Regional NODES meeting of Europe 2010. Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System (GBRDS, under development) for the NODES. How do we the NODES want the GBRDS to look like. What do we the NODES wish/need the GBRDS to be. http://www.gbif.org/ http://gbrds.gbif.org/ http://code.google.com/p/gbif-registry/

1. European GBIF Nodes Meeting 2010, March 10th-12th Alicante, Spain Dag Endresen, Nordiv Genetic Resources Center, NordGen GBRDS Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System

2. What is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility? GBIF enables free and open access to biodiversity data online. An international government-initiated and funded initiative focused on making biodiversity data available to all and anyone, for scientific research, conservation and sustainable development. GBIF’s Data Portal provides this infrastructure. GBIF site :: http://www.gbif.org/index.php?id=269

4. Enabling publishing of biodiversity data

5. Promoting development of data exchange standards

6. Building an informatics architecture

7. Capacity building

8. Catalysing development of analytical tools

9. Data provider

11. Available APIs (so far) Question: Do we (the NODES) miss an important API here, or are these good to go? Visit GBRDS at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/gbif-registry/w/list

12. At the core, a Discovery System DiscoverySystem ServicePublishers Others… Registering Discovering DataPublishers Consumers Searching Retrieving Slide by Vishwas Chavan, GBRDS workshop September 2009

13. GBIF GBRDS http://gbrds.gbif.org Slide prepared by GBIF (SamyGaiji)

15. USE CASES & mock-up examples The same primary biodiversity data can be analyzed differently for different uses Discussion: Do we the NODES, have other important use cases? Discussion: Do we the NODES have other requirements for the GBRDS user interface?

17. Analyse and predict spread of pests and diseases of humans, crops, livestock, wildlife, etc.

18. Predict best places to set up new protected areas

19. Analyse invasive species and predict invasion pathways

20. Provide policymaker-relevant data of all kinds

21. Be a resource for biodiversity science communitiesThe same primarybiodiversity data canbeanalyzeddifferently for differentuses. http://code.google.com/p/gbif-registry/wiki/UseCases Modified from slide by Vishwas Chavan, GBRDS workshop September 2009

22. Moving towards…global integration ? Migratory Spp. ThreatenedSpp.; Red List Spp. Invasives, cropwild relatives, medicinals, etc. Slide by Vishwas Chavan, GBRDS workshop September 2009

23. Mock-upexamples Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System empowering discovery of biodiversity data microhyla ornata western ghats 1980 Discover 779 resources in six categories discovered, with 428 accessible, 351 resources records 1-5 of 351, <<Next>> Database of Frogs of Southern India..........(more) AmphibiaWeb...................................................(more) Fauna of India Database..................................(more) Microhyla of the World....................................(more) ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ Names (82) Primary Biodiversity Data (200) Resources (351) ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ ............................................ Multimedia (12) Maps (28) Literature (106) About GBRDS Bug Report @ 2009, GBIF Slide by Vishwas Chavan, GBRDS workshop September 2009

24. Mock-upexamples Database of Frogs of Southern India: South Asian Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring, Kathmandu, Nepal CDROM, published November 2006, ISBN-001-898-0788, sacbm@sacbm.org . <<Click here for complete metadata record>> AmphibiaWeb: http://www.amphibiaweb.org/ Access point live as on 20th June 2009 <<Click here for complete metadata record>> Fauna of India Database: National Centre for Biodiversity Informatics, New Delhi, India In-house database, accessible through bi-lateral arrangement, fid@ncbi.org.in <<Click here for complete metadata record>> Microhyla of the World: Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA 257 specimen records: 1700 – 2001: http://www.si.edu/amphibia/microhyla/ Access point live as on 12th Jan 2009 <<Click here for complete metadata record>> Amphibian Collection of Raffles Museum: Raffles Museum, Singapore 7004 specimens, non-digital: curator@raffles.sg. <<Click here for complete metadata record>> Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System empowering discovery of biodiversity data 779 resources in six categories discovered, with 428 accessible, 351 resources records Resources Names PrimaryBiodiversity Data Multimedia Maps Literature microhyla ornata western ghats 1980 Discover Digital, Offline Resources (351): 1-5 of 351 : Next : Previous : Last : Digital, Free, Online Digital, Restricted Access Digital, Free, Online About GBRDS Bug Report @ 2009, GBIF Non- Digital Slide by Vishwas Chavan, GBRDS workshop September 2009

25. Online demo (pre-alpha)

26. Online demo (pre-alpha)

27. GBRDS? What’s that? eBiosphere resolution recommendation: “Complete durable global registries of biodiversity informatics resources” Slide by SamyGaiji, GBRDS workshop September 2009

28. Is this the GBRDS? The GBRDS is 1) a Registry of resources and services and 2) a set of discovery services interacting with existing infrastructure such as GBIF to facilitate the discovery of biodiversity information. The most important component, the Registry would facilitate the inventory of information resources by creating a single annotated index of publishers, institutions, networks, collections (datasets), schema repository and services. The envisaged GBRDS is not conceived to be designed as simply a collection of centralized indexes but much more as an integrated ‘Yellow Pages’ reference of all biodiversity information resources, reconciling all distributed resources and providing a meaningful way to discover them in a distributed manner. Slide by SamyGaiji, GBRDS workshop September 2009

29. Registry: The past… Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) “…XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet …” NB! Capitaliseonresources (investments) till date, re-useprevious solutions. Modified from slide by Tim Robertson, GBRDS workshop September 2009

31. Identification of duplicate datasets / records

32. Scalable, up-time (24/7/365)

33. How to build relations between resources (Perhaps FaceBook style: “Institution X requests to be associated with you. Would you like to accept this association?”)

34. Central curation, or distributed community curation?

35. Allow the tagging of resources (human, machine)

36. Discussion: Any additional specifications to add from the NODES?Source: slides by Tim Robertson, GBRDS workshop September 2009

37. GBRDS Planning:Someissuesto consider

39. Multiple entity types

40. Institutions, networks, collections, GBIF Nodes

41. Many relationship typesSlide by Tim Robertson, GBRDS workshop September 2009

42. GBRDS scalability/portability to other communities/locations will be critical! Slide by SamyGaiji, GBRDS workshop September 2009

43. Where metadata fits in ... NB! Remember import / compatibility with other metadata catalogues / systems Modified from slide by Éamonn Ó Tuama, GBRDS workshop September 2009

44. GBRDS : Persistent Identifiers The Persistent Identifier is a digital name tag Also called Global Unique Identifiers (GUID) Life Science Identifiers (LSID) is one example Digital Object Identifier (doi) is another example The Persistent Identifier concept introduces a straightforward approach to naming and identifying data resources stored in multiple, distributed data stores. Persistent Identifiers provides a naming standard to supportinteroperability. Discussion: Are Persistent Identifiers an important task for the GBRDS? (From NODES view-point)

46. leadership

47. practical servicesRecommendation 10: GBIF should provide services to support identifier resolution, redirection, metadata hosting, and caching. Source: slides by Éamonn Ó Tuama, GBRDS workshop September 2009

48. GBRDS : Provider monitoring Endpoint monitoring http://bioguid.info/status/ (Rod Page) Modified from slide by Tim Robertson, GBRDS workshop September 2009

49. GBRDS : Provider monitoring Date Last Updated: 2010-03-08 08:15:01+0000 Endpoint monitoringhttp://bigdig.ecoforge.net/ (David Vieglais, Kansas University, 2006)

50. GBRDS : Provider monitoring Endpoint monitoring http://chm.grinfo.net/ (Bioversity, Dag Endresen, March 2006)

52. Most of existing and future data would be hold by Small Data Publishers

53. The early focus of GBIF was the low hanging fruits – the LARGE datasets

54. Further expansion of the GBIF data network should struggle to include the small datasets

55. Source: Curating the Dark Data in the Long tail of science by P. Bryan Heidorn (Google Tech Talk, August 28, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgN74bR57i0Source: slides by Vishwas Chavan, GBRDS workshop September 2009

56. Thanks for listening