ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity Research

Project overview

Isabella Van de VeldeRoyal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels

Virtual Biodiversity ResearchViBRANT

ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for

Taxonomy EU FP7 project - 3 yearVirtual Research Communities callStarted in December 2010Project website http://vbrant.eu

to provide a more effective framework for managing biodiversity information on the Web

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Biodiversity informatics landscape

data format diversity

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

Biodiversity informatics landscape

local

audiencesdata format diversity

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

Biodiversity informatics landscape

local

national

regional

global

informatics systemsaudiencesdata format diversity

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

Do we want to work this way?

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Of course not!

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

What’s the solution?

take a deep breath

and focus on…

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

What’s the solution?

Interoperability!

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

ViBRANTs contribution17 partners in 9 countries(universities, museums & SMEs)

Interoperability, workflows, services, information modeling & user support

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Project goalsThe “chromosome”

VisionConnecting the people, data & science of biodiversity

PositionOpen & sustainable development of a federated network of biodiversity informatics infrastructures

MissionFacilitate the mobilisation, sharing and publication of biodiversity data

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Scratchpads

Some products and services

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a website foryou & your community

scratchpads.eu

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Scratchpads ViBRANT’s hub

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OBOE

Some products and services

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

Data services

https://vibrant.oerc.ox.ac.uk

OBOE receives a request for computation, gets the job done, and returns results

Think of OBOEas a job distribution agent…

Oxford Batch Operation Engine

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Biodiversity data journal

Some products and services

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Scholarly publishing

Pensoft Writing Tool

http://biodiversitydatajournal.com

The BDJ is very different…

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GeoCAT

Some products and services

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http://vimeo.com/22739331

open source tool to perform geospatial analysis and visualization of Red List data

Data services

Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool

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COMBER

Some products and services

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ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013

diveobserve

recordshare

Ecological & conservation data mobilisation

Citizens’ Network for the Observation of Marine BiodiVERsity

http://www.comber.hcmr.gr

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Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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Thanks!

Questions?

Join us! scratchpads.eu

vbrant.eu

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