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WebBee: A Comprehensive Information Network for Brazilian Bee Research

WebBee is an innovative platform designed to enhance access to vital information about bees in Brazil. Launched at the Inter-American Workshop on Environmental Data Access, it focuses on automatic data acquisition from monitored bee hives, including air temperature and humidity, to improve research quality. The platform offers interdisciplinary resources for scientists, beekeepers, educators, and policy makers to promote awareness of pollinator importance. Features include a dynamic database, multimedia resources, and a collaborative network for data sharing and validation. Visit us at http://www.webbee.org.br.

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WebBee: A Comprehensive Information Network for Brazilian Bee Research

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  1. WebBee A platform for a Brazilian information network on bees. Inter-American Workshop on Environmental Data Access 3-6 March 2004 – Campinas - Brazil

  2. Universidade de São Paulo • Antonio Mauro Saraiva • Escola Politécnica/ Agricultural Automation Lab • Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca • Instituto de Biociências / BeeLab

  3. outline WebBee: From instrumentation to an information network

  4. Start: instrumentation • in 1999, research on flight activity of stingless bees • focus on automatic data acquisition • to get more and better data • to free the researchers from some time consuming and error-prone activities .

  5. Bee hives monitored for • Air temperature • Air humidity • Bee flux: “Bee detector” • I.R. emitter-detector pair

  6. a web-based monitoring system

  7. Bee count:flight activity concentrated in the morning

  8. A step ahead: an information system • Knowledge and information on bees need to be • organized, preserved, shared, published(!) • Target audience • scientists, beekeepers, students, teachers, policy makers, agricultural producers… • Increase public awareness on the importance and uses of pollinators • in Portuguese and other languages

  9. WebBee: information system • Contents: • Bee species data: biology, taxonomy, distribution, • Hives, equipment & numerical data • Beekeeping, plants visited • Bibliography • Information source: Intellectual Property • Dynamic web pages: database • Multimedia: texts, images, videos • Web–based: easy access and sharing

  10. WebBee Database – Species catalog • images and texts

  11. WebBee Database – Weather station (at IB – USP, São Paulo) graphics and table

  12. WebBee Database of Bibliography Documents: description and files (PDF; DOC, etc)

  13. WeB Bee Replicate WebBee • Do other groups have similar needs and problems?  • Does a single group have enough data to populate the system?  • How much time would it take?  • Do they have other data? 

  14. WeB Bee WebBee - a network • Groups cooperate on providing data • Species information • Experimental data / weather stations • By region, species, family… • Distributed Effort • less work for each • Each is part of solution

  15. WeB Bee WebBee - a network Important issues: • Intellectual property • Contents: texts, photos, etc  author • neutral domain: www.webbee.org.br • WebBee: consortium • partners • credit • management

  16. Centralized database Remote data-entry Other features: plants visited (names, few images) pollen characteristics 5 groups (4 bee groups) Status

  17. WeB Bee Participants: BeeLab – Instituto de Biociências da USP Agricultural Automation Lab – Escola Politécnica - USP Embrapa Amazônia Oriental BeeLab - Empresa Baiana de Desenvolvimento Agrícola – EBDA Universidade Est. de Feira de Santana - UEFS

  18. Brazilian Pollinators Initiative (BPI) website • events • publications • timeline • activities

  19. WeB Bee What is next ? • Improve content: • populate database • other groups • other languages • Data validation / referee • Interoperability/interconnection with other information systems • DiGIR • Partnership with CRIA

  20. Thank you ! Visit us at: http://www.webbee.org.br

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