Biodiversity informatics for Polar Regions - how to

transform data into knowledge

Dr. Anton P. Van de PutteRoyal Belgian Institute for Natural

ScienceBiodiversity.aq

Lisbon, 4 July 2016

inter-disciplinary committee

(1957) Scientific association

(2005)

The Antarctic TreatyBelgium is a founding member 1961

Portugal is a non consultative member Since 2010

The Antarctic Treaty 1961

(section III.1.c): « In order to promote international cooperation in scientific

investigation in Antarctica, […],Scientific observations and results from

Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available. »

publicly funded data should be made publicly accessible and re-

usable…

Data must be intelligently open, meaning that they should be:

discoverable, accessible, intelligible, assessable and

(re-)usable.

ICSU 2016

WHAT? SHARE MY PRECIOUS DATA?

Our project(s)• Born during the IPY as Census of

Antarctic Marine Life as the data, visualization and analysis component

• Free and open access to biodiversity data

• SCAR-MarBIN, AntaBIF and AntaBIS projects

• Science, conservation and management

• Networked community developments

Our vision:Antarctic biodiversity data are open, linked, useful, interoperable and safe.

VLabACCESS

ANAYSEDEVELOP

The Antarctic Biodiversity Portal

www.biodiversity.aq

Architectural design & developments

WWWDATA

AFG

mARS

ATLAS

IPT

share.biodiversity.a

qwww.marinespecies.org/rams

How did we transform data into knowledge?

IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQMake your research

visible

IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQ

(meta)DATA IPT

DWC-A

Data paper

AMD

OBIS Event-core project

•Used to be only occurence based

•New standard which is event based•Events are hierarchical

•Measurement or Fact extension•Any fact can be added to

an event•Use of controlled

vocabularies

Event 1

Event 1.1

Event 1.1.1

MoFA1

MoFB1

Occ1

Occ2

Occ3

MoFB2

MoFB3

OBIS-ENV-DATA

EVENT HIERARCHY makes it possible to record differences in sampling time, location, and

depth while still grouping these samples together to the same station visit

MoFA2

DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQFind data for your

research

DATA

DATA.BIODIVERSITY.AQ

Taxonomy

RAMS Environmental

AADC

AADC

IPT

Data

AMDMetadata

www.marinespecies.org/RAMS

WORKSHOP September: RAS

Future Idea: online identification guides

ATLAS.BIODIVERSITY.AQ

Legacy of the Census of Antarctic Marine

Life/International Polar Year

• 5 years in the making• 66 chapters• 147 authors• 15 editors• 91 institutes

representing 22 countries • Australia, Belgium, Brazil,

Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK & USA

Data in the Atlas• 1.07 million

occurrence records• > 605.000 within

area of primary interest

• 9064 valid species

• ~434.000 distinct sampling stationsBiodiversity.aq, CCAMLR

Image courtesy of Huw Griffiths, BAS

DATA

The future..

AFG

IPT

dBASO

AtlasR

BASO

KEYS

RAmS

TRAITS

Thank you

GUI

CodeGithub

Polar Macrosco

pe

AtlasR

The Antarctic Master Directory

Telephone book that allows you to look up metadata

and data.

The Antarctic Master Directory

GCMDAMD

SCAR SRP

SOOS

SCAR SRP

NADC

NADC

IPY

AMD is part of the Global Change Master Directory and provides metadata on Earth

science data sets pertaining to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

Total DIFs = 9112New Records =

2833-4%

increase/year(52% of all AMD

records).

AMD Online Data Sets

AMD Content