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Fauna Europaea
Future Perspectives for the faunistic European Taxonomic
Database
Florian Tobias Wetzel1, Yde de Jong2, Falko Glöckler1, Günther Korb1, Alexander
Kroupa1, Anke Hoffmann1, Anton Güntsch3, Andreas Kohlbecker3, Andreas Müller3,
Christoph Häuser1, Gregor Hagedorn1
1 Museum
für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
2 University of Eastern Finland Joensuu
3 Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum - Freie Universität Berlin
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Fauna Europaea: Current Statistics
Main goals:
• Taxonomic register/checklist, making scientific names available (all Europe
up to the Ural region, except the Caucasus)
• Distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and
freshwater animals
• Integrating the scientific taxonomic (zoological) community in Europe
Some recent numbers on Fauna Europaea
(10/2014) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature applied
number of species:
number of subspecies:
number of synonyms (species):
number of synonyms (subspecies)
references
132,077
14,191
41,556
5,630
5,997
web usage: 637,535 unique visitors (2013)
referenced in nearly 5,000 wiki pages
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Fauna Europaea – Coverage + Gaps
new described species per decade
10000
Annelida
1000
Arthropoda
Chordata
100
Mollusca
Nematoda
10
Platyhelminthes
Rotifera
Others
1
1950
1960
1970
1980
decade
1990
2000
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2010
species
describedspecies
newdescribed
# new
/ decade
decade
per
# of
Fauna Europaea – New Species – Knowledge Gaps
2500
1500
2000
1000
1500
1000
500
500
2000-2010
1990-2000
0 0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
year
Arthropoda
Mollusca
Coverage of Fauna Europaea:
• At the end of the first project phase: 99,3%
• Current estimated coverage: 97,5%
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Fauna Europaea – Time Delay + Information Gaps
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Fauna Europaea – Current State
First phase 2000-2012 (5th EU FP5, Yde de Jong et. al + Zoological Museum Amsterdam)
New Phase of Fauna Europaea, adjustments and revitalisation:
• Hosting of database by MfN since September 2013 + participation in the administration
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Early 2014: Initial work for moving to CDM platform in collaboration with BGBM
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Supported by EU BON
FUB-BGBM
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MfN
Fauna Europaea – Current State
Overview Papers Fauna Europaea and Publication of Data
Papers - Biodiversity Data Journal by PENSOFT
• Stimulates experts to hand over descriptive details
• New ways of activating the community, networking &
participation
• Motivates experts – citations
• Help for the next phase of Fauna Europaea, adjustments and
revitalisation needed
de Jong et al. 2014
Publication of an API by Pensoft for the Writing Tool:
import complex and data-rich manuscripts, which include text,
data, images, in-text citations, references
Contributions on Fauna Europaea - Data papers for all 56
major taxonomic groups
Gibson et al. 2014
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Migration to Common Data Model – Cybertaxonomy Platform
Hosting by MfN since September 2013
• Early 2014: Initial work preparing the migration: FaEu Data Model (Oracle DB)
-> Common Data Model (MySQL DB)
Application of stable identifiers (name based)
+ URI: URI als stable identifiers
http://faunaeur.org/t/305289
scientificName
Canis lupus (Linnaeus 1758)
Linking to PESI: http://www.eunomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:305289
Linking to GBIF:URL: http://data.gbif.org/species/305289/resource/13560
Fauna Europaea ID = 305289, GBIF source = 13560
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Migration to Common Data Model – Cybertaxonomy Platform
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Webpage: Test-Webpage based on Drupal 7 to develop new web access of the
webpage.
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User Management: Data Manager delegates the access rights for
specialists/associated specialists (ROLE_USER_MANAGER).
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Taxonomic Editor: Light version of the Tax Editor / Web Version
Annotation: Planned for establishing a workflow.
Handling of different concepts
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Tax Light via Remote Desktop
2. Editing of the FaEu Data in the CDM:
access to Tax. Editor via Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp
https://webapp.mfn-berlin.de/
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Fauna Europaea and EU BON
EU BON: European Biodiversity Observation
Network (FP7 project)
• focuses on standardising and integrating
biodiversity information as well as facilitating
its access
• serves as the European contribution to the
information infrastructure of the Group on
Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation
Network (GEO BON)
Task 1.2 (Lead BGBM Berlin):
• A unified taxonomic backbone for the EU BON Data portal, built on Pan-European
Species directories Infrastructure (PESI, www.eu-nomen.eu)
• Harmonized with ongoing attempts towards a global Catalogue of Life (CoL).
•  This task will integrate Fauna Europaea and Euro+Med Plantbase
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Expert Network aims for high quality data
• 316 Taxonomic Specialists
117 Associated Specialists,
57 Group Coordinators
• validation of data import:
distribution on country level
(presence / absence, doubtful,
no data)
• taxonomic names (species,
higher groups…)
• country-specific focal point
network
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Future appoaches
• Reactivating the
network of specialists
• Updating datasets
• Link to national,
regional and expert
databases
• Offer Web-services
and use external
services
• Define workable WorkFlows
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Future appoaches
Prioritization:
• Webportal online Start
early 2014 (taxa search,
export taxonomic &
distribution information)
• Involvement of
taxonomists (MfN + FaEu
community + other
interested partners)
• advanced workbenches,
annotation services
(Filtered Push, AnnoSys),
validation tools
• Extending the geographic
scope ('Flora/Fauna west.
Palearctica')
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Global Names-based Architecture
• FaEu  PESI  Global Databases (e.g. Global Names Project)
• 80 formal licenses for downloads since the Fauna Europaea initial
release(GBIF Checklist Bank & PESI Focal Points)
• Roadmap Global Names-based Architecture:
• Establishing further information exchange (e.g. intensified
communication of PESI, Catalogue of Life and others
• Multi-layered approach keeping the strengths of the projects
• Create a Consortium
• Link it to the needs of GBIF and other data aggregators, e.g.:
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comprehensive pan-nomenclator,
service and tools,
open-licence checklist for all taxonomic groups,
best- consenus placement of a name
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Global Names-based Architecture
Potential work- and dataflows in a next
generation linked open data names
architecture.
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Global Names-based Architecture
Position of PESI as Euro-Hub in the Catalogue of Life initial architecture, proceeding
from the EuroCat project.
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Main goals
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Secure sustainability, integration of (new) data, open access
Implement the needs of stakeholders.
Integration of data from local to European level
Contribute to a (global) names-based architecture/ enhance global
approaches
Implement relevant services for e-Science application (unifying the
service layers)
Optimise the sharing of resources (persistent IDs, data standards,
cross-platform operability, cross-referencing, etc.).
Secure synergy with major biodiversity informatics initiatives
(EU BON, LifeWatch and GBIF) -> board, periodic meetings…
Further improve the taxonomic community involvement + expertise
networks of pan-European checklists + Focal Points
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THANK YOU!
If you are interested to join the FaEu Community , please contact us at
faunaeur.org
Join the LinkedIn Group and Mailinglist for Updates !
Mail: Florian Wetzel: [email protected]
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