1. WebBee A platform for a Brazilian information network on bees. Inter-American Workshop on Environmental Data Access 3-6 March 2004 – Campinas - Brazil

2. Universidade de São Paulo Antonio Mauro Saraiva –Escola Politécnica/ Agricultural Automation Lab Vera Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca –Instituto de Biociências / BeeLab

3. outline WebBee: From instrumentation to an information network

4. Start: instrumentation in 1999, research on flight activity of stingless bees focus on automatic data acquisition –to get more and better data –to free the researchers from some time consuming and error-prone activities.

5. Bee hives monitored for Air temperature Air humidity Bee flux: “Bee detector” –I.R. emitter-detector pair

6. a web-based monitoring system

7. Bee count: flight activity concentrated in the morning

8. A step ahead: an information system Knowledge and information on bees need to be –organized, preserved, shared, published(!) Target audience –scientists, beekeepers, students, teachers, policy makers, agricultural producers… Increase public awareness on the importance and uses of pollinators –in Portuguese and other languages

9. WebBee: information system Contents: Bee species data: biology, taxonomy, distribution, Hives, equipment & numerical data Beekeeping, plants visited Bibliography Information source: Intellectual Property –Dynamic web pages: database –Multimedia: texts, images, videos Web–based: easy access and sharing

10. System Diagram WeB Bee MySQL Server PHP HTTP Server WEB browser Maintenance program ODBC FTP Server Linux Server DB

11. WeB Bee Software Platform Operating system Database MS Dynamic Pages Graphics Linux www.linux.org MySQL 2.23.49 www.mysql.com PHP 4.0 www.php.net Graphics library GD www.boutell.com/gd WEB Server Apache www.apache.org

12. Database – Species catalog WebBee images and texts

13. Database – Weather station (at IB – USP, São Paulo) WebBee graphics and table

14. Database of Bibliography WebBee Documents: description and files (PDF; DOC, etc)

15. Replicate WebBee Do other groups have similar needs and problems? WeB Bee   Does a single group have enough data to populate the system? How much time would it take? Do they have other data?

16. WebBee - a network Groups cooperate on providing data –Species information –Experimental data / weather stations –By region, species, family… Distributed Effort –less work for each –Each is part of solution WeB Bee

17. WebBee - a network Important issues: Intellectual property –Contents: texts, photos, etc  author –neutral domain: www.webbee.org.br WebBee: consortium –partners –credit –management WeB Bee

18. Status Centralized database Remote data-entry Other features: –plants visited (names, few images) –pollen characteristics –5 groups (4 bee groups)

19. Participants: BeeLab – Instituto de Biociências da USP Agricultural Automation Lab – Escola Politécnica - USP Embrapa Amazônia Oriental BeeLab - Empresa Baiana de Desenvolvimento Agrícola – EBDA Universidade Est. de Feira de Santana - UEFS WeB Bee

20. Brazilian Pollinators Initiative (BPI) website events publications timeline activities

21. What is next ? Improve content: –populate database –other groups –other languages Data validation / referee Interoperability/interconnection with other information systems –DiGIR –Partnership with CRIA WeB Bee

22. Thank you ! Visit us at: http://www.webbee.org.br

23. Number of species in the database (N=38) 16229330 NestEntranceDroneQueen (virgin) Worker Pending: obtain the missing images Species from Bee Laboratory IB/USP collection