Proceedings of TDWG : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Pieter Provoost (p.provoost@unesco.org)
Received: 22 Aug 2017 | Published: 22 Aug 2017
© 2017 Pieter Provoost, Daphnis De Pooter, Ward Appeltans, Nicolas Bailly, Sky Bristol, Klaas Deneudt, Menashè Eliezer, Ei Fujioka, Alessandra Giorgetti, Philip Goldstein, Mirtha Lewis, Marina Lipizer, Kevin Mackay, Maria Marin, Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé, Stamatina Nikolopoulou, Shannon Rauch, Andres Roubicek, Carlos Torres, Anton van de Putte, Leen Vandepitte, Bart Vanhoorne, Matteo Vinci, Nina Wambiji, Dave Watts, Eduardo Klein, Francisco Hernandez
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Citation: Provoost P, De Pooter D, Appeltans W, Bailly N, Bristol S, Deneudt K, Eliezer M, Fujioka E, Giorgetti A, Goldstein P, Lewis M, Lipizer M, Mackay K, Marin M, Moncoiffé G, Nikolopoulou S, Rauch S, Roubicek A, Torres C, van de Putte A, Vandepitte L, Vanhoorne B, Vinci M, Wambiji N, Watts D, Klein E, Hernandez F (2017) Expanding the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) beyond species occurrences. Proceedings of TDWG 1: e20515. https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20515
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Data providers in the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) network are not just recording species occurrences, they are also recording sampling methodology details and measuring environmental and biotic variables. In order to make OBIS an effective data sharing platform, it needs to be able to store and exchange these data in such a way that they can easily be interpreted by end users, as well as by the tools which will be created to search, analyze and visualize the integrated data.
OBIS makes use of Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A) for exchanging data between data providers, regional and thematic nodes, and the central OBIS database. However, due to limitations of the DwC-A schema, this data format is currently not suitable for storing sampling event details or sample related measurements, as well as biotic measurements.
In order to overcome this problem, OBIS has created a new extension type based on the existing MeasurementOrFacts extension (
Darwin Core Archive, Event Core, sampling event data, species occurrence, environmental data, telemetry data, oceanographic data
Pieter Provoost