To all of you interested in the power of visualization, a workshop is ongoing at the Broad Institute, Cambridge MA. As biological data grows rapidly in volume and complexity, biologists rely increasingly on computational visualization to gain insight from data. VIZBI 2011 will bring together researchers developing and using computational tools to visualize data from … Continue reading Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data
New Southern Ocean Isopods dataset available
Isopods are an important component of the Antarctic benthos and can be rich across depth and regions. A lack of dispersive larval stages makes them putatively very vulnerable to climate-induced changes and thus potentially an ideal model taxon for monitoring faunal shifts. This data base is designed to collate distribution records of isopod crustaceans across … Continue reading New Southern Ocean Isopods dataset available
CAML BiPolar Macroscope summary layers available
The CAML BiPolar Macroscope summary layers are available from our shared folder. These layers are bipolar climatological and other summary layers that may be useful for purposes such as general modelling, regionalisation, and exploratory analyses. All of the layers in this collection are provided on a consistent 0.1-degree grid, which covers -180 to 180E, 80S … Continue reading CAML BiPolar Macroscope summary layers available
ANTABIF Group added to the GBIF community site
A new ANTABIF group has been added to the GBIF community site, to share our experience and tools for the upcoming Antarctic Biodiversity data portal. Pay us a visit!
ANTABIF website revamped
While the data system architecture is being finalized, the ANTABIF website has been slightly revamped, including basic information, and access to data and services through a series of links. The user can access marine biodiversity data (through the SCAR-MarBIN webportal), terrestrial biodiversity data (through the AADC biodiversity database), the SCAR Antarctic field guides, ANTABIF shared … Continue reading ANTABIF website revamped
Presentation at the Biosystematics conference available
The ANTABIF coordinator gave a talks on Antarctic biodiversity information networks at the Biosystematics conference, in Berlin. You can visualize or download the presentation here. The presentation is under a CC0 waiver.
GBIF publishes a guide to persistent identifyers
GBIF has published a Beginner’s Guide to Persistent Identifiers. The guide covers the practice of issuing and maintaining Persistent Identifiers for primary biodiversity data from a beginner's perspective. It also includes information explaining the costs and benefits of implementing Persistent Identifiers.
