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