GBIF Mid Term Meetings 2011

Biodiversity Data Portals for GBIF Participants: The NPT

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3rd May 2011

The BIF Building Package

Welcome Box Start Up Kit

Advanced Kit Nodes Portal Toolkit

• Concept

• Approach

• Team

• Process & timelines

• Expected impacts

• Questions for the NSG and SC

Outline

Imagine...

Imagine...

A suite of tools

Imagine...

Nicely packaged & presented

Imagine...

Enabling the technical

teams of biodiversity

data networks &

facilities

Imagine...

To easily deploy biodiversity data portals at the national, regional or thematic level

Imagine these portals...

Fully integrated to the GBIF Informatics Infrastructure

Imagine these portals...

Support informed decision making, facilitate development

of an integrative biodiversity science, or simply as a

window to disseminate data, information and knowledge

about natural systems in a specific context

Customised access (language, layout, focus, etc.)

In response to specific end user needs

biodiversity data + relevant contextual data + information products & services

Such suite of tools is the Nodes Portal Toolkit (NPT)

Why the NPT?

• Limited integration with informatics components

and services provided by GBIF

• Many GBIF Participants have no portals at all,

others have portals with outdated or very limited

functionality

2001

GBIF is established

2003

Participant Nodes identify the development of “custom portals”

as a priority It is insufficient for addressing specific needs and requirements at the GBIF Participant level

http://data.gbif.org is great for many uses

20112006The new GBIF Data Portal is launched

• Concept

• Approach

• Team

• Process & timelines

• Expected impacts

• Questions for the NSG and SC

Outline

2001

GBIF is established

The Nodes Committee and the GBIFS re-assess the need for

the NPT

20112009 2010

It’s agreed that the NPT should be a community-led

development

What does it mean to be a

community-led development?

GBIF Participant Nodes

NPTdevelopment

cycle

GBIF Participant Nodes – Project leaders including supervision, implementation and assessment

Strategic Partners – contribute code for the NPT development also deploy & promote the NPT

GBIF Secretariat – facilitator & promoter interoperability with GBIF’s informatics infrastructure, start-up funds

Risks

Dependencies

Slower

Commitment

Ownership

Sustainable

As a community development

Leverage existing capacity & resources

Promote sharing of knowledge & expertise

• Concept

• Approach

• Team

• Process & timelines

• Expected impacts

• Questions for the NSG and SC

Outline

2001

GBIF is established

20112010

The NPT Project Coordinator is hired and an Advisory Group established

2001

GBIF is established

2011 2012

A group of NPT Development Partners will be convened

NPT Project CoordinatorNPT Advisory Group

• Concept

• Approach

• Team

• Process & timelines

• Expected impacts

• Questions for the NSG and SC

Outline

Functionality - Feature set, Capabilities, Generality, Security

Usability - Human factors, Aesthetics, Consistency, Documentation

Reliability - Frequency/severity of failure, Recoverability, Predictability, Accuracy, Mean time to failure

Performance - Speed, Efficiency, Resource consumption, Throughput, Response time

Supportability - Testability, Extensibility, Adaptability, Maintainability, Compatibility, Configurability, Serviceability, Installability, Localizability, Portability

FURPS+ A model for classifying software attributes (functional & non-functional requirements)

Technical teams(SysAdmin, Portal manager, WebMaster, Database admin)

BIF management(Node Manager, HoD, BIF stakeholders)

Biodiversity data users(Data publishers, researchers, decision makers, educators, citizen scientists, etc. )

Some of the desired features…

Free and open source

Modular and extensible

Simple to install, configure and maintain

Multilingual

Cross-platform

Once deployed, intuitive and friendly end-user interface

Well documented, community support

Robust and consistent data flows

Primary dataPrimary data

ChecklistsChecklists

TaxonomyTaxonomy

MetadataMetadata

Controlled vocabulariesControlled vocabularies

GeospatialGeospatial

Species pagesSpecies pages

Portal adminPortal admin

Modules

Option 1. Portable functionality – multiple CMS

Option 2. Integrated package – specific CMS framework (e.g. Drupal)

Local index

NPT based data portal

GBIF index

Data publishers

External data sources

Q12011

Requirements capture – agreed doc

Requirements capture – agreed doc

Q32011

Q42011

Q12012

Q22012

Q32012

Q42012

Q12013

Q42013

Q32013

Q22013

Q22011

Development partners

Development partners

Coding campsCoding camps

Prototype @ GB18

Prototype @ GB18

Milestones 2011

Q12011

NPT core functionality developed

NPT core functionality developed

Q32011

Q42011

Q12012

Q22012

Q32012

Q42012

Q12013

Q42013

Q32013

Q22013

Q22011

NPT Beta testing

NPT Beta testing

First NPT demo portals deployed

First NPT demo portals deployed

NPT Release 1 launched at GB19

NPT Release 1 launched at GB19

Milestones 2012

Q12011

Deployment plan rolled out

Deployment plan rolled out

Q32011

Q42011

Q12012

Q22012

Q32012

Q42012

Q12013

Q42013

Q32013

Q22013

Q22011

Enhanced functionality & integrationEnhanced functionality & integration

New NPT-based portals showcased at GB20New NPT-based portals showcased at GB20

Milestones 2012

• Concept

• Approach

• Team

• Process & timelines

• Expected impacts

• Questions for the NSG and SC

Outline

Killer application?

Web presence is essential for BIFs

More GBIF Participants have functional data portals

Increased usefulness, expanded end-user audiences

Key contribution to GBIF Strategic Imperatives

More visibility

Tangible benefits - incentives

More people have access to GBIF-mediated data and services

Overall network engagement & ownership

• Concept

• Approach

• Team

• Process & timelines

• Expected impacts

• Questions for the NSG and SC

Outline

• For the Science Committee

– Which kind of specific NPT functionality to address end user needs at the Participant level should be considered?

– How to ensure that the NPT deployed portals are complementary to the global data portal?

• For the Nodes Steering Group

– How to ensure active engagement from Participant Nodes in the early testing and uptake of the NPT?

– How to leverage in a more effective way the Participants’ capacity and resources in contribution to the NPT development?