ANTABIF

SCADM - progress report

www.biodiversity.aqwww.scarmarbin.be

•Build a network to support Antarctic science

•Offer free and open access to data and technology

•Expose all the data and metadata

•Remain community-driven

•Adopt strong standardization

•Work for science, conservation, management

General philosophy

[results]: webportal

taxonomy, biogeography

vizualisation

open access

800,000 visitors

5,800,000 hits

39,000,000 dld records

V2alpha coming up

[results]: Register of Antarctic Marine

Species•The first RAMS

•Board of 60+ editors

•Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL

•16,475 taxa

•9,346 species

[results]: ANTOBIS

1,088,044 records172 datasets

106 geodatasets5,235 taxa

Feeds OBIS, GBIFDownloadable

WebGISOGC Webservices

[results]: webportal

[results]: webportal

[results]: webportal

[results]: webportal

[results]: webportal

[results]: data useage (pages,

2010)

[results]: contributions (datasets)

[results]: data contributions (records)

Who’s in?

[apps]: examples

•Conservation

•Modeling

•Predicting change

•Expedition design

•Data exploration

•Gap analysis

•Observing systems

[projects] some examples

•SCAR-MarBIN V2 alpha

•Antarctic Field Guides

•Georeferenced genetic data

•Polar Macroscope Synthesis

•Biogeographic Atlas of the SO

•ANTABIF (www.biodiversity.aq)

ANTABIF

•www.biodiversity.aq

•single access to ALL Antarctic biodiversity data

•Funding: Belgian science Policy office until end 2011

•Implementation by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform

•Australian Antarctic Division

•Global Biodiversity Information Network

ANTABIF

•SCAR-MarBIN: marine biodiversity

•EBA database: terrestrial biodiversity

•GCMD (metadata)

•Additional data: GIS layers, Code,...

Data and Metadata

ANTABIF

Search engine: Full text (SOLR-Lucene)

Database: PostGresql

GIS: Geoserver, PostGIS, OpenLayers

Web services: RESTish (all resources)

Protocols: DIF, DwCore, DwC archive, Tapir…etc

GBIF tools : HIT, IPT…etc

Hosting: BBPF

Metadata systems: IMIS and GCMD (mirrored)

Technology: 100% Open Source

ANTABIF

•Webpresence:

•www.biodiversity.aq

•share.biodiversity.aq

•scratchpads.biodiversity.aq

•metadata portal (GCMD)

•social networks

Building NOW on bulletproof technology and standards

Preliminary results