Antabif general

SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF

Free and Open Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data

www.biodiversity.aqwww.scarmarbin.be

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Antarctic Treaty

« In order to promote international cooperation in scientific investigation in Antarctica, as provided for in

Article III (1c) of the Treaty, the Contracting Parties agree that, to the greatest extent feasible and practicable: […]

Scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available. »

(our inspiration)

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“Exchanging” biodiversity data

• science-based, adaptative conservation and management

• testing fundamental theories

• consolidation of the community

• establish a benchmark for undisputed evidence of change/shifts

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Information Networks

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SCAR-MarBIN & ANTABIF

• www.scarmarbin.be: marine biodiversity information network

• www.biodiversity.aq: biodiversity information facility

• Main funding: Belgian science Policy office (BELSPO)

• International Polar Year (IPY) 2007/08

• Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML)

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)Thursday 8 September 2011

• Build an electronic ecosystem

• Offer free and open access to data and technology

• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata, in multiple contexts

• Remain community-driven, and collaborative

• Adopt strong standardization

• Work for science, conservation, management

General philosophy

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Tangible results

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[results]: webportal (s)

taxonomy, biogeography

vizualisation

open access

900,188 visitors

8,011,935 hits

>50,000,000 dld records

ANTABIF coming up

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[results]: taxonomic data

all taxa

all species

valid species

0 3.750 7.500 11.250 15.000

• The first RAMS

• Board of 60+ editors

• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL

• 17,098 taxa (RAMS)

• Building a dynamic RAS

• 24,248 taxa (RAS)

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[results]: geospatial data

1,288,441 records198 datasets

119 geodatasets5,235 taxa

Feeds OBIS, GBIFDownloadable

WebGISWebservices

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Products

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Antarctic Field Guidesafg.biodiversity.aqafg.scarmarbin.be

• Community platform to build customized field guides

• Identification aid

• Best available pictures

• Descriptions

• Dynamically built from various sources

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Antarctic Field Guides

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Products... coming up

Georeferenced genetic data: CAML barcoding

Polar Macroscope working group: BiPolar analyses

Princess Elisabeth Station Data Management

Microbes...

Biogeography Atlas: interactive Atlas

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Hedgpeth  1969’s  Folio

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BENTHOS

PLANKTON

Gaps in our knowledge

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is this Science?

see the literature... 124 scientific papers

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Applications• Challenging [biogeographic] theories

• Conservation

• Modeling

• Predicting change

• Expedition design

• Data exploration

• Gap analysis

• Observing systems Jan Strugnell [THANKS]Thursday 8 September 2011

www.biodiversity.aq

www.slideshare.net/scarmarbin

www.scarmarbin.be

bruno.danis@scarmarbin.be

JUMP IN!!Everyone can join

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