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Biodiversity Data Infrastructure of Navarre - IDBD:
A shared experience
F. Alonso-Pastor1, L. Arana2 ,
1
Government of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
2
Tracasa, Sarriguren (Navarre), Spain
Since 2005, when the regional Government of Navarre launched its Spatial Data Infrastructure IDENA (http://idena.navarra.es), the information relating to the environment founded a new
way to be accessed by the public, with a remarkable and progressive decreasing of the requests
received for such information. One of the areas where this process did not follow the same
pattern was information related to the species and their management. The same perspective were
shared by the technicians from the Regional administration.
This situation led in 2007 to the decision to create a database and a set of tools to facilitate the
collecting and processing of the information on biodiversity, understanding it as the relation of
1. the species distribution and populations status, especially those subject to any protection
category at global, european, national or regional level, or those other than by its categorization
as "exotic", "exotic invasive", etc. required specific management 2. the habitats that should be
kept in good condition, especially those contained in the annex of Directive 92/43/EC and 3. the
natural protected sites networks at regional and national level (national parks, reserves,
landscapes, etc.) or European level (Natura 2000 network). All this information together with
the identification of a number of conditions and risks and at the same time benefiting from a set
of traditional uses that have kept their persistence through the time, in a clearly humanized
environment for thousands of years.
The solution adopted was the creation of a data infrastructure on biodiversity that incorporate
the following keys:
 Built by all: Administration, disseminators, teachers, researchers, technicians, field
conservation associations, consultancies, etc. They provide not only their own
information but throughout the working groups they decide which improvements should
be implemented in the system.
 For all: to meet the requirements of managers and technicians in a scalable and
personalized way, answering at the same time the demands of knowledge from citizens.
 With geographical component, providing and consuming standard services to and
from IDENA, common regional project to which it belongs.
 With metadata, and interoperable, fulfilling the obligations of INSPIRE.
 Accessible to everyone through Internet
The progress of this project has been fostered taking advantage of several opportunities. On the
one hand, the presentation of the first project version 1.0, at the GI & GIS Conference held in
Porto, receiving the best poster award drive to the participation of Navarre in the eContentplus
project NATURE-SDI plus. On the other hand, at the end of 2009, the signature of a
collaboration agreement with the Spanish node of GBIF (Global Biological Information
Facility) opened the door to the exchange of information between both platforms, encouraging
the participation of regional technicians in several workshops about SDIs, for training different
Spanish experts from universities and museums on the challenges, opportunities, methodologies
and tools for the implementation of INSPIRE Directive. Finally, in September 2010, on the
occasion of the Spanish Congress of Geographic Information Technology (XIV CNTIG) the
version 2.0 of IDBD was presented, exchanging interesting experiences with other experts, and
having received explicit recognition by the leader of the Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure
(http://www.idee.es).
The main benefits of the version v2.0 of IDBD include:
 all the information is interrelated among its three basic components: species, habitats
and sites, allowing navigation in cards format throughtout their contents.
 the cards provide content from multiple sources: descriptive data, photographs, maps
distribution at regional or national level, etc.
 a geographic window that uses and provides standard SDI services, which are
embeddable on third parties websites using a simple iFrame instruction
 a module for loading photography’s that facilitates georeferencing even for those photos
without GPS information in the EXIF data, which in addition allows their allocation to
one or more elements: species, habitats, sites, geology and uses, through geoprocessing
applications and offers finally, a small forum for the identification of the photographed
object.
 ability to "masking" the real location of the protected species by a system which, on the
fly, transforms the coordinate in a grid of 10 x 10 km for the public and/or unauthorized
viewer, while maintains the accuracy for the author, and the managers and authorized
researchers.
At this time and thanks to the contributions received from its partners during 2010, IDBD is
developing the version 2.1 which will be accessible during summer 2011. Among its major new
features will be a new module of georeferencing observations without images, which will be
linked to the existing for photography’s, allowing a complete collection of primary data about
biodiversity. This module will work with the traditional system of presence data capture and
additionally with presence/absence and counting of individuals to be able to work with
inventory and monitoring, essential for future studies about loss of biodiversity or climate
change conditions assessment, two of the major European challenges of the moment.
Finally, underline that, in spite of being a modest regional initiative, we also work in
collaboration with other initiatives: 1. with other European partners through the aforementioned
project NATURE-SDI plus for encouraging INSPIRE implementation for protected sites,
bioregions, habitats - biotopes and species distribution. 2. with other responsible from the
Spanish administrations in the definition of models, solutions and tools through a forum on
"biodiversity and public administrations" which held its second meeting in November 2010 in
Pamplona. 3. collaborating with GBIF in training experts and exchanging data and 4. working
actively in the start-up of the Spanish inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, regulation
which develops different aspects of the Law 42/2007 of the same name, which is one of the
most advanced regulations at European level.
We are looking forward receiving your visit in http://www.biodiversidad.navarra.es at any time
and especially since September this year. Welcome!