Presentation given at the SCAR OSC conference in Buenos Aires, August 2010, in the framework of the LSSSG business meeting

1. SCAR-MarBIN
LSSSG - factual report
www.scarmarbin.be
www.biodiversity.aq
Monday 2 August 2010

2. General philosophy
• Build a network to support Antarctic science
• Offer free and open access to data and technology
• Expose all the data and metadata
• Remain community-driven
• Adopt strong standardization
• Work for science, conservation, management
Monday 2 August 2010

3. [results]: webportal
taxonomy, biogeography
vizualisation
open access
800,000 visitors
5,800,000 hits
39,000,000 dld records
V2alpha coming up
Monday 2 August 2010

4. [results]: Register of
Antarctic Marine Species
• The first RAMS
• Board of 60+ editors
all taxa
all species
• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and
EoL
valid species
• 16,475 taxa
0 3.750 7.500 11.250 15.000
• 9,346 species
Monday 2 August 2010

5. [results]: ANTOBIS
1,088,044 records
172 datasets
106 geodatasets
5,235 taxa
Feeds OBIS, GBIF
Downloadable
WebGIS
OGC Webservices
Monday 2 August 2010

6. [results]: webportal
Monday 2 August 2010

7. [results]: webportal
Monday 2 August 2010

8. [results]: webportal
Monday 2 August 2010

9. [results]: webportal
Monday 2 August 2010

10. [results]: data useage
(pages, 2010)
1%
1%
1%1%
1%1%
1%1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
2%
3% 35%
6%
8%
13%
19%
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Monday 2 August 2010

11. [results]: contributions
(datasets)
Australia
International
Belgium
USA
France
Poland 1%1%
2%1%
1%
2%1%
2%
3%
Germany 29%
4%
Japan 4%
United Kingdom 4%
Russia 5%
Argentina 5%
Italy 9% 18%
Norway 10%
Brazil
Denmark
New Zealand
Spain
Ukraine
Monday 2 August 2010

12. [results]: data contributions
(records)
Australia
USA
International
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Belgium 0%
0%
3%1%
1%
1%
4%
Germany 7%
France
Japan 9%
Russia
Brazil
Poland 73%
Italy
Ukraine
Argentina
Norway
Denmark
Spain
Monday 2 August 2010

13. Who’s in?
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14. Monday 2 August 2010

15. [projects] some examples
SCAR-MarBIN V2 alpha
Antarctic Field Guides
Georeferenced genetic data
Polar Macroscope Synthesis
Biogeographic Atlas of the SO
ANTABIF (www.biodiversity.aq)
Monday 2 August 2010

16. [apps]: examples
• Conservation
• Modeling
• Predicting change
• Expedition design
• Data exploration
• Gap analysis
• Observing systems
Monday 2 August 2010

17. ANTABIF
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility
• www.biodiversity.aq
• Funding: Belgian science Policy office until
end 2011
• International Year of Biodiversity
• Australian Antarctic Division
• Global Biodiversity Information Network
Monday 2 August 2010

18. ANTABIF
• Webpresence:
• www.biodiversity.aq
• share.biodiversity.aq
• scratchpads.biodiversity.aq
• metadata portal
• social networks
• Building NOW on bulletproof technology and
standards
Monday 2 August 2010

19. GBIF
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• What is GBIF?
• an intergovernmental initiative to share
biodiversity information
• NOT a central database or an aggregator
• SCAR is an associate participant
• Share data and expertise
• Participate in community developments
Monday 2 August 2010

20. PIC
Polar Information Commons
Monday 2 August 2010

21. IPBES
Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services
• “IPCC for biodiversity”
• SCAR should express its
interest to get involved
• SCAR-MarBIN/ANTABIF can
play an important role
Monday 2 August 2010

22. Food for thought
• its a time of rapid change, need for timely release
of data
• CAML’s virtual legacy
• flying across disciplines
• evolving as an ecosystem of communities
• save the whales? save the birds? SAVE THE DATA!
[in as many contexts as possible]
• maintain or die (data, developments, standards...)
• momentum is on our side!
Monday 2 August 2010