3. SCAR-MarBIN
Marine Biodiversity Information Network
• Funding: Belgian science Policy office
• International Polar Year 2007/08
• Census of Antarctic Marine Life
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Global Biodiversity Information Network
• Encyclopedia of Life
4. Philosophy
• Build a network
• Offer free and open access to data and technology
• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata
• Remain community-driven
• Adopt strong standardization
• Work for science, conservation, management
Riddle, M. Australian Antarctic Division
5. What sort of data?
• Primary Biodiversity data
• Taxonomy and Systematics
• Occurence/abundance data
• Genetic data
• DwC
6.
7. Present situation
• BAD NEWS:
• BELSPO Funding Ended
• No developper
• GOOD NEWS:
• International contributions
• New project to keep MarBIN alive
9. Tangible results
• The first RAMS
• Board of 60 editors
• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL
• 16,224 taxa
• 9,253 species
• 8,211 valid species
• 10,605 checked taxa (65%)
10. Tangible results
all taxa
all species
valid species
0 3.750 7.500 11.250 15.000
Acanthocephala Annelida Arthropoda Brachiopoda
Bryozoa Cephalorhyncha Chaetognatha Chordata
Cnidaria Ctenophora Echinodermata Echiura
Hemichordata Mesozoa Mollusca Myxozoa
Nematoda Nemertina Platyhelminthes Porifera
Rotifera Sipuncula Tardigrada
11. Tangible results
all taxa
all species
valid species
0 500 1.000 1.500 2.000
Biliphyta Viridaeplantae
Protoctista Stramenopila
Monera Chromista
12. Tangible results
1,031,732 records
138 datasets
over 5,200 taxa
Downloadable
WebGIS
Webservices OGC
+RESTish
13. Synthesizing knowledge
• RAMS: information on 16,000 taxa
• ANTOBIS: 1,000,000+ records
• Polar Macroscope Synthesis team
• Injection into conservation processes
• New insights in biogeography
• New insights in ecological processes
19. Identifying gaps
Over 50% of samples taken in
waters shallower than 400m
Similar trend for recorded benthic
species
Most of the Southern Ocean is
abyssal
Griffiths HJ, Clarke A, Danis B, submitted
20. Identifying gaps
2,8 isopod species are
descibed every year
De Broyer C & Danis B, submitted
600+ were discovered
during ANDEEP
We will need 214 years to
describe them!
29. Systems comparison
V1 V2
Languages PHP4 (procedural part OOish) Java, Groovy (100% OO)
Design patterns - MVC-ORM-AOP-IoC…
Framework - (100% homebrew) Grails (Spring, Hibernate),YUI
Template engine - SiteMesh
Search engine SQL-based Full text (SOLR-lucene)
DB SQL server SQL server - PostGresql
GIS server mapserver Geoserver
Spatial DB - PostGIS
Mapping client chameleon openLayers
Web services SOAP (RAMS) RESTish (all resources)
OS Windows server FreeBSD
Open source Partly 100% (minus legacy DB)
41. Total minigrants:
Inventory of the Southern Ocean biodiversity
• A database of living Antarctic benthic Foraminifera (Protista) for SCAR-MarBIN RAMS (Prof. A.J.
Gooday, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK). (in progress).
• Databasing Antarctica marine Bioconstructors: Adding Large Sessile Habitat-forming Animals to
SCAR-MarBIN (Dr H. Griffiths, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. UK). (in progress).
• SCAR-MarBIN database of Ostracoda Myocopida and Podocopida (Dr S. Brandao, Zoologisches
Museum, Universitat Hamburg, Germany). (in prep.).
• Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Southern Ocean (Dr U. Muhlenhardt-Siegel, Biozentrum
Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat Hamburg, Germany). (done).
• Synopsis of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data
(Dr W. Zeidler, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia). (done).
• Building a biogeographic baseline of obligate Antarctic benthic brooders: isopods for the Southern
Ocean Mollusc database (SOMBASE) and SCAR-MarBIN (Dr S. Kaiser, Zoologisches Museum,
Universitat Hamburg, Germany). (in progress).
42. Total minigrants:
Inventory of the Southern Ocean biodiversity
• Biogeographic distribution of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic brachiopods (living forms) (Dr C.
Emig, Marseille, France). (in progress).
• Systematics and distribution of echinoids collected during Australian cruises in East Antarctica
(Dr T. Saucede, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France). (in progress).
• Biodiversity of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Crinoids (Dr M. Eleaume, Musee National d’Histoire
Naturelle, Paris, France). (in prep.).
• Biogeographic database of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Polychaetes (Dr A. Glover, Natural
History Museum, London, UK). (in prep.).
• Contribution to the SCAR-MarBIN Molluscs database (Dr M. Schrodl, Zoologisches
Staatsammlung Munchen, Germany). (in prep.).
• Various general contributions to the SCAR-MarBIN RAMS and ANTOBIS (Henri Robert,
Laboratory of Carcinology, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, BELGIUM.:
Output: occurrence and taxonomic data (various groups), contributions to literature database, to
expeditions database, to biogeographic synthesis).
49. ANTABIF
• New project: Antarctic Biodiversity Information
Facility
• Funding: BELSPO (two years)
• Objective: build (fast) a new portal giving access on
all available information on Antarctic biodiversity
• www.biodiversity.aq
• Close collaboration with AAD/EBA/SCADM