1. Identification of expertise (regions, taxa, NGO efforts, methodology) CentralGroupLocal Identification of procedure and funds for linking expertise Identification and evaluation of distribution data sources Source prioritisation (by quality, accessibility, relative costs) Documenting and linking taxonomies Development of collaborative source meta-database Fundraising for digitisation of selected sources Development of digitisation tools Digitisation of selected sources Development of digitisation tools Spatial reference objects for sources Database architecture and design Fundraising for database platform Development of database platform I. II. III.

2. Central, Admin Database maintenance Provider support User support Database Updating General Public Simple access to synthesised maps Research Community, NGOs, etc. Easy-to-use interface Database Platform Records taxonomy database spatial object database source database Multitude of data layers Data Access Data Provision Group Review Panel Curatorship Dynamic Data Fixed Data Dynamic Data: point data (eg. Field studies museum specimen) atlas projects etc. Fixed Data: digitised range maps published observations etc. Potential set-up for database of global vertebrate distributions, fully scalable Analytical Toolbox, including climate layers

3. GeoObjectID GeoObjectType GeoObjectProjection GeoObjectArea GeoObjectLon GeoObjectLat... RecordID SourceSpecID GeoobjectID SourceID DateCreated CreatedBy DateModified ModifiedBy... Taxonomy Translation Tool SourceID SourceTaxonomyID SourceType SourceAuthor … SourceExpert SourceExtent SourceResolution SourceQuality etc.... Source Meta-database MasterSpecID MasterGenus MasterFamily MasterOrder MasterClass... MasterTaxonomy SourceTaxonomyID SourceSpeciesID SourceID Preliminary Thoughts on Database Structure GIS Collection of Source Taxonomies List of Records Empty Object on Map Filled Object on Map