Community Resources

OBIS

OBIS allows users to search marine species datasets from all of the world's oceans. It allows to identify large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and FP7-283644 iMarine Combination of CP & CSA plot species' locations with temperature, salinity, and depth. The OBIS schema is a list of data fields with names, descriptions, and format notes. It is an extension to the Darwin Core Version 2 standard. Darwin Core is a Biodiversity informatics data standard that consists of a vocabulary of terms to facilitate the discovery, retrieval, and integration of information about organisms, their spatiotemporal occurrence, and the supporting evidence housed in biological collections. The Darwin Core profile is expressed as an XML Schema document for use by the DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval) protocol.

Darwin Core is based on the principles of Dublin Core and decouples the definition and semantics of individual terms from application of these terms in different technologies such as XML, RDF or simple CSV text files. It not only allows on sharing data through a dynamic DiGIR provider, but also offers RESTful, OAI and OGC services. It's going to be used to enrich the data sets accessible through the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem with biodiversity metadata and content from multiple research areas.

FAO-IOC/IODE

FAO-IOC/IODE The United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE collaborate to provide information on standards and controlled vocabularies in oceanography, marine science, food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences. They produced a customized version of DSpace called OceanDocs for the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) and adapted it to the standards of the Oceanographic community. The OceanDocs Network, created in 2004, now has some 50 members. The FAO customized DSpace using the AGRIS Application Profile (AP) and is developing a plug-in for the use of controlled vocabularies for communities in food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences such as AGROVOC.

The communities of FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE active in oceanography and food, agriculture, development, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and related sciences will provide open access to their literature stored in those repositories. They will use the same standards for metadata, thesauri and other ontologies ensuring advanced access to the scientific publications in the field and the possibility to create new services for their researchers.