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Data Models to share invasive species information through the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN). Annie Simpson, Jim Graham, Elizabeth Sellers, and Michael Browne. Biodiversity Information Standards-TDWG 2008 Annual Meeting, Fremantle, Australia. Unknown Species, Causing Harm.
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Data Models to share invasive species information through the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) Annie Simpson, Jim Graham, Elizabeth Sellers, and Michael Browne Biodiversity Information Standards-TDWG2008 Annual Meeting, Fremantle, Australia
Studies of Invasive Species Online Databases • About 300 freely available online, with invasive species information • Only about 30 countries have their own online invasive species databases • With about 195 countries in the world, we have large data gaps
Global Invasive Species Information Network • Has been in existence since 2004 with the purpose of providing a platform to share IAS information via the Internet and other digital means. • http://www.gisinetwork.org
Brief history of GISIN 2004: Global Experts Meeting to implement GISIN (Baltimore) 2005: Cooper & Browne create IAS-PS 2006: TDWG Invasive Species Interest Group 2007: Test implementation of data sharing protocol at the GISIN portal 2008: 1st and 2nd data providers' workshops (June & August)
GISIN Participant Diversity • Invasive species information managers can be roughly grouped into 3 categories: • Online database owners/operators • Those seeking to create an invasive species information system • Scientists collecting invasive species information, but not databasing it
GISIN Progress • Our "standards options" • Part of the Observations Interest Group, or separate? (Separate) • Create a schema that is all inclusive like the IAS-PS, or minimalist like the GISIN protocol? (Both, but implement the simple one for now) • Use DiGIR to share information, or something new? (Something new) • Use the TAPIR protocol, or TAPIR-light? (TAPIR-light) • Darwin Core and Dublin Core and LSIDs and what taxonomic information service?
GISIN Workshop Sponsors • Group on Earth Observations • US National Biological Information Infrastructure • US National Aeronautics & Space Administration
GISIN Early Adopters • Five data providers so far: • SERC-NEMESIS (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System) • FishBase (Global Fish Information System) • NIISS (US National Institute of Invasive Species Science) • I3N-Argentina (Agentine database of the Invasives Information Network of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network) • GLIFWC (US Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission)
How has TDWG failed us? • GISIN has been encouraged to develop itself as an extension to Darwin Core • Element designation example:<dc:Genus>Temnothorax</dc:Genus> • But "dc:" means Dublin Core! • Proper abbreviation is "DwC:" • Difficult to be an extension of a 'standard' with so many 'flavors'
Standards Creation Protocol • How many people to include? • How do we know when we've reached agreement? • How long will it take? • What should our product look like?
TDWG is overwhelmingly supported by academicians who enjoy solving biodiversity data problems with complex solutions.
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TAPIR Compliant • Ping: Simple call to insure the service is available • Metadata: Default operation to retrieve basic information about the service • Capabilities: Requests which operations are supported and for which Models • Inventory: Requests the type of records a provider has for a particular Model and, optionally, how many • Search: Requests a set of requested records for a particular Model
Data Model Summary • Three stable GISIN data models: • Occurrences (based on Darwin Core) • SpeciesStatus (native or not, harmful or not, etc.) • ResourceURLs (where results are lists of URLs containing a species profile, image, video, reference list, or experts list) • Four more under development: • ManagementStatus • DispersalStatus • ImpactStatus • Citations
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