ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity Research Project overview Isabella Van de Velde Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy EU FP7 project - 3 year Virtual Research Communities call Started in December 2010 Project website to provide a more effective framework for managing biodiversity information on the Web
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Biodiversity informatics landscape data format diversity
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Biodiversity informatics landscape local audiences data format diversity
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Biodiversity informatics landscape local nationa l regional globa l informatics systems audiences data format diversity
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Do we want to work this way?
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Of course not!
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 What’s the solution? take a deep breath and focus on…
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 What’s the solution? Interoperability!
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 ViBRANTs contribution 17 partners in 9 countries (universities, museums & SMEs) Interoperability, workflows, services, information modeling & user support
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Project goals The “chromosome” Vision Connecting the people, data & science of biodiversity Position Open & sustainable development of a federated network of biodiversity informatics infrastructures Mission Facilitate the mobilisation, sharing and publication of biodiversity data
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Scratchpads Some products and services
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT a website for you & your community scratchpads.eu ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Scratchpads ViBRANT’s hub
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 OBOE Some products and services
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Data services OBOE receives a request for computation, gets the job done, and returns results Think of OBOE as a job distribution agent… Oxford Batch Operation Engine
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Biodiversity data journal Some products and services
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Scholarly publishing Pensoft Writing Tool The BDJ is very different…
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 GeoCAT Some products and services
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June open source tool to perform geospatial analysis and visualization of Red List data Data services Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 COMBER Some products and services
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 dive observe record share Ecological & conservation data mobilisation Citizens’ Network for the Observation of Marine BiodiVERsity
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Virtual Biodiversity Research ViBRANT ViBRANT - WP3 workshop – 11 June 2013 Thanks! Questions? Join us! scratchpads.eu vbrant.eu ;-)