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Per de Place Bjørn - Revolutionizing taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and descriptions
1. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
GLOBAL
BIODIVERSITY
INFORMATION
FACILITY
Revolutionizing taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and
descriptions, Fort Lauderdale, 18 December 2005.
ZooBank and GBIF
Per de Place Bjørn, PO, ECAT
2. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Four work programmes:
Outreach and Capacity
Building – OCB
Data Access and Database
Interoperability – DADI
Digitisation of Natural History
Collections - DIGIT
Electronic Catalogue of
Names of Known Organisms -
ECAT
¿¿¿Global Biodiversity Information
Facility???
A megascience facility aimed at
Making the world’s biodiversity
data freely and universally
available via the Internet
Sharing primary scientific
biodiversity data to benefit
society, science and a
sustainable future
3. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Current statuses
Participants
- 47 countries
- 31 international organisations
149 data providers serving data from 517
collections
>73 mill. specimen and observation records
>500.000 species records (>1 mill. names) from
the Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life
- Large number of unregulated names from labels
- Plans for tool to directly serve taxonomy data to
GBIF
5. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Globally Unique IDentifiers - GUIDs
GUIDs GBIF and TDWG are setting out
to form community around
GUIDs for Biodiversity data
Workshop in early February to
explore infrastructure
Possibly
- Life Science IDentifiers (LSID)
- Digital Object Identifiers (doi)
6. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Potential model:
Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)
Format
urn:lsid:<domainName>:<namespace>:<objectId>[:<revisionId>]
Potential example: referencing specimen record in GBIF Network (identifiers
assigned centrally)
urn:lsid:gbif.net:Specimen:2706712
Potential example: name record from IPNI
urn:lsid:ipni.org:TaxonName:82090-3:1.1
7. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Disseminate ZooBank Entries
GBIF and TDWG are setting out to form
community around GUIDs for Biodiversity
data
Workshop in early February to explore
infrastructure
Possibly
- Life Science IDentifiers (LSID)
- Digital Object Identifiers (doi)
ZooBank needs will be incorporated
Watch the GUID Wiki -
http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/
GUIDs
8. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Globally Unique IDentifiers - GUIDs
GUIDs
Dissemination
Heightening availability of
ZooBank data through GBIF
portal
New entries can be
immediately available on
GBIF portal and network
9. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Linking Specimens to ZooBank Entries
Specimens associated with ZooBank
entries can be referenced through
the GBIF network and GUIDs
Unique reference to specimen not at
the moment a requirement for
nomenclatural event but with the
infrastructure available, who knows?
Could be a requirement for
publication that e.g. specimens
examined for a monography be
GUID’d
GUIDs
Dissemination
Specimens
10. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
Enabling retrospective registration via
ECAT providers
Nomenclatural assessment in
GBIF providers – especially GSDs
– could be moderated into
ZooBank as a way of
retrospectively filling the
register
GUIDs
Dissemination
Specimens
Retrospective
registration
11. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
ZooBank becoming available to Species
Pages/Species Banks
GBIF network provides a route
into species pages/species bank
projects for ZooBank entries
GUIDs
Dissemination
Specimens
Retrospective
registration
Species
pages
12. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ZooBank – 18/12-05
ZooBank in the big picture
ZooBank lookup and depositing
should be incorporated in web-
enabled taxonomy interfaces and
applications
Registration of zoological names
becomes a natural and obvious part
of the taxonomical process, not an
added complication
GUIDs
Dissemination
Specimens
Retrospective
registration
Species
pages
Web enabled
taxonomy