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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WWW.BIODIVERSITY.AQ

• Blog

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IPT.BIODIVERISTY.AQ

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IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQ

• 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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