1. EASIN European Alien Species Information Network GBIF
Joint Research Centre
Institute for Environment and Sustainability
GBIF
8th European Nodes Meeting
EASIN
European Alien Species Information Network

2. EASIN in a nutshell
Developed by JRC as a mechanism interconnecting existing databases enabling easy access to data and information on alien species (AS) in Europe.
Information on > 14,000 AS on: taxonomy, environment, gateways and pathways of introduction, impact and spatial data.
All information is publicly available through a widget framework, providing easy to use and flexible tools for searching and mapping.
EASIN is a network that promotes cooperation between different information systems and aims at a strong and effective implementation of the European policies.

3. Support to European policies
COM (2011) 244 an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020
MSFD Descriptor 2: Non-indigenous species
REGULATION (EU) No 1143/2014 on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species (IAS)
EASIN will be the core of the information support system to be established by the Commission as foreseen under Article 25 of Regulation 1143/2014

4. EASIN Governance

5. Valid names EASIN Catalogue alignment based on CBD
Data Providers
Spatial data
EASIN web services
EASIN
Catalogue
Valid names
Original names
Synonyms
Taxonomy
Environment
Impact
Native range
Pathways
alignment based on CBD
Integrating, reviewing and standardizing existing information from 43 databases on aliens.
It is based on an inventory of all species and subspecies reported to be alien in (part of) Europe by one or more of 43 online information systems (global and regional information systems and country-level databases)
Alien species names were extracted for all European countries, considering Europe in a broad sense (as mentioned in i.e. including the 27 EU Member States, the 5 Candidate countries and 17 other European countries. Includes the full coverage of the four seas surrounding Europe.
All names of species listed as ‘alien’, ‘cryptogenic’, ‘introduced’, ‘casual alien’ or ‘invasive’ were extracted. Species listed as ‘potential aliens’ (watch lists), ‘reintroduced’, ‘excluded’ or ‘extinct’ were excluded.

6. appointment of external experts
EASIN Catalogue: Validation + species-specific information
appointment of external experts
revision completed
EASIN updated
Marine species
Freshwater species
Terrestrial mammals
Nematodes
Terrestrial arthropods
Fungi
Terrestrial Mollusca
Birds
Amphibians and Reptiles
Plants
Bacteria/Viruses
High impact: revision completed
Low impact: second round revision completed but not yet on-line
Completed

7. Editorial Board continuous update quality assurance
participatory approach

8. Network of online interoperable web services
EASIN: Compilation, Harmonization, Processing
Data Provider 1
Data Provider K
Data Provider 5
Data Provider 3
Data Provider 2
Data Provider 4
Provision of spatial data
Provision of services & tools
Links to more detailed information
EASIN aggregate data from all linked data providers and offer tools and web services to the providers and other interested hosts. All information provided by EASIN’s services will be linked to the source data, where the user should seek more detailed and disaggregated information.
Katsanevakis et al Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records 1: 235–245

9. EASIN Data Partners (spatial information)
CURRENT
ONGOING INTEGRATION
Swedish LifeWatch - Croatian Agency for the Environment and Nature - Cyprus Invasive Alien Species Database
The EASIN current data partners
The EASIN data partners with ongoing discussion
ONGOING DISCUSSION
ESENIAS - VLIZ - EPPO - AQUANIS - EEIKO - NOBANIS - MAMIAS - GRIIS - DG MARE Arctic Alien species – ECDC - EFSA

10. EASIN data processing EASIN catalogue EASIN Datawarehouse Data partner
ETL
EASIN
EASIN
Datawarehouse
Data partner
The EASIN Data Broker system retrieves species occurrences and related information from different types of data sources and store them in a normalized database structure

11. PROCESS
ETL
EASIN
GBIF Data
GBIF provides web services/APIs for accessing information as species occurrences.
EASIN calls the GBIF webservices for retrieving the occurrences for each species in the Catalogue in specific countries (EU28 + neighboring).
Example:
Normalized structure = a structure that prevents redundancy of the data

12. PROCESS
ETL
EASIN
GBIF Data
EASIN recently extracted GBIF records for all species in the EASIN in EASIN catalogue following up from recent updates of GBIF platform
From now, we aim to extract changes to records but this is currently difficult
For deleted records
reliability of date
Normalized structure = a structure that prevents redundancy of the data

13. GBIF Data A limited number of records (50) can be extracted each time
PROCESS
ETL
EASIN
GBIF Data
A limited number of records (50) can be extracted each time
The process is long when the extractions regards several thousand records
Could GBIF help speed up this process?
Normalized structure = a structure that prevents redundancy of the data

14. EASIN retrofeedback
Can provide feedback on basis of outcomes of the internal data quality checking procedures
EASIN Editorial Board recently pointed out some erroneous GBIF records of Codium tylorii and Iniistius pavo
Could provide all changes to EASIN catalogue …

15. EASIN Thank you! EASIN TEAM Ana Cristina Cardoso Eugenio Gervasini
Fabio D’Amico
Ivan Deriu
Kostas Tsiamis
Anna Maria Addamo
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS
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