Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences — first steps in global data publishing integration Roman Khalikov Leading Engineer of the IT Department Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Roman Khalikov Leading Engineer of the IT Department Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg

ZIN Taxonomic Databases: 30 Years Background ▪ ZOOCOD — the data standard for taxonomic tables creation and representation of multilevel hierarchies in relation databases ▪ Client-server database management system (MS SQL Server — server side) and universal web-interface (client side — ASP, cross-platform script language JavaScript, AJAX) ▪ ZooDiv taxonomic classifier — the kernel of all IT zoological projects at the Zoological Institute

United Classifier and On-line Data Publishing ▪ ZooDiv — All-Russian Information Storage and Retrieval Biodiversity System taxonomic records of 41 ranks ▪ ArcCoML — Arctic Census of Marine Life ▪ EcoAnt — Census of Antarctic Marine Life ▪ HerpNet

2006: GBIF Seed Money Statement of work: “ZIN will be extensively involved in this project. They will be contributing records of amphibian specimens to GBIF and HerpNET by making these available through a provider at their institution. They will be digitizing and georeferencing all specimens that funds will allow, using a standard database format and using BioGeomancer to georeference.”

2006: Key Steps of the Project ▪ Digitalization of ZIN collection catalog records ▪ Latinization of specimens localities ▪ Georeferencing of specimens localities ▪ Georeferenced data verification by MVZ staff ▪ Georeferenced data integration into ZIN database to make available both for internal use and for the HerpNET on-line distributed information network by means of dedicated DiGIR-provider server (still works… :)

2015: Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Grant ▪ Digitizing of ZIN research collections within the framework of RFBR № «The collections of the Zoological Institute as an important tool and information basis of fundamental biological research» (project leader Dr. Ananjeva N.B.) ▪ ZIN collections — > 60 million of storage units ▪ The first phase — several tens of thousands of type specimens, 8 model groups of collections (Pogonophora, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Ophiuroidea, Siphonaptera, Amphibia, Reptilia, Mammalia) ▪ ZIN Research Collections portal

2015: GBIF Data Publishing — DiGIR + IPT ▪ GBIF IPT Deployment ▪ Amphibian specimens (DiGIR installation) -a eb45e9a ▪ Ophiuroidea collections of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences (IPT installation) -aa0e-b322bf1500ba

2016: Future Plans ▪ IPT debug and improvement expectation — problem with dataset contacts order should be fixed ▪ Several occurrence datasets for different taxonomic groups ▪ Sample-based dataset for testing purposes ▪ Komarov Botanical Institute RAS endorsement and its registration as a publisher within ZIN IPT