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Specifications of data sharing tools

EU BON Meeting, Joensuu , March 2015

WP 2: Milestone 231 delivered in May 2015

This document gives an overview of information and knowledge sharing tools currently available for the biodiversity research community and makes recommendations towards the main requirements needed to build new releases of data sharing tools for EU BON data providers.

http://eubon.eu/getatt.php?filename=Milestone_MS231_Specifications%20of%20data%20sharing%20tools_11247.pdf

“This task will work with international partners (task 2.7) to scope the requirements and build new releases of data sharing tools for relevant data providers. These open source tools implement the selected interoperability mechanisms (task 2.2) and data publishing mechanisms (task 8.5) for use by the relevant networks, and provide registration and query functions towards the GCI. As the basis of development, existing tools for metadata, occurrence data and ecological data from GBIF and LTER will be used. New tools for sharing habitat data will be investigated. A model for distributed development will be adopted. (Lead MRAC; UTARTU, UEF, GBIF, Pensoft, Plazi, GlueCAD, INPA, IBSAS; Months 9-51)”

EU BON Meeting, Joensuu , March 2015

WP 2: Milestone 231 delivered in May 2015

- Addressed also tools related to INSPIRE (http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/) directive and OGS (http://www.opengeospatial.org/) , as well as crowdsourcing systems

- Identified that data sharing tools for habitat data need to be further investigated

- In the framework of EU have clarified definitions and concepts for : - Data, Metadata, Data standards, information including the importance

of processed and secondary data and information as often expected by the end users (policy makers)

- Data publishing and data sharing processes

- Challenges were identified in relation with Open Data and usability/usefulness for the end-users.

EU BON Meeting, Joensuu , March 2015

WP 2: Milestone 231 delivered in May 2015

30 Tools surveyed within the Milestone

Each tool is presented using the same structure: - Main usage, purpose, selected examples - Pros and Cons of the tool - Recommendations - Tool status

We can broadly group the tools into distributed and centralised categories. The distributed ones are being used and managed by the data custodians themselves. The centralised ones are shared repositories not managed by the data custodians, but by an aggregator or publisher.

The distinction of tools for sharing and publishing is also important. Data that is shared can still be private and access to it can be controlled. Such access can be revoked. When something is published, it is openly available, and access cannot be revoked anymore.

Generalist versus more specialized tools, including even how excel spreadsheets are used.

EU BON Meeting, Joensuu , March 2015

Conclusions and next steps

- While many tools are promising, not all can be used within the framework of EU-BON and connected to the portal

- However a combination of different providing tools have to be used to mobilize the needed information and data.

- As technology evolves and new tools are analysed, such a report has to be more dynamic and be regularly updated : helpdesk in the Data Mobilisation Toolkit you can find a chapter on data sharing tools : http://eubon.cybertaxonomy.africamuseum.be/data-sharing-tools-repository

- Recommendations by the EU reviewers and Scientific Advisory Committee to make this document available in a more user-friendly way and to produce publications out of it (ongoing )

- Next milestone on this is for month 51 in February 2017 (but deadline for the portal was advanced to 2016) with the release of the portal deliverable, however a lot to do until then!

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Want to test providing tools ?

Thursday 19 March Training workshop (MS282):

9-10 Introduction to GEOSS, GEO BON, EU BON (Hannu Saarenmaa)

10-11 Information architecture of EU BON (Antonio Garcia)

11-12 Data standards, Darwin Core and extensions for sample-based quantitative data (Éamonn Ó Tuama)

12-13 Demonstration of GBIF/EU BON IPT for monitoring networks (Larissa Smirnova and Franck Theeten)

13-14 Lunch break

14-15 Practical exercise with sample dataset (Larissa Smirnova and Franck Theeten)

15-17 Practical exercise with own data (all trainees)17-18 Feedback

EU BON Meeting, Joensuu , March 2015

Month 54 (May 2017) our dream has come true, the EU BON portal is open !