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Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics
International Conference on Marine Biodiversity Data Management
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Objectives
• Stock-taking– where are we?– where do we want to go?
• Technological changes– necessitate re-thinking of data management and
role of data centres
• How to create large databases– content– technology
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Specific objectives
• bring together biological data managers to discuss the present state, and progress, in this field since the meetings in Hamburg (1996) and Brussels (2002)
• provide an opportunity for biological data managers to find out what is happening at international organisations
• discuss potential gaps and overlaps in the taxonomic and geographic scope of existing data systems
• discuss standards and protocols for data exchange• how to integrate data from separate databases• learn how these integrated databases have provided
new insights
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Follow-up from previous meetings• International Workshop on Oceanographic
Biological and Chemical Data Management. Hamburg, Germany. 20-23 May 1996 – Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie,– IOC, NOAA (WDC-A)
• Colour of Ocean Data Symposium. Brussels, Belgium. 25-27 November 2002– Flanders Marine Institute– OSTC, IOC, OBIS
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Hamburg 1996: objectives
• identify parameters that the IOC/IODE system can effectively handle
• describe minimum meta data requirements that make the data useful for future users of the data
• identify problems that may limit the usefulness of historical data
• identify users of these data and their requirements
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Hamburg 1996: topics
• Need for biological and oceanographic data• Standardization of biological data collection• Development of chemical and biological
oceanographic data management• Future technology• Capacity building• Funding
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Brussels 2002: objectives
• Bring together marine/oceanographic data users and providers from different backgrounds– Biological vs physico-chemical– Data manager vs scientist
• Identify common needs
• Identify points of common interest
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Brussels 2002: conclusions
• Differences between physico-chemical and biological databases– Physicochemical data are larger volumes; biological
data are more complex– Better established system for data exchange for PC
data
• Commonalities more important than differences– Need for proper data management: archiving…– Make databases citable (incentive for data
submission)
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
International organisations
• IOC– Lesley Rickards in opening session– Several talks by people from NODCs
• ICES– Julie Gillin in opening session, chair of session, closing
session– Talk/poster from ICES collaborators
• ICSU/WDCs– Nick Michaelov, Robert Gelfeld– Support from WDC-A to participants
• OBIS, GBIF, FAO…
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Gaps and overlaps
• Needs inventory of activities
• Too much integration, too little work on the ground?– ‘inverted pyramid’
• Too little work in the tropics?
• Too much observer bias to ‘sexy’ groups like fish and molluscs?
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Standards and protocols
• Standards– species lists, classification– gazetteer– information content/db structure
• Protocols– mechanics of data exchange
• eg DiGIR, BioCASe
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Distributed systems
• Data creator remains in control of data
• Technological changes make re-thinking of the role of data centres necessary– ICES re-inventing its data centre– IODE review– Discussions during COD conference
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Integrate data
• Within discipline– OBIS, GBIF– Create large databases, make distribution patterns
visible
• Across disciplines– physic-chemical parameters
• IOC/IODE, WDCs
– correlate distribution patterns with environmental information
• How to get at the data?
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
New insights
• Integration leads to larger geographic and taxonomic scopes, longer time basis – patterns clearer
• Turn data into information– Data retrieval and visualisation tools
• Analysis– Analysis tools– Fisheries examples
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Four thematic sessions
• Information system development
• Taxon-based systems
• Geography-based systems
• Analysis
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Closing session
• Revisit COD panel discussion
• Consensus statement on need for large databases
• IODE review
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Publications
• Book of Abstracts
• Proceedings
• Theme section in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Proceedings
• Content– all papers– approx 10 pages/article, black and white– submit before 31 January
• Publisher– IOC, VLIZ, others?
Ocean Biodiversity Informatics conferenceHamburg, 29/11-1/12/2004
Theme section MEPS
• Deadline for submission is now
• Only those papers that have scientific content that would pass the normal peer-reviewing process of MEPS
• See Mark Costello
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Organisers
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Financial support