1. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 BARCODE DATA, MUSEUM CATALOGS AND GBIF Simon Tillier

2. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Vouchering is a necessity for Barcode in the long term virtual world real world species name barcode sequence species concept organisms barcode voucher

3. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Vouchering is a necessity for Barcode in the long term virtual world real world species name barcode sequence species concept 1 species concept 2 WITHOUT VOUCHERS, BARCODE IDENTIFICATION WILL BECOME SECOND LIFE TAXONOMY INSTEAD OF BIODIVERSITY TAXONOMY

4. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 From catalogues to collections databases traditional catalogues –other precise information on the label stored with the specimen (successive identifications, precise location etc) databasing –transfer of all this information (label + catalogue) on virtual support number (or date, or code + number) taxon name = key to location of the specimen in the collection origin donor, region of origin

5. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Present and further implementation of the GBIF concept once the support of the info is virtual, the info can circulate and there is no need to have it in the same physical location –GBIF starting concept we can make the collection databases interoperable –Extension / further implementation of the GBIF concept we can have the various pieces of species and specimen information in many homogenous databases (ontological categories) in many places in the world: – names in one database system (CoL) – sequences in one database system (Genbank/BOLD) –localities –ID numbers of specimens giving access to physical location and real specimens and linking with other databases –(however experience suggests wise to print the information on a label with permanent ink!). needed : a common model which will allow linking databases whichever way they are split in whatever locations (the ABCD model already has a section for sequences) TDWG, Genbank, BOLD, Zoobank (and EoL?) should urgently agree on a common model under the overarching GBIF framework

6. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Barcode curation challenge management of fragmented specimens = makeshift job in museums (eg organism + slides) tissue and DNA collections create fragmented units –whole organism –tissue of the same –DNA from the same (IMAGENE) problem = workflow, info management, change in curatorial culture first step = creation of curation standards (eg SYNTHESYS ) and implementation of standards (EDIT)

7. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Looking forward: Barcode as a collection management tool “classical” collection processing –1. collection event –2. sorting, naming and labelling –3. databasing info accumulated so far –4. barcoding –Barcoding = additional secondary information EDIT (Moorea?) processing –1. databasing collection event –2. progressive expansion of the database following the same steps as above –Barcoding = additional secondary information Future process –1. databasing collecting events –2. sorting + barcoding = provides name and creates a link between the virtual catalogue and an unique material property of the specimen –Barcode sequence = an intrinsic label of the specimen linking to other DBs for collection management

8. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Acknowledgements Nicolas Bailly Walter Berendsohn Markus Doring Sarah Samadi... and collection curators who have tried to manage since four centuries

9. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 GBIF Scope DIGIT: Digitization of Natural History Collections Collection and Observation databases ECAT: Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms [+ Management Classification] Catalog of Life (Species 2000, ITIS, WoRMS) GSDs and RSDs: Global and Regional Sp. DBs ZooBank, uBio, … Other names BIS: Biodiversity Information System BoL: Barcode of Life BoLD: Barcode of Life Data systems References Species Banks: GSIS: Global Species Information System EoL: Encyclopedia of Life SpeciesBase GSDs, RSDs, TSDs, … DADI: Data Access and Database Interoperability: GBIF/TDWG schemas and protocols

10. CBoL Taipei, 17-22 september 2007 Taxonomist Taxon name Voucher Extraction facility Sequencing facility Collection Bold/Genebank Institution Institutions USERS