swedish lifewatch an overview
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Swedish LifeWatch An overview
2012-02-09
Oskar Kindvall, ArtDatabanken, SLU
Swedish LifeWatch
• Consortium established May 31, 2011
• Six partners: 4 universities + the Natural
History Museum (incl. GBIF) + the Swedish
Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
• Budget 47 mSEK (5 m€) 2010-2014
Web Service based Infrastructure for
Biodiversity data and Analyses
Web Service based Infrastructure for
Biodiversity data and Analyses
... for European Scientists
Presentations & analyses tools, work-flows
Standards, incl. taxonomy (INSPIRE, TDWG)
Swedish LifeWatch Analysis Portal
Plankton
Web-service
Museum
database
Web-service
Fish NORS
SERS
Web-service
Marine
data
Web-service Web-service
Art-
portalen
Web-service
Bird
data etc
GIS topography,
satellite,
thematic
PIKE
(fish)
Ecology etc
Climate,
ground,
chemistry,
ecology
LifeWatch
Europa GEOBON GBIF
IT-utveckling
Full, open and trouble-free access to
environment and climate data
Full, open and trouble-free access to
environment and climate data
Metadata
Data flow
Data flow
Data flow
LifeWatch
Analysis portal
Swedish LifeWatch
Analysis Portal
• Data
• Metadata
• Analytic tools
• Information about analytical tools
• Information about the project
LifeWatch
Analysis portal
Swedish LifeWatch
Analysis Portal
• Data
• Metadata
• Analytic tools
• Information about analytical tools
• Information about the project
LifeWatch
Analysis portal
Tack!
Data provider services (Web Services) Used by Web Service Clients (i.e. other machines around the world)
The Swedish main contribution to the LifeWatch Infrastructure.
Web Service Client Data Models Used by software developers for effective data retrievement and processing.
REST Services (HTML, XML and JSON).
Used in Web Browsers directly by anyone
or by Web Portal Developers.
“An analytical web portal” Used by anyone interested of exploring Swedish Biodiversity data in a simple
and informative way.
“Special analytical tools”
(e.g. AquaMap, ArcGIS, FME and R-Statistics) Used by scientists and others needing to develop their own analytical models
Standardized Services (OGC, TAPIR, IPT)