Introduction to OBIS-USA Biological Data, Applications, & Relationships March 14, 2011

Topics What is OBIS-USA? What do people do with OBIS-USA? OBIS-USA relationships

What is OBIS-USA – Organizationally? OBIS-USA is the US National Node of the International OBIS Program A US Resource for Biogeography OBIS-USA is a USGS / NBII Program University of Colorado Partner – Informatics Science and Technology OBIS origin in context of Census of Marine Life (CoML completion, 2010)

What do people do with OBIS-USA? Participants Put Data In Users Get Data Out Facilitated by OBIS-USA Standards-Content-QA Manual vs Automation Map, Query, Table, Graph Web Services (ERDDAP) Data and Metadata Facilitated by OBIS-USA

What do people do with OBIS-USA? (more) CMSP, IOOS Examples Biogeography plus richer uses Enable Applications Study Dataset, Taxon, Geog Find Associated Resources Accessibility of Published Data (External and Internal) Expansion of Uses Joint Opportunties Discovery and Referral Support Community

What is OBIS Data? Biogeography Taxon – Location - Date, plus “richness” Interoperable Aggregation across all OBIS participants Standards Darwin Core – vOBIS Darwin Core – Ratified FGDC Connected Documented and hyperlinked

What is OBIS Data? Data: Biogeography data. The standard is Ratified Darwin Core. Thousands of records from each participant, interoperable. Metadata: Documentation of each participating dataset. FGDC format. One for each dataset.

Users Get Data Out of OBIS-USA User Request for Data The user can request data by Dataset, Taxon, and Geography Result: Data & Metadata, representing any datasets that match request.

Participants Put Data In OBIS-USA (Facilitated by OBIS-USA) Participant original data (various products) Original Metadata (as available) OBIS-USA and participant get informed re: relevant features of the data. OBIS-USA leads with materials, education, analysis. OBIS-USA assists in extract “pre- formatting”. OBIS-USA does content and quality reviews, gives feedback to originator. OBIS-USA completes formatting for standards. OBIS-USA builds metadata from existing, plus interviews and uses development tools for FGDC, reviews with originator. OBIS-USA produces FGDC and GCMD. OBIS-USA offers data and metadata on public site and web services.

Now Data Integrated into OBIS-USA User Request for Data (multiplied by all the other datasets in OBIS-USA.)

Who are OBIS-USA Participants? US Federal – NOAA, USGS, BOEMRE, BLM, EPA, NSF Participants mainly at a level within agency – e.g., a program or division US States Universities and Museums Private Research

Biogeography Related terms: Biodiversity, Occurrence, Observation, Specimen, Presence-Absence-Abundance Well defined classes of data: Location Sampling Event Occurrence Taxon Effective for Structure – Effective for Detail

Darwin Core A Standard for Occurrence Data Widely Adopted and Vital TDWG-Ratified Natural History Heritage Compatibility of Specimens and Surveys Extensibility in Biological and Physical Data

Metadata – Dataset Documentation OBIS Heritage of GCMD Current practice: FGDC to NBII Metadata Clearinghouse (and continue GCMD) Metadata Goals Identification / Attribution / Citation History and Quality Referral Discovery Understanding and Use

Usefulness of Metadata (Dataset Documentation – FGDC Details) Identification & Attribution Citation Data History and Quality Referral Publications Home Site and Archives Related Datasets (other Biology – or other types such as Physical Data Discovery Keywords and Summary Understanding and Use Abstract, Methods, etc. Data User These features of metadata are available to the user on OBIS-USA.

Physical Data OBIS-USA has a very high priority goal to enable integration of data types, such as biological data with physical data. R&D Approaches Web Service Integration OBIS-USA-Resident Physical Data Active Referral