Presentation about Biodiversity and the Geoweb. Given in July at Geoweb09 in Vanouver. Available on video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZAQNLfg5aQ

1. BIODIVERSITY,
WHERE IS
IMPORTANT
Javier de la Torre
envisioning life

2. Biodiversity

3. Biodiversity is a Megascience

4. The Natural History Museum

5. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

6. 2-3 billion specimens around the world

7. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

8. P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79
Osmoderma eremita, Ordesa, 7/7/79

9. Collecting on the field
Dr. Scott Mori, an expert in the Brazil nut family and tropical forests

10. 7th July 1979

11. 7th July 1979
3 de Enero de 1979

12. foto de ordesa
7th July 1979

13. Osmoderma eremita
Osmoderma eremita

14. P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79
What, When, WHERE: Primary data

15. mapa de europa con el punto del bicho

16. Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se
encuentra ese bicho en Europa

17. Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se
Area de distribucion real de los puntos en europa
encuentra ese bicho en Europa

18. Analysis on primary data

19. P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79
What, When, WHERE: Primary data

20. We need
lots of data

21. datos primarios al final
175 Million observations on the web

22. http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org

24. Birds in Europe & North America

25. We have very
little data

26. Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se
encuentra ese bicho en Europa

27. Summer precipitation Winter precipitation
Plano de condiciones ambientales
Maximum temp. summer Average height

28. Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

29. Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

31. Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

32. Carex bigelowii, different scenarios
Pearson et al., 2002

33. Crotalaria pallida
Rafael Luís Fonseca

34. What is this
good for

35. Taxonomy Health and Public Safety
Biogeographic Studies Bioprospecting
Species Diversity and Forensics
Populations Border Control and
Life Histories and Phenologies Wildlife Trade
Education and Public
Endangered, Migratory
Outreach
and Invasive Species
Ecotourism
Impact of Climate Change
Art and History
Ecology, Evolution and Genetics
Society and Politics
Environmental Regionalisation
Recreational Activities
Conservation Planning
Human Infrastructure
Natural Resource Management Planning
Agriculture, Forestry, Aquatic and Marine
Fisheries and Mining Biodiversity

36. Conservation matters

37. Conservation matters

38. Cool! 175 Million records of open data

39. envisioning life

40. How do
we share
biodiversity data

41. 1.8 million species pages
Common format
Customizable by user
Freely available
Accessible from a common portal
Never completed

43. http://www.gbif.org/

44. GBIF is a global network of data providers
that builds biodiversity information
infrastructure and promotes the growth of
biodiversity information content on the
Internet by working with partner initiatives
and coordinating activities worldwide.

46. Sustainable
Conser- development
vation Regu- General Industry User com-
User
lation Edu- Public munities
communities
cation
Research
Portals &
Portals and
….. services
Services
Common
Common
protocol
protocol
Wrapper
Biological
Primary
….. databases
Data

47. Demo

49. GBIF web services
http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/taxon
http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence

52. http://www.tdwg.org/

53. What
When
Where
Darwin Core

54. 175 Million records of open data

55. Making use
of the data

56. Intersecting GBIF network data with the
World Database on Protected Areas

58. 160M points intersect 150K polygons

59. Reproducing Spatial Joins using Hadoop
and EC2. Tim Robertson
http://biodivertido.blogspot.com

60. Millions of species, billions of tiles
Primary data tile generation on the fly

62. Polygons from points (using Clustr)
Deriving species distributions from P.D.

64. GBIF- Convention on Migratory Species
Global Registry of Migratory Species

66. Summarizing...
zrim

67. Biodiversity matters

68. Biodiversity informatics is all about
open data
Michael Dawes

69. Join us!
Scott Kinmartin

70. THANKS
;)
jatorre@vizzuality.com
@jatorre
biodivertido.blogspot.com