Project overview

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Project overview
Isabella Van de Velde Royal Belgian Institute of
Natural Sciences, Brussels
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ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network
for Taxonomy

• EU FP7 project - 3 year
• Virtual Research Communities call
• Started in December 2010
• Project website http//vbrant.eu

to provide a more effective framework for
managing biodiversity information on the Web
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Biodiversity informatics landscape
data format diversity
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Biodiversity informatics landscape
local
audiences
data format diversity
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Biodiversity informatics landscape

global

regional

national

local
informatics systems
audiences
data format diversity
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Do we want to work this way?
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Of course not!
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Whats the solution?
take a deep breath and focus on
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Whats the solution?
Interoperability!
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ViBRANTs contribution
17 partners in 9 countries (universities, museums
SMEs)
Interoperability, workflows, services,
information modeling user support
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Project goals
The chromosome
Vision Connecting the people, data science of
biodiversity Position Open sustainable
development of a federated network of
biodiversity informatics infrastructures Mission
Facilitate the mobilisation, sharing and
publication of biodiversity data
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Some products and services
Scratchpads
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Scratchpads ViBRANTs hub
a website for you your community
scratchpads.eu
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Some products and services
OBOE
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Data services
Oxford Batch Operation Engine
Think of OBOE as a job distribution agent
OBOE receives a request for computation, gets
the job done, and returns results
https//vibrant.oerc.ox.ac.uk
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Some products and services
Biodiversity data journal
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Scholarly publishing
The BDJ is very different
Pensoft Writing Tool
http//biodiversitydatajournal.com
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Some products and services
GeoCAT
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Data services
Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool
open source tool to perform geospatial analysis
and visualization of Red List data
http//vimeo.com/22739331
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Some products and services
COMBER
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Ecological conservation data mobilisation
Citizens Network for the Observation of Marine
BiodiVERsity
dive observe record share
http//www.comber.hcmr.gr
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Image credit NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Thanks! Questions? Join us!
scratchpads.eu vbrant.eu
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