1. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences — first steps in global data publishing integration Roman Khalikov Leading Engineer of the IT Department Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg roman.khalikov@zin.ru Roman Khalikov Leading Engineer of the IT Department Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg roman.khalikov@zin.ru

2. ZIN Taxonomic Databases: 30 Years Background ▪ ZOOCOD — the data standard for taxonomic tables creation and representation of multilevel hierarchies in relation databases ▪ Client-server database management system (MS SQL Server — server side) and universal web-interface (client side — ASP, cross-platform script language JavaScript, AJAX) ▪ ZooDiv taxonomic classifier — the kernel of all IT zoological projects at the Zoological Institute

3. United Classifier and On-line Data Publishing ▪ ZooDiv — All-Russian Information Storage and Retrieval Biodiversity System 131730 taxonomic records of 41 ranks http://www.zin.ru/ZooDiv/animals.asp ▪ ArcCoML — Arctic Census of Marine Life http://www.zin.ru/projects/arccoml/rus/index.html ▪ EcoAnt — Census of Antarctic Marine Life http://www.zin.ru/projects/ecoant/index.html ▪ HerpNet http://www.herpnet.org

4. 2006: GBIF Seed Money Statement of work: “ZIN will be extensively involved in this project. They will be contributing 22000 records of amphibian specimens to GBIF and HerpNET by making these available through a provider at their institution. They will be digitizing and georeferencing all specimens that funds will allow, using a standard database format and using BioGeomancer to georeference.”

5. 2006: Key Steps of the Project ▪ Digitalization of ZIN collection catalog records ▪ Latinization of specimens localities ▪ Georeferencing of specimens localities ▪ Georeferenced data verification by MVZ staff ▪ Georeferenced data integration into ZIN database to make available both for internal use and for the HerpNET on-line distributed information network by means of dedicated DiGIR-provider server (still works… :)

6. 2015: Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Grant ▪ Digitizing of ZIN research collections within the framework of RFBR №15-29-02457 «The collections of the Zoological Institute as an important tool and information basis of fundamental biological research» (project leader Dr. Ananjeva N.B.) ▪ ZIN collections — > 60 million of storage units ▪ The first phase — several tens of thousands of type specimens, 8 model groups of collections (Pogonophora, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Ophiuroidea, Siphonaptera, Amphibia, Reptilia, Mammalia) ▪ ZIN Research Collections portal http://www.zin.ru/collections/

7. 2015: GBIF Data Publishing — DiGIR + IPT ▪ GBIF IPT Deployment http://ipt.zin.ru:8080/ipt/ ▪ Amphibian specimens (DiGIR installation) http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7e34ea34-f762-11e1 -a439-00145eb45e9a ▪ Ophiuroidea collections of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences (IPT installation) http://www.gbif.org/dataset/98333cb6-6c15-4add -aa0e-b322bf1500ba

8. 2016: Future Plans ▪ IPT debug and improvement expectation — problem with dataset contacts order should be fixed ▪ Several occurrence datasets for different taxonomic groups ▪ Sample-based dataset for testing purposes ▪ Komarov Botanical Institute RAS endorsement and its registration as a publisher within ZIN IPT