Preliminary Survey Results 10 th Nodes Committee Meeting - Copenhagen
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Preliminary Survey Results 10 th Nodes Committee Meeting - Copenhagen
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Preliminary Survey Results 10 th Nodes Committee Meeting - Copenhagen. Context. The development of a Custom Portal or Nodes Portal Toolkit has been identified as a need by the Nodes since 2003 Workshop held in Copenhagen in 2005 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Preliminary Survey Results
10th Nodes Committee Meeting - Copenhagen
Context
The development of a Custom Portal or Nodes Portal Toolkit has been identified as a need by the Nodes since 2003
Workshop held in Copenhagen in 2005
Efforts at that time focused in developing http://data.gbif.org
NPT Development: A participatory process
Need is identified by the community
Preliminary assessmentCapturing specific requirements
• Exactly what is needed?• By whom?• How this would relate to existing developments?• Is this already included in the GBIF Work Programme?Defining an implementation
plan – community development?Alpha and beta testing processesTake up and roll over – full implementation
Developing a Nodes Portal Toolkit – Preliminary Survey Results
Development of NPT key activity in the Work Programme 2009-2010
Online survey designed to assess needs and priorities for NPT
26 GBIF Participants responded: 21 countries, 5 international organisations – LOW RESPONSE
What is the current interest from the Participant Nodes on the NPT?
Priorities concerning NPT features
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Provide access to information about people and organisations
Ecological data search and visualisation (e.g. using filters such as ecosystem type, habitat, seasonality, and other ecological traits)
Access to basic analytical tools (e.g. species distribution models)
Thematic filters (search data for threatened species, invasive species, pollinators, fresh water organisms, etc.)
Data resource search (looking for a specific dataset or data originator)
Species level data search (to browse and search species pages)
Metadata catalogue functionality (e.g. browsing metadata records, or looking for datasets based on metadata descriptions)
Upload and download data on the categories above (use the box below to comment on preferred formats)
Provide access to relevant data served by other GBIF Participants
Access to data served only by data holders within the domain of the Participant Node
Taxonomic search (browsing data by taxonomic names, checklists, etc.)
Geospatial search (looking for data on a specific region or geographical area, or by using geospatial filters)
Top priority
Important but not essential
Not relevant
Not applicable
Data types to be integrated in a NPT
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Ecosystems
Habitats
Non point occurrence data
Checklists
Common names
Species level data
Taxonomic information
Maps
Point occurrence data
Top priority
Important but not essentialNot relevant
Not applicable
Availability of infrastructure at the Node level to host a biodiversity portal internally
Nodes participation in a Requirements Capture and Analysis Phase?
Yes: 76% (19 Participants) No: 24 % (6 Participants)
Availability of developers from the Nodes to collaborate in the development of NPT
Technical skills within the Nodes’ teams: Software technologies
Technical skills within the Nodes’ teams: Various technologies
Options for the basis for the development of the NPT
57%
17%
17%
9%Initiate a phase of requirements capture and analysis before making decisions
Package and customise the existing ETI BioPortal
Package and customise the existing GBIF Data Portal
Start a new collaborative development program to develop a new portal
General Recommendations
1. Present and discuss these preliminary results with the Nodes Committee at the GB16 Meeting in Copenhagen.
2. Use the Copenhagen meeting to get general feedback from those Participants who didn´t respond to the survey. The objective will be to get more accurate information about the number of Participant Nodes who need or are interested in a Nodes Portal Toolkit.
General Recommendations
3. Convene an Advisory Nodes Committee group to help define the scope of the NPT (within the context of the GBIF Informatics Infrastructure and according to the Participants’ needs). This advisory group will work with the Secretariat staff in producing:
a) A scoping document for the NPT (focusing on the more general and strategic aspects), plus a first set of specific requirements for the NPT development
b) A set of recommendations on how to develop, implement and deploy such a portal toolkit.
