
• International Polar Year 2007/08
• Census of Antarctic Marine Life
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Global Biodiversity Information NetworkFriday 30 March 12
• 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
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Who’s in?
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webportal (s)
IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
AFG.BIODIVERISTY.AQ
WWW.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ/DATA.SCARMARBIN.BE
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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
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and
bolts
ANTABIF:100% Open Source
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IPT.BIODIVERISTY.AQ
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• Submit data online /Data publication
• Data types
• Taxonomy
• Occurence
• Metadata
• Darwincore archive
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DarwingCore
• Body of Standards (TDWG)
• Facilitate sharing of biodiversity data
• Discovery, retrieval, integration
• Core and extension
• Participatory process
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DarwinCore Archive
Columns in extensions are mapped to Darwin Core using the meta.xml file
Multiple extensions are available
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DarwinCore Archive
h7p://rs.gbif.org/extension/
Many extensions are available
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Data flow
Your data
standardize
DwC-A
upload publish
IPT ANTABIF
publish
Data Paper
(your point of view)
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Data flow(our point of view)
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DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
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DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
taxonomy, biogeography
vizualisation
open access
860,458 visitors
7,465,974 hits
>50,000,000 dld records
ANTABIF coming up
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DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
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)
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[results]: geospatial data
1,288,441 records196 datasets
119 geodatasets5,235 taxa
Feeds OBIS, GBIFDownloadable
WebGISWebservices
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Antarctic Field Guidesafg.biodiversity.aqafg.scarmarbin.be
• Identification aid
• Best available pictures
• Descriptions
• Dynamically built from various sources
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Antarctic Field Guides
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Projects... coming up
Georeferenced genetic data: CAML barcoding
Polar Macroscope working group: BiPolar analyses
Southern Ocean Biogeography Atlas: interactive Atlas
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How do we X-link?
• exporting the design models: standards and protocols, tools, data flows, promotion
• help SCAR programs wherever needed (and to the best extent we can do this realistically...)
• dynamic antarctic2100/data atlas??
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