Diapositiva 1

Integrated Global and Regional Taxonomies
Professor Alex Gray
Species 2000 and Cardiff University
A tribute to Frank Bisby
The Diagram
Users
CoL
GSDs
Lists
Conceptual Idea
• Simple
• Easily understood
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Difficult to implement
Development needed meeting of minds
Diversity of data
Scalability
Implementation
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Prototyping
New tools
Tools to support taxonomy
15 years ongoing development
Continual revision and extension
1. What is the Catalogue of Life?
• A Resource…
• an electronic synonymic species checklist,
• a tightly integrated taxonomic hierarchy,
• intended for all 1.9 M extant known species.
• ….constructed by international networking
• both checklist and hierarchy constructed from sectors from
many networked databases around the world
• and integrated using an international panel of experts
Organisation Structure
membership
board
secretariat
Ownership
Project team
Taxonomic
group
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group
organisation
Organization units
Organization units
• Project Team (science policy, think tank)
– Taxonomy Group (Team members + advisors)
– Information Technology Group (Team members + advisors)
– User Forum, GNA Group (Team members + advisors)
• Secretariat (Reading) & Executive Director
– Supporting activities, administrative tasks
• Board of Directors
– legal framework, connection to international efforts, politics
Global CoL Team 2011
Guy Baillargeon (Chair) Canada
David Eads (Interim Chair), USA
(Executive Secretary)
Thierry Bourgoin, France
Wouter Addink, Netherlands
Edward Vanden Berghe, USA
Jerry Cooper, New Zealand
Li-qiang Ji, China
Dennis Gordon, New Zealand
Thierry Bourgoin, France
Nicolas Bailly, Philippines
Edward Vanden Berghe, USA
Hugo Navarrette, Ecuador
Richard White (Convenor ISG), UK
Tom Orrell, USA
Mike Ruggiero, USA
Heimo Reiner, Austria
Mark Costello, China
The Team can be 10-20 people strong
Subgroup Taxonomy
Subgroup Information System
CoL – Progress by year
Number of species by year
2.000.000
2001
1.800.000
2002
2003
1.600.000
2004
1.400.000
2005
1.200.000
2006
1.000.000
2007
800.000
2008
600.000
2009
400.000
2010
200.000
2011
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2001
2003
2005
2007
Year
2009
2011
2013
2012
2013
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Members
• Currently 46 members
• There are now 100 participating databases
• Potential is an estimated 150 databases and
partners
• Aim is to increase number of members and
databases
• Species Database Access Agreement
• Species Database Licence Agreement
Members
Species 2000 is interested in hearing from
any individual or organisation which has a
database which (or is intended) to cover the
world's species within one particular group –
a global species database.
Membership of Species 2000 is open
to any individual, project or institution.
Please contact the Secretariat:
[email protected].
Indexing for Life
New multi-hub architecture
World-wide Multi-Hub Network,
with Regional Hubs
1. Species 2000 China Node (BioD. Com. CAS)
Keping Ma & Liqiang Ji
2. Australian Hub (ABRS with ALA/CSIRO)
Cameron Slatyer & Donald Hobern
3. New Zealand Hub (NZOR)
Jerry Cooper
4. Catalogo da Vida Brasil (MST/ CNPq/ CRIA)
Vanderlei Canhos
5. ITIS N. America (Smithsonian NMNH)
Tom Orrell
6. Sp2000 Euro-Hub (PESI/ Pan European Species List)
Thierry Bourgoin & Yde de Jong
Challenges for the future
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Filling the gaps with proto-GSD
Improving coverage of existing GSD
Improving number synonyms/related terms
Updating existing GSD
Expand multi-hub regional network
Expand coverage to ranks above species
Include fossils
The crossmapper
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Tool being developed in i4Life
Aims to compare lists with other lists/GSD
Produces names only in 1 list
Suggests relationships between terms
Output passed to taxonomists
Approved terms added to GSD
Terms can be added to regional lists
Part of Flora do Brasil
family
Lis_Brasil
Apocynaceae
Bignoniaceae
Melastomataceae
Lamiaceae
Verbenaceae
Malvaceae
Malpighiaceae
Rutaceae
Acanthaceae
Lauraceae
Begoniaceae
Convolvulaceae
Piperaceae
Sapindaceae
Eriocaulaceae
Loranthaceae
Clusiaceae
Polypodiaceae
Ochnaceae
Lythraceae
Turneraceae
Polygalaceae
Moraceae
Lecythidaceae
Cyatheaceae
Olacaceae
sp2000
2556
2150
1963
2116
1363
1049
736
770
762
628
552
703
591
523
1786
390
415
360
289
329
284
329
328
569
243
210
Diferença
144
88
114
663
216
346
61
177
179
80
16
184
95
75
1400
13
110
64
14
57
12
81
81
346
31
9
2412
2062
1849
1453
1147
703
675
593
583
548
536
519
496
448
386
377
305
296
275
272
272
248
247
223
212
201
Comparison
Brasil Flora and CoL
Melhores familias para serem testadas
family
Apocynaceae
Melastomataceae
Lamiaceae
Verbenaceae
Malvaceae
Poaceae
Orchidaceae
Fabaceae
Asteraceae
Rosaceae
Lis_Brasil
sp2000
2556
1963
2116
1363
1049
2299
10203
5835
3649
63
Diferença
144
114
663
216
346
12385
29310
25711
31448
44060
2412 Lista do brasil tem MAIS spp
1849
1453
1147
703
-10086 Lista do brasil tem MENOS spp
-19107
-19876
-27799
-43997
Relationships
Time line in OpenBio
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Stage 1 – prepare xmapper for OpenBio
Stage 2 – run xmapper on Flora Brasil &GSD
Stage 3 – pass output to taxonomy group
Stage 4 – enhance GSD
Stage 4 – enhance Flora Brasil
Thank you for listening
Demonstration after this session