Gbrd Sworkshop Sept09

GLOBALBIODIVERSITYGLOBALBIODIVERSITYINFORMATIONFACILITYINFORMATIONFACILITY

Vishwas ChavanVishwas ChavanGBIF SecretariatGBIF Secretariat

WWW.GBIF.ORG

Biodiversity Information: Challenge of Discovery

Building the Biodiversity Informatics CommonsBuilding the Biodiversity Informatics Commons

Copenhagen, Sept. 17-18, 2009

GBIF GBRDS Stakeholders GBIF GBRDS Stakeholders Planning Planning WorkshopWorkshop

Biodiversity InformationBiodiversity Information

Diversity

Heterogeneity

Complexity

•Enormity of •volume

Using Biodiversity Data: ImpedimentsUsing Biodiversity Data: Impediments

DISCOVERY: One of the biggest challenge in effective use of

biodiversity data is pinpointing the location of useful data

ACCESS: Free and Open Access to data at anytime, anyplace, anyhow

to ALL

FITNESS-for-USE: Degree of fitness-for-use of accessible data is often

questionable!

DISCOVERY: A

NEGLECTED C

HALLENGE!

Relevance of Biodiversity Information: without Discovery mechanism

MALARIA 247 million cases in

2006 alone One child dies every

30 seconds 109 countries

affected 1000+ institutions

engaged in research Enormous volume

of data generated over decades

Relevance of Biodiversity Information: without Discovery mechanism

Occurrence data on Anopheles

through http://data.gbif.org 16 resources from 9

countries 11,284 records 10,782 geo-referenced

records

Challenge is to DISCOVER resources

At the core, a Discovery SystemAt the core, a Discovery System

ConsumersDataPublishers

Discovering

SearchingRetrieving

DiscoverySystem

Registering

ServicePublishers Others…

That links to resources…That links to resources…

Who? Institutions, Collections …

Where?

Data, Services, GUID/LSID…

Location, Access points…

Temporal Scope…

Formats, protocols, qualities

A distributed service ………….. which resolves to information resources

GBRDS: empowering discovery

GBRDS: Discovery Mechanism for BiodiversityGBRDS: Discovery Mechanism for Biodiversity

The GBRDS is 1) a Registry of resources and services and 2) a set of discovery services interacting with existing infrastructure such as GBIF to facilitate the discovery of biodiversity information. The most important component, the Registry would facilitate the inventory of information resources by creating a single annotated index of publishers, institutions, networks, collections (datasets), schema repository and services. The envisaged GBRDS is not conceived to be designed as simply a collection of centralized indexes but much more as an integrated ‘Yellow Pages’ reference of all biodiversity information resources, reconciling all distributed resources and providing a meaningful way to discover them in a distributed manner.

Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery Systemempowering discovery of biodiversity data

microhyla ornata western ghats 1980 DiscoverDiscover

About GBRDS Bug Report @ 2009, GBIFGBRDS Home

How it should be!How it should be!

microhyla ornata western ghats 1980 Discover

About GBRDS Bug Report @ 2009, GBIF

1-5 of 351, <<Next>>Database of Frogs of Southern India..........(more)

AmphibiaWeb...................................................(more)

Fauna of India Database..................................(more)

Microhyla of the World....................................(more)

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779 resources in six categories discovered, with 428 accessible, 351 resources records

Names (82) Primary Biodiversity Data (200)Resources (351)

Multimedia (12) Maps (28) Literature (106)

Database of Frogs of Southern India: South Asian Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring, Kathmandu, NepalCDROM, published November 2006, ISBN-001-898-0788, sacbm@sacbm.org . <<Click here for complete metadata record>>

AmphibiaWeb: http://www.amphibiaweb.org/ Access point live as on 20th June 2009<<Click here for complete metadata record>>

Fauna of India Database: National Centre for Biodiversity Informatics, New Delhi, IndiaIn-house database, accessible through bi-lateral arrangement, fid@ncbi.org.in <<Click here for complete metadata record>>

Microhyla of the World: Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA257 specimen records: 1700 – 2001: http://www.si.edu/amphibia/microhyla/ Access point live as on 12th Jan 2009 <<Click here for complete metadata record>>

Amphibian Collection of Raffles Museum: Raffles Museum, Singapore7004 specimens, non-digital: curator@raffles.sg. <<Click here for complete metadata record>>

microhyla ornata western ghats 1980 Discover

About GBRDS Bug Report @ 2009, GBIF

779 resources in six categories discovered, with 428 accessible, 351 resources records

Resources NamesPrimaryBiodiversity

DataMultimedia Maps Literature

Resources (351): 1-5 of 351 : Next : Previous : Last :

Digital, Offline

Digital, Free, Online

Digital, Restricted Access

Digital, Free, Online

Non- Digital

Value additionValue addition

GBRDS Planning: Issues to considerGBRDS Planning: Issues to consider

Catalytic agent for facilitating discovery of biodiversity data resources

Capitalise on resources (investments) till date Demand-driven prioritisation of future investment in

biodiversity informatics Applicability to wide spectrum of client/users Evolving system catering specialities of biodiversity

science Scalability and Portalibility to other locations and

communities Boundry between metadata and registery Value addition

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Thank you!

Vishwas Chavan: vchavan@gbif.orgVishwas Chavan: vchavan@gbif.orgSkype: Skype: vishwaschavanvishwaschavan

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