GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY

1. INFORMATIONFACILITY GLOBALBIODIVERSITY 10th Nodes Meeting David Remsen Senior Programme Officer, ECAT 3 Oct 2009 WWW.GBIF.ORG

2. Use cases • Map species data to a controlled list or authority file (or system). Are my names spelled right? Taxonomy up to date? • Provide controlled lists for data entry • Build new regional or thematic species lists • Provide integrated/flexible taxonomic browsing of species data • Support browsing in native/other languages • Support the use of common names in search/access • Find species information regardless of misspellings, synonyms, etc. • Automated processes for identifying, extracting, validating, and linking names in documents, publications, web sites, etc.

3. Scope of the Global Names Architecture A global publication and discovery system for taxon names and concepts

4. GNA infrastructure extends GBIF infrastructure Common publication framework for GBIF and other networks

5. ECAT Work Programme • Define/implement the architectural framework for publishing taxonomic data • Build a global index of published “checklists” to enable discovery, integration and access • Build services and tools that use the published “checklist” data

6. Scope “Checklists” • Taxonomic Catalogues • Monographs, Regional Flora/Faunas, Taxonomic “Aggregates” • Species Inventories • Regional species lists • Thematically defined species lists • Red Lists, Invasive Species Lists, Medicinal, etc. • Common Name Lists/Inventories • Species indices in published content

7. Status of Architecture • Robust and extensible data standard in place • Documentation, examples, code • Tools and services to support global extension and use of the standard • Capacity to register, publish, and access data is in place now * • Simple Name indexes • Complex Taxonomic Data * Needs promotion, use, and refinement

8. Rich, Extensible, Simple Standard http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/wiki/DwCArchive

9. Developing, Detailed documentation Source Code Schemas Tools Instructions Documentation Feedback!!! (please) http://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/

10. Extensible, International, Controlled Community authoring Controlled Vocabularies Extensions Multi-lingual Thesauri Nov 2009 release http://vocabularies.gbif.org

11. 30% to 95% occurrence data linked to taxonomic sources Publishing Infrastructure is in place

12. Goal 2 of ECAT Work Build and integrate Indexes of the Published Checklist Data

13. Global Checklist Index A global name service brokerage to names hosted on taxonomic servers

14. Global Names Index Facilitates Linking URIs+Species Names Web Service “Fuzzy” name matching Simple DwC standard Publicise species data entry by species name

15. Integration of Indexes within the Data Portal

16. Goal 3 of ECAT Work Build Services & Applications that use published Checklists

17. Using published Checklist Data

18. New Processes/Technologies New Derived Products Enabling new and extended uses of taxonomic data

19. Taxon Tagger Application (Silverbiology)

20. Applied to data access and integration Uses that provide benefits to GBIF participants

21. Questions • Does this enhanced capacity, to publish species-level data, particularly checklists, serve a need with the NODES? • Is the IPT sufficient for providing the capacity to publish these types of checklists • Would NODES like additional options? • Focus on cataloging as much Checklist content as possible • LifeDesks and Scratchpads, plus all the known databases that are "out there” • Develop the widest array of basic web services to enable their use? • More name processing tools/ mapping services?

22. How to contact GBIF: • Web site: www.gbif.org • Data portal: data.gbif.org • GBIF Secretariat • Universitetsparken 152100 CopenhagenDenmark • E-mail: info@gbif.org • Phone: +45 3532 1470 • Fax: +45 3532 1480