BIS TDWG Conference New Orleans 2011 GBIF and
BIS TDWG Conference, New Orleans, 2011 GBIF and Genomic Data Éamonn Ó Tuama Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA) Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 19 October 2011
GBIF data portal http: //data. gbif. org/ Total occurrences: 27 270 Georeferenced: 26 351 Total occurrences: 1 600 164 Georeferenced: 1 392 211
GBIF and Genomic Data A roa dmap by Q 1 devel oped 2 0 1 3 - gen om - complement, not duplicate work - GBIF as top-level gateway to discovery, access http: //links. gbif. org/sp 2012_2016. pdf ic dat - eco logica a l data
GBIF Activities Rf. P for position paper on genomic level observations (Q 1 2011) collaboration with Genomic Standards Consortium Initial joint activities: - Participate in GSC biodiversity work group - Participate in GSC conferences - Aligning Darwin Core and GSC MIx. S NE O o. S - Identifying use cases, e. g. , Microbial Earth Catalog, UNITE PL
Integrating genomic data in GBIF network Ref: Genomics data and the GBIF network: potential for integration (April 2011) http: //links. gbif. org/genomics_scoping
Knowledge Organisation Systems Requirement: a platform to support the development, maintenance and governance of vocabularies for the biodiversity community • GBIF KOS working group white paper “Recommendations for the use of Knowledge Organisation Systems by GBIF” (http: //links. gbif. org/gbif_kos_whitepaper_v 1. pdf ) GSC represented in KOS working group (Norman Morrison) • Appointment of new KOS position at GBIF: Dr Dag Endresen (germplasm community) • Special symposium on KOS at TDWG 2011 conference Grand Ballroom C, Thursday at 09. 30
Future activities Collaboration on Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS) for standards development e. g. , to support the work of aligning Dw. C and GSC MIx. S Collaboration on Genomic Observatories (GO) Network: - data mining the GBIF data cache to understand coverages and gaps - promotion of GBIF Data Portal and network for discovery and access to more specialized data networks and sites - identifying biodiversity hotspots (DNA, species level) Opportunity for GSC/GBIF workshop in Q 1 2012 - hackathon on aligning Dw. C and MIx. S Opportunity for GSC to contribute to the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) report in 2012
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