Canadensys: How we built a national biodiversity data network

Talk at the SPNHC 2012 Annual Meeting in New Haven, United States - July 15, 2012.

Lessons learned from building the Canadensys network.

1. Canadensys   How  we  built  a  na1onal     biodiversity  data  network   Peter  Desmet  &  Anne  Bruneau  
2. Canadensys
3. A  network   Of  people  and  collec1ons  
4. Academic   11  universi1es,  5  botanical     gardens  &  2  musea    
6. Goal   Mobilize  3  million  specimen     records  (20%)  by  2013  
7. How?  
8. Collect   Prepare   Digi1ze   Standardize   Publish   Aggregate   Download   Use  
9. Collect   Prepare   Digi1ze   Standardize   Publish   Aggregate   Download   Use  
10. Standardiza1on   Harmonizing  a  cacophony   of  database  systems  
13. Offer  support   Help  collec1ons  with  the  DwC  mapping   www.canadensys.net/darwin-­‐core  
14. Learn  by  doing   Prac1ce  trumps  theory   bit.ly/dwc-­‐mapping  
16. Darwin  Core  archive   A  common  format  
18. Easy  
19. Publica1on  
21. Complete  workflow   Standardize,  publish,  register,  available   Since  2011,  thanks  to  IPT.  
23. bit.ly/7-­‐step-­‐guide  
25. Offer  hos1ng   Centralizes  maintenance   data.canadensys.net/ipt  
26. Registra1on   Guarantees  credit  goes  to  the   data  publisher  /  collec1on  
30. Citable  datasets   h[p://dataset.canadensys.net/acad-­‐specimens  
31. Data  license   Allow  data  to  be  used   bit.ly/cc0-­‐for-­‐data  
32. Download   Per  dataset   Not  very  flexible  
33. Aggrega1on  
35. Canadensys  explorer   data.canadensys.net/explorer  
43. Download  &  use   Get  the  data  out  of  the  system  
44. IPT   Collec1ons  
45. Darwin  Core  archive   How  we  built  our  na1onal   biodiversity  data  network  
46. …  and  we  plan  to  grow  from  here.   www.canadensys.net  
47. Thanks!   @canadensys   bit.ly/ca-­‐talk   Peter  Desmet  &  Anne  Bruneau