BIS TDWG Conference, New Orleans, 2011

BIS TDWG Conference, New Orleans, 2011

GBIF and Genomic Data

Éamonn Ó TuamaSenior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA)Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

19 October 2011

GBIF data portal

http://data.gbif.org/

Total occurrences: 27 270 Georeferenced: 26 351

Total occurrences: 1 600 164 Georeferenced: 1 392 211

GBIF and Genomic Data

http://links.gbif.org/sp2012_2016.pdf

A roadmap developed by Q1 2013 - genomic data

- ecological data

- GBIF as top-level gateway to discovery, access

- complement, not duplicate work

RfP for position paper on genomic level observations (Q1 2011)

GBIF Activities

collaboration with Genomic Standards Consortium

- Participate in GSC biodiversity work group

- Participate in GSC conferences

- Aligning Darwin Core and GSC MIxS- Identifying use cases, e.g., Microbial Earth Catalog, UNITE

Initial joint activities:

PLoS ONE

Ref: Genomics data and the GBIF network: potential for integration (April 2011) http://links.gbif.org/genomics_scoping

Integrating genomic data in GBIF network

Knowledge Organisation Systems

• GBIF KOS working group white paper “Recommendations for the use of Knowledge Organisation Systems by GBIF” (http://links.gbif.org/gbif_kos_whitepaper_v1.pdf )

GSC represented in KOS working group (Norman Morrison)

Requirement: a platform to support the development, maintenance and governance of vocabularies for the biodiversity community

• Appointment of new KOS position at GBIF: Dr Dag Endresen (germplasm community)

• Special symposium on KOS at TDWG 2011 conference

Grand Ballroom C, Thursday at 09.30

Future activitiesCollaboration on Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS) for standards development

Collaboration on Genomic Observatories (GO) Network:

Opportunity for GSC/GBIF workshop in Q1 2012 - hackathon on aligning DwC and MIxS

Opportunity for GSC to contribute to the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) report in 2012

e.g., to support the work of aligning DwC and GSC MIxS

- data mining the GBIF data cache to understand coverages and gaps

- promotion of GBIF Data Portal and network for discovery and access to more specialized data networks and sites

- identifying biodiversity hotspots (DNA, species level)