Next Steps in the Catalogue of Life Frank Bisby, Sp2000 and Thomas Orrell, ITIS Catalogue of Life Partnership.

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Next Steps in the Catalogue of Life Frank Bisby, Sp2000 and Thomas Orrell, ITIS Catalogue of Life Partnership

Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life programme Compiling a unified and validated comprehensive index to the world’s known species Involves ~3,000 taxonomists around the world Just over 1/2 complete Used as a practical baseline tool for inventorying and monitoring biodiversity worldwide e.g. as the species index in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) portal

How did we reach One Million Species? Initially, we found existing Global Species Databases (GSDs) for individual higher taxa, and appended them end-to-end e.g. FishBase (fishes), SpidCat (spiders), and ICTVdb (viruses) and many ITIS GSDs = well-defined, taxonomically distinct taxa, so no overlap between their GSDs and so easy to add to the Catalogue of Life as GSD sectors for those groups

Gaps in coverage: no GSD Where no GSD exists, there is a gap in the global taxonomic coverage To partly fill such gaps, we presently use the non-GSD sectors of ITIS as interim sectors to provide at least regional data for those groups until a GSD is available

Catalogue of Life Architecture I Global Hub CoL GSD GSDs in ITIS GSD

The strategy of using GSDs has worked well Has allowed us to proceed with assessing and connecting databases with limited extra resources, in partnership with the taxonomists of the world Our funding has brought pressure to speed up preparation of the Catalogue of Life This strategy allows the real work on global taxonomic integration to run in parallel, as 100–200 separate projects around the world. We have thus been able to speed up with a massive build-up of activity as needed

Completing the Catalogue of Life by compiling species from regional checklists, nomenclators and other sources requires much more complex informatics, and much more taxonomic and system management, than the initial strategy of compiling GSDs But it may to be the only way to cover the remaining fraction of the world's named species by June 2011, at least in a basic catalogue that can be edited by taxonomists to improve the taxonomic quality. Future challenges

Next phase – towards completion of the Catalogue of Life Initial strategy of bringing together Global Species Databases has worked well BUT GSDs only cover a portion of the world's species! Most existing GSDs will have been be included in the Catalogue of Life in the next year or so Other, more complex, strategies using regional checklists and nomenclator databases are needed to complete coverage of the world's 1.75 million known species by 2011

Regional Hubs – the future Models already exist for establishing regional hubs: A centralised regional taxonomic database (e.g. ITIS for North America and US Pacific Territories) A true distributed hub to which a number of regional databases are connected, e.g. the Species 2000 European Hub, which can then ‘move’ species names to the Catalogue of Life (or vice versa) We are discussing the possibility of other regional hubs with taxonomists and databasing projects in other regions

Catalogue of Life Architecture II Europe China Node China Node NZ N. America ITIS Regional N. America ITIS Regional Brazil India CoL GlobalHub CoL GlobalHub Australia

How can we fill the many remaining gaps? Help people to develop new GSDs by: Provide 'data starter kit' for rapid development of new GSDs, based on entries in relevant nomenclators (Index Fungorum, Index Kewensis, Zoological Record, etc.). This 'first-draft' GSD will then need editing by taxonomists to improve the standard. Tap more directly into the many regional databases and nomenclators. We shall achieve this by using the content available in Regional Hubs

Acknowledgements The Catalogue of Life partnership thanks all who contributed to the content and production of this Annual Checklist. In particular, thanks to Species 2000 Asia-Oceania, Species 2000 europa, NBII, GBIF, University of Reading (Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics), European Commission (EC EDIT NoE), WorldFish Center (SeaLifeBase project), NIES and ETI BioInformatics.