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Project overview. Isabella Van de Velde Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels. ViBRANT. Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy. EU FP7 project - 3 year Virtual Research Communities call Started in December 2010 Project website http://vbrant.eu.
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Project overview Isabella Van de Velde Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy • EU FP7 project - 3 year • Virtual Research Communities call • Started in December 2010 • Project website http://vbrant.eu to provide a more effective framework for managing biodiversity information on the Web ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Biodiversity informatics landscape data format diversity ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Biodiversity informatics landscape local audiences data format diversity ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Biodiversity informatics landscape global regional national local audiences informatics systems data format diversity ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Do we want to work this way? ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Of course not! ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
What’s the solution? take a deep breath and focus on… ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
What’s the solution? Interoperability! ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
ViBRANTs contribution 17 partners in 9 countries (universities, museums & SMEs) Interoperability, workflows, services, information modeling & user support ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Project goals The “chromosome” Vision Connecting the people, data & science of biodiversity Position Open & sustainable development of a federated network of biodiversity informatics infrastructures Mission Facilitate the mobilisation, sharing and publication of biodiversity data ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Some products and services Scratchpads ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
ScratchpadsViBRANT’s hub a website for you & your community scratchpads.eu ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Some products and services OBOE ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Data services Oxford Batch Operation Engine Think of OBOE as a job distribution agent… OBOE receives a request for computation, gets the job done, and returns results https://vibrant.oerc.ox.ac.uk ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Some products and services Biodiversity data journal ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Scholarly publishing The BDJ is very different… Pensoft Writing Tool http://biodiversitydatajournal.com ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Some products and services GeoCAT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Data services Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool open source tool to perform geospatial analysis and visualization of Red List data http://vimeo.com/22739331 ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Some products and services COMBER ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Ecological & conservation data mobilisation Citizens’ Network for the Observation of Marine BiodiVERsity dive observe record share http://www.comber.hcmr.gr ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
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