swedish lifewatch an overview

Swedish LifeWatch An overview

2012-02-09

Oskar Kindvall, ArtDatabanken, SLU

Swedish LifeWatch

• Consortium established May 31, 2011

• Six partners: 4 universities + the Natural

History Museum (incl. GBIF) + the Swedish

Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

• Budget 47 mSEK (5 m€) 2010-2014

Web Service based Infrastructure for

Biodiversity data and Analyses

Web Service based Infrastructure for

Biodiversity data and Analyses

... for European Scientists

Presentations & analyses tools, work-flows

Standards, incl. taxonomy (INSPIRE, TDWG)

Swedish LifeWatch Analysis Portal

Plankton

Web-service

Museum

database

Web-service

Fish NORS

SERS

Web-service

Marine

data

Web-service Web-service

Art-

portalen

Web-service

Bird

data etc

GIS topography,

satellite,

thematic

PIKE

(fish)

Ecology etc

Climate,

ground,

chemistry,

ecology

LifeWatch

Europa GEOBON GBIF

IT-utveckling

Full, open and trouble-free access to

environment and climate data

Full, open and trouble-free access to

environment and climate data

Metadata

Data flow

Data flow

Data flow

LifeWatch

Analysis portal

Swedish LifeWatch

Analysis Portal

• Data

• Metadata

• Analytic tools

• Information about analytical tools

• Information about the project

LifeWatch

Analysis portal

Swedish LifeWatch

Analysis Portal

• Data

• Metadata

• Analytic tools

• Information about analytical tools

• Information about the project

LifeWatch

Analysis portal

Tack!

Data provider services (Web Services) Used by Web Service Clients (i.e. other machines around the world)

The Swedish main contribution to the LifeWatch Infrastructure.

Web Service Client Data Models Used by software developers for effective data retrievement and processing.

REST Services (HTML, XML and JSON).

Used in Web Browsers directly by anyone

or by Web Portal Developers.

“An analytical web portal” Used by anyone interested of exploring Swedish Biodiversity data in a simple

and informative way.

“Special analytical tools”

(e.g. AquaMap, ArcGIS, FME and R-Statistics) Used by scientists and others needing to develop their own analytical models

Standardized Services (OGC, TAPIR, IPT)