Abstract
A fundamental constituent of a biodiversity observation network is the technological infrastructure that underpins it. The European Biodiversity Network project (EU BON) has been working with and improving upon pre-existing tools for data mobilization, sharing and description. This paper provides conceptual and practical advice for the use of these tools. We review tools for managing metadata, occurrence data, and ecological data and give detailed description of these tools, their capabilities and limitations. This is followed by recommendations on their deployment and possible future enhancements. This is done from the perspective of the needs of the biodiversity observation community with a view to the development of a unified user interface to these data – the European Biodiversity Portal (EBP). We described the steps taken to develop, adapt, deploy and test these tools. This document also gives an overview of the objectives that still need to be achieved and challenges to be addressed for the remainder of the project.
Highlights
The project "Building the European Biodiversity Network" (EU BON) is a European Union funded project to build the European contribution to the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
In this document we describe the data sharing tools that have been used as part of the EU BON project
The work done at the testing sites will be extended to live implementation of the tools in the larger networks of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER), and LifeWatch, and by encouraging smaller onganizations and individual researchers, such as those identified by the EuMon project (Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe), to use them
Summary
The project "Building the European Biodiversity Network" (EU BON) is a European Union funded project to build the European contribution to the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). Such records are either published through GBIF or deposited at DataONE, from where the associated metadata can be converted directly into data paper manuscripts within the ARPHA Writing Tool, where the authors may edit and finalize it in collaboration with co-authors and peers and submit it to the Biodiversity Data Journal in another click Another new feature developed makes it possible to import occurrence records into a taxonomic manuscript in ARPHA. TreatmentBank provides access to data aggregators or other consuming external applications and human users, including entire treatments to the Encyclopedia of Life and observation records to GBIF using Darwin Core Archives (Fig. 3) The latter is implemented, whereby for each new upload in TreatmentBank, an update in GBIF is triggered. Based on the range of taxonomic groups supported by the PlutoF API, it is possible to upgrade and enable the mobile app with extended lists of taxa groups for biodiversity observations recording and data sharing
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