for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management

Donat AgostiPlazi

OpenData Week, Montpellier, July 12, 2014

Bouchout Declaration

Hardisty, Nature 502, 171 (2013)

BUT: predictive ecology has substantial data needs

Harfoot, BIH2013, Rome, 2013

The big question

What is the future of the biological world?

Imagine if we could:

…Predict community level dynamics of ecosystems atscales from local to global, based on the ecology andbiology of all individual organisms

Decentralized biodiversity infrastructure

Plants3,400 Herbaria worldwide10,000 Associate curators and specialists350,000,000 specimens in collections 180,000,000 specimens digitized2,000,000,000 specimens including animals

Source: gbif.org; http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp

One collection’s view of the world

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland collection on GBIF

Source: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7b33b040-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a

200,000,000+ printed pages1,900,000 species described20,000,000+ species treatments 17,000 new species per year

Biodiversity libraries

BUT: The data are hidden

Incomplete digitization Publications are not semantically

enhancedCollections are incompleteData is not linkedMost data are not open

Names as information tags in life sciences

Names

Characteristics

Publications

GenesCollections

Specimens

Distribution

Coordination and Policy Development in Preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management

System

Supported by the European Commission through its FP7 research funding programme

(pro-)iBiosphere

iBiosphere

Biodiversity Knowledge Management System

Create digital objects + Identifiers and resolvers

+ Open Access+ Legislation

+ Adequate infrastructure+ Sustainable and permanent infrastructure

+ Reliable services for partners in research projects and society

Seamless Global Virtual Research Knowledge Management System(European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System)

Biodiversity Knowledge Management System

Why another declaration?

free of charge online access to EU-funded research…

essential for Europe's ability to enhance its economic performance and improve the capacity to compete through knowledge

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-access-scientific-information

Access to digital data sets resulting from federally funded research….

will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and enhance economic growth and job creation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/news.2011.281.html

800 billion USD have been generated by the human genome project

After all, there is a Budapest Declaration, a Berlin Declaration, a Bethesda Declaration…

… but additional messages:Direct access to digital content

… but additional messages:Direct access to digital contentRe-acting: The biodiversity community is re-acting together to novel environmental, scientific and societal challenges

… but additional messages:Direct access to digital contentRe-acting: The biodiversity community is re-acting together to novel environ-mental, scientific and societal challengesThird leg: digital content as commitment

… but additional messages:Direct access to digital contentRe-acting: The biodiversity community is re-acting together to novel environ-mental, scientific and societal challengesThird leg: digital content as commitmentCatalyst for discussions

Bouchout Declaration

Bouchout Declaration

http://bouchoutdeclaration.org

Launched: June 12, 2014

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signatories

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(75)

(147)

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GOAL: Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management

As signatories, we encourage an overarching approach to Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management which is based on the following fundamental principles:

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Open Access

The free and open use of digital resources about biodiversity and associated access services

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Licenses

Licenses or waivers that grant or allow all users a free, irrevocable, world-wide, right to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly as well as to build on the work and to make derivative works, subject to proper attribution consistent with community practices, while recognizing that providers may develop commercial products with more restrictive licensing.

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Licenses ctd.

Data and research results are not copyrighted and thus no license should be addedIf possible, publications should be created as Open Access works

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Policy

Policy developments that will foster free and open access to biodiversity data

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Attribution

Tracking the use of identifiers in links and citations to ensure that sources and suppliers of data are assigned credit for their contributions

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Infrastructure

An agreed infrastructure, standards and protocols to improve access to and use of open data

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Registers

Registers for content and services to allow discovery, access and use of open data

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Persistent Identifiers

Persistent identifiers for data objects and physical objects such as specimens, images and taxonomic treatments with standard mechanisms to take users directly to content and data

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Linked Open Data

Linking data using agreed vocabularies, both within and beyond biodiversity, that enable participation in the Linked Open Data Cloud

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Development

Dialogue to refine the concept, priorities and technical requirements of Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management

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Business

A sustainable Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management that is attentive to scientific, sociological, legal, and financial aspects

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When do you sign?bouchout@plazi.org

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