GISIN Web Portal

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GISIN Web Portal
Enabling Invasive Species Data Interchange
GISIN technical team
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Today

• Learning about GISIN data network
• Tour of the GISIN web portal
• Registering on the TEST server
• Introduction to the GISIN Protocol
• Uploading Files to the TEST server
• Introduction to GISIN Web Services
• When you return home
• Upload real data to GISIN.org (LIVE)
• Decide on periodic file upload or web services

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Data Sources

• Publications
• GPS
• PDA
• Excel Spreadsheets
• Databases
• Web Sites

• Individuals
• Academic
• NGO
• Government
• International

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Databases Just in the US
Crall AW, Meyerson LA, Stohlgren TJ, Jarnevich
CS, Newman GJ, Graham J. 2006. Show me the
numbers what data currently exist for non-native
species in the USA? Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment 4 414-418
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Top Desires

• Cross-database search
• Specific to invasive species
• Aggregate data for research management
• Multiple scales
• Any region
• Any species

• Share information on managing species
• Actionable information!

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GISIN

• Global Invasive Species Information Network
• International organization of invasive species
  data providers
• Working towards a network for exchange of data
• Network is designed and prototyped
• www.gisin.org - live
• Ibis-test.nrel.colostate.edu/gisin - test
• Working with TDWG, GBIF, others

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GISIN 3
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Participants
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Technical Contacts

• Coordination, Goals, Funding
• Annie Simpson
• Alycia Crawl
• IT
• Jim Graham Development
• Greg Newman IT management
• Testing Technical Support?
• Helping out
• Catherine Jarnevich
• Miles Falck
• Chuck

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Web Portal

• www.gisin.org
• About History, News, Publications
• Directory
• GISIN List Registered URLs
• Data Providers
• Browse Top Invasive, Country, Species
• Get Data Search, Download (future)
• Share Data Provide Data, Technical

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Technical History

• IAS Specification for web service
• Too complicated for development and support
  resources ()
• NIS Base
• Difficult to scale to many providers
• GISIN Protocol based web services
• Too complex for most providers
• File upload
• Just right?

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2007 Survey Results

• 1 hour to as long as it takes for commitment
• Minimal web service expertise
• Various installation scenarios
• Existing solutions did not meet all needs

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Architecture

• Cached
• Requires IT staff
• Flexible filters

• Federated
• Distributed
• Too hard to filter
• Leaves out most providers

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Vision
GISIN
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Web Portal Structure

• GISIN List
• Over 250 registered URLs with data on invasive
  species
• Data Providers
• Data
• File upload
• Web services

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Web Portal Tour
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Data Models

• Occurrences
• The location of a specimen on the earth on a
  specific date
• Species Status
• The status of a species in an area
• Harmful
• Present
• Exotic
• Species Resource URL
• Links to URLs with information on a species
• More in the future

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Data model distinction

• Occurrences
• Location at fine resolution (e.g., latitude,
  longitude)
• Where we saw something
• Coordinates
• Present here
• Requires a species and location
• Millions of records

• Species status
• Location at coarser resolution (e.g., county or
  country)
• How do we classify something
• Nativity
• Harm
• Requires species, non-coordinate location,
  Harmful, Presence, and Origin
• Thousands of records