Fábio Lang da Silveira – This talk on behalf of OBIS International Committee and OBIS North & South America Nodes USP – Zoology Depart., IB

What is OBIS? OBIS is the information component of The Census of Marine Life (CoML), a growing global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans - past, present, and future. OBIS is a web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species.

What OBIS Provides Access to marine species data from around the world –species or genus (exceptionally higher taxonomic group observed or collected) at a latitude/longitude location –from museum collections, management agencies, research institutions, etc. Software tools to use these data effectively for research, management and education

OBIS is not like Google OBIS facilitates access to data records, not datasets –find all organisms recorded from a particular location –find all places a particular taxon has been found –download data in a variety of easy to use formats

OBIS Technology Distributed datasets connected via DiGIR and the OBIS Schema, an extension to the Darwin Core V2. Data are regularly crawled and cached locally (and indexed) to improve performance. Quality Control –Names are matched against the Catalog of Life –Questionable points (e.g. on land, 0-0 location) are returned to the data provider for checking –Dataset without metadata will not be posted

OBIS Growth May, m records, 61,000 species, 113 databases April, m records, 79,000 species, 206 databases

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Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Discovery Metadata See also -

OBIS Record Schema (mandatory) What (Taxonomic name): species or genus, subspecies, authority, family, order.... Where: latitude, longitude, depth, place name, precision When: last update (automatic), month, day, year, time of collection Who: institution serving dataset, collection code, catalog number, collector, identifier, dataset name, How Many: number caught, number preserved Other: source of record, life stage, type status, etc.

OBIS Record Schema (highly recommended) An abbreviation indicating whether the record represents: - an observation (O) (this can include a visual observation, a survey catch, a commercial landing record, etc) - a collected living organism (L) - a specimen in a collection/museum (S) - a collected germplasm/seed (G) - a photo (P) - derived from literature, where original basis unknown (D).

Canada Sub Saharan Africa Europe United States Of America Australia NewZealand IndianOcean Japan China Korea Antarctica Regional OBIS Nodes (RONS) RON Managers Committee Chile Argentina Brazil OBISMC6 at Sao Sebastiao, Brazil April 16-17, 2007 *

About OBIS in South America SA nodes => full node status OBIS Tropical and Subtropical Southwest Atlantic (BR) provides Portuguese language interface OBIS Southern Atlantic (AR) provides Spanish language interface OBIS (BR) first node to implement special deep web linking to national data collections

* records INVERMAR - Colombia

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