Transcript OBIS - Ocean Biogeographic Information System

www.iobis.org
Fábio Lang da Silveira – http://obissa.cria.org.br
This talk on behalf of OBIS International Committee
and OBIS North & South America Nodes
USP – Zoology Depart., IB
[email protected]
What is OBIS?
OBIS is the information component
of The Census of Marine Life
(CoML), a growing global network of
researchers in more than 80 nations
engaged in a ten-year initiative to
assess and explain the diversity,
distribution, and abundance of
marine life in the oceans - past,
present, and future.
www.coml.org
OBIS is a web-based provider of global geo-referenced
information on marine species.
What OBIS Provides
• Access to marine species data from
around the world
– species or genus (exceptionally higher
taxonomic group observed or collected) at a
latitude/longitude location
– from museum collections, management
agencies, research institutions, etc.
• Software tools to use these data
effectively for research, management and
education
OBIS is not like Google
• OBIS facilitates access to data records,
not datasets
– find all organisms recorded from a particular
location
– find all places a particular taxon has been
found
– download data in a variety of easy to use
formats
OBIS Technology
• Distributed datasets connected via DiGIR and
the OBIS Schema, an extension to the Darwin
Core V2.
• Data are regularly crawled and cached locally
(and indexed) to improve performance.
• Quality Control
– Names are matched against the Catalog of Life
– Questionable points (e.g. on land, 0-0 location) are
returned to the data provider for checking
– Dataset without metadata will not be posted
OBIS Growth
• May, 2006
9.5 m records, 61,000 species, 113 databases
• April, 2007
13.1 m records, 79,000 species, 206 databases
Ablenne hians
www.iobis.org
Fishbase
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Discovery Metadata
See also - http://gcmd.nasa.gov/
OBIS Record Schema
(mandatory)
• What (Taxonomic name): species or genus,
subspecies, authority, family, order....
• Where: latitude, longitude, depth, place name,
precision
• When: last update (automatic), month, day, year,
time of collection
• Who: institution serving dataset, collection code,
catalog number, collector, identifier, dataset
name,
• How Many: number caught, number preserved
• Other: source of record, life stage, type status,
etc.
OBIS Record Schema
(highly recommended)
• An abbreviation indicating whether the record
represents:
- an observation (O) (this can include a visual
observation, a survey catch, a commercial landing
record, etc)
- a collected living organism (L)
- a specimen in a collection/museum (S)
- a collected germplasm/seed (G)
- a photo (P)
- derived from literature, where original basis
unknown (D).
Regional OBIS Nodes (RONS)
Canada
Europe
Japan
Korea
United States
Of America
*
China
Indian
Ocean
Brazil
Sub Saharan
Africa
OBISMC6 at Sao
Sebastiao, Brazil
April 16-17, 2007
Chile
Argentina
RON Managers Committee
Antarctica
Australia
New
Zealand
About OBIS in South America
• SA nodes => full node status
• OBIS Tropical and Subtropical Southwest
Atlantic (BR) provides Portuguese
language interface
• OBIS Southern Atlantic (AR) provides
Spanish language interface
• OBIS (BR) first node to implement special
deep web linking to national data
collections
*
16661 records INVERMAR - Colombia
Gracias
Thank you
Obrigado
Questions?
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