Halt the Loss of Biodiversity Data Towards a New Archiving Infrastructure for Biodiversity Informati

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Halt the Loss of Biodiversity Data! - Towards a
New Archiving Infrastructure for Biodiversity
Information

• Anton Güntsch Walter G. Berendsohn
• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
• Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics and
  Laboratories

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Biodiversity data infrastructure
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How to lose data - 1 creating a study
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How to lose data - 2 saving data
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How to lose data - 3 surprise!

• The data are not there anymore.

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How to lose data - 3 surprise!

• The data are not there anymore.
• The data are there, but there is no software to
  open and read the files.

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How to lose data - 3 surprise!

• The data are not there anymore.
• The data are there, but there is no software to
  open and read the files.
• The data are there and the files can be opened,
  but nobody really understands them.

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Archiving primary scientific dataExample social
sciences
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Archiving primary scientific dataExample social
sciences
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Archiving primary scientific dataExample social
sciences
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Archiving primary scientific dataExample social
sciences
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Back to biodiversity data Whats needed?
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Designing the biodiversity data archive-
depository service and helpdesk -
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Designing the biodiversity data archive- data
description service -
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Designing the biodiversity data archive-
software repository -
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Designing the biodiversity data archive-
migration service -
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Designing the biodiversity data archive- portal
service -
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Structure of the archive

• National nodes
• Thematic nodes
• Agreed metadata standards
• Access layer integrated into existing facilities
  (e.g. GBIF, LifeWatch)

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www.bgbm.org/biodivinf/