1. NBII Ecoinformatics Technical Working Group Mike Frame Berkeley, CA Oct 2006

2. Services Overview

3. NBII Web-services of interest  Biocomplexity Thesaurus  GEMET/Bio Complexity Thesaurus  ITIS  NBII Dublin Core+  Prototype Darwin Core (DIGIR Providers)  NBII Geospatial framework  Map Layers  Gazetteer  NatureServ Species Profiles  NBII/ISSG Invasive Species Profiles

4. Biocomplexity Thesaurus http://thesaurus.nbii.gov

5. NBII/EIONET Thesaurus Web-service 1 Background - collaboration through Ecoinformatics TWG Primary Goal – access distributed multi-lingual thesauri Results – SKOS web-service & client

6. Challenges Thesaurus scope, intent, purpose, and coverage is different NBII = sub-discipline of environment Endangered species Broader Terms:Species, Special status species, TaxaSpeciesSpecial status species Taxa EIOINET = broad environment Broader Terms:environmental protectionenvironmental protection

7. ITIS Web-service & Applications ITIS Web-service ITIS in DC tools http://spire.umbc.edu/webservice/webclient/webclientForm.php

8. Prototype DiGIR Web service & Portlet eagle

9. Geospatial Framework SHARE ADVERTISE ENRICH Easy as 1-2-3 Catalog of Web Map Services contains: 160 Biological Map Services (WMS) 13,329 layers of geospatial information

10. NBII Wildlife Disease Node Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado… Geospatial Framework

11. Search for additional data Geospatial Framework

12. Wildlife Disease in Geese, in Colorado… With Predicted Species Distributions from the GAP Program Geospatial Framework

13. Geospatial Services

14. Joint SPIRE Activities

15. Research project in the area of Invasive species Water hyacinth clogging the Ortega River (Photo: Don Schmitz

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