The CEBA geoportal is an online portal launched in July 2014 that captures and shares basic characteristics of geographic datasets available from the CEBA research network on tropical biodiversity, containing around 120 reference datasets as of September 2014, and allows users to search, view details of, and link publications to datasets through metadata recorded according to ISO and INSPIRE standards.

1. CEBA geoportal
Annual LabEx CEBA meeting 2014
Natural History Museum, Toulouse
13 - 14 October 2014
- capture and share the basic characteristics of available datasets -
www: http://vmcebagn-dev.ird.fr contact: ceba.geoportail@ird.fr
Presentation : Rainer Zaiss
Grégoire Vincent, Gaëlle Viennois
IRD AMAP

2. Context labex CEBA
• network of internationally-recognized French research teams
Who does what ?, Who has which data sets ?, …
http://vmcebagn-dev.ird.fr
• research on tropical biodiversity

3. CEBA geoportail
• Portal to capture and share the basic characteristics of available datasets
• Application online since July 2014 http://vmcebagn-dev.ird.fr
• Powered by geonetwork http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
• Metadata to describe the contents and context of your reference datasets
Information about who, what, when, where, why and how of the ressource
• Metadata standard
ISO 19115: Geographic information – Metadata
INSPIRE: EU initiative to establish an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe

4. Datasets
• As of september 2014, around 120 geographic reference datasets
Exemples
Forest plots Aerial LIDAR) datasets Aerial photographs Thematic maps
and much more …

5. Place name
Bounding box
coordinates
Bounding box
Simple search
Interconnected
catalogues
Temporal extent
Metadata change date
Keywords
Organisations
Topics
Free text
Simple search and advanced search options
Bounding box
coordinates
Place name

6. Results

7. .pdf http:zip
Others
…
CEBA GEOPORTAIL
attached ressources
.kmz
Metadata sheet

8. Details default view
Link your publications with your dataset

9. Metadata workflow
Validation
administrator CEBA
geoportal
Publication of the metadata on the WWW
CEBA
user group
Your
user group
Metadata only accessible to members of the group
You can keep your metadata private if
you create a new group
Send an email to
ceba.geoportail@ird.fr
if you want to create a new group
Recording of metadata on the CEBA geoportal
Restricted user group

10. How to participate Harvesting of other catalogues
Selection
….…. ….
All ressources
If you have a geoportal to connect
contact
ceba.geoportail@ird.fr
Connexion of existing geoportals
If your metadata are already
available on another geoportail

11. How to participate Inventory your own datasets
Ask for a user account ceba.geoportail@ird.fr
Login
Follow step by step the user guide
If you want to inventory a new dataset

12. Speed metadata session
Take the opportunity to inventory your own data