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SCAR-MarBIN

• Funding: Belgian science Policy office

• Belgian Biodiversity Platform

• International Polar Year 2007/08

• Census of Antarctic Marine Life

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System

• Global Biodiversity Information Network

• Encyclopedia of Life

Marine Biodiversity Information Network

• Build a network

• Offer free and open access to data and technology

• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata

• Remain community-driven

• Adopt strong standardization

• Work for science, conservation, management

Philosophy

Riddle, M. Australian Antarctic Division

What sort of data?

• Primary Biodiversity data

• Taxonomy and Systematics

• Occurence/abundance data

• Genetic data

• DwC

Tangible results

all taxa

all species

valid species

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• The first RAMS

• Board of 60 editors

• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL

• 16,224 taxa

• 9,253 species

• 8,211 valid species

Tangible results

1,031,732 records138 datasets

over 5,200 taxaDownloadable

WebGISWebservices OGC

+RESTish

Useful??

Griffiths HJ, British Antarctic Survey

• Polar Macroscope Synthesis team

• Injection into conservation processes

• New insights in biogeography

• New insights in ecological processes

• AFG & cybertaxonomy

• Barcoding

• ARCOD & Bipolarity

AntaBIF

• Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility

• Build a new portal: www.biodiversity.aq

• Funding: BELSPO (two years)

• Include terrestrial and limnetic data

• register of Antarctic species

• ensure the long term continuation of the network(s)

• Close collaboration with AAD/EBA

Meet your audience• Visitors: 659,487

• Hits: 4,602,575

• Bandwidth: 63,214 MB

• Data flow: 27,603,467 records

• Origin of connections: 140+ countries

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