This document discusses strategies for building national species checklists and inventories. It explains that national checklists are important tools for conservation planning and are required under the Convention on Biological Diversity. It explores terminology like checklists, catalogs, and inventories. It also discusses assessing available taxonomic knowledge, searching existing data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and mining data from literature to build initial working species lists. The document aims to facilitate expert-driven processes for building national checklists and identify countries' requirements, evaluation methods, workflow designs, and resource needs.

1. GLOBALBIODIVERSITY INFORMATIONFACILITY Developing Strategies for Building National Checklists/ Species Inventories Asian Regional Meeting and Biodiversity Informatics Workshop 16-19 Nov 2009 David Remsen Senior Programme Officer, ECAT

2. Objectives Why? - National Species Inventories/Checklists Terminology – Checklists? Scope – What components in a Checklist Strategies – How can we build one? Sharing – How can I publish it? Discussion – Who has experience in this

4. many country - driven activities supporting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity depend on the scientific results of inventories

6. Taxonomic Verification

7. Informatics Facilitates Expert-driven processes

9. Taxonomic

10. Regional

11. Thematichttp://code.google.com/p/gbif-ecat/wiki/ChecklistDefinition

12. Content

13. Content: Inventories

14. Content: Species lists

15. Using E-taxonomy to build national species lists

16. Assessing available taxonomic knowledge

17. Search: GBIF data portal All specimens 22,881 Species Type Specimens 2,269 http://DATA.GBIF.ORG Country=Thailand TypeStatus=TypeSpecimen Output is a working species lists

18. Mine working lists from literature http://www.silverbiology.com/clients/eol/svn/taxontagger/

19. Content: Inventories

20. DarwinCore Star Schema

21. Representative Taxon Record Click to open spreadsheet

23. Countries looking to build national checklists

24. Interest in knowledge sharing workshop?

25. Identify requirements

26. Evaluate methods

27. Design workflows

28. Infrastructure/Software

29. Resource Requirements