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Ocean Biogeographic Information System
(OBIS) - Outline of the global network and the
Australian OBIS Node
Tony Rees & Alicja Mosbauer
CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research (CMAR) and
National Oceans Office (NOO)
13 July 2005
What is OBIS?
OBIS – the Ocean
Biogeographic Information
System
 Single access point for
distribution records for marine
species from multiple sources
over the internet, with onward
access to analytical tools and
maps
 Designated role as the data
and information management
component of the Census of
Marine Life
 Currently accessed from a
central OBIS Portal at
Rutgers University, USA
(www.iobis.org)
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Where does OBIS data come from? (8
databases in 2002, 46 as at June 2005, total 5m
records so far...)
Key to numbered contributing databases:
1: BATS Zooplankton
2: Hexacorals Database
3: CephBase
4: DFO Scotian Summer Research Trawl Survey
5: FishBase
7: History of Marine Animals (HMAP)
8: Indo-Pacific Mollusks
9: NODC WOD01 Plankton Database (NODC)
10: SeamountsOnline
11: ZooGene
12: Southampton Oceanography Center Discovery
Collections Midwater Database (SOC)
13: OBIS-SEAMAP
14: AADC_seabirds
15: AADC_ellie_sightings_heard
16: AADC_weddell_census
17: AADC_weddell_sightings
19: SAHFOS_CPR_ZOOPLANKTON
20: SAHFOS_CPR_PHYTOPLANKTON
21: AADC_herbarium
22: AADC_whale_catch
23: Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian
coastal area (EUROBIS)
24: Generic Taxonomical Database System
25: EPA's EMAP Database
26: NBI
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27: Ifremer BIOCEAN database (Deep Sea Benthic Fauna)
28: Eastern Canada Benthic Macro Fauna (Canadian Regional Node)
29: Atlantic Reference Centre (Canadian Regional Node)
30: Electronic Atlas of Ichthyoplankton on the Scotian Shelf of North
America (Canadian Regional Node)
31: Gwaii Haanas Marine Plants (Canadian Regional Node)
32: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (Canadian Regional
Node)
33: Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (Canadian Regional
Node)
34: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals,
and Fishes (Canadian Regional Node)
35: Gwaii Haanas Invertebrates (Canadian Regional Node)
36: Bay of Fundy Species List (Canadian Regional Node)
37: Marine Invertebrate Diversity Initiative (Canadian Regional Node)
38: ECNASAP (Canadian Regional Node)
39: Resolute Passage Copepod Distribution
40: Benthic fauna in the Pechora Sea (EUROBIS)
41: Temporal cover of N3, a station in Kiel bay (EUROBIS)
42: MedOBIS (EUROBIS)
44: Biogeography Scheldt Estuary (EUROBIS)
45: Macrobel: Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian
Continental Shelf (EUROBIS)
46: Meiobenthos of subtidal sandbanks on the Belgian Continental
Shelf (EUROBIS)
47: BioMar (EUROBIS)
48: The SERTC Invertebrate Database: Invertebrates of the
southeastern United States
49: Grand Manan Basin Benthos
Value of OBIS to the data user...
 User can browse to see what
distribution data are currently available
(via the OBIS network) on any marine
species
 OBIS system does the work of
interconnecting the remote data
sources, user does not need to know in
advance where the data reside or
worry about formats, permissions, etc.
 OBIS will:
 preview the data as “quick maps”
 download the data to the user’s
browser
 provide access to online mapping /
modelling tools (an area for future
expansion)
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Value of OBIS to the data provider...
 OBIS will expose your data to the world
(if that is what you want)
 OBIS permits seamless integration of
your data with that from other providers
(build synoptic datasets for the first
time – cf. common practice in
oceanographic research)
 Access to OBIS tools is a degree of
“value adding” – expected to become
more significant through time
 OBIS provides data standards,
formatting advice, etc. (cooperative
development environment)
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Example OBIS data search –
Balaenoptera (a whale genus)
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Example OBIS data search – min. 0
records, max. 43,000 records per species (in
this case)
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“Quick map” shows data integration from
5 sources (in this instance)...
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“Get OBIS Data” downloads the records
to the user’s browser
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Current range of OBIS tools
 “Community development” model allows members of the OBIS
community (or others) to contribute new tools as available
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New for 2005 – Regional OBIS Nodes
 8 Regional OBIS Nodes (RONs) to be established in 2005-6,
5 in S. hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, India, SubSaharan Africa, S. America)
 Australian node will take lead in “region of interest” – e.g.
including surrounding oceans
 A key role of a RON is to promote and assist the flow of
regional data into the OBIS system (fill “gaps on the map”)
 Our interest is to provide a regional perspective (e.g. Australiaspecific context and other content / tools) as well as a source
of expertise to bring Australian content providers online
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Australia’s Regional OBIS Node
 National Oceans Office and CMAR are co-sponsoring the
Australian Regional OBIS Node (RON) – website
www.obis.org.au
 Initial activity will be serving up 0.25m CMAR records
(research survey data) as an example dataset
 Australian node staff will be available to assist potential data
providers to either:
 connect their data directly to the master OBIS system, or
 provide copies of data to the RON to be hosted and served on
their behalf (keeping identity of the original provider)
 Node staff will also be investigating ways to add value to the
Australian content e.g. by making environmental overlays, etc.
specific to the Australian region.
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Further information
 Visit the Australian OBIS Node website (www.obis.org.au/)
 Contact the Australian RON Manager:
[email protected]
Thank you!
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