1. GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY WWW.GBIF.ORG Publishing EIA Biodiversity Data: Technology and Infrastructure Vishwas Chavan, Nick King and Francois Rogers Global Biodiversity Information Facility [email_address] Scoping Workshop on Developing an EIA Biodiversity Data Publishing Framework in South Africa 2-4 March 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
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3. What are the challenges? More data types Richer user interface Better management Richer content Better synchronisation Improved discovery
5. Indices Nomenclators Namebanks Biology Conservation Ecology Distribution Phylogenies ... Geolocation Country Collector Date … Voucher specimen Blood sample DNA Barcode Image Audio Video ... BHL Plazi.org ... EIA Biodiversity data are very diverse Evidence Metadata Taxon names Taxon concepts Observation Literature Species banks
7. Data Capture and Digitisation Tools Florin Pandora Taxis Cassia FieldNote Mandala ATTA BirdRecorder
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10. GBIF Informatics Architecture Improved access to Names, Metadata and Primary Biodiversity Data Distributed GBIF informatics architecture Faster and easier publishing of data
13. GBRDS, a Discovery System Consumers Data Publishers Searching Retrieving Discovering Discovery System Registering Service Publishers Others…
14. That links to resources… Who? Institutions, Collections … What? Where? When? How Data, Services, GUID/LSID… Location, Access points… Temporal Scope… Formats, protocols, qualities A distributed service ………… .. which resolves to information resources … ./
22. Key Components: the IPT IPT The Integrated Publishing Toolkit is a state-of-the-art tool to simplify the mobilisation of biodiversity information resources such as Names, Metadata and primary biodiversity data Data Publisher Registration (GBRDS) + Publishing of Names, Metadata, Primary biodiversity data etc…
23. Simple process! The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) is designed to simplify the mapping, indexing and harvesting of Names, Metadata and Primary Biodiversity Data!
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25. * Darwin Core (Text-Archive) based on standard submitted to TDWG for review Feb 2009 IPT Publishes Through… More to come….
28. Scope of the Global Names Architecture Referencing names in Checklists to a common Nomenclatural Index
29. Checklist Bank – A Name Services brokerage Global broker of taxonomic data Index of Taxonomic Catalogues and Annotated Checklists Extends the GBIF network to support publishing Species-level data
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31. Desktop Annotated Checklist Builder Create, manage, publish Synonymised checklists Vernacular Names Distribution data Bibliography Type/Specimen data Mac OS/ Windows Publishes “GBIF-ready” format DwC Archive – simple, extensible Text-based format Q3 2010
32. Controlled Vocabularies Server ISO: Countries ISO: Language DwC: Basis of Record DwC: Nomenclatural Status DwC: Sex (Gender) DwC: Taxonomic Status IUCN: Threat Status … v ocabularies.gbif.org Vocabularies publishing platform – Internationalise all GBIF vocabularies
33. Controlled Vocabularies Server Create, manage, publish Extensions to Darwin Core Extend Occurrence Data Extend Species Data v ocabularies.gbif.org Tie to vocabularies that are also drafted and published to this system. Then translate to your native langauge..
-Nick mentioned the key challenges in his presentation entitled “Why the need for a global infrastructure to discover, share, publish and use biodiversity data
-Nick mentioned the key challenges in his presentation entitled “Why the need for a global infrastructure to discover, share, publish and use biodiversity data