NBII Ecoinformatics Technical Working Group Mike Frame Berkeley, CA Oct 2006
Services Overview
NBII Web-services of interest Biocomplexity Thesaurus GEMET/Bio Complexity Thesaurus ITIS NBII Dublin Core+ Prototype Darwin Core (DIGIR Providers) NBII Geospatial framework Map Layers Gazetteer NatureServ Species Profiles NBII/ISSG Invasive Species Profiles
Biocomplexity Thesaurus
NBII/EIONET Thesaurus Web-service 1 Background - collaboration through Ecoinformatics TWG Primary Goal – access distributed multi-lingual thesauri Results – SKOS web-service & client
Challenges Thesaurus scope, intent, purpose, and coverage is different NBII = sub-discipline of environment Endangered species Broader Terms:Species, Special status species, TaxaSpeciesSpecial status species Taxa EIOINET = broad environment Broader Terms:environmental protectionenvironmental protection
ITIS Web-service & Applications ITIS Web-service ITIS in DC tools
Prototype DiGIR Web service & Portlet eagle
Geospatial Framework SHARE ADVERTISE ENRICH Easy as Catalog of Web Map Services contains: 160 Biological Map Services (WMS) 13,329 layers of geospatial information
NBII Wildlife Disease Node Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado… Geospatial Framework
Search for additional data Geospatial Framework
Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado… With Predicted Species Distributions from the GAP Program Geospatial Framework
Geospatial Services
Joint SPIRE Activities
Research project in the area of Invasive species Water hyacinth clogging the Ortega River (Photo: Don Schmitz
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