Online Data Holdings @

Flanders Marine Data & Information Centre

InnovOcean site

SeadataNet Annual Meeting, Madrid 2009

Outline

1. Introduction Flanders Marine Data and Information Centre

2. Biological data holdings• Biogeographic Data: European Ocean Biogeographic Information System

(EurOBIS)• Taxonomic Data: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

3. Sampling data holdings• IMERS Data (integrated physical/chemical/biological data)

4. Operational data holdings• Sea level station monitoring facility• Data acquisition system Zeeleeuw R.V.

5. Geographic Information Systems• Marine placenames and boundaries• Scheldt Geo Data Portal

1. Introduction Flanders Marine Data and Information Centre

VLIZ is a scientific institution, but does not conduct scientific research

• Hosts marine datacentre (provides expertise in terms of data management: development, maintenance, hosting)

• Logistic support (managing research vessel Zeeleeuw, greenhouses)• Hosts marine (digital) library• Communication desk: translation of scientific results to policy and public at

large

VLIZ does not generate data

• Except for data acquisition system on board of the Zeeleeuw• Added value by integrating data sets from different sources• Added value by creating data compilations

2. Biological data holdings

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biogeographic Information System

• Distributed system to search for biogeographic data of European Marine Species

• Species – position - time

• Developed within framework of EU FP6 – MarBEF NoE

• 1 of the 6 regional nodes of OBIS

• Distributed system: local managers manage own dataThrough DIGIR

• Standards: DARWIN Core (XML-Scheme for biogeographic information)WoRMS for Taxonomy

2. Biological data holdings

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biogeographic Information System

Statistics (March 2009) Statistics (March 2009)

• 171 Datasets (data providers)• 5,204,807 distribution records

2. Biological data holdings

Taxonomic Data: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

• Standard list for marine species names accepted by many datacentra (proposedstandard by IODE/GEBICH)

• WoRMS builds on experience European Register of Marine Species

• WoRMS provides the first authoritative list of names of all marine and brackish water species world-wide

• WoRMS is the marine contribution to the Species2000 & ITIS’ Catalogue of Life,and will collaborate with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) &Encyclopedia of Life (EoL)’s It serves as the taxonomic backbone of theinternational Ocean Biogeographic Information System (iOBIS)

• Through FP7-PESI VLIZ will host also European freshwater and terrestrial checklists (Fauna Europaea & EurMed Plantbase)

2. Biological data holdings

Taxonomic Data: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

Statistics (March 2009) Statistics (March 2009)

• 142 taxonomists, 92 institutes, 26 countries142 taxonomists, 92 institutes, 26 countries• 250,756 taxa250,756 taxa• 200,370 species names; 135,800 valid species200,370 species names; 135,800 valid species• 124,4878 literature sources; 3,306 specimens124,4878 literature sources; 3,306 specimens

ERMS #RSDs & GSDs

MASDEA & TISBE

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3. Sampling data holdings

IMERS Data (integrated physical/chemical/biological data)

• Making data from different sources and collected over different periods availablein an integrated way

Cruise

Station

Sample

Chemical Physical

Metadata

Data

Biological

3. Sampling data holdings

IMERS Data (integrated physical/chemical/biological data)

Statistics (March 2008) Statistics (March 2008)

• Physical-chemical data: • 900.000 readings for 855 parameters• Water measurements: >700.000• Sediment measurements: > 200.000

• Biological data:• 231.807 readings (for 1.470 taxa)• Abundance, biomass, length measurements, # eggs, ....

Availability (March 2008) Availability (March 2008)

• Partly online freely accessible (under memorandum)• Link with IDOD Database (MUMM)

3. Physicochemical data holdings

IMERS Data (integrated physical/chemical/biological data)

–Online search interface: http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/imers

3. Sampling data holdings

IMERS Data (integrated physical/chemical/biological data)

–Online GIS interface: http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/imers

4. Operational data

Sea level station monitoring facility for IODE and GLOSS, IOC

• 300 tide gauges from >70 dataproviders

• Monitors the operational status of sea level stations in World Oceans in real-time

• plots sea level data (recent and historic) and download sea level data

• Collects data from GTS (WMO Network), FTP, Webservices, Email

4. Operational data

Sea level station monitoring facility

4. Operational data

Data acquisition system Zeeleeuw R.V.

• Navigational, metereological and oceanographic parameters while underway

• VLIZ Monitoring data (11 stations, 10 years)

• CTD casts uploaded as CDI Records, rest to follow

5. Geographic Information Systems

Standards for Marine placenames and boundaries

• VLIMAR Gazetteer: Standardisation Marine Placenames for MarBEF data systems

• Online list of geo-objects

• Placename, Placetype, Coordinates

• Relations ~ hierachical

5. Geographic Information Systems

Standards for Marine placenames and boundaries

• MARBOUND: Maritime Boundaries Database

• Maritime boundaries (Polyline, Polygon (~ EEZ))

• Website – free downloadable EEZ layers (shapefiles);http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound

• > 2300 registered users

• Map interface (open-source MapServer (OGC))

• Application: National species checklists

Detail EEZ United Kingdom

5. Geographic Information Systems

Scheldt Geo Data Portal

• Integrated data portal on Scheldt Estuary (BE-NL)• Biological/physical/chemical/sampling data• Monitoring data• Maps/GIS layers for spatial planning and environmental management• Metadata (Literature, Datasets, Publications)

• Dataproviders from BE/NL• DONAR, VMM, INBO, NIOO, VLIZ

• Data ‘Atlas’ of the Scheldt (International Coastal Atlas Network: ICAN)

• OGC compliant Web Services (GeoServer, GML)• Web Feature Service (WFS)~vector data• Web Map Service (WMS)~maps

• INSPIRE Directive