GBIF demo project by Biota BD Ltd & the University of Turku: GBIF demo project by Biota BD Ltd & the University of Turku Jukka.Salo@utu.fi Tuuli.Toivonen@utu.fi
Background: 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.
Two audiences: 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).
Criteria: 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.
Promotion of GBIF Work Programs: 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.
Objectives: 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.
Geographical cover: 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).
The Amazon: 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.
Finland: 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
GBIF promoted during two symposia: 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)
After we have millions of specimen records available on-line, what to do with them?: 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?
Geographical approach: Geographical approach
Geographical approach: Geographical approach
Slide14: Geographical approach
GBIF architecture & focus of the demo project: GBIF architecture & focus of the demo project
Our approach: Our approach Primary data
Slide17: SIAMAZONIA WAGIS Lounaispaikka
Slide18: SIAMAZONIA Peruvian Amazonian BD and Environmental Information System
Distributed data ownership and management
Maintenance by Peruvian Amazonian Research Institute (IIAP)
Research and planning oriented (land zoning)
Language: Spanish WAGIS Lounaispaikka
Slide19: 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
Slide20: SIAMAZONIA WAGIS Lounaispaikka Regional envinronmental information system of the SW Finland
Management and administration oriented with private sector users
Language: Finnish
Slide21: SIAMAZONIA WAGIS Lounaispaikka
Slide22: Collection databases Observational databases
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Slide23: Collection databases
On DiGIR providers Observational databases
On DiGIR providers ?
Slide24: Collection databases
On DiGIR providers Observational databases
On DiGIR providers !!
Concrete deliverables: Concrete deliverables 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
Primary data
Concrete deliverables: Concrete deliverables Implementing the GBIF tools 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
Concrete deliverables: 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
Where we are now?: Where we are now? Primary data Implementing the GBIF tools Serving the information in an appropriate way Digitised and
harmonised Test services of DiGIR up & running
Demo project in the Internet Opened: 5th November Ready for comments: 10th January Finalized: 30th January Address: http://gbifdemo.utu.fi/ : Demo project in the Internet Opened: 5th November Ready for comments: 10th January Finalized: 30th January Address: http://gbifdemo.utu.fi/
Slide32: Peruvian Amazon forest mosaic
GBIF in the Amazon: 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
Amazon: How tools developed by GBIF will help?: 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
What makes GBIF interesting to end-users?: 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
What makes GBIF interesting to end-users?: 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