Jorrit Poelen introduces Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI, http://globalbioticinteractions.org) at Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS, http://bids.berkeley.edu/events/jorrit-poelen-global-biotic-interactions ).

1. Unleashing Species
Interaction
Data
Jorrit Poelen
Global Biotic Interactions
5 Feb 2015 @ Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Tea
food web visualization by Slyusarev et al. (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1297762

2. Sea otter
Sea otter
lunch
(c) edward_rooks, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
accessed at http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/563486 on Feb 4, 2015

3. What do sea otters eat?
... is a surprisingly hard question to answer.
Why?
Data is hard to access due to cultural reasons.
Ecologists (and their institutions) are still catching
up to embrace open-data science as a way to
accelerate ecological research.
Soranno et al., 2014 @ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biu169

4. Global Biotic Interactions
... is many things
data normalization tool (in java/neo4j)
online graph database (neo4j)
online rdf/triple store (apache jena)
various data archives (DwC, ttl/rdf)
apis /libs (web api, R, javascript)
open data + open source = a community of folks
that share and use interaction data

6. demo

7. how to contribute data?
iNaturalist.org take a picture, describe the interaction.
GitHub.com fork/create a github template repo, add your data.
Share an open-access dataset using figshare.com,
zenodo.org (or similar) and send the DOI to us.
Publish an open-access (data) paper and share the DOI
with us.
Or, contact us and we'll figure something out.

8. how to access data?
download data archives (darwin core, neo4j db, ttl/rdf)
use library (javascript, R)
use web apis (fuseki/sparql, neo4j/cypher, globi/api)

9. recent past, near future
Sept 2014 GloBI paper published
Dec 2014 GoMexSI / GloBI Workshop at Texas A&M
Jan 2015GloBI funding renewed
Jan 2015ropensci/rglobi published in CRAN
Feb 2015 Jorrit presents at BIDS tea (now)
Feb 2015 Stephen Gosnell presents on rglobi /
ratlantis and ecosystem modeling
? Brian Hayden et al. (in prep) Global dietary
niche width vs. biodiversity.
more interaction data . . . incl pathogen/host/disease

10. acknowledgments
Jim Simons; Jen Hammock; Chris Mungall; Brian Hayden; Göran
Bodenschatz; Peter Roopnarine; Jeff Holmes; Cyndy Parr; Stephan
Gosnell; Sergey Slyusarev; Scott Chamberlain; Malcolm Storey; Joel
Sachs; Ken-ichi Ueda; Allen Hurlbert; Ben Raymond; Carolyn Barnes;
Jarrett Byrnes; Colt Cook; José Ferrer-Paris; Anne Thessen; Institute for
Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES); International
Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES); UK Species Inventory at the
Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity, the Natural History Museum,
London; and many others.
GloBI is supported by the Encyclopedia of Life.

11. learn more?
Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global
Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-
interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005
Jorrit Poelen
jhpoelen@xs4all.nl
http://globalbioticinteractions.org

12. discussion topics
How would you use GloBI interaction data?
What prevents your colleagues from sharing their
(species interaction) data?
Why provides GloBI, a young project, one of the
largest, openly accessible species integration
datasets? Why didn't this happen earlier?