Work package 8. Data management in large distributed biodiversity database systems

WP 8 focuses on the management of large amount of data from distributed biodiversity nodes. Specifically, it has the objective of analysis and design of a co-operative federated information management system for inter-linking and integration of the varied biodiversity information types (e.g. on taxonomy, collections, observation, etc.) that are distributed among different databases. Moreover, exploring the applicability of both the GRID technology and the Virtual Organizations to the biodiversity domain will be achieved in WP 8.

Work package leader: Universiteit van Amsterdam (Informatics Institute) (P1)
Other partners involved: University of Reading (P5), Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (P8),Oberoesterreichisches Landesmuseum (P9) and University of Wales Cardiff (P55).
Results:
	Draft Report on Distributed Information Management Requirement Analysis: http://circa.gbif.net/Members/irc/enbi/clust3/library?l=/enbi_wp8_d8_1a_doc/_EN_1.2_&a=i (Restricted access. Login needed)
	Final report on Distributed Information Management Requirement Analysis: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/enbi_wp8_d8_1b_pdf/_EN_1.0_&a=i
	Status Report and Guidelines on the Potential of Collaborative Information Management System: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/wp8_d8_final_ch/_EN_1.0_&a=i
	Status Report and Guidelines on the Potential of Grid: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/wp8_d8_2a_final/_EN_1.0_&a=i
	WP8: Status Report and Guidelines on the Potential of Virtual Organizations: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/wp8_d8_final_ch3/_EN_1.0_&a=i

Work package 9. Interoperability and common access

General objectives

1. Make an inventory of existing interoperability tools in the various domains of biodiversity databases and data collections, to enhance common protocols and approaches
2. Build a library of functions to support an overarching architecture for interoperability and common access based on elements and efforts existing in the biodiversity informatics community (Species2000, BioCASE, ALLSpecies, etc)
3. Develop a design for a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of an interoperable system with common access to selected databases and the Species 2000 europa project in collaboration with work package 8.
   

Work package leader: Expert center for Taxonomic Identification (P8)
Other partners involved: Universiteit van Amsterdam (Informatics Institute) (P1), University of Reading (P5), Oberoesterreichisches Landesmuseum (P9), Freie Universitaet Berlin (21) and University of Wales Cardiff (P55).
Results:
	Final report on common interoperability tools: http://circa.gbif.net/Members/irc/enbi/clust3/library?l=/d9_final_report/_EN_1.0_&a=i (Restricted access. Login needed)
	Draft guidelines on protocols and datamodels: http://circa.gbif.net/Members/irc/enbi/clust3/library?l=/guidelines_doc/_EN_0.4_&a=i (Restricted access. Login needed)
	Analysis report on common interoperability tools, and on user requirements for common access points: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/enbi_wp9_d9_1bv1/_EN_1.0_&a=i

Work package 10. Generic analysis tools and data mining

General objectives:

1. Explore and select potential applications of generic analysis tools that can be used with the common access interoperable system defined under WP8 and WP9.
2. To ensure that these tools are able to analyse a variety of biodiversity data and combine or plot these data with a-biotic information (weather, geology, etc.)
3. Explore the application of selected analysis tools in a web environment.
4. Design description of the integration of these functional analysis tools with the common access system for interoperability of databases as provided by WP 8 and 9 and to provide a demonstrator system.