A brief presentation on community needs, challenges and solutions, including: What is OBIS?, Strategic Partnering, Authoritative Data and Products, Standardized Discovery Metadata, and Open Source Data Flow. Examples of advanced usage include: Web Mapping and Feature Services, ODBC – R Statistical Computing, and KML – Google Maps global flyby.

Pursuit of global scale relevance and sustainability.Robert Branton, Dalhousie University, Halifax Canada

bob.branton@dal.ca

What is OBIS?Searching the internet for ‘OBIS Ocean Biogeographic Information System’ recently yielded 280,000 links, including ... •www.iobis.org offering 21.9 million records of 108000 species from 707 databases.•www.iobis.org/about/ saying ‘It is an evolving strategic alliance of people and organizations sharing a vision to make marine biogeographic data, from all over the world, freely available over the World Wide Web.’Internet users simply access OBIS data by entering a scientific or common name into the text box or clicking on the map.

Here we search with commonname cod

Strategic PartneringCensus of Marine Life (CoML) - coml.org• Researchers in ~80 nations organized into 17 field projects (e.g. POST) engaged in a 10-year scientific

initiative to assess and explain the diversity. CoML will end in 2010

Regional OBIS Nodes (RONs) - iobis.org/obisrons• Data managers from 14 regions (e.g. EurOBIS, OBISCanada ) working in partnership with the International

OBIS Portal to promote the sharing and use of the world’s marine biodiversity data.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility - gbif.org• An international government-initiated and funded initiative focused on making biodiversity data available

to all, for scientific research, conservation and sustainable development. OBIS is one of the largest publishers of data to GBIF, reflecting its role as a specialist network for marine species.

International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange (IODE) - iode.org• The United Nations, Intergovernmental Commission (IOC) is in the process of creating a Programme Office

for OBIS with the current host institution (Rutgers University, NJ, USA) as well an officially recognized OBIS Group of Experts, thus ensuring sustainability beyond 2010.

Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) – oceantrackingnetwork.org• A Global Ocean Observing System project headquartered at Dalhousie University in Halifax Canada funded

to 2017, tracking thousands of marine animals around the world using acoustic telemetry technology, feeding data to OBIS and at the same time, building a record of climate change.

Authoritative Data & Products

C-Square mapper

iobis.org/data/policy/citation

By using OBIS data, one agrees to : 1. Acknowledge the use of specific records ... of the OBIS facility ... 2. provide to OBIS ... the full citation of any publication ... that cites OBIS 3. recognize the limitations of data in OBIS.

Ascii Data

Other categories and keywords

Standardized Discovery Metadata

gcmd.nasa.gov

Open Source Data Flow

OBIS CacheOracle - PostgrSQL

RegionalNodes

Mirrors

GBIF

DiGIR – Distributed Generic Information RetrievalOther protocols

Source Data

IOBIS.ORG ODBC - RWeb Services

PostgreSQLPGAdminIII

Web Mapping and Feature Services

coinatlantic.ca

GetFeature Info Response

ODBC – R Statistical Computing

Ocean Tracking NetworkGoogle Maps kml global flyby

http://maps.google.ca/?q=http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/OTN/etc/ge/OTNFlyBy2.kmz