The document discusses two biodiversity information networks - SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF - that provide free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data. They follow a general philosophy of building an electronic ecosystem that exposes biodiversity data and metadata in multiple contexts through community collaboration and standardization. The networks have developed web portals, taxonomic and geospatial databases, field guides, and tools that follow open standards to facilitate data sharing and discovery. Projects aim to georeference genetic data and develop a Southern Ocean biogeography atlas.

1. Biodiversity Information
Networks
Free and Open Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data
SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF
www.scarmarbin.be
www.biodiversity.aq

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

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

4. Who’s in?

5. Who *wants* to be in?

6. [results]: webportal (s)
taxonomy, biogeography
vizualisation
open access
860,458 visitors
7,465,974 hits
>50,000,000 dld records
ANTABIF coming up

7. [results]: webportal (s)
Terrestrial
Marine Biodiversity Biodiversity
Webrepository Field Guides
Metadata catalogue Blog

8. [results]: taxonomic data
• 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

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

10. 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)

11. Antarctic Field Guides
afg.biodiversity.aq
afg.scarmarbin.be
• Identification aid
• Best available pictures
• Descriptions
• Dynamically built from various sources

12. Antarctic Field Guides

18. Projects... coming up
Georeferenced genetic data: CAML barcoding
Polar Macroscope working group: BiPolar analyses
Southern Ocean Biogeography Atlas: interactive Atlas
GBIF-NPT: Nodes Portal Toolkit

19. Available tools
• AFG, other ID tools
• Repositories
• Metadata catalogues
• Scratchpads
• DarwinCore
• GBIF informatics suite: IPT/HIT/NPT

20. DarwingCore
• Body of Standards (TDWG)
• Facilitate sharing of biodiversity data
• Discovery, retrieval, integration
• Core and extension
• Participatory process

21. NPT: data on biodiversity webportals
HIT: harvest data from multiple sources
IPT: publishing the data

22. 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??