ANTABIF•www.biodiversity.aq
•single access to ALL Antarctic biodiversity data
•Funding: Belgian science Policy office until end 2011
•International Year of Biodiversity
•Global Biodiversity Information Network
•Australian Antarctic Division
•Princess Elisabeth Station
ANTABIF
•PIC: Polar Information Commons
•APECS: Association of Early Career Scientists
•GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
•AAD
•AMBIO
•EG-BAMM: Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals
Networking
ANTABIF
•SCAR-MarBIN: marine biodiversity
•EBA database: terrestrial biodiversity
•GCMD (metadata): all disciplines
•Additional data: GIS layers, Code,...
Data and Metadata
ANTABIF
• Search engine: Full text (SOLR-Lucene)Database: PostGresql GIS: Geoserver, PostGIS, OpenLayers Web services: RESTish (all resources)Protocoles: DIF, DwCore, DwC archive, Tapir…etcGBIF tools : HIT, IPT…etcHosting: BBPF Metadata systems: IMIS and GCMD (mirrored)
Technology: 100% Open Source
ANTABIF•Webpresence:
•www.biodiversity.aq
•share.biodiversity.aq
•scratchpads.biodiversity.aq
•metadata portal (GCMD)
•social networks
•Building NOW on bulletproof technology and standards
Preliminary results
Remaining questions
•Architecture: still some fine tuning to do
•MoU with AAD
•Taxonomy: scratchpads? RAMS? specific needs...?
•Microbes??
•Data Policy: GBIF/PIC/IPY/SCARMarBIN???
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