Report prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global Invasive Species
Information Network (GISIN), 6-8 April, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Important Database Types
Respondents ranked database types with
respect to their importance to the GISIN
(Table 6). The highest ranked database
type was species/taxonomic followed by
distributed database systems, geospatial,
expertise, images/graphics, bibliographic,
and IAS research.
Respondents commented that databases
that include both native and non-native
complete flora/fauna inventories and
species profiles are important since a
species that is alien in one place is native in
another.
Database Types in Relation to GISIN
(1=most important, 7=least important)
Database Types
Mode
Average
IAS Species /
Taxonomic
1
2.02
IAS Databases in DDSs
1
3.91
IAS Geospatial
2
3.75
IAS Expertise
3
4.45
IAS Image / Graphics
4
4.66
IAS Bibliographic
5
4.52
IAS research
6
4.64
Table 6: A ranking of database types with respect to
their importance to the GISIN.
Survey 4 - Evaluation of Surveys
Sixteen respondents evaluated all of the
surveys, three evaluated the Online
Database Survey, four evaluated the
Database Content Survey, and four
evaluated the Database Development and
Technology Survey.
Survey Applicability
Respondents indicated that the surveys
addressed IAS database and GISIN-related
issues, including data and database-related
issues/goals of the Global Invasive Species
Collaborative Forum adequately, well, or
very well (Figure 24). No respondents chose
the not at all, inadequately, or extremely
well options.
Survey Length
Thirteen respondents indicated that the
length of the surveys was just right overall
while three respondents reported that the
surveys were too long (Figure 25).
Future Discussion Topics
Nineteen of the 22 individual respondents
that completed this survey made
suggestions for future surveys, including:
Who are the expected users or
target audiences for GISIN?;
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