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1. www.iobis.org Fábio Lang da Silveira – http://obissa.cria.org.brThis talk on behalf of OBIS International Committee and OBIS North & South America Nodes USP – Zoology Depart., IB fldsilve@usp.br

2. What is OBIS? www.coml.org OBIS is the information component of The Census of Marine Life (CoML), a growing global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans - past, present, and future. OBIS is a web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species.

3. What OBIS Provides • Access to marine species data from around the world • species or genus (exceptionally higher taxonomic group observed or collected) at a latitude/longitude location • from museum collections, management agencies, research institutions, etc. • Software tools to use these data effectively for research, management and education

4. OBIS is not like Google • OBIS facilitates access to data records, not datasets • find all organisms recorded from a particular location • find all places a particular taxon has been found • download data in a variety of easy to use formats

5. OBIS Technology • Distributed datasets connected via DiGIR and the OBIS Schema, an extension to the Darwin Core V2. • Data are regularly crawled and cached locally (and indexed) to improve performance. • Quality Control • Names are matched against the Catalog of Life • Questionable points (e.g. on land, 0-0 location) are returned to the data provider for checking • Dataset without metadata will not be posted

6. OBIS Growth • May, 2006 • 9.5 m records, 61,000 species, 113 databases • April, 2007 • 13.1 m records, 79,000 species, 206 databases

7. Ablenne hians www.iobis.org

10. Fishbase

11. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

13. Discovery Metadata See also - http://gcmd.nasa.gov/

14. OBIS Record Schema(mandatory) • What (Taxonomic name): species or genus, subspecies, authority, family, order.... • Where: latitude, longitude, depth, place name, precision • When: last update (automatic), month, day, year, time of collection • Who: institution serving dataset, collection code, catalog number, collector, identifier, dataset name, • How Many: number caught, number preserved • Other: source of record, life stage, type status, etc.

15. OBIS Record Schema(highly recommended) • An abbreviation indicating whether the record represents: - an observation (O) (this can include a visual observation, a survey catch, a commercial landing record, etc) - a collected living organism (L) - a specimen in a collection/museum (S) - a collected germplasm/seed (G) - a photo (P) - derived from literature, where original basis unknown (D).

16. Regional OBIS Nodes (RONS) Canada Europe Japan Korea United States Of America China Indian Ocean * Brazil Australia Sub Saharan Africa New Zealand Chile OBISMC6 at Sao Sebastiao, Brazil April 16-17, 2007 Argentina Antarctica RON Managers Committee

17. About OBIS in South America • SA nodes => full node status • OBIS Tropical and Subtropical Southwest Atlantic (BR) provides Portuguese language interface • OBIS Southern Atlantic (AR) provides Spanish language interface • OBIS (BR) first node to implement special deep web linking to national data collections

18. *16661 records INVERMAR - Colombia

19. Questions? Gracias Thank you Obrigado

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