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ARTSDATABANKEN Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre

ARTSDATABANKEN Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Photo: Lars Løfaldli. Nils Valland Senior advisor. Photo: Otto Frengen. 13 Nov 2008. The biodiversity centre at a glance. Formally established in 2004, full operation in 2005

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ARTSDATABANKEN Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre

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  1. ARTSDATABANKEN Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre Photo: Lars Løfaldli Nils Valland Senior advisor Photo: Otto Frengen 13 Nov 2008

  2. 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

  3. 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 Evertsen Photo: Torkild Bakken Photo: Jussi Evertsen

  4. The biodiversity centre’s ”position” The public Management authorities, politicians, NGOs, schools, research institutions, land owners, consultant agencies….. Museums, universities and research institutions

  5. Photo: Geir Johnsen og Ingrid Salvesen Major products and services • 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

  6. NorwegianSpeciesMap Service and SpeciesGateway (observations) - status and accessibility Lethariavulpina VU Photo: Stein Hoem SpeciesMap Service SpeciesObservations

  7. Species Map Service Distribution Artemisianorvegica VU Artemisianorvegica, Photo: Rigmor Wang

  8. 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 majorityoftheobjectsareavailableonGBIFs dataportal (http://data.gbif.org)

  9. GBIF • 2,5 mill posts (no. 15 among the 225 nodes, no. 11 among the nations) in Norway

  10. 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)

  11. 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

  12. 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 Artemisianorvegica VU

  13. Reasons for hiding data • Theathened species with sensitive geographic information • Uncertain data quality • Data included in active, yet unpublished research works Bubobubo EN

  14. 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 standardizedinterfases

  15. 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

  16. 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 Gardermoen

  17. 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

  18. Volume pr. 05.11.2008

  19. 278489 Redlist posts (8 %) in Species Map Service pr. 5.nov.2008

  20. 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

  21. Species Gateway (observations)the digital field diary and a collecting funnel for new documentation http://www.artsobservasjoner.no/

  22. For whom ? • general public interested in nature • self-educated amateurs • members of NGOs • trained biologists in non-scientific employment • biologists in scientific employment

  23. 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

  24. Growth in the number of observations pr. 5.nov.2008 Nr 500 000 26.aug 2008 Nr 250 000 20.juni 2008 Lansering 5.mai 2008

  25. Distribution of species observations pr. 5.nov.2008

  26. 15000 photos in Species Observations pr. 5.nov. 2008 Erebia ligea Photo: Nils Valland Daphne mezereum Photo: Rigmor Wang Lemmus lemmus Photo: Nils Valland Sterna hirundo Photo: Tommy Andre Andersen

  27. 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 2010 Zygaenaviciae VU Photo: Åslaug Viken

  28. 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 Podicepsauritus EN Photo: Frode Falkenberg Someobservations ofPodicepsauritus in Speciesobservations

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