GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY

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GLOBALBIODIVERSITY
INFORMATIONFACILITY
Revolutionizing taxonomy through an open-access
web-register for animal names and descriptions,
Fort Lauderdale, 18 December 2005.ZooBank and
GBIFPer de Place Bjørn, PO, ECAT
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility???

• A megascience facility aimed at
• Making the worlds biodiversity data freely and
  universally available via the Internet
• Sharing primary scientific biodiversity data to
  benefit society, science and a sustainable future

• Four work programmes
• Outreach and Capacity Building OCB
• Data Access and Database Interoperability DADI
• Digitisation of Natural History Collections -
  DIGIT
• Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms
  - ECAT

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Current statuses

• Participants
• 47 countries
• 31 international organisations
• 149 data providers serving data from 517
  collections
• gt73 mill. specimen and observation records
• gt500.000 species records (gt1 mill. names) from
  the Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life
• Large number of unregulated names from labels
• Plans for tool to directly serve taxonomy data to
  GBIF

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ZooBank and GBIF

• How can we collaborate and enhance taxonomy?

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Globally Unique IDentifiers - GUIDs

• GBIF and TDWG are setting out to form community
  around GUIDs for Biodiversity data
• Workshop in early February to explore
  infrastructure
• Possibly
• Life Science IDentifiers (LSID)
• Digital Object Identifiers (doi)

GUIDs
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Potential modelLife Science Identifiers (LSIDs)
Format urnlsidltdomainNamegtltnamespacegtltobje
ctIdgtltrevisionIdgt
Potential example referencing specimen record in
GBIF Network (identifiers assigned centrally)
urnlsidgbif.netSpecimen2706712
Potential example name record from IPNI
urnlsidipni.orgTaxonName82090-31.1
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Disseminate ZooBank Entries

• GBIF and TDWG are setting out to form community
  around GUIDs for Biodiversity data
• Workshop in early February to explore
  infrastructure
• Possibly
• Life Science IDentifiers (LSID)
• Digital Object Identifiers (doi)
• ZooBank needs will be incorporated
• Watch the GUID Wiki - http//wiki.gbif.org/guidwik
  i/

GUIDs
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Globally Unique IDentifiers - GUIDs

• Heightening availability of ZooBank data through
  GBIF portal
• New entries can be immediately available on GBIF
  portal and network

GUIDs
Dissemination
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Linking Specimens to ZooBank Entries

• Specimens associated with ZooBank entries can be
  referenced through the GBIF network and GUIDs
• Unique reference to specimen not at the moment a
  requirement for nomenclatural event but with the
  infrastructure available, who knows?
• Could be a requirement for publication that e.g.
  specimens examined for a monography be GUIDd

GUIDs
Dissemination
Specimens
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Enabling retrospective registration via ECAT
providers

• Nomenclatural assessment in GBIF providers
  especially GSDs could be moderated into ZooBank
  as a way of retrospectively filling the register

GUIDs
Dissemination
Specimens
Retrospective registration
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ZooBank becoming available to Species
Pages/Species Banks
GUIDs

• GBIF network provides a route into species
  pages/species bank projects for ZooBank entries

Dissemination
Specimens
Retrospective registration
Species pages
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ZooBank in the big picture
GUIDs

• ZooBank lookup and depositing should be
  incorporated in web-enabled taxonomy interfaces
  and applications
• Registration of zoological names becomes a
  natural and obvious part of the taxonomical
  process, not an added complication
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Dissemination
Specimens
Retrospective registration
Species pages
Web enabled taxonomy