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ÆKOS: A new paradigm for discovery and access to complex ecological data David Turner and Paul Chinnick ([email protected]) Logos used with consent. Content of this presentation except logos is released under TERN Attribution Licence Data Licence v1.0

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TERN's eco-informatics David Turner's presentation on AEKOS at EcoTas13 in November 2013.

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ÆKOS: A new paradigm for discovery and access to complex ecological data

David Turner and Paul Chinnick([email protected])

Logos used with consent. Content of

this presentation except logos is

released under TERN Attribution Licence Data Licence v1.0

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Open data?

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Typical reuse cycle

Identify problem

Draft approach

Search for and acquire potential

data

Assess suitabilityModify approach

Prepare data

Conduct analysis

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Regional practices

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Characteristics of ecological data

www.nswrail.net

Fragmentation: Many different ways of measuring/observing/expressing similar ecological concepts* Rapidly evolving

Dispersal: Data is stored in many storage locations and formats

Diversity: Ecological Data covers a wide range of topics

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Complexity: Data usually needs explanation and context before it can be accurately used

RecID Species Xcoord Ycoord Height dbh1 E obliqua 56.22506 137.3208 34 362 E obliqua 34.45058 137.3557 22 333 E obliqua 34.25678 136.1189 54 794 E obliqua 35.77208 136.785 66 685 E obliqua 35.97997 136.8556 43 276 E baxteri 37.03322 138.71 56 777 E baxteri 34.61981 136.8554 33 208 E baxteri 36.0738 139.8762 22 1019 A brownii 35.1474 138.6559 25 71

10 A brownii 37.81432 136.2933 62 4211 A brownii 35.95443 138.5847 23 2212 A brownii 35.51555 139.868 42 9313 A marina 35.78676 139.8709 23 10314 A marina 37.70242 136.0484 34 7615 A marina 34.00839 137.3669 43 3316 A marina 36.74387 137.9251 34 9117 A marina 37.92455 136.7602 43 55

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The information landscape

RecID Species Xcoord Ycoord Height dbh1 E obliqua 56.22506 137.3208 34 362 E obliqua 34.45058 137.3557 22 333 E obliqua 34.25678 136.1189 54 794 E obliqua 35.77208 136.785 66 685 E obliqua 35.97997 136.8556 43 276 E baxteri 37.03322 138.71 56 777 E baxteri 34.61981 136.8554 33 208 E baxteri 36.0738 139.8762 22 1019 A brownii 35.1474 138.6559 25 71

10 A brownii 37.81432 136.2933 62 4211 A brownii 35.95443 138.5847 23 2212 A brownii 35.51555 139.868 42 9313 A marina 35.78676 139.8709 23 10314 A marina 37.70242 136.0484 34 7615 A marina 34.00839 137.3669 43 3316 A marina 36.74387 137.9251 34 9117 A marina 37.92455 136.7602 43 55

Plants BirdsBats

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Data entropy

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AEKOS approach

Model maintenance

AEKOSwarehouse

Portalindex

Contribute to new research

Data use

Diverse data sources

Data viewer &Extract tools

Data transformtools

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Data handling

Tree height 8

Species E. camaldulensis

DBH 45

Life stage Mature

Condition Good

Tree height C: 5 - 10

Species E. camaldulensis

Condition 4

Floristics Fruiting

Shape C

Age 20 - 30

The challenge is to integrate the evolving diversity of data

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Study location

Sampled area

Landscape features

Sampling unit

Organism group(vegetation association)

Organism group(individual tree)

Entity Attribute Value

Org_gp 0001 Tree height 8

Org_gp 0001 Species E. camaldulensis

Org_gp 0001 DBH 45

Org_gp 0001 Life stage Mature

Org_gp 0001 Condition Good

Org_gp 0001 Floristics Flowering

Org_gp 0001 Shape C

Ontological modelling

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Discovery

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Site level results

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Project context

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Site context and data

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Data extraction and use

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Current status

~ 100k sites by end of 2013SHaRED tool online May 2014

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Thank you

Website: www.aekos.org.au

Portal: portal.aekos.org.au

TERN booth @ EcoTas

[email protected]

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Concept alignment•We integrate data from many different sources, using different classification systems

•All datasets indexed with common set of search terms (vocabularies)

•Taxonomy is a good example

•Many other themes for search from project metadata to observation level data