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European Register of
Marine Species version 2.0
data management, current
status and plans for the future
Edward Vanden Berghe, Philippe
Bouchet, Geoff Boxshall, Mark
Costello, Chris Emblow
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ERMS overview
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European Register of Marine Species
Result of EU project, 10 partners
Managed by SMEBD
Will form taxonomic backbone of
EurOBIS and MarBEF data
management
• Will be updated
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ERMS v 1.0
• EU project (MAST)
• 2 years: 1998-1999
• 19 contractual partners
• responsible for data management, promotion of
the product, dialogue with end users…
• 100+ editors of taxonomic lists
• not necessarily from the partner institutions
• responsible for the content
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ERMS v 1.0 content
• List of names
• Synonymy for some groups
• Very limited distribution information
• level of major sea area (Atlantic,
Mediterranean,…)
• very incomplete
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ERMS geographic scope
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ERMS taxonomic scope
• Multicellular organisms
• Animals, plants, macroorganisms
• Protoctista not part of the original plan
• Gaps exist
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ERMS statistics
Biota
Animalia
Mollusca
Platyhelm.
Arthropoda
Fungi
Plantae
Protoctista
all taxa
species
valid
47319
38378
4899
3696
11221 8007
597
19
7737
32996
26540
3343
2427
29862
24352
3343
2427
7436
332
6
5658
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ERMS v 1.0 availability
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ERMS v 1.0 weaknesses
• Taxonomic gaps
• Set of excel sheets, no proper database
• Checklists, some created from scratch, some
compilations of existing regional lists
• No hierarchy
• Detail available varies across checklists
• distribution info, synonymy, literature…
• No integration between checklists
• Programme-based, no continuation
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SMEBD
• Society for the Management of
European Biodiversity Data
• All data contributors are members of the
society
• Society manages intellectual property right
on behalf of authors
• ERMS authors, discussions to include also
Fauna Europaea authors
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MarBEF
• Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Functioning
• EU FP 6 ‘Network of Excellence’
• VLIZ does data management
• Needed taxonomic authority list for
integration of databases
• EurOBIS
• SMEBD gave mandate to VLIZ/MarBEF to
manage data
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ERMS v 1.1
• Integrating spreadsheets in one
relational database
• MS SQL Server, front end Access
• Structure is open hierarchy (± ITIS)
• Content remains same as ERMS 1.0
• some inconsistencies removed
• But adding taxonomic hierarchy
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ERMS v 1.1 structure
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ERMS v 1.1 availability
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ERMS v 2.0
• Content will be updated
• through web interface
• snapshot frozen and archived at regular intervals
• Structure revised to allow audit trail
• who did what, when
• Taxon editors have been invited
• Extra information (not strictly ERMS)
• Feeding types, distribution info (country), trophic
level, biomass…
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ERMS v 2.0 editorial structure
• ERMS Editorial committee
• Arvanitides, Bouchet, Boxshall, Costello (chair),
Emblow, Vanden Berghe (db)
• responsible for management
• Associate editors (‘Group coordinators’ of FE)
• responsible for part of taxonomic tree
• have edit rights through web site
• Review editors (‘Validation’ of FE)
• assist associate editors
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ERMS v 2.0 db structure
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ERMS future
• Species 2000 Europa member
• ‘EuroHub’ for Species 2000, together with Fauna
Europaea and Euro+Med PlantBase
• Through dynamic link
• distributed system
• Spice protocol developed under Species 2000 Europa
• possible alternatives are DiGIR and BioCASe
• Contribution to global systems
• ITIS
• URMO
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