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Canadensys   How  we  built  a  na1onal     biodiversity  data  network   Peter  Desmet  &  Anne  Bruneau  

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Canadensys

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A  network   Of  people  and  collec1ons  

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Academic   11  universi1es,  5  botanical     gardens  &  2  musea    

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Goal   Mobilize  3  million  specimen     records  (20%)  by  2013  

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How?  

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Collect   Prepare   Digi1ze   Standardize   Publish   Aggregate   Download   Use  

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Collect   Prepare   Digi1ze   Standardize   Publish   Aggregate   Download   Use  

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Standardiza1on   Harmonizing  a  cacophony   of  database  systems  

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Offer  support   Help  collec1ons  with  the  DwC  mapping   www.canadensys.net/darwin-­‐core  

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Learn  by  doing   Prac1ce  trumps  theory   bit.ly/dwc-­‐mapping  

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Darwin  Core  archive   A  common  format  

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Easy  

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Publica1on  

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Complete  workflow   Standardize,  publish,  register,  available   Since  2011,  thanks  to  IPT.  

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bit.ly/7-­‐step-­‐guide  

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Offer  hos1ng   Centralizes  maintenance   data.canadensys.net/ipt  

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Registra1on   Guarantees  credit  goes  to  the   data  publisher  /  collec1on  

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Citable  datasets   h[p://dataset.canadensys.net/acad-­‐specimens  

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Data  license   Allow  data  to  be  used   bit.ly/cc0-­‐for-­‐data  

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Download   Per  dataset   Not  very  flexible  

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Aggrega1on  

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Canadensys  explorer   data.canadensys.net/explorer  

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Download  &  use   Get  the  data  out  of  the  system  

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IPT   Collec1ons  

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Darwin  Core  archive   How  we  built  our  na1onal   biodiversity  data  network  

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…  and  we  plan  to  grow  from  here.   www.canadensys.net  

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Thanks!   @canadensys   bit.ly/ca-­‐talk   Peter  Desmet  &  Anne  Bruneau