Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility BeBIF

TDWG, Portugal 2003http://www.be.gbif.net

Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility

BeBIFThe Belgian National Node of the worldwide

biodiversity network GBIF

http://www.be.gbif.net


Biodiversity.beFour partners funded by the Belgian Federal Science

Policy Office (BelSPO)

The Belgian Biodiversity Platform (BBPF), the OSTC advisory organ on biodiversity research (analysis, development and promotion of biodiversity-related research in the scientific community).

The Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM), the national portal site for information exchange on all matters related to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Belnet-BIODIV, the electronic catalogue of Belgian resources in Belgium: research projects, experts, institutions, collections and databases, events, etc. Belgian BioCASE Node

The Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility (BeBIF), the Belgian Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. An endeavour to build the prototype of a Belgian bioinformatics infrastructure to integrate “Belgian” biodiversity resources within an unified environment


BeBIF: Belgian Biodiversity Information facility

Fundings:

SPO (Belgian Federal Science Policy Office)

Staff:

Promoter (Robert Herzog)

Node Manager (Patricia Mergen)

Data Analyst (Didier Piette)

Analyst Programmer (Johan Duflost)

System Administrator (Frédéric Wautelet)


Data stored locally by

DataNodes

XML

RDB

Excel

Word

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Data Parsing

Metadata

Data subset

(Full Data)

XML file transfer

National level

Global level

ABCD

Link to datanode for additional information

GBIF

Role of BeBIF

DarwinCore


Collaborations and Projects

FP5, European Network for Biodiversity Information Cluster I (WP2), Cluster IV (WP 13)

International LevelGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)NODES, DADI, …

Taxonomic Database Working Group

BeBIF is institutional member of TDWG since 2002 TDWG

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural SciencesRecent invertebrates (Laboratory of Carcinology)

BIANZO (BIodiversity of three representative groups of the ANtarctic Zoobenthos)

National Botanic Garden of Belgium

Collaborative project: Prototype Image Server to integrate the Martius Herbarium and the Digital Flora brasiliensis

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Valorization of the museum collections for biodiversity studiesThe African Biodiversity Information Centre (ABIC)

Support Programme for Sustainable Development (SPSDII)Centralisation of the Biodiversity related data collected during these projects

National Level



Belgian EMBnet Node (BEN) to provide links to sequence related data


To play its role as national gateway to expose “Belgian” biodiversity data to the worldwide GBIF network, BeBIF has developed several strategies

and informatic tools

Collaboration with the Belgian Co-ordinated Collections of Micro-organisms (BCCM) to expose part of their data on our server under GBIF Standards.

Federation of Biogeographical Databases

Belgian Committee of the International Water Association (BIWA)

Research Unit in Organismic Biology (Namur): BeBIF Data Node (Sub-Contractor) specialized in freshwater ecology

Collaboration with Provinces, Communities and Regions in Belgium

FBDB










How to collaborate with biodiversity.be ?

(Plan for the future)

1. Fill in or update the Metadata form (to respect IPR)

2. Share biodiversity data under international standards with BeBIF and GBIF

3. Data will be visible online, can be queried centrally

5. Data will be validated by an SPO panel of scientific and IT experts

6. Official biodiversity.be "checked data" Label

Concerning BeBIF


DATA to be shared with GBIF

Species: Taxonomy, Scientific Names, Synonyms, Common Names, Belgian contribution to the GBIF Catalogue of Life

Geographic location: As accurate as possible (GPS recommended), restricted access for endangered species Services of our online mapserver

Data Providers and Metadata: Fill in the Metadata online form, Information about the data and respect of IPR

Specimens: Number of specimens hold, collected or observed

Any other biodiversity related data: Species or specimen descriptions, Identification keys, sampling site descriptions, list of publications … Either transmitted to BeBIF or made publicly available on a local server in collaboration with the BeBIF team


Guidelines for a GBIF National Node ?

No unique model for all nodes, but adapt to the conditions at national level

And be aware of (Jean-Claude Vandamme)

- Peopleware

- Hardware and software

- Funding?

Work hard, but have fun and enjoy it !

http://www.be.gbif.net TDWG, Portugal 2003

BeBIF: http://www.be.gbif.net

GBIF: http://www.gbif.org

How to reach BeBIF

Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility (BeBIF)Université Libre de BruxellesCampus de la Plaine CP 257Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 O4 209 (Niveau 4)Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2B-1050 Bruxelles

[email protected]él. : +32 2 650 57 51 - Fax : +32 2 650 51 24

For any questions or feed-back …

Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility BeBIF

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