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Title: FishBase Lessons Learned


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FishBase Lessons Learned
  • Rainer Froese
  • IfM-GEOMAR
  • rfroese_at_ifm-geomar.de
  • December 2004

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Overview
  • What is FishBase
  • Some statistics on usage
  • Lessons learned
  • Future plans

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Some Statistics
  • What is not used
  • is useless
  • With modern web statistic software there is no
    excuse
  • for not knowning your users

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About 10,000 visitors per month
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Under The Hood
  • FishBase Structure

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Under The Hood
  • FishBase Structure
  • From DataEase to MS Access to MySQL to ???
  • From HTML to Cold Fusion to PHP to CMS to ???
  • 5 mirrors around the world
  • www.ZoneEdit.com for load-balancing

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General Principles
  • Keep it simple
  • Yes-Attitude
  • Be opportunistic
  • Give more credit than was expected
  • Deal with errors
  • Expose data
  • Invite, accept and act on criticism
  • Compare data
  • Use your data

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Design Principles
  • Do not over-normalize
  • Avoid (hide) codes
  • Dedicated fields vs free-text fields
  • Science and Data first approach
  • Transparency (reference, entered, modified, date)
  • Strategic decisions about data (comparative
    advantage, importance, future maintenance)

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Future Plans
  • Complete coverage and content
  • Improve mapping
  • Add more analytical tools
  • Move to mobile devices
  • Do FishBase for all aquatic species?

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Thanks to the FishBase Team
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Thanks to the FishBase Consortium
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Thanks to our Donors
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Thanks for Listening
  • Questions?
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