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Integrating heterogeneous databases in the
Ocean Biogeographic Information System
Phoebe Y. Zhang
J.F. Grassle
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
www.iobis.org
• OBIS is the information component of the Census of
Marine Life, an international research program
assessing and explaining the diversity, distribution and
abundance of marine organisms throughout the world's
oceans
• OBIS is an international science program to develop an
on-line, open-access, globally-distributed network of
systematic, ecological, and environmental information
systems
”What lives where in the oceans and why”
OBIS History
• 1997:Some of the initial ideas for OBIS were developed at a
CoML meeting
• 1998:Sloan funded Rutgers to develop a web-site to
demonstrate the initial concept
• 1999: The first OBIS international workshop, DC
• 2000: NOPP funded eight projects to initiate OBIS
• 2001: NSF funded Rutgers to build a global portal for OBIS,
OBIS becomes a GBIF Partner
• 2002:NOPP funded and other OBIS projects are interoperable
through OBIS portal
OBIS International Committee
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Mark J. Costello, Chair, Canada
Neil Ashcroft, United Kingdom
Geoff Boxshall, United Kingdom
Daphne G. Fautin, USA
Kim Finney, Australia
Rainer Froese, Germany
Dennis P. Gordon, New Zealand
J. Frederick Grassle, USA
Yoshihisa Shirayama, Japan
OBIS Secretariat
OBIS Members
• Bats Zooplankton (Deborah Steinberg)
• Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals (Daphne Fautin, Bob
Buddemeier)
• Cephbase (Phillip Lee, James Wood )
• FishBase (William Eschmeyer, Rainer Froese)
• Fishnet (Edward Wiley )
• GMBIS (Dale Kiefer)
• Indo-Pacific Mollusc Database (Gary Rosenberg)
• National Ocean Data Center (Roz Cohen)
• Seamount Online (Karen Stocks)
• ZooGene (Ann Bucklin,Bruce W. Frost, Peter H. Wiebe,
Michael J. Fogarty)
www.iobis.org
OBIS Portal services
Biogeographic Data service
search over 430,000 species-based, geo-referenced
records
Name service
common name-scientific name, synonym translation
Mapping service
overlaying with environmental basemaps
Biodiversity modeling service
www.iobis.org
OBIS Architecture
OBIS Portal services
Biogeographic Data service
Name service
Mapping service
Biodiversity modeling service
What’s New:
NODC World Plankton Database
FAO Data through FishBase
Plans for the near future
• Genetic Information service (under development)
• Expand returned data types on biogeographic data
• Integrate HMAP, Gulf of Maine, Southampton open
sea data, and other mature data systems
• Incorporate more mapping, analysis, and modeling
tools into the portal and provide network-wide
automatic service
– Provide more key environmental data sets,
provide viewing tools – Envirodata and EASy
Netviewer
Become an OBIS Member
• provide data service to OBIS users through dynamic,
distributed query
• provide data service to OBIS users by sending a copy of
the data to OBIS for dynamic serving
• provide other services that can benefit the whole OBIS
community
Contact Phoebe Zhang: [email protected]
Sponsors and Members
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation