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INBioSpecies of Costa Rica
EOL Global Content Summit18-19 January 2012
Jesús A. Ugalde-Gó[email protected]
National Biodiversity InventoryNational Biodiversity Inventory
GatheringGathering
PreservationPreservation
MountingMounting
Collection ManagementCollection ManagementLabelingLabeling
DigitizingDigitizing
IdentificationIdentification
Information system
Data access via Internet
Georeferenced data
Bar codes
Biodiversity informatics
• Natural History• Conservation Status
and Demography• Distribution• Uses• Taxonomic
Information• References
GoalsTaxonomic group Specimens
collectedSpecimens to species level
Species
Arachnids 2,293 1,871 95Plants 336,143 287,034 10,730Insects 3,047,339 934,163 13,597Fungi 49,597 20,965 2,497Mollusks 201,013 125,192 1,746Myriapods 1,059 49 2Nematodes 18,674 1,436 111Onychophora 83 13 2
Total 3,656,201 1,370,723 28,780
4,074 species
aprox. 4,500 species
aprox.500 species
Current status with respect to your goals
Organizational details
• Four Units– Arthropods, Botany and Fungi (Biodiversity
Deparment)– Informatics Developments
• Curators:– Arthropods 4, Botany 2, and Fungi 1– Technicians 4
• Collections
Challenges• Atta2 Implementation (May-2012)
• People can add comments.• Naturalistic observation on specimens
citizens: photos, videos, information, and automatic curation by expert.
• Data curation– Taxonomy– Geographic information– Images integration
• Species Pages– Complement written with assembled
• Finacial Resources• Species pages – more impact
Special opportunities
• Barcoding
• INBio Cyberhives– Virtual
classrooms for environmental education
• Plinian Core
INBio’s Web Site Statistics (2010)Monthly Average of Visited Pages: 770,513Daily Average: 24,885Top Ten Countries:
1.- Costa Rica, 2.-México, 3.- United States, 4.- Colombia, 5.- España, 6.- Perú, 7.- Argentina, 8.- Panamá, 9.- Ecuador, 0.- Venezuela
Most Consulted Information (according to Alexa.com):
64.2% are consults to species records.
www.inbio.ac.cr
Jesús A. Ugalde-GómezSanto Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica.Apartado 22-3100.Teléfono (506) 2507-8164 Fax: 2507-8270e-mail: [email protected]
