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THE REFERENCE CENTER ON ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, CRIA, IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT, NON-GOVERNAMENTAL ORGANIZATION THAT AIMS TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE USE OF BRAZIL’S BIODIVERSITY THROUGH THE DISSEMINATION OF HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION.
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THE REFERENCE CENTER ON ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, CRIA, IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT, NON-GOVERNAMENTAL ORGANIZATION THAT AIMS TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE USE OF BRAZIL’S BIODIVERSITY THROUGH THE DISSEMINATION OF HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION. CRIAReference Center on Environmental Information
Basic concepts (“philosophy”) • use of open source software • adopt common standards and protocols • make information freely available on the internet • integration - interoperability (data/information sharing) • establish partnerships • Software development • Data/information
BIOTA/FAPESP The Biodiversity Virtual Institute http://www.biota.org.br A research program on biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
april/2004 Projects 53 Researchers 400 Students 400 Surveys 6454 Species 7920 Records 47981 Environmental Information System http://sinbiota.cria.org.br
Architecture DataPostgreSQL Base Maps
Support to collections • Providing basic equipment and network infrastructure • Helping to choose a management system, when needed • Helping to train and to import data, when needed
Protocol and Content Schema • DiGIR protocol (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval) Potential to be globally accepted • DiGIR software (Java Portal & PHP Provider) Collaborative development • DarwinCore Covers the basic content elements (taxonomic identification, location and date of collecting event)
RegionalServer RegionalServer RegionalServer RegionalServer RegionalServer
DiGIRPortal speciesLink site Presentation Layer Lib DiGir Fast and stable connectivity Regional Server Collection A SQL ProviderPHP SQL DataPostgres ProviderPHP Data CollectionManagementSystem MirrorSOAP server Slow or unstable connectivity Collection B Collection C SQL spLinkerJava Data spLinkerJava Data SQL Data Repository Data Repository CollectionManagementSystem CollectionManagementSystem
Data Migration Client • Platform independent (java) • Connects to any database accessible via JDBC (simple text files are also supported) • Complete control over data • Low traffic • Possibility to filter sensitive data using a regular expression
Postgres Provider PHP SQL SOAP Server (perl) Regional server Features • perl / PostgreSQL combination • Can hold data from several collections • Interpretation rules can be applied to specific data
Summing up • Achieved proof of concept • Data is already available (human and machine interfaces) • Triggered off a movement within the collections to improve the quality of data and to increase the amount of available information • Most interesting part of the game: interoperability
Tools • Mapping tools • Data cleaning tools • Modeling tools
Thank you Dora Ann Lange Canhos (dora@cria.org.br)