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1. Biodiversity Informatics in Sustainable Resources Management: Challenges and Potentials International Conference on Biodiversity and Livelihoods 26-26 March 2009 Coonoor, INDIA Vishwas Chavan GBIF
7. “ Biodiversity knowledge Catastrophe” … .but the worst catastrophe is knocking Where can I find information about Lions, Tigers, Frogs, and….
8. What is needed…….... Content Content Content Content Content Content Content Content Content Content Content Content infrastructure Connectivity “ a priori model” than “a posteriori model” Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Communication skills Content Content Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Teaching skills syllabus
19. Hence, we must recognize Bio(Diversity), Informatics as corner stone for future economy, social, and environmental well being.
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22. BIR: Analysis Metadata of 1383 resources documented Less resources on lower kingdoms Animalia (50%), Plantae (30%), Fungi (8.39%), Bacteria (1.14%) Less resources with local coverage 90% of resources are databases and databanks Progress in biodiversity informatics is uneven and imbalanced similar to biodiversity and biodiversity information
23. Large volume of biodiversity data and information is in languages other than English
26. Collection databases Observational databases ? Peoples Biodiversity And TKDL Experts and Institutions Current Scenario: Especially in Megabiodiversity World Wealth of distributed data, heterogeneous, and isolated datasets ! Ecological and environmental data Conservation databases Literature references and articles GIS and remote sensing data
Current breed of digital libraries include data mining, indexing and classification, linking, filtering and ranking; as well as interoperability across multiple access and retrieve many digital representations for text and multimedia objects. Digital libraries should be able to develop the mechanism to tap the informal intellectual discussions and exchange / sharing activities such as email or even informal notices.
There is further disparity about the languages in which biodiversity data is discoverable and accessible. With over 6900+ living langauges spoken by human population, majority of the biodiversity data is accessible in English. Asia, Africa, Paciifc which houses major biodiversity hotspots speak over 5700+ languages and do have large volume of biodiversity data documented in these languages. English is practiced or spoken by little over 11% of the worlds population – but majority of accessible data about world’s biodiversity is in English.
Majority or rather most of the biodiversity informatics activities are practiced in Europe and North America. This is reflected from the spread of GBIF data publishers.