Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Yi-Ming Gan (ymgan@naturalsciences.be), Maxime Sweetlove (msweetlove@naturalsciences.be), Anton Van de Putte (avandeputte@naturalsciences.be)
Received: 12 Jun 2019 | Published: 18 Jun 2019
© 2019 Yi-Ming Gan, Maxime Sweetlove, Anton Van de Putte
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Citation: Gan Y, Sweetlove M, Van de Putte A (2019) The Antarctic Biodiversity Portal, an Online Ecosystem for Linking, Integrating and Disseminating Antarctic Biodiversity Information. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37182. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37182
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The Antarctic Biodiversity portal (biodiversity.aq) is a gateway to a wide variety of Antarctic biodiversity information and tools. Launched in 2015 as the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) - Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN, scarmarbin.be) and the Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS, marinespecies.org/rams/), the system has grown in scope from purely marine to include terrestrial information.
Biodiversity.aq is a SCAR product, currently supported by Belspo (Belgian Science Policy) as one of the Belgian contributions to the European Lifewatch-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Lifewatch-ERIC). The goal of Lifewatch is to provide access to: distributed observatories/sensor networks; interoperable databases, existing (data-)networks, using accepted standards; high performance computing (HPC) and grid power, including the use of the state-of-the-art of cloud and big data paradigm technologies; software and tools for visualization, analysis and modeling.
Here we provide an overview of the most recent advances in the biodiversity.aq online ecosystem, a number of use cases as well as an overview of future directions. Some of the most notable components are:
Through SCAR, Biodiversity.aq builds on an international network of expert that provide expert knowledge on taxonomy, species distribution,and ecology. It provides a strong and tested platform for sharing, integrating, discovering and analysing Antarctic biodiversity information originating from a variety of sources into a distributed system.
Antarctic, biodiversity, data management
Yi-Ming Gan
Biodiversity_Next 2019
EU-Lifewatch
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences