for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
Donat AgostiPlazi
OpenData Week, Montpellier, July 12, 2014
Bouchout Declaration
Hardisty, Nature 502, 171 (2013)
BUT: predictive ecology has substantial data needs
Harfoot, BIH2013, Rome, 2013
The big question
What is the future of the biological world?
Imagine if we could:
…Predict community level dynamics of ecosystems atscales from local to global, based on the ecology andbiology of all individual organisms
Decentralized biodiversity infrastructure
Plants3,400 Herbaria worldwide10,000 Associate curators and specialists350,000,000 specimens in collections 180,000,000 specimens digitized2,000,000,000 specimens including animals
Source: gbif.org; http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp
One collection’s view of the world
Nationaal Herbarium Nederland collection on GBIF
Source: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7b33b040-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
200,000,000+ printed pages1,900,000 species described20,000,000+ species treatments 17,000 new species per year
Biodiversity libraries
BUT: The data are hidden
Incomplete digitization Publications are not semantically
enhancedCollections are incompleteData is not linkedMost data are not open
Names as information tags in life sciences
Names
Characteristics
Publications
GenesCollections
Specimens
Distribution
Coordination and Policy Development in Preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
System
Supported by the European Commission through its FP7 research funding programme
(pro-)iBiosphere
iBiosphere
Biodiversity Knowledge Management System
Create digital objects + Identifiers and resolvers
+ Open Access+ Legislation
+ Adequate infrastructure+ Sustainable and permanent infrastructure
+ Reliable services for partners in research projects and society
Seamless Global Virtual Research Knowledge Management System(European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System)
Biodiversity Knowledge Management System
Why another declaration?
free of charge online access to EU-funded research…
essential for Europe's ability to enhance its economic performance and improve the capacity to compete through knowledge
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/open-access-scientific-information
Access to digital data sets resulting from federally funded research….
will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and enhance economic growth and job creation.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/news.2011.281.html
800 billion USD have been generated by the human genome project
After all, there is a Budapest Declaration, a Berlin Declaration, a Bethesda Declaration…
… but additional messages:Direct access to digital content
… but additional messages:Direct access to digital contentRe-acting: The biodiversity community is re-acting together to novel environmental, scientific and societal challenges
… but additional messages:Direct access to digital contentRe-acting: The biodiversity community is re-acting together to novel environ-mental, scientific and societal challengesThird leg: digital content as commitment
… but additional messages:Direct access to digital contentRe-acting: The biodiversity community is re-acting together to novel environ-mental, scientific and societal challengesThird leg: digital content as commitmentCatalyst for discussions
Bouchout Declaration
Bouchout Declaration
http://bouchoutdeclaration.org
Launched: June 12, 2014
Bouchout Declaration
signatories
Bouchout Declaration
(75)
(147)
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GOAL: Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
As signatories, we encourage an overarching approach to Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management which is based on the following fundamental principles:
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Open Access
The free and open use of digital resources about biodiversity and associated access services
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Licenses
Licenses or waivers that grant or allow all users a free, irrevocable, world-wide, right to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly as well as to build on the work and to make derivative works, subject to proper attribution consistent with community practices, while recognizing that providers may develop commercial products with more restrictive licensing.
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Licenses ctd.
Data and research results are not copyrighted and thus no license should be addedIf possible, publications should be created as Open Access works
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Policy
Policy developments that will foster free and open access to biodiversity data
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Attribution
Tracking the use of identifiers in links and citations to ensure that sources and suppliers of data are assigned credit for their contributions
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Infrastructure
An agreed infrastructure, standards and protocols to improve access to and use of open data
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Registers
Registers for content and services to allow discovery, access and use of open data
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Persistent Identifiers
Persistent identifiers for data objects and physical objects such as specimens, images and taxonomic treatments with standard mechanisms to take users directly to content and data
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Linked Open Data
Linking data using agreed vocabularies, both within and beyond biodiversity, that enable participation in the Linked Open Data Cloud
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Development
Dialogue to refine the concept, priorities and technical requirements of Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
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Business
A sustainable Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management that is attentive to scientific, sociological, legal, and financial aspects