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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also require an architecture document
describing the system traits.
With respect to providers, the solution for
handling occurrence data already exists.
We need a solution however for species
information pages. GBIF’s sleeping program
(yet to be activated), Species Bank is aimed
at identifying a solution for this. This
program may be activated in 2005 but there
are many other groups that are thinking of
working on this issue and GISIN could help
pioneer this area.
Rather than creating its own registry, GISIN
may decide to use the GBIF registry and be
identified as a thematic network for GISIN
providers serving invasive species
information. If GISIN chooses to create its
own registry, then GBIF and GISIN will need
to ensure interoperability between the
registries and agree on methods of sharing
information, given the amount of
commonality between the two systems. The
National Biological Information
Infrastructure has a UDDI registry
installation that could do this.
The GBIF portal may not necessarily be the
right solution for GISIN. There is clearly a
need for at least one IAS portal, and
perhaps many. Regardless of GISIN’s
architectural design, it will follow the basic
three part organization that GBIF uses, i.e.
portal – registry – provider information.
GBIF and GISIN have agreed to work
together to develop the GISIN architecture.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
What GISIN needs for sharing
data, information and knowledge
(in the light of what makes GBIF work...)
What GISIN needs for sharing
data, information and knowledge
(in the light of what makes GBIF work...)
Registry of providers and their services
XML schemata for key data types
Occurrence data: Darwin Core plus a few attributes
Species fact sheets: Diagnosis, distribution, basic
biology, dispersal, impacts, biotic associations,
control methods, ...
Bibliographies: Dublin Core
Experts and institutions: Directory service
Choice of protocol(s)
Standards committee
Integrative portal(s) to distributed information
sources
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GBIF and GISIN linkage
GBIF and GISIN linkage
Provider alternatives:
Solution for occurrence data exists
Solution for species for information needed
Registry alternatives:
Use GBIF registry as thematic network
Create own registry and design a registry
interoperability solution
Portals: GISIN needs its own
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