RAMS: the Register of Antarctic Marine Species

Bruno Danis, ULB

biodiversity.aq?

• Born as Census of Antarctic Marine Life as the data, visualization and analysis component

• Free and open access to biodiversity data: taxonomy and biogeography

• SCAR-MarBIN => ANTABIF => biodiversity.aq projects

• Science, conservation and management

• Networked community developments

David B, Danis B, Griffiths HJ

• Build an electronic ecosystem

• Offer free and open access to data and technology

• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata, in multiple contexts

• Remain community-driven, and collaborative

• Adopt strong standardization

• Work for science, conservation, management

General philosophy

The first dynamic Register of Antarctic Marine Species

Taxonomic backbone for many projects

Board of 60 editors

Citations for "Register of Antarctic Marine Species": 325

Cited publications: 20

H-Index: 9

RAMS: a subset of WoRMS18,343 taxa 95% checked

Taxonomy:

18,343 accepted marine species; of which 17,398 checked (95%)

Usage (since 2005-10-26):

Total number of visitors: 1.269.812

Total hits: 10.454.194

Benefits from being a subset of WoRMS

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RAMS

• www.biodiversity.aq • data.biodiversity.aq • ipt.biodiversity.aq • afg.biodiversity.aq • atlas.biodiversity.aq • mars.biodiversity.aq

biodiversity.aq ArchitectureNodes)Investment)in)new)func@onality)

•  Nodes)extend)the)plaGorm)with)new)modules)

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Data discovery

Promote)the)communityEdriven)development)of)NPT)

•  GBIF)promotes)training)and)use)of)NPT)

ANTABIF

MODULAR ARCHITECTURENodes)Investment)in)new)func@onality)

•  Nodes)extend)the)plaGorm)with)new)modules)

A)module)I)need)A)module)we)all)need)

Data visualization

NPT)can)be)extended)by)crea@ng)and)installing)Modules)

Data products

afg.biodiversity.aq

• Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean

• Redo of Hedgepeth 1969 Folio

• Predictive approach

• Static and dynamic versions

• Modelization loops are ready

atlas.biodiversity.aq

94 Interpolated data layersSlope Bathymetry Chlorophyll Distance to the continent Distance to bird colonies Distance to ice Distance to shelf Distance to canyon Floor temperature ... + ANTABIF Occurrence records

• Integrate Antarctic microbial DNA sequence data in biodiversity.aq

• Phased approach:

Step 0: data description and discovery

Step 1: microbial sequence and habitat metadata

Step 2: sequence data

Step 3: batch sequence data processing

Step 4: customized sequence data processing

mars.biodiversity.aq

@biodiversityaq

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