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GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY Biodiversity and uses of biodiversity data: Example: Butterflies of the Albertine Rift Photo: Jacqueline Havugimana / Ugo Dall’Asta CEPDEC-TZ Training Course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information Dar Es Salaam 13-17 July 2009 Franck Theeeten Biodiversity Informatics and Cybertaxonomy unit Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Publication of a dataset of Butterflies from the RMCA to GBIF Published to GBIF in September 2008 CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania http://193.190.223.48/BiocaseProvider_2.4.2/www/querytool/main. cgi?dsa=EntomoAlbertina Source of the data Date came from an Access database managed by a scientist from the RMCA Source database was in Access, with link to photos Scientifc collaborator Jacqueline Havugimana took photos and verified the identification of some specimens Project coordinated y Ugo Dall’Asta (RMCA: Royal Museum for Central Africa) and Anne Franklin (RBINS: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences) CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Publication of the data Data have been published to GBIF with Biocase provider Open-source applications developped by the BGBM (Botanical Garden & Museum of Berlin) within the framework of an project funded by European Union Downloadable at http://www.biocase.org/ CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Biocase PyWrapper Can connect data to GBIF Also feature an Internal Query Interface Customisable with parameters defined in XML files CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Source Database CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Multimedia content High-resolution photos of the Specimens were published by Zoomify (Free application using Flash) CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies Image Viewer (Zoomify) Desktop source database (Access) Web Server (Biocase) Client CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies Image Viewer (Zoomify) Desktop source database (Access) Web Server (Biocase) Client CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania http://data.gbif. org Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies Image Viewer (Zoomify) Desktop source database (Access) Web Server (Biocase) Client Logical workflow but … Importation fromcourse: source database to web server a straightforward CEPDEC-TZ Training Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th wasn’t – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and immediate process (from a technical point of view) Workflow Albertine Rift Butterflies DB Desktop source database (Access) Database (SQL based) Web Server (Biocase) Need to develop a database as an intermediate step between: -the source database managed by the individual scientist (which wasn’t built within the prospect of an Internet connection) -the interface and provider of data to GBIF permanentely available on the CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Internet Thanks for your attention! CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania