Per de Place Bjørn - Revolutionizing taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and descriptions

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

ZooBank – 18/12-05

GLOBALBIODIVERSITY

INFORMATIONFACILITY

Revolutionizing taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and descriptions, Fort Lauderdale, 18 December 2005.

ZooBank and GBIFPer de Place Bjørn, PO, ECAT


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Four work programmes: Outreach and Capacity

Building – OCB Data Access and

Database Interoperability – DADI

Digitisation of Natural History Collections - DIGIT

Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms - ECAT

¿¿¿Global Biodiversity Information Facility???

A megascience facility aimed at

Making the world’s biodiversity data freely and universally available via the Internet

Sharing primary scientific biodiversity data to benefit society, science and a sustainable future


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Current statuses

Participants- 47 countries- 31 international organisations

149 data providers serving data from 517 collections

>73 mill. specimen and observation records

>500.000 species records (>1 mill. names) from the Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life- Large number of unregulated names from labels- Plans for tool to directly serve taxonomy data to

GBIF


ZooBank – 18/12-05

ZooBank and GBIF

How can we collaborate and enhance taxonomy?


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Globally Unique IDentifiers - GUIDs

GUIDs GBIF and TDWG are setting out to form community around GUIDs for Biodiversity data

Workshop in early February to explore infrastructure

Possibly - Life Science IDentifiers (LSID)- Digital Object Identifiers (doi)


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Potential model:Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)

Format

urn:lsid:<domainName>:<namespace>:<objectId>[:<revisionId>]

Potential example: referencing specimen record in GBIF Network (identifiers assigned centrally)

urn:lsid:gbif.net:Specimen:2706712

Potential example: name record from IPNI

urn:lsid:ipni.org:TaxonName:82090-3:1.1


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Disseminate ZooBank Entries

GBIF and TDWG are setting out to form community around GUIDs for Biodiversity data

Workshop in early February to explore infrastructure

Possibly - Life Science IDentifiers (LSID)- Digital Object Identifiers (doi)

ZooBank needs will be incorporated Watch the GUID Wiki -

http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/

GUIDs


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Globally Unique IDentifiers - GUIDs

GUIDs

Dissemination

Heightening availability of ZooBank data through GBIF portal

New entries can be immediately available on GBIF portal and network


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Linking Specimens to ZooBank Entries

Specimens associated with ZooBank entries can be referenced through the GBIF network and GUIDs

Unique reference to specimen not at the moment a requirement for nomenclatural event but with the infrastructure available, who knows?

Could be a requirement for publication that e.g. specimens examined for a monography be GUID’d

GUIDs

Dissemination

Specimens


ZooBank – 18/12-05

Enabling retrospective registration via ECAT providers

Nomenclatural assessment in GBIF providers – especially GSDs – could be moderated into ZooBank as a way of retrospectively filling the register

GUIDs

Dissemination

Specimens

Retrospective registration


ZooBank – 18/12-05

ZooBank becoming available to Species Pages/Species Banks

GBIF network provides a route into species pages/species bank projects for ZooBank entries

GUIDs

Dissemination

Specimens


Species pages


ZooBank – 18/12-05

ZooBank in the big picture

ZooBank lookup and depositing should be incorporated in web-enabled taxonomy interfaces and applications

Registration of zoological names becomes a natural and obvious part of the taxonomical process, not an added complication

GUIDs

Dissemination

Specimens


Species pages

Web enabledtaxonomy

Technology

Per de Place Bjørn - Revolutionizing taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and descriptions