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GLOBALBIODIVERSITY
GLOBALBIODIVERSITYINFORMATIONFACILITY Developing Strategies for
Building National Checklists/Species Inventories
David RemsenSenior Programme Officer, ECAT
Asian Regional Meeting and Biodiversity Informatics
Workshop 16-19 Nov 2009
Objectives
Objectives
1. Why? - National Species Inventories/Checklists
2. Terminology – Checklists?
3. Scope – What components in a Checklist
4. Strategies – How can we build one?
5. Sharing – How can I publish it?
6. Discussion – Who has experience in this
National Species Checklists: WHY
National Species Checklists: WHY
An inventory of flora and fauna for a country or region is an essential primary tool to assist conservation and other planning activities.
many country - driven activities supporting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity depend on the scientific results of inventories
Inventories , and the collections they support, provide the foundation for national and regional programs of conservation and sustainable development
CBD Obligations National Biodiversity Inventory is a requirement!
Global Taxonomic Initiative of the CBD
Requirements
Requirements
• Access to Source Information
• Taxonomic Verification
• Informatics Facilitates Expert-driven processes
• Does not replace them
Terminology: Catalogues? Checklists?
Terminology: Catalogues? Checklists?
Catalogues Monographs Regional Flora/Fauna Primary Sources
Inventories/Species Lists
Secondary SourcesNomenclators
No Taxonomy at all
http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/wiki/ChecklistDefinition
Scope Taxonomic Regional Thematic
Content
Content
Content: Inventories
Content: Inventories
Content: Species lists
Content: Species lists
Using E-taxonomy to build national species lists
Using E-taxonomy to build national species lists
Assessing available taxonomic knowledge
Assessing available taxonomic knowledge
Search: GBIF data portal
Search: GBIF data portal
All specimens 22,881 Species
Type Specimens 2,269
http://DATA.GBIF.ORG
Country=ThailandTypeStatus=TypeSpecimen
Output is a working species lists
Mine working lists from literature
Mine working lists from literature
http://www.silverbiology.com/clients/eol/svn/taxontagger/
Content: Inventories
Content: Inventories
DarwinCore Star Schema
DarwinCore Star Schema
Representative Taxon Record
Representative Taxon Record
Click to open spreadsheet
Questions
Questions
Any countries build/maintain national checklists?
Countries looking to build national checklists
Interest in knowledge sharing workshop?
Identify requirements
Evaluate methods
Design workflows
Infrastructure/Software
Resource Requirements