NBII Ecoinformatics Technical

Working Group

Mike Frame

Berkeley, CA

Oct 2006

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Describe and Discover

www.NBII.gov

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My.NBII.gov

Content Management Integrated/Federated SearchCollaboration Services

Database and Web Services

Model ServicesGeospatial Services

ITIS DIGR CatalogThesaurus Mapping Geoparsing CatalogGeo -

referencingDiscovery CatalogOperations

Dublin Core (plus)

UDDI / WSDL ??OGC/ISO FGDC/ISO

Distributed Applications , Databases , Websites , Tools and Models

Consume

Integrated View

DistributedServices

Resource and Service Catalogs

DistributedResources

Resource Catalog

Geospatial Services Catalog

Geospatial Dataset

Resource Clearinghouse

Database and Web Services

Catalog

Model ServicesCatalog

Services Overview

NBII Web-services of interest

Biocomplexity Thesaurus GEMET/Bio Complexity Thesaurus ITIS NBII Dublin Core+ Prototype Darwin Core (DIGIR Providers) NBII Geospatial framework

Map Layers

Gazetteer NatureServ Species Profiles NBII/ISSG Invasive Species Profiles

Biocomplexity Thesaurus

http://thesaurus.nbii.gov

NBII/EIONET Thesaurus Web-service

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• Background - collaboration through Ecoinformatics TWG • Primary Goal – access distributed multi-lingual thesauri• Results – SKOS web-service & client

Challenges

Thesaurus scope, intent, purpose, and coverage is different • NBII = sub-discipline of environment

• Endangered species

• Broader Terms:Species , Special status species , Taxa

• EIOINET = broad environment• Broader Terms:environmental protection

ITIS Web-service & Applications

ITIS Web-service

ITIS in DC tools

http://spire.umbc.edu/webservice/webclient/webclientForm.php

Prototype DiGIR Web service & Portlet

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Geospatial Framework

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Catalog of Web Map Services contains: • 160 Biological Map Services (WMS)• 13,329 layers of geospatial information

NBII Wildlife Disease Node

Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado…Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado…

Geospatial Framework

Search for additional dataSearch for additional data

Geospatial Framework

Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado…Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado…

With Predicted Species Distributions from the GAP ProgramWith Predicted Species Distributions from the GAP Program

Geospatial Framework

Geospatial Services

Joint SPIRE Activities

Joint SPIRE Activities

• Research project in the area of Invasive species

Water hyacinth clogging the Ortega River (Photo: Don Schmitz

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