Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
Link to specific project web site: https://obis.org
Objectives:
see here
Establishment:
After the successful decade-long Census of Marine Life project, for which OBIS was the data and information dissemination component, OBIS found a new home when in June 2009, the Member States of IOC-UNESCO adopted OBIS as part of its IODE programme (IOC-XXV-4/June 2009): https://obis.org/about/ioc-25/). The IOC-UNESCO Member States had repeatedly identified the need to acquire biogeographic data for ocean and coastal resource management and agreed that knowledge of the ocean’s biodiversity is of such importance to national and global environmental issues that the responsibility for OBIS’ continuing success should be assumed by governments.
Governance/Management:
In March 2011, the IODE Committee established the IODE Steering Group for OBIS. (IODE-XXI.2: https://obis.org/about/iode-xxi-2/). The membership of SG-OBIS can be found here (https://oceanexpert.org/group/230). Meanwhile, OBIS established an executive committee composed of the chairs of the various OBIS task teams and project teams. More information on the governance page here (https://obis.org/about/governance/). OBIS is a network of regional and thematic OBIS nodes. The list of OBIS nodes and the contact information can be found here (https://obis.org/contact/).
Activities :
OBIS news articles: https://obis.org/news/
OBIS calendar: https://obis.org/calendar/
OBIS cited papers: https://obis.org/library/
OBIS manual: https://manual.obis.org
OBIS mapper: https://mapper.obis.org
OBIS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@oceanbiodiversityinformati6931
History:
The historical timeline of OBIS can be found on the OBIS about page (https://obis.org/about/)
Data:
The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) is a network of regional and thematic nodes publishing biodiversity datasets to an integrated database using community data standards such as Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and Darwin Core. While traditionally OBIS has focused on biogeography and the description of species distributions, since 2017 and the development of an extension to DarwinCore (extended MeasurementorFact Extension) OBIS started to publish richer datasets, with detailed descriptions of all aspects of the data collection as well as the inclusion of a wide range of measurements associated with the biodiversity records, such as environmental parameters, biometric measurements, abundance, or biomass. Data can be accessed via multiple ways, see the OBIS manual here (https://manual.obis.org/access.html)
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Created on: Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:36
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