The GBIF Data Portal
The GBIF Data Portal
The GBIF Data Portal
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GBIF</strong> <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Portal</strong><br />
data.gbif.org<br />
Demonstration and new directions<br />
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany<br />
24 Aug 2007<br />
Meredith A. Lane<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> Public & Scientific Liaison
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gbif.org<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> mission<br />
…to make the world’s biodiversity data<br />
freely and universally available<br />
via the Internet<br />
What is biodiversity?<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> follows the broadly outlined CBD<br />
recognition of levels of biological diversity:<br />
• Molecules / genes<br />
• Species<br />
• Ecosystems / ecology
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gbif.org<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong>'s place in the biodiversity information landscape<br />
‣Facilitate linkages<br />
among molecular,<br />
species and ecological /<br />
ecosystem data<br />
‣Develop information<br />
architecture (web<br />
services) using TDWG<br />
standards and protocols<br />
‣Promote digitisation of<br />
species-level data
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gbif.org<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>GBIF</strong> <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Portal</strong><br />
‣ A sophisticated Internet tool that is<br />
free to all<br />
‣ Two essential and complementary parts<br />
‣ Information infrastructure – search engine, index,<br />
Electronic Catalogue of Names, web services<br />
‣ <strong>Data</strong> content<br />
<strong>Data</strong> content – as of 23 August 2007, ~134 million<br />
records of species occurrences are shared by the<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> network of 201 data providers in 30+ countries
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What kinds of data does<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> currently mediate?<br />
‣ Species occurrence data<br />
(based on specimens or observations)<br />
‣What<br />
‣Where<br />
‣ Names<br />
‣Scientific names & classification<br />
‣Common names*<br />
‣ When<br />
‣ By whom<br />
*minimal representation at present
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How are <strong>GBIF</strong> data used?<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> data, combined with environmental*<br />
data, can be used to<br />
‣ Predict species’ ranges under different<br />
scenarios of climate change, seasons of the<br />
year, etc.<br />
‣ Plan sites for protection of biodiversity, etc.<br />
‣ Prioritise regions for focused activity (combat<br />
invasive species, put disease prevention<br />
measures in place, etc.)<br />
*such as elevation, temperature, rainfall, soil type, forest cover, land use, etc.
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<strong>GBIF</strong>'s role among<br />
biodiversity information networks
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<strong>GBIF</strong> total indexed data (64 million records)
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What can the <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Portal</strong> do now?<br />
‣ Get data on the organisms that have been<br />
recorded in a country or user-defined bounding<br />
box (what, when, where) or search by<br />
(scientific) name<br />
‣ Find data relevant to your<br />
scientific/conservation question that are being<br />
shared by data providers from around the world<br />
‣ Assess level of accuracy of datasets<br />
‣ Provide feedback to improve data quality
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Using<br />
the<br />
<strong>Portal</strong><br />
3. Advanced search<br />
More<br />
than one<br />
way to<br />
access<br />
the data<br />
2. Type search words<br />
1. Explore directly
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What species are in my country?<br />
Actions<br />
box lists<br />
user<br />
options<br />
Results<br />
summary
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What species are in my country?<br />
Get species lists based on<br />
data in the network<br />
Find datasets with<br />
data from country<br />
Download data, in different formats for different uses<br />
Download data, in different formats for different uses
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What<br />
providers<br />
have<br />
data for<br />
my<br />
country?<br />
<br />
Displays datasets<br />
as list with<br />
check-boxes
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Where in my country are species* found?<br />
Download<br />
data to<br />
Google<br />
Earth<br />
*in these maps, the family Trochilidae (hummingbirds)
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Where is a species* found?<br />
‣ Download all or a subset of the<br />
records<br />
‣ Retrieve the original record<br />
from the map<br />
*in these maps, Strix aluco (Eurasian tawny owl)
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Species Overview page<br />
‣Actions box<br />
‣Names and classification<br />
‣Type Specimens (if any)<br />
‣Map of those records that are<br />
geo-referenced<br />
‣Summary of records that<br />
are/are not geo-referenced<br />
‣Link(s) to images (if any)
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Soon, the <strong>GBIF</strong> New <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Portal</strong> will:<br />
‣ Provide downloads of taxonomic lists<br />
‣ Improve maps<br />
‣ Present the user interface in additional languages<br />
‣ Link to the IUCN Red Lists and CITES species<br />
‣ Register data providers using a new online interface<br />
‣ Quick-launch analytical tools from other websites<br />
‣ Be mirrored at several sites around the world<br />
‣ Increase names data content, including names in non-<br />
Roman character sets
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GBIF</strong> <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Portal</strong><br />
‣ A sophisticated Internet tool that can do much more than<br />
briefly shown here<br />
‣ Two complementary parts<br />
‣ Information infrastructure<br />
‣ <strong>Data</strong> content it mediates (and/or links together)<br />
‣ Mediates: species-level data (specimen-based,<br />
observational, and names data)<br />
‣ Links:<br />
‣Molecular sequence and other genetic, phylogenetic<br />
‣Ecological and ecosystem
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Through its ability to<br />
broker linkages,<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong>'s efforts<br />
maximise<br />
return on<br />
investments<br />
elsewhere
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‣ Partnerships are<br />
vital to <strong>GBIF</strong><br />
‣ <strong>GBIF</strong> avoids<br />
duplication of<br />
effort<br />
‣ Works to maximise<br />
benefits to all<br />
‣ Can contribute to<br />
science, policy and<br />
applications<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong>'s place among<br />
international organisations
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>GBIF</strong> information infrastructure
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registry<br />
institutions<br />
providers<br />
services<br />
national and thematic portals<br />
provider<br />
query<br />
available<br />
providers<br />
publish availability<br />
synonyms<br />
name providers<br />
metadata<br />
index<br />
accounting<br />
data cache<br />
metadata<br />
and<br />
statistics<br />
metadata<br />
and name<br />
query<br />
cached<br />
partial<br />
data<br />
response<br />
full data<br />
query<br />
data providers<br />
data portal<br />
query<br />
engine<br />
human<br />
request<br />
marshaller<br />
full data<br />
response<br />
provider services<br />
provider services<br />
web service<br />
resources metadata<br />
resources metadata<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> Component Architecture<br />
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Other portals that use <strong>GBIF</strong> data<br />
‣Encyclopedia of Life<br />
‣ZipCode Zoo<br />
‣Biodiversity Observing Network of GEOSS<br />
‣….. Others ??<br />
Other users of <strong>GBIF</strong> infrastructure<br />
Other users of <strong>GBIF</strong> infrastructure<br />
‣Biodiversity Heritage Library<br />
‣ICZN (ZooBank)<br />
‣Bioversity International (IPGRI)<br />
‣ ….. Others ??
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TDWG standards allow sharing data over the<br />
Universal Biodiversity <strong>Data</strong> Bus (UBDB)<br />
Client 1<br />
Service 2 Service 1<br />
UBDB: A common set of standards for publishing,<br />
discovering and accessing data over the internet<br />
<strong>Data</strong> 2<br />
Client 2<br />
<strong>Data</strong> 1<br />
With the UBDB, heterogenous data from multiple<br />
sources can be used by different clients and services.
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<strong>Data</strong> standards<br />
Transport standards<br />
& protocols<br />
Service registry<br />
CAS - IB<br />
GenBank<br />
BHL<br />
Workbench<br />
BOLD<br />
UBDB<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong><br />
IPNI<br />
EoL<br />
TreeBase<br />
uBio<br />
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<strong>GBIF</strong> is a participatory partnership<br />
‣ Two kinds of Participants<br />
‣ Voting (countries only; make yearly contribution,<br />
maintain <strong>GBIF</strong> Node or Nodes, share data and<br />
developments) – currently 26 countries<br />
‣ Associate (maintain <strong>GBIF</strong> Node or Nodes, share<br />
data and developments) – currently 14 countries, 40<br />
international organizations<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> invites China to become a Participant
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<strong>GBIF</strong> is a participatory partnership<br />
‣ Participation means<br />
‣ Using a common set of standards developed<br />
by the community (TDWG)<br />
‣ Ascribing to principles of<br />
‣ Open access to scientific data<br />
‣ Control of the data remain with the data<br />
holders/owners<br />
‣ Due attribution for use of data<br />
<strong>GBIF</strong> invites China to become a Participant
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THANK YOU !<br />
Questions?<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
Many thanks to the following for permission to re-use/ adapt slides:<br />
‣ Roger Hyam (TDWG)<br />
‣ Hannu Saarenmaa (University of Helsinki)<br />
‣ Éamonn Ó Tuama (<strong>GBIF</strong>)
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