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ARTSDATABANKEN Norwegian Biodiversity
Information Centre
Nils Valland Senior advisor
13 Nov 2008
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The biodiversity centre at a glance
Formally established in 2004, full operation in 2005
The governing board is appointed by the Ministry of Research and Education
Annual grants: Ca 25 mill NKR
Administrative services from the University of Trondheim
More than 50% of the budget is allocated to buy services from research institutions
The Centre is fully independent from sector interests
The focus on international co-operation is increasing
The mission
The biodiversity centre is the official national source for information on Biodiversity in Norway
Our major role is to provide society with updated and easy accessible information on ecosystems, species and genes (populations)
Photo: Jussi EvertsenPhoto: Torkild Bakken
Photo: Jussi Evertsen
The biodiversity centre’s ”position”
Allmennheten Offentlig/Privat sektor
The public Management authorities, politicians, NGOs, schools, research institutions, land owners, consultant agencies…..
Museums, universities and research institutions
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National Red Lists
National Black Lists
Fact sheets
Species map service
Public species report service (observ.data)
Species tesaurus (name standards)
Classification system ecosystems and habitats
The annual conference ”Nature 200X”
Species project together with Sweden
Major products and services
Norwegian Species Map Service and Species Gateway (observations) -
status and accessibility
Species Map Service Species Observations
Letharia vulpina VUPhoto: Stein Hoem
Distribution Artemisia norvegica VU
Artemisia norvegica, Photo: Rigmor Wang
Species Map Service
The webmapclienthttp://artskart.artsdatabanken.no/
Search for species or taxonomic group Search in a hierarchic species tree Combined search with Redlist status Geographic search for county and municipality Choose institution, time span, Redlist status Visualise geographic presition as a quadrate around the points Change background map Objecttabels and detailed info
The majority of the objects are available on GBIFs dataportal (http://data.gbif.org)
GBIF• 2,5 mill posts (no. 15 among the 225 nodes, no. 11 among the nations) in Norway
GBIF 2,5 mill posts (no. 15 among the 225 nodes, no. 11 among the nations) in
Norway Natural History Museum, UiO is partisipant node Main office in Copenhagen (www.gbif.org) Using Biodiversity information standards (TDWG)
Species Map Service
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre and GBIF-Norway co-operation agreement
Darwin Core 2 standard Only points (with geographic precition) Ca. 2 mill. hits pr. 1.oct. 2008 15 datasuppliers, mostly scientific institutions 4 new suppliers in 2008 Prognosis, ca. 5 mill. objects pr. 31.12.2008 Expenditure 7,6 mill. NOK during 2006-2008 for
quality control/preparing data, the institutions have spent the same on own efforts
Why geographic species information ?
Geographic georeferred and scientific quality controlled information is a prerequisite for the public administration to preserve species diversity
For the general public interested in nature, NGOs and the educational system
Common infrastructure for research institutions and universities
A scientific foundation for the Redlist 2010
Artemisia norvegica VU
Reasons for hiding data
Theathened species with sensitive geographic information
Uncertain data quality Data included in active, yet
unpublished research works
Bubo bubo EN
Basic prinsiples
dataowner manage his source data
make available data i standardized formats
establish data webservices for search, integration or download
The prinsiple is distributed databases available
realtime in standardized
interfases
Data flow and roles
Dataowner make a ”copy” of primary databases codes with standardized dataparametres (Darwin Core 2 – norwegian edition)
The copy is stored in a nodedatabase delivering data online to Species Map Service and GBIFs dataportal
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre delivers species names og Redlist status to the nodedatabases
Natural History Museum is the Norwegian GBIF partisipant node
Background topographic maps is delivered as WMS from Norwegian Mapping Authority (Norway Digital), Norwegian Polar Institute and the Directorate for Nature Management
Norwegian Species Map Service – from source to maps
Find species data Organise data-
production and dataflow
Quality control Coding species
data Make a mapclient
and webservices
Map service Application built on the .Net-platform
• Asp.Net 2.0. (Visual Basic and C#)
• Index-database in the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre
Webservices (C#) installed in the distributed sourcedatabases (Oracle, MS SQL, Postgre SQL, MySQL). These are running either on Microsoft or Linux-platform
Volume pr. 05.11.2008
278489 Redlist posts (8 %) in Species Map Service pr. 5.nov.2008
Plans for Species Map Service and GBIF
Improved functionality• refererable links to mapobjects (nov.2008)
• Downloading Excel-tables (nov.2008)
• new search choives (may 2009)
• new map navigation (may 2009)
• statistics (may 2009)
Webservices (WMS+GML) for external map applications (nov.2008)
• Redlisted species www.artsobservasjoner.no as
source (dec.2008) More GBIF-datanodes
Species Gateway (observations)
the digital field diary and a collecting funnel for new documentation
http://www.artsobservasjoner.no/
For whom ?
general public interested in nature
self-educated amateurs members of NGOs trained biologists in
non-scientific employment
biologists in scientific employment
Species Observations Copy of Artportalen.se 4 modules Adapted together with 5 NGOs
• NOF Norwegian ornithological society
• NBF Norwegian botanical assosiation
• NSNF Norwegian Mycological- and Ethnobotanical Society
• NEF Norwegian entomological society
• NZF Norwegian zoological society
Launched 5.may 2008 2630 reporters pr. 5.nov.2008 Over 36 mill.hits pr 5.nov.2008 Ca. 60 000 visits (unike IP-
adresses) in oct.2008
Growth in the number of observations pr. 5.nov.2008
Lansering5.mai 2008
Nr 250 00020.juni 2008
Nr 500 00026.aug 2008
Distribution of species observations pr. 5.nov.2008
15000 photos in Species Observations pr. 5.nov. 2008
Sterna hirundo Photo: Tommy Andre Andersen
Daphne mezereum Photo: Rigmor Wang
Erebia ligea Photo: Nils Valland
Lemmus lemmusPhoto: Nils Valland
Plans Business agreement with
Norwegian Biodiversity Network, SABIMA in 2009
Observation validation in 2009• Insects and Plants
Development of version 2.0. with The Swedish Species Information Centre aug.2008-febr. 2010• English version and language
support
• Improved functionality
Launching in 2010Zygaena viciae VU Photo: Åslaug Viken
The planned use of Species Observations in public environmental administration
Norwegian nature inspectorate SNO
Consulting firms as a reporting and datasharing tool
Harvesting data from municipal databases not yet available on the internet (Naturbase)
Including species observations statistics and daily observations on websites in the public environmental administration
Sharing data internationally in GBIF and EEA
Podiceps auritus EN Photo: Frode Falkenberg
Some observations of Podiceps auritus inSpecies observations