CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY Biodiversity and uses of biodiversity data: Example: Butterflies of the Albertine Rift Franck Theeeten Biodiversity Informatics and Cybertaxonomy unit Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)‏ Photo: Jacqueline Havugimana / Ugo Dall’Asta CEPDEC-TZ Training Course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information Dar Es Salaam July 2009

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Publication of a dataset of Butterflies from the RMCA to GBIF l Published to GBIF in September cgi?dsa=EntomoAlbertina

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Source of the data l Date came from an Access database managed by a scientist from the RMCA l Source database was in Access, with link to photos l Scientifc collaborator Jacqueline Havugimana took photos and verified the identification of some specimens RBINS l Project coordinated y Ugo Dall’Asta (RMCA: Royal Museum for Central Africa) and Anne Franklin (RBINS: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Publication of the data l Data have been published to GBIF with Biocase provider l Open-source applications developped by the BGBM (Botanical Garden & Museum of Berlin) within the framework of an project funded by European Union l Downloadable at

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Biocase PyWrapper l Can connect data to GBIF l Also feature an Internal Query Interface l Customisable with parameters defined in XML files

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Source Database

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Multimedia content l High-resolution photos of the Specimens were published by Zoomify (Free application using Flash)

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies org

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies l Logical workflow but … l Importation from source database to web server wasn’t a straightforward and immediate process (from a technical point of view)

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies Need to develop a database as an intermediate step between: -the source database managed by the individual scientist (which wasn’t built within the prospect of an Internet connection) -the interface and provider of data to GBIF permanentely available on the Internet

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Thanks for your attention!