Global Research Infrastructures for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research
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Global Research Infrastructures for Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Research
Alex HardistyDirector of Informatics Projects School of Computer Science & Informatics
email: [email protected]/alexhardisty
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Take home messages
• Research infrastructures help data intensive science and collaboration between scientists.
• Measuring and calculating EBVs on a global scale are a unifying use case to drive interoperability across Research Infrastructures.
• No‐one is responsible for research infrastructure.We’re all responsible for research infrastructure.
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Pedro Ribeiro Simões, flickr.com Goodmami, flickr.com Michael Bentley, flickr.com
Fig.1. Workflow for estimating SD, FD, and ES potential for tropical South America.
Molecular Ecology Resources19 NOV 2014 DOI: 10.1111/1755‐0998.12341
Setting the scene: The era of data‐intensive science
Monitoring forest microclimate, www.fraunhofer.de
Satellite tagging saltwater crocodilesDanau Girang Field Centre, Cardiff University and Sabah Wildlife Service
Research infrastructures help data intensive science
Simply:Anything semi‐permanent that researchers need to do their job
• Physical equipment(labs, instruments, survey sites, ships, …)
• Computers(desktop, mobile, HPC, e‐Infrastructure, …)
• People(capacity, competencies, training, help, …)
“A collective term for the subordinate parts of an undertaking; substructure, foundation; spec. the permanent installations forming a basis for military operations, as airfields, naval bases, training establishments, etc.”
Oxford English Dictionary
Research Infrastructures support scholarly cycle
Source: Liz Lyon, www.ariadne.ac.uk, July 2003and JISC/SURF/CNI Conference May 2005
Learning & Teaching workflows
Research & Science workflows
Aggregator services: national, commercial
Repositories : institutional, e‐prints, subject, data, learning objects
Institutional presentation services: portals, Learning Management Systems, u/g, p/g courses, modules
Harvestingmetadata
Data creation / capture / gathering: laboratory experiments, fieldwork, surveys, media
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Deposit / self‐archiving
Peer‐reviewed publications: journals, conference proceedings
Publication
Validation
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Deposit / self‐archiving
Learning object creation, re‐use
Searching , harvesting, embedding
Quality assurance bodies
Validation
Presentation services: subject, media‐specific, data, commercial portals
Resource discovery, linking, embedding
Collect
Assure
Describe
Deposit
Preserve
Discover
Integrate
Analyse
Data LifecycleCredit: W. Michener
Research & teaching (scholarly cycle) involves data
Collect
Assure
Describe
Deposit
Preserve
Discover
Integrate
Analyse
Data LifecycleCredit: W. Michener
Research Infrastructures support the data lifecycleData Acquisition
Data Access
Data Curation
Community Support
Data Processing
How we fit together: European view
Based on an original by Wouter Los, UvA9
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e‐Infrastructures
In situ,
In natura
Reference data(collections, taxonomy, sequences, environmental)
Modelling and analysis
Observation and monitoring data
Experimentaldata
Data
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How we fit together: European view
Based on an original by Wouter Los, UvA10
Reference da
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e‐Infrastructures
In situ,
In natura
Modelling and analysis
Observation and monitoring data
Experimentaldata
Data
mob
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owledge
prod
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EUDAT EGI.eu PRACE
LifeWatch
ANAEE
BioVeL
LTEREurope
SYN‐THESYS
CETAFBioCASE
MARS
PESI
Sp2000CoL
WoRMS
BioFRESH
SeaDataNet
ELIXIR
MIRRI
AquaMaps
Synth. centres
Scratch‐pads
UvABiTS
AlienSpeciesItaly
iMarine
INTER‐ACTEU BON EMBRCEMSO
A few examples of infrastructure
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Index of the world’s known species> 1.6 million taxa (84%) from 151 databases
679 sites, > 6000 users360+ datasets Details of 800+ LTER sites around the World
You may have heard about it before
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Progress at grass‐roots level
• particularly with national initiatives
• and specific projects, like BioVeL
Credit: WCN247, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA.
Equipping analysis labs for data intensive research
Credit: WCN247, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA.
Equipping virtual labs for data intensive research
Biodiversity Virtual eLaboratory, http://portal.biovel.eu
http://www.uva‐bits.nl/virtual‐lab
Also, Marine VRE: http://marinevre.lifewatch.be
https://www.analysisportal.se
http://www.iplantcollaborative.org
Global Research Infrastructures
GBoWS Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,also IB CAS, IOZ CAS
SANBI Integrated Biodiversity Information System (SIBIS)
Information System on Brazilian Biodiversity
Reference Center on Environmental Information
How we fit together: Global view
22Regional / national
Global
Datamobilization
Knowledgeproduction
GBIF GeoBONWFCC (CAS)
LifeWatchDataONE
CAS genetics resources CRIA/
SiBBr
Atlas Living
Australia
NEON
SANBI
Competence centres
Source: CReATIVE‐B project
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1. Increased global coordination and common technical interoperability between RIs
2. Priority for discovery and access3. Data and tools for research, management and
conservation4. Effective governance for legal interoperability5. Broker for scientists, policy and citizens
A recommended joint action plan: Support development and testing of biodiversity indicators
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Pursue it in GLOBIS‐B
No‐one is responsible for infrastructure.We’re all responsible for infrastructure.
• A set of rules and standardsgoverns infrastructure
• Coordinating body(ies) toapply them
• For us:• In Europe, LifeWatch ERIC top‐down; community bottom‐up• (USA for example) DataONE – Exec. Team, Leadership Team and partners
• Globally, fledgling HLSG
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Image courtesy of bluebay at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
ERIC = European Research Infrastructure ConsortiumHLSG = High Level Stakeholders Group
Creating social value from shared resources
• Open Science: opening (the process) of knowledge creation and dissemination to a multitude of stakeholders, including society in general.
• Commons: Community governed mechanism reinforcing need of sharing in a way that allows non‐discriminatory access, while ensuring adequate controls to avoid congestion or depletion when capacity is limited
• A backbone of data, e‐Infrastructures, instruments, knowledge, expertise … overlain with related community specific capabilities
26This is exactly the model we foresee for biodiversity and ecosystems research
Take home messages
• Research infrastructures helpdata intensive science andcollaboration between scientists.
• Measuring and calculating EBVson a global scale are a unifyinguse case to drive interoperability across Research Infrastructures.
• No‐one is responsible for research infrastructure.We’re all responsible forresearch infrastructure.
27H is for Home, flickr.com