This is a color-coded review of the action points decided at the 2008 SCAR-MarBIN workshop

1. SCAR-MarBIN WS 08 – ACTION POINTS REVIEW
GREEN = DONE
ORANGE = ONGOING
RED = NOT DONE
WS07 leftovers
(MED) Explore the opportunities to get out historic database (All)
(HIGH) Data management: Barcoding linkages (Bruno, Rachel, Katrin, Vicki, Sujeevan,
Huw)
(HIGH) Taxonomy: finish RAMS (Claude, Dave): November 2007
(LOW) Taxonomy: MorphoBase (Huw, Bruno, Bart): TBD
(HIGH) Tools: Ecosystem visualization Tools (Ben, Vicki, Huw, Claude)
(HIGH) Tools: Metadata translation tools (Bruno, Sylvain, Bart): October 2007
(HIGH-HIGH) CAML ecosystem photo in SCAR-MarBIN gallery (Bruno)
(MED) Microbes will always be our friends (Alison and Bruno)
(HIGH) WebLink from BAS to SCAR-MarBIN (Helen)
WS08 APs
(MED) DATA: Microbes in RAMS (cultures), cfr (Bowman, Shivadji)
(HIGH) DATA: ABBED/OLA-CAML/CEAMARC/NIPR/AADC/BAS: plenty to come
(MED) DATA: Catalogue of env datasets (tag AMD), incl toggle off/on layers (Helen,
Melanie, Dave)
(MED) DATA: Catalogue of useful examples, codes, grey litt… (Bruno, Dave, Sylvain)
(HIGH) DATA: check CCAMLR metadata in GCMD (Bruno)
(MED) DATA: followup on Ecoregionalisation (Philippe, Bruno)
(HIGH) DATA: gap analysis (Huw, Dave, Bruno, Vicki)
(HIGH) DATA: get CAML metadata (Vicki, Bruno, Falk)
(HIGH) DATA: Get data out of BAS (Helen, Huw)
(HIGH) DATA: include DNA data (Rachel, Huw, Sylvain, Bruno, Vicki, Sujeevan, Alison)s
(MED) DATA: Information on expedition/station (Sylvain, Bruno)
(HIGH) DATA/POL: SCAR-MarBIN Built in the one we cannot name (Huw, Vicki)
(MED) DATA: link with AADC Gazetteer/Map catalogue/extend gazetteer with SUBANT,
undersea features + define regions (Dave, Sylvain, Bruno, Bart)
(MED) DATA: Populate literature DB, interface with CoML literature DB (Chris K, Vicki,
Bruno)
(LOW) POL: lobby the SCAR data strategy group to embed data publication, then to
SCAR secretariat. (Helen, Kim, Bruno)
(HIGH-HIGH) POL: explore/contact with foundations (Claude, Bruno, Hendrik, Mike,
Michael)
(LOW) POL: data and metadata guidance embedded in SCAR DS (Helen, Bruno)
(HIGH) POL: enhance the visibility of stats/ IPY countdown (Sylvain, Bruno)
(HIGH) POL: go on with diplomatic approach (Hendrik, Claude, Mike, Michael, Bruno)
(SUPER HIGH-HIGH) POL: prepare the blingbling document (Bruno, Vicki, Daniel, Huw)
(LOW) POL: SCAR negociate a procedure with journals (Helen, Mike, Kim)
(LOW) POL: MarBIN within SCAR static vs transversal (eg sitting on committees) (Helen,
Bruno, Mike, Claude)
(LOW) POL: setup an Antarctic GBIF portal (Dave, Bruno, Hendrik)
(HIGH) POL/TECH: Synk with OBIS/GBIF (Bruno)
(HIGH) REC: express concern about IPY legacy (how is the data kept) (ALL): nature paper
(HIGH) Contact OBIS about synk routine (Bruno, Pat, ALL)
(HIGH) REC: SMEBD agreement (Claude)
(LOW) TECH: Various GIS layers could be added for env (Huw, Sylvain, Bruno, Dave,

2. Helen)
(LOW) TECH: Area of Interest: adapt to user (Sylvain, Bruno)
(HIGH) TECH: Deploy V2.0 (Sylvain)
(HIGH) TECH: implement children record capacity (Sylvain)
(MED) TECH: metadata translation tool OAIPMH/EML (Sylvain)
(MED) TECH: Need for Tutorials to guide the new users (Sylvain, Bruno, Alison)
(LOW) TECH: Possibility to query in specific boxes: sea ice zone, CCAMLR regions,
drawing (Sylvain, Huw, Bruno)
(LOW) TOOLS: alignement of sequences MPI (Alison)
(MED) TOOLS: IIKS test drive (Claude, Katrin, Bart, Bruno, Krzysztof)
(MED) TOOLS: setup Task Group on AFGs+workshop (Stefano, Russ, Bruno, Sylvain,
Catherine, Marc, Claude, Andy)
(HIGH) TOOLS: visualization of molecular diversity (Newick format) (Huw, Alison, Bruno,
Rachel)