IABIN Invasives Information Network

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IABIN Invasives Information Network
I3N

• Andrea Grosse
• U.S. National Biological Information
  Infrastructure
• I3N Meeting, Cancun, 12 August 2003

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Objectives
Pilot project

• Develop standard catalogs in each country
• Web-accessible
• Distributed
• Integrated
• Common standards

• Single entry point
• Search across nodes

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www.iabin-us.org
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Catalogs
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Catalogs
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Single Entry Search
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Value-added products
Created educational material
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Value-added products
Trained persons directly involved in data
management
Enabled identification of gaps in knowledge and
institutional capacity
Created photo collection
Developed relationship between institutions
within country
Will contribute to development of national
invasive species strategy
Increased knowledge about invasive species
management
Contributed to list of species for a resolution
on controlling entry of exotic species
Provides access to unpublished or scattered data
Will guide national legislation process by
creating legal bases for bio-security regulations
Benefited biodiversity enabling activities under
the CBD
Countrys scientific community became interested
in invasive species
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www.iabin-us.org
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Challenge Standardization
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I3N Cataloguer

• Three languages
• Microsoft Access 2000
• XML output

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Que queremos?
Next steps?

• Standard for data structure
• Cataloguer improvements
• Additional tools
• Expanding participation