Biodiversity Information Networks

Free and Open Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data

www.biodiversity.aqwww.scarmarbin.be

SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF

SCAR-MarBIN & ANTABIF

• www.scarmarbin.be: marine biodiversity information network

• www.biodiversity.aq: biodiversity information facility

• Core funding: BELSPO.be (until June 2012)

• International Polar Year 2007/08

• Census of Antarctic Marine Life

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System

• Global Biodiversity Information Network

• Build an electronic ecosystem

• Offer free and open access to data and technology

• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata, in multiple contexts

• Remain community-driven, and collaborative

• Adopt strong standardization

• Work for science, conservation, management

General philosophy

Who’s in?

Who *wants* to be in?

[results]: webportal (s)

taxonomy, biogeography

vizualisation

open access

860,458 visitors

7,465,974 hits

>50,000,000 dld records

ANTABIF coming up

[results]: webportal (s)

Marine BiodiversityTerrestrial

Biodiversity

Webrepository

Metadata catalogue

Field Guides

Blog

[results]: taxonomic data

all taxa

all species

valid species

0 3,750 7,500 11,250 15,000

• The first RAMS

• Board of 60+ editors

• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL

• 17,098 taxa (RAMS)

• Building a dynamic RAS

• 24,248 taxa (RAS)

[results]: geospatial data

1,288,441 records196 datasets

119 geodatasets5,235 taxa

Feeds OBIS, GBIFDownloadable

WebGISWebservices

ANTABIF technological ecosystems:Language: Ruby

Design patterns: MVC-ORMFramework: Rails(ActiveRecord) and YUI

Search engine: Full text (Elasticsearch-Lucene)Database: PostGresql GIS server: Geoserver

Spatial database: PostGISMapping client: OpenLayers

Web services: RESTish (all resources)Protocoles: DIF, dwcore, dwc archive, Tapir…etc

GBIF tools : HIT,IPTOS: FreeBSD

Hosting: BBPF (ULB/VUB joint IT Center)Metadata systems: GCMD (mirrored)N

uts

and

bolts

ANTABIF:100% Open Source

Antarctic Field Guidesafg.biodiversity.aqafg.scarmarbin.be

• Identification aid

• Best available pictures

• Descriptions

• Dynamically built from various sources

Antarctic Field Guides

Projects... coming up

Georeferenced genetic data: CAML barcoding

Polar Macroscope working group: BiPolar analyses

Southern Ocean Biogeography Atlas: interactive Atlas

GBIF-NPT: Nodes Portal Toolkit

Available tools

• AFG, other ID tools

• Repositories

• Metadata catalogues

• Scratchpads

• DarwinCore

• GBIF informatics suite: IPT/HIT/NPT

DarwingCore

• Body of Standards (TDWG)

• Facilitate sharing of biodiversity data

• Discovery, retrieval, integration

• Core and extension

• Participatory process

NPT: data on biodiversity webportals

HIT: harvest data from multiple sources

IPT: publishing the data

How do we X-link?

• exporting the design models: standards and protocols, tools, data flows, promotion

• help SCAR programs wherever needed (and to the best extent we can do this realistically...)

• dynamic antarctic2100/data atlas??