Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo

1. Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Sistemas Digitais Laboratório de Automação Agrícola (LAA - PCS/EPUSP) Biodiversity Data Digitizer – BDD – Uma Ferramenta Web para Digitização e Publicação de Dados de Biodiversidade Saraiva, A.M.; Cartolano-Júnior, E. A.; Ieiri, A. Y.; Veiga, A. K.; Krobath, D. B.; Teles, J. A.; Kanaoka, R. Y. E-mail: saraiva@usp.br; cartolano@usp.br ACCESS TOOL PRESENTATION The BDD is a browser-based system that can be accessed remotely from a server, or locally, when installed on a personal computer. Among its main features are the registration and handling (update, delete, and search) of species’ occurrences (specimens), following the Darwin Core, and of specimen interaction data, following the Interaction Extension. The data can be displayed on maps or table records, and can be published to other systems with the TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR). The Biodiversity Data Digitizer (BDD) is a tool designed for easy digitization, manipulation, and publication of biodiversity data. It stands out by allowing the user to manipulate its data simply and objectively, especially the data from field observations and small collections, which do not justify or demand the use of collection management software. STANDARDS BDD is based on the Darwin Core standard (DwC), published by TDWG, that is centered on taxa, their occurrence in nature as documented by observations, specimens, and samples, and related information. Standards such as the MRTG, currently submitted as TDWG standard, for collation, management and dissemination of multimedia resources relevant to biodiversity, and the Dublin Core, an interoperable metadata standard that supports a broad range of purposes and business models, are used as complement to DwC. Draft standards, developed with FAO for specific purposes, are also implemented as modules in BDD: interactions between specimens, environmental monitoring and pollination deficit AUTO-SUGGESTION A mechanism for data quality (taxonomic and locality elements) that suggests values based on authoritativedatabases, such as ITIS and Geonames. MEDIA & REFERENCES BDD offers tools to manage and relate media and reference files with occurrence and interaction records DUBLIN CORE IABIN-PTN TAPIR Provider DATA QUALITY A TAPIR provider is builtinto BDD. It publishes records from the database in the standard schemas (Darwin Core, Dublin Core, etc.) The BDD helps users improve and maintain data quality. Where relevant, users are prompted by lists of suggested entries based on authoritative databases, such as the one obtained from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for taxonomic names. When the user fills in a scientific name in the BDD, and this name is in the reference list, or has already been registered, all other fields linked to it (kingdom, phylum, class, etc.) will be automatically filled in, enhancing and completing the data record and decreasing the chance of entry errors. New features, always keeping data quality in mind, are being developed, such as user access control, validation of new records by key users, upload and publication of images and their metadata, a database of bibliographic references, and the ability to load data from spreadsheets. Interaction Records Interaction tool allows one to register the relationship between two occurrence records. DEVELOPMENT The BDD was an outgrowth of the Pollinator Data Digitizer (PDD), which was developed within the scope of the Pollinator Thematic Network of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN-PTN). It is based on open source software, including: PHP scripts, Postgre database, and the Yii framework. For the future, it can evolve to accommodate the new Interaction Extension recent developed by FAO. MAP VIEWS BDD has a map tool that plots occurrence records from the database. Filters help you refine your analysis.