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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!