Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences

Daphnis De Pooter; Ward Appeltans; Nicolas Bailly; Sky Bristol; Klaas Deneudt; Menashè Eliezer; Ei Fujioka; Alessandra Giorgetti; Philip Goldstein; Mirtha Lewis; Marina Lipizer; Kevin Mackay; Maria Marin; Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé; Stamatina Nikolopoulou; Pieter Provoost; Shannon Rauch; Andres Roubicek; Carlos Torres; Anton van de Putte; Leen Vandepitte; Bart Vanhoorne; Matteo Vinci; Nina Wambiji; David Watts; Eduardo Klein Salas; Francisco Hernandez

doi:10.3897/BDJ.5.e10989

Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences

Biodivers Data J. 2017 Jan 9:(5):e10989. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e10989. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Daphnis De Pooter¹, Ward Appeltans², Nicolas Bailly³, Sky Bristol⁴, Klaas Deneudt¹, Menashè Eliezer⁵, Ei Fujioka⁶, Alessandra Giorgetti⁵, Philip Goldstein⁷, Mirtha Lewis⁸, Marina Lipizer⁵, Kevin Mackay⁹, Maria Marin⁸, Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé¹⁰, Stamatina Nikolopoulou³, Pieter Provoost², Shannon Rauch¹¹, Andres Roubicek¹², Carlos Torres¹³, Anton van de Putte¹⁴, Leen Vandepitte¹, Bart Vanhoorne¹, Matteo Vinci⁵, Nina Wambiji¹⁵, David Watts¹², Eduardo Klein Salas¹⁶, Francisco Hernandez¹

Affiliations

¹ Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee / Flanders Marine Institute, EurOBIS, Oostende, Belgium.
² UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Ocean Biogeographic Information System, UNESCO-IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium.
³ Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, MedOBIS, Gouves, Greece.
⁴ United States Geological Survey, OBIS-USA, Virginia, United States of America.
⁵ Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Trieste, Italy.
⁶ Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, OBIS-SEAMAP, Durham, NC, United States of America.
⁷ University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, OBIS-USA, Colorado, United States of America.
⁸ Centro Nacional Patagónico, ArOBIS, Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
⁹ National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Southwest Pacific OBIS, Wellington, New Zealand.
¹⁰ British Oceanographic Data Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States of America.
¹² CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, OBIS-Australia, Hobart, Australia.
¹³ Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico.
¹⁴ OD Nature, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Antarctic OBIS, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁵ Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa, Kenya.
¹⁶ Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caribbean OBIS, Caracas, Venezuela.

No abstract available

Keywords: Darwin Core Archive; data standardisation; ecosystem data; environmental data; oceanographic data; sample event; species occurrence; telemetry data.

Grants and funding

Expanding OBIS with environmental data