Presentation given by Anton Van de Putte at the Belgian National Committee on Antarctic Research in March 2012

1. Biodiversity Information
Networks
Free and Open Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data
SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF
Anton Van de Putte & Bruno Danis
www.scarmarbin.be
www.biodiversity.aq
Friday 30 March 12

2. SCAR-MarBIN & ANTABIF
• www.scarmarbin.be: marine biodiversity information
network
• www.biodiversity.aq: biodiversity information facility
• Core funding: BELSPO.be (until December 2012)
• International Polar Year 2007/08
• Census of Antarctic Marine Life
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Global Biodiversity Information Network
Friday 30 March 12

3. General philosophy
• 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
Friday 30 March 12

4. Who’s in?
Friday 30 March 12

5. webportal (s)
WWW.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ/DATA.SCARMARBIN.BE
AFG.BIODIVERISTY.AQ
Friday 30 March 12

6. ANTABIF:100% Open Source
ANTABIF technological ecosystems:
Language: Ruby
Nuts and bolts
Design patterns: MVC-ORM
Framework: Rails(ActiveRecord) and YUI
Search engine: Full text (Elasticsearch-Lucene)
Database: PostGresql
GIS server: Geoserver
Spatial database: PostGIS
Mapping client: OpenLayers
Web services: RESTish (all resources)
Protocoles: DIF, dwcore, dwc archive, Tapir…etc
GBIF tools : HIT,IPT
OS: FreeBSD
Hosting: BBPF (ULB/VUB joint IT Center)
Metadata systems: GCMD (mirrored)
Friday 30 March 12

7. WWW.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
• Blog
Friday 30 March 12

8. IPT.BIODIVERISTY.AQ
Friday 30 March 12

9. IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
• Submit data online /Data publication
• Data types
• Taxonomy
• Occurence
• Metadata
• Darwincore archive
Friday 30 March 12

10. DarwingCore
• Body of Standards (TDWG)
• Facilitate sharing of biodiversity data
• Discovery, retrieval, integration
• Core and extension
• Participatory process
Friday 30 March 12

11. DarwinCore Archive
Multiple extensions are available
Columns
in
extensions
are
mapped
to
Darwin
Core
using
the
meta.xml
file
Friday 30 March 12

12. DarwinCore Archive
Many extensions are available
h7p://rs.gbif.org/extension/
Friday 30 March 12

13. Data flow
(your point of view)
Your data DwC-A IPT ANTABIF
standardize upload publish
publish
Data Paper
Friday 30 March 12

14. Data flow
(our point of view)
Friday 30 March 12

15. DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
Friday 30 March 12

16. DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
taxonomy, biogeography
vizualisation
open access
860,458 visitors
7,465,974 hits
>50,000,000 dld records
ANTABIF coming up
Friday 30 March 12

17. DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
• The first RAMS
all taxa
• Board of 60+ editors
all species • Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL
valid species
• 17,098 taxa (RAMS)
• Building a dynamic RAS
• 24,248 taxa (RAS)
0 3.750 7.500 11.250 15.000
Friday 30 March 12

18. [results]: geospatial data
1,288,441 records
196 datasets
119 geodatasets
5,235 taxa
Feeds OBIS, GBIF
Downloadable
WebGIS
Webservices
Friday 30 March 12

19. Antarctic Field Guides
afg.biodiversity.aq
afg.scarmarbin.be
• Identification aid
• Best available pictures
• Descriptions
• Dynamically built from various sources
Friday 30 March 12

20. Antarctic Field Guides
Friday 30 March 12

21. Friday 30 March 12

22. Friday 30 March 12

23. Friday 30 March 12

24. Projects... coming up
Georeferenced genetic data: CAML barcoding
Polar Macroscope working group: BiPolar analyses
Southern Ocean Biogeography Atlas: interactive Atlas
Friday 30 March 12

25. 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??
Friday 30 March 12