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"INTER-AMERICAN BIODIVERSITY
INFORMATION NETWORK
(IABIN)"
BARCODING IN SOUTH
AMERICA MEETING
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Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mar 19 – 20th, 2007
Iván A.Valdespino, IABIN
40 – 90% of all species live in
Tropical Forests
MINN.
1,700 plants
1 end.
PANAMA
9,520 plants
1,144 end.
ECUADOR
20,000 plants
4,000 end.
MADAGASCAR
10% of all known plants
5 times more tree species
than in the USA
Why IABIN?
Biodiversity conservation requires timely,
accurate and scientifically credible
information
Nations of the Americas, generally, work
individually
Information relevant to a nation’s
biodiversity conservation effort extends
beyond that nation’s borders
Emphasis on sustainable development
Inter-American Biodiversity Information
Network (IABIN) - Background
An initiative of the Summit of the Americas on
Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1996)
Mission:
Internet-based forum for technical and scientific collaboration
for the collection, exchange, and use of biodiversity information
relevant to decision-making and education
34 national governments, academia, non-governmental
and inter-governmental organizations, natural history
collections and private sector
Governance
 IABIN Council (Next Meeting – May 9-11th in Punta
del Este, Uruguay)
• Official Focal Points (34 countries)
• IGO representatives (CHM, GBIF)
• NGO representatives
 IABIN Executive Committee
 Secretariat
• 8 countries + 1 IGO/NGO
Consensus decisions
IABIN MAIN GOALS
Create infrastructure for a distributed
information sharing network
•Institutional structure
•Standards (taxonomy, metadata, etc.)
•Interface development
Identify existing resources
Increase Internet access and connectivity
Fill information gaps relevant to decisionmaking
Sharing biological knowledge across international borders
IABIN
CATALOG
Thematic Networks
Specimens
Information
Systems
Ecosystems
Pollinators
Databases
Invasive Species
Species
Protected Areas
Projects / Inst.
/ Specialist
Integration: Biodiversity / Geospatial / Socioeconomic Information
Tools for Decision Making
Bibliography
IABIN informatics infrastructure
 To conserve earth's biodiversity it is necessary to create and use
biodiversity information systems capable of managing diverse data,
including biological, ecological, socio-economic, and geospatial in an
integrated and interoperable manner
Modified from M. Lane, GBIF, 2005
IABIN Collaboration with Other Initiatives
GLOBAL
 GBIF
 CBD Clearing-House Mechanism
 Man and the Biosphere Program
REGIONAL
IABIN, SIAM/CCAD, PBIF, PAIGH, etc.
NATIONAL
 NBII, REMIB, CBIN, etc.
LOCAL
 Conservation Data Centers
 U.S. GAP State Information
Works with primary data
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Point occurrence data with the
basic attributes:
1. Identification
2. Location
3. Time
Primary
data
Slide by A. Townsend Peterson
Secondary
information
Data Applications
© de la Torre & Lobo, 2006
Predicting geographic distributions with
primary data makes possible ...
 Projecting species invasions
 Designing reintroduction programs
 Understanding the effects of global climate change and other
types of change
 Understanding rare and endangered species’ distributions
 Designing biodiversity conservation plans
 Many models such as Bioclim, GARP
Data Refinement and Use
Policy & strategy
Envir. decision making
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conservation
restoration biology
resource mgmt
utilization
Increasing
refinement &
utility of data
action
• government
• corporate
• individual
knowledge
information
data
observations
the real world
©Jim Croft
Summary
Overall approach:
 build on existing strengths - adopting, adapting
and implementing technical standards, reference
authority archives, methods and approaches that
have been successful elsewhere
 focus on supporting regional needs for decisionmaking - providing information exchange capacity
directed at solving identified problems
Summary
Technical standards:
 clearly identify and document user needs for
information exchange and interoperability
services and related applications before choosing
and implementing technical standards
 always emphasize agreed “open” standards and
systems rather than proprietary solutions
Summary
A network… is a collaborative effort
Where we IABIN and CBoL can initiate
collaboration:
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Link primary and DNA barcoding data
Standards and protocols
Information technologies
Development of information / Decision making
products
Secretariat
Iván Valdespino, Director
[email protected]
Rita Besana, Data Content Manager
[email protected]
Boris Ramírez, TN Coordinator
[email protected]
Ciudad del Saber, Edificio 801, Clayton, República de Panamá
Telephones: +507 317-1993 & 317-1994 Fax: +507 317-1992
www. iabin.net
Some of our partners:
CCAD, CI, CIAT, City of Knowledge, Ecociencia,
EROS-USGS, Fund. Boticario, GBIF, INBio,
IUCN, I. von Humboldt, NASA, NatureServe,
NBII, OBIS, PAIGH, STRI, SERVIR, SIAM, TNC,
UNEP-WCMC, WB, WWF.
Principal Activities of IABIN TNs
 Create Thematic Working Groups (TWG)
 Define information use policies
 Discuss and adopt architecture, standards and protocols specific to
the TN
 Development of:
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Multilingual data entry tools (data providers, servers)
Data search and retrieval tools
Capacity building (training, multilingual training material)
Value-added decision making tools
Web site to allow searches and access to available information
Maintain and operate TN
Integrate specific TN with other IABIN TNs
Create and maintain an expert database and directory
Promote metadata creation for TN
Support participants and partners involvement in IABIN TNs
Coordinate activities with IABIN Secretariat