Biodiversity Data Retrieval and Integration Distributed species, data, computation and credit
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Biodiversity Data Retrieval and Integration
Distributed species, data, computation and credit
James H. BeachBiodiversity Research Center
University of [email protected]
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Museums and their Data
• 3 B specimens – and data – documenting the distribution of life on earth
• 2 M species • 300 years of biological exploration• Data are held in dynamic, autonomous, self-
organizing and spatially-distributed collections
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Paris Museum Mexican Birds
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British Museum Mexican Birds
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Field Museum Mexican Birds
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KU Museum Mexican Birds
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“World Museum” Mexican Birds
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The Species Analyst Network
Data Resources
ClientAPI
DesktopApplications
Broadcast query
• Direct access to live primary data• Ownership and control maintained locally• Z39.50, HTTP, XML data, XML Query
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Species Analyst HTML Gateway
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Results of Species Analyst Query
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GARP: Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set Production
• Developed by David Stockwell, San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Takes advantage of multiple algorithms (BIOCLIM, logistic regression, etc.)
• Different decision rules may apply to different sectors of species’ distributions
• Uses a genetic algorithm for choosing rules• Implemented on WWW, and open for
public use
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Species Analyst + GARP: A Powerful Tool
• Integrates distributed biodiversity data• Provides current information on species’
ranges• Models species’ ecological niches • Predicts geographic distributions• Integrates niche models with environmental
change scenarios, e.g. global climate change and biodiversity, invasive species, emerging diseases
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Asian Longhorn Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
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Longhorn Beetle - Modeled Asian Distribution
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Asian Longhorn Beetle – Predicted U.S. Distribution
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A Global Encyclopedia of Life or The World According to GARP
• Research– Biogeographic analysis on distributions– Invasive species predictions– Monitoring and conservation planning– Global climate change impacts on Biota
• Outreach, Education and Training– Backyard biodiversity, spatial data queries, GIS
functions– Interactive data entry, observational data
• Data Analysis Services for Museums– Uniqueness and value of collections holdings– Data quality issues– Summary statistics and analyses
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A Global Encyclopedia of Life or The World According to GARP (2)
• Every documented species with georeferenced localities in the Species Analyst Network
• North America, Western Hemisphere, World• Resolution 1 Km grid NA, 10 Km elsewhere• 1 M+ species in collections with data?• Computational Requirements
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Metacomputing Museum Data
• Global species distributions: parallel computation
• SETI @ Home– Collaborative computing– 1 M simultaneous users
• Port GARP to Win32 to run in background or foreground
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Lifemapper =
Georeferenced Species Data + Distributed Query
Architecture+ Predictive Modeling + Distributed Computation+ Spatial Map and Model
Archive + Open Access Web Portal
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Lifemapper Demonstration
• Server• GARP
client
• Diversify modeling options, add interactivity, 3D analysis and visualization
• Add new classes of data layers, remote sensing, human impacts element, ecological models
• Add observational species data• Embed dispersion models, temporal
dimension • Add internet services API, UDDI, SOAP• Add more value-added services for data
providers• Embed LM data and analysis tools within a
semantic research and decision support network
• Integrate LM into informal and formal science education
Lifemapper Future Directions
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Lifemapper Social Scaling
• Distributed authorship• Desktop computing• User preferences• Value-added collections data analysis• Acknowledgement and accreditation of
contributions, ranks and statistics
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Museums as Sensor Networks
• Data are dynamic, servers & connections– Deborah Estrin -- Adaptive self-organization of the network,
unattended and untethered -- parallels to curators and collection managers.
• Self-assembling, observational data• Do not usually have the requirement of real time• Changes are as important
– Source data (West Nile virus), model outputs– Frank Vernon mentioned that in many cases it is not the data
values per se it is the change that is of importance
• People as part of the Network– Doug Goodin people are part of the technological system” museum
are sensors, they are observatories, but the latency of bringing the data into analysis engines is not measured in milliseconds but in field seasons, or decades to get formal publication of new scientific concepts. Many specimens and data are centuries old
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Acknowledgements
• University of Kansas– Dave Vieglais, Ricardo Pereira, Aimee
Stewart, Greg Vorontsov, Town Peterson, BRC• SDSC
– David Stockwell, Environmental Computing• University of Massachusetts-Boston
– Bob Morris, CS, Rob Stevenson, Biology• UC Berkeley
– John Wiecorek, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology– Dan Wertheimer, Space Science Laboratory
• Agriculture Canada– Derek Munro, ITIS Canada Office
• California Academy of Sciences– Stan Blum, Informatics