1. Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG Annual Meeting The Global Invasive Species Information Network providing the backbone for invasive species information sharing Database Interoperability New Orleans, Louisiana 19 October 2011

2. Annie Simpson entomologist & librarian data coordinator, BISON project US Geological Survey asimpson@usgs.gov 1

3. Annual earthquake damage in US costs ~$4.4 billion Let’s talk money… Annual economic impact of invasive species is ~$123 billion!

4. 2 What is GISIN? http://www.gisin.org Provides a global platform for sharing invasive species info via Internet Virtual organization (its own can of worms)

5. 2 Traditional vs. Virtual Organizations (Rouse 2008) http://www.ti.gatech.edu/docs/Rouse%20NAEBridge2008%20HealthcareComplexity.pdf

6. Different groups with different backgrounds Effective training It’s about team work, and co-authoring will get you there. Successful virtual organizations depend on inspiration... and perspiration.

8. CBD Strategic Plan's Aichi Biodiversity Target 9: "By 2020, invasive alien species and pathways are identified and prioritized, priority species are controlled or eradicated, and measures are in place to manage pathways to prevent their introduction and establishment." GBIF meeting participants included representatives from the Global Invasive Species Database, the CABI Invasive Species Compendium, FishBASE, DAISIE, NOBANIS, and I3N.

9. What do I mean by... A term is a name string (of a defined language), which is associated with a standard concept. A concept is the basic component of a vocabulary. It is a description derived from a specific instance. A vocabulary is made up of many concepts each of which can have any number of multilingual terms associated with them. Controlled vocabularies provide an effective way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval. An ontology specifies the concepts and relationships of a complex data model. A protocol is a specific set of communication rules for computer-to-computer interaction and is based on ontologies.

10. GISIN’s contribution to PoW: data models GISIN’s six data models consist of 91 concepts: - 67 unique to GISIN - 11 from Darwin Core - 8 from Dublin Core - 5 from TAPIR GISIN will soon be posting our data models’ controlled vocabularies at http://vocabularies.gbif.orghttp://vocabularies.gbif.org

11. GISIN chosen as the information system to NAISN Formally organized in November 2010 A non-profit organization consisting of centers of excellence in invasive species science Learn more about NAISN at http://www.naisn.orghttp://www.naisn.org

12. 1 PreventionEDRR 2 Research 3 Info mgmt & Education NAISN: Future Plans  Create an invasive Species network to provide on the ground services for coordination of:

13. GISIN’s recent successes Adopted as the info backbone of North Amer. Invasive Spp. Network Small amounts of funding from diverse sources for meeting support 3 data models implemented, 3 more in preparation 2-year funding from Commission on Environmental Cooperation for expansion, tech support, and training

14. GISIN’s future plans Providing registry of invasive species information systems at http://www.gisin.org/GISINlist.htm Increasing our list of data providers, tech support, and improving Implementation http://www.gisin.orghttp://www.gisin.org Posting our GISIN data model controlled vocabularies at http://vocabularies.gbif.orghttp://vocabularies.gbif.org

15. Together we can harness the power within us all to assemble and share knowledge

16. 3 Questions? TDWG BioBlitz, Woods Hole Massachusetts, October 2010