LifeWatch: Collaboration opportunities with GBIF

Talk at the GBIF European Nodes meeting in Brussels, Belgium - April 9, 2014.

Presenting LifeWatch, LifeWatch Belgium, and LifeWatch INBO with a focus on the collaboration opportunities with GBIF.

Transcript

1. LifeWatch   Collabora0on  opportuni0es     with  GBIF   Peter  Desmet  
2. LifeWatch  Europe   www.lifewatch.eu  
3. European   Infrastructure  for  biodiversity  and   ecosystem  research  
4. Distributed  virtual  lab   Observatories,  data  repositories,     web  services,  modelling  tools  
5. Large  scale   Data  capture,  data  analysis,   collabora0on  
6. Central  and   common   facili0es   Regional   services   Regional   services   Regional   services   Regional   services   Regional   services  
7. 7  par0cipa0ng  countries   Belgium,  Greece,  Hungary,  Italy,  Spain,   Sweden,  The  Netherlands  
8. LifeWatch  Belgium   lifewatch.be  
9. Federal   biodiversity.aq  
10. Antarc0c  biodiversity  portal   www.biodiversity.aq   Species  occurrence  data  
11. Walloon/Brussels  region   Université  de  Louvain  
12. Large  scale  remote  sensing   uclouvain.be/lifewatch  
13. Reference  datasets   Fire,  snow,  vegeta0on,  sun  
14. Flemish  region   Flanders  Marine  Ins0tute  (VLIZ)   Research  Ins0tute  for  Nature  and   Forest  (INBO)  
15. Taxonomic  backbone   Unified  access  to  standardized     species  informa0on   lifewatch.be/data-­‐services  
16. Taxonomic  backbone   Funding  to  complete  gaps  in  data   Interoperability  via  webservices  
17. EurOBIS   eurobis.org   Species  occurrence  data  
18. Research  vessel   Marine  observatory  
19. Zooscan   Automa0c  zooplankton  detec0on  
20. Phytoplankton  flow  cytometer   Automa0c  phytoplankton  sampling   and  detec0on  
21. LifeWatch  INBO   lifewatch.inbo.be  
22. Terrestrial  and  freshwater   Observatory  
23. Unmanned  Aerial  System   High  resolu0on  imaging  for  habitat   monitoring  
24. Fish  tracking  network   100+  acous0c  tags  and  receivers   Species  occurrence  data    
25. Bird  radar   Automa0c  bird  detec0on  in  5km  range   Species  occurrence  data  
26. Bird  tracking  network   Lightweight,  solar  powered  GPS  tags   Species  occurrence  data  
27. We  are  genera0ng  data   And  want  to  collaborate  on  services  
28. Fish  Informa0on  system  (VIS)   20  years  of  fish  research  
29. 440.000+   Fish  occurrences  
30. Standardize   As  Darwin  Core  
31. Document   Metadata  in  EML  
32. Publish  via  IPT   data.inbo.be/ipt  
33. Register  with  GBIF   Discoverability  
34. GBIF  webservices   For  free!  Would  like  to  collaborate  
35. Bird  tracking  network   500.000  occurrence  records  
38. CartoDB   lifewatch-­‐inbo.cartodb.com  
39. CartoDB  API   We  can  build  our  own  tools  
40. Tracking  data  on  GBIF   Discoverability,  central  hub  for   biodiversity  data  
41. Open  data   This  is  not  our  data  
42. CC0  +  norms   Allow  data  to  be  used  
43. Build  a  community   Around  the  data  
44. Blog   lifewatch.inbo.be  
46. Open  issues   So  users  can  be  informed     and  contribute   github.com/LifeWatchINBO  
47. Collabora0ve  metadata   Markdown  paper  with  VC  
48. Open  documenta0on   Collaborate  on  best  prac0ces  
49. Peter  Desmet   Thanks   @LifeWatchINBO