GBIF demo project by Biota BD Ltd

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GBIF demo project by Biota BD Ltd the
University of Turku

• Jukka.Salo_at_utu.fiTuuli.Toivonen_at_utu.fi

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Background

• The 5th session of the GBIF Governing Board
  (October 2002) approved the elaboration of a GBIF
  demonstration project, which would in a clear and
  practical way show the relevance and usefulness
  of the GBIF concept and vision to the
  international community.
• Demonstration project is a tool that will promote
  GBIF, expand the GBIF membership and catalyze
  fund raising efforts
• The goal is to present practical, useful,
  applicable, scalable and successful projects and
  approaches to our target audiences.

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Two audiences

• Potential new GBIF participants (scientific and
  research institutions, non-governmental
  organizations, conservation organizations, policy
  and decision makers).
• Existing participants who -among others- would
  benefit from getting useful and practical tools,
  applications and examples which could be easily
  replicable and implemented at different levels
  (national, regional and global).

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Criteria

• Address a theme of high impact and high
  visibility (and therefore become an effective
  promotional tool for GBIF).
• Demonstrate advantages of joining GBIF.
• Assist GBIF in its fund raising pursuits.
• Show how data from species and specimens can be
  utilized for scientific and/or practical
  applications (including highly relevant national
  and international topics, e.g. conservation
  purposes, effects of climate change, spread of
  diseases, alien invasive species, etc).
• Focus on end-user needs.
• Scalable to a global level.
• Integrates two or more GBIF Work Programme Areas.
• GBIF Participants able to provide
  inputs/contributions in its development.
• Promotes buy-in from other GBIF participants in
  its further dissemination and promotion.
• Provides an example of the potential of GBIF as a
  mega-science endeavour through the combination or
  integration of two or more existing biodiversity
  data/information sources.

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Promotion of GBIF Work Programs

• The Project focuses on ways how the use potential
  of the specimen information (as defined in the
  DADI, ECAT and DIGIT programmes) and
  observational data could catalyze interest in the
  developed and developing countries by better use
  of biological resources and could contribute to
  land-use planning and environmental policy
  formulation.

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Objectives

• End-user oriented demonstration on the
  deliverables of the GBIF Work Plan and how the
  various users will benefit from the GBIF
  generated activities and further develop their
  own modes of work.
• The general objective of the Demonstration
  Project is to produce functional demonstration
  web services of GBIF, taking into account the
  databasing and data access standards considered
  by various parallel initiatives (ENBI, BioCASE,
  etc.) and based on existing regional biodiversity
  information platforms in Europe and Latin America.

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Geographical cover

• Two Amazonian biodiversity web services
  (Siamazonia and WAGIS) that are currently
  operational and cover the Amazon region of the
  Andean Community
• the Finnish regional biodiversity web service
  LOUNAISPAIKKA, linked with the European Network
  on Biodiversity Information Programme (ENBI).

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The Amazon

• The Amazon data includes datasets from Peru,
  Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and the
  western States of Brazil).
• The demonstration will be based on the existing
  information systems maintained in Peru and
  Finland
• The example will highlight how using of DADI,
  DIGIT and ECAT products will assist the
  institutions in the region to better manage
  biodiversity resources and demonstrate ways and
  means of the OCB Work Program in building
  capacity.

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Finland

• Platform Regional environmental information
  system of the SW Finland
• Kevo sub-arctic biodiversity survey
  specimens/observations from the Inari Lappland
  region
• Collections of Herbarium and Zoological Museum of
  University of Turku, linked with long-term
  ecological surveys and individual research
  projects on biological diversity
• Information already in use for land use and
  conservation planning and related activities
• Demonstration of GBIF tools

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GBIF promoted during two symposia

• Andean countries Regional Symposium on Amazon
  land-use promoting GBIF and the Global Taxonomy
  Initiative (GTI) under the auspices of Andean
  Community (Comunidad Andina)
• ASEMFOREST symposium of Europe-Asia Meeting (ASEM
  organisation), demonstration of GBIF work
  programs and tools for forestry and forest
  conservation in Asia (EU-Chinese Academy of
  Science)

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After we have millions of specimen records
available on-line, what to do with them?

• Who is the end-user of the information and what
  does he need?
• How should the species data be served to reach
  different end users?
• How to visualise and integrate the species data
  to make it understandable?

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Geographical approach
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Geographical approach
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Geographical approach
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GBIF architecture focus of the demo project
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Our approach
Primarydata
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SIAMAZONIA
WAGIS
Lounaispaikka
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SIAMAZONIA
WAGIS
Lounaispaikka

• Peruvian Amazonian BD and Environmental
  Information System
• Distributed data ownershipand management
• Maintenance by Peruvian Amazonian Research
  Institute (IIAP)
• Research and planning oriented (land zoning)
• Language Spanish

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WAGIS
Lounaispaikka
SIAMAZONIA

• Internet-based geographic information system
  (GIS) on Western Amazonia
• Research oriented, maintained by the University
  of Turku Amazon Research Team
• Language English

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SIAMAZONIA
WAGIS
Lounaispaikka

• Regional envinronmental information system of the
  SW Finland
• Management and administration oriented with
  private sector users
• Language Finnish

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SIAMAZONIA
WAGIS
Lounaispaikka
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Collectiondatabases
Observationaldatabases
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Collectiondatabases On DiGIR providers
Observationaldatabases On DiGIR providers
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Collectiondatabases On DiGIR providers
Observationaldatabases On DiGIR providers
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Concrete deliverables
Primarydata

• Making available new primary data
• 1. Digitation of species collections and
  observations
• 2. Making available the existing databases of the
  information systems
• Aid in databasing and harmonising
• Capacity building of the researchers
• Promotion of information flow from north to
  elsewhere
• Documentation, lessons learned
• Acknowledgement of IPR of the data owner
• Making the information understandable for others
• Handling the georeferencing of the data

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Concrete deliverables

• Services using GBIF technology
• Several running DiGIR providers
• Replacing the existing data sharing tools with
• Capacity building of data managers
• Feedback to GBIF developers
• Map servers accessing species data
• Integration of ArcIMS-operated map servers with
  GBIF tools
• Documentation, lessons learned
• Implementing the tools in different environments
• Integrating GBIF technology to existing
  information systems
• Integrating GBIF technology and map servers

Implementingthe GBIF tools
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Concrete deliverables
Identification of the user needs What is needed
from the view point of different end-user
groups? Advanced queries of data Map interfaces
for integrated queries of species, environmental
conditions and literature Examples of
visualisation and geographic analysis
options Interner-mapping based examples that help
different users to utilise the data
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Where we are now?
Digitised and harmonised
Test services ofDiGIR up running
Primarydata
Serving the informationin an appropriateway
Implementingthe GBIF tools
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Demo project in the InternetOpened 5th
NovemberReady for comments 10th
JanuaryFinalized 30th JanuaryAddress
http//gbifdemo.utu.fi/
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Peruvian Amazon forest mosaic
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GBIF in the Amazon

• Current process Land use and land use zoning
  (Andean Community)
• Peru Zonificación Ecológico Económico
• Uniform-looking lowland rainforest actually a
  mosaic of various forest types
• Demonstration using the tree-plot data to show
  floristic variation
• GBIF will become an important element in
  developing planning tools to determine forest
  concession sites and regulations
• Base-line data for forest certification in
  selected localities
• Identifying key areas for protection

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Amazon How tools developed by GBIF will help?

• Most of the biodiversity data (collection,
  observational) located outside Peru
• Without DADI, DiGIR, DIGIT impossible to link
  scattered key data with satellite imagery and
  land-use maps
• Capacity-building elements of OCB

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What makes GBIF interesting to end-users?

• GBIF structures help to identify where the
  country-specific biodiversity data is located
• Assistance to countries to get in touch with
  primary producers of data outside the country
• Identification of research groups and
  organisations that have metadata and biodiversity
  data already linked with environmental parameters
• Species-level data for land-use planning and
  zonification
• Identification of timber and non-timber forest
  resources
• Location of genetic resources
• Identification of key areas for conservation

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What makes GBIF interesting to end-users?

• New joint research initiatives
• GBIF will be an important mechanism providing
  orientation and resources for the biodiversity
  projects of World Bank, GEF and other financial
  mechanisms linked to Multilateral Environmental
  Agreements (MEAs)
• Linkages between biodiversity and global change
  scenarios

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