ANTABIFAntarctic Biodiversity Information Facility

www.biodiversity.aq

Background

• end of BELSPO funding SCARMarBIN

• new project linking marine, terrestrial and limnetic biodiversity data

• BELSPO funding for 2 yrs

• implementation by BBPF

• maintenance of MarBIN

• IYB2010

Objectives

• Build a new portal

• (manage PES data)

• register of Antarctic species

• distributed network

• ensure the long term continuation of the network(s)

Technology

• build upon two sources: SCAR-MarBIN and SCAR EBA DBs @ AADC

• gluing the best available technologies together:

• SMB V2: geo DBs, indexing tools, search engines, webservices

• SCAR CGA, Map DB

• Scratchpads, IPT/HIT, DwC2, community tools