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Advancing Brazil’s Biodiversity: CRIA’s Commitment to Sustainable Environmental Information

The Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable use of Brazil's biodiversity through high-quality information dissemination and education. CRIA employs open-source software, adopts common standards, and establishes partnerships to make crucial biodiversity data freely accessible online. It supports biodiversity research initiatives and provides essential tools for data management and collection, creating a collaborative environment for researchers and institutions involved in conservation efforts.

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Advancing Brazil’s Biodiversity: CRIA’s Commitment to Sustainable Environmental Information

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  1. THE REFERENCE CENTER ON ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, CRIA, IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT, NON-GOVERNAMENTAL ORGANIZATION THAT AIMS TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE USE OF BRAZIL’S BIODIVERSITY THROUGH THE DISSEMINATION OF HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION. CRIAReference Center on Environmental Information

  2. Basic concepts (“philosophy”) • use of open source software • adopt common standards and protocols • make information freely available on the internet • integration - interoperability (data/information sharing) • establish partnerships • Software development • Data/information

  3. BIOTA/FAPESP The Biodiversity Virtual Institute http://www.biota.org.br A research program on biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

  4. april/2004 Projects 53 Researchers 400 Students 400 Surveys 6454 Species 7920 Records 47981 Environmental Information System http://sinbiota.cria.org.br

  5. Banco de Dados

  6. Architecture DataPostgreSQL Base Maps

  7. Slide: Sidnei de Souza, sidnei@cria.org.br

  8. Support to collections • Providing basic equipment and network infrastructure • Helping to choose a management system, when needed • Helping to train and to import data, when needed

  9. Protocol and Content Schema • DiGIR protocol (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval) Potential to be globally accepted • DiGIR software (Java Portal & PHP Provider) Collaborative development • DarwinCore Covers the basic content elements (taxonomic identification, location and date of collecting event)

  10. RegionalServer RegionalServer RegionalServer RegionalServer RegionalServer

  11. DiGIRPortal speciesLink site Presentation Layer Lib DiGir Fast and stable connectivity Regional Server Collection A SQL ProviderPHP SQL DataPostgres ProviderPHP Data CollectionManagementSystem MirrorSOAP server Slow or unstable connectivity Collection B Collection C SQL spLinkerJava Data spLinkerJava Data SQL Data Repository Data Repository CollectionManagementSystem CollectionManagementSystem

  12. Data Migration Client • Platform independent (java) • Connects to any database accessible via JDBC (simple text files are also supported) • Complete control over data • Low traffic • Possibility to filter sensitive data using a regular expression

  13. Postgres Provider PHP SQL SOAP Server (perl) Regional server Features • perl / PostgreSQL combination • Can hold data from several collections • Interpretation rules can be applied to specific data

  14. Data Integration

  15. Next 2 years: > 30 collections available

  16. Summing up • Achieved proof of concept • Data is already available (human and machine interfaces) • Triggered off a movement within the collections to improve the quality of data and to increase the amount of available information • Most interesting part of the game: interoperability

  17. Tools • Mapping tools • Data cleaning tools • Modeling tools

  18. Thank you Dora Ann Lange Canhos (dora@cria.org.br)

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