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Biodiversity Data Interaction for an Alliance of All Taxa
Biodiversity Inventories:
A Workshop to Design Methods, Standards, and Practices
for Data-Sharing at the National Level

Proceedings of a Workshop - 755kb PDF

  • Thirty-one participants from 10 states convened for a two day workshop to design methods, standards and practices for data-sharing at the national level as related to an Alliance of All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories.
  • Specific discussions focused on data users, defining data needs, determining the functionality of an ATBI website and database, and identifying supporters of the development and maintenance of the website and database.
  • Included in these proceedings are workshop discussion notes. Guidance on the development of the workshop agenda was based on the 40 pre-conference on line survey responders representing Arizona, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.

The workshop, sponsored by Discover Life in America and funded by National Biological Information Infrastructure/Southern Appalachian Information Node (NBII/SAIN), preceded the 10th Annual Discover Life in America ATBI Conference: December 6-8, 2006.

Survey responders all agreed that producing reports and engaging in public awareness should be a role of the ATBI Alliance. Responders would like to search a database by scientific name with results returned in the following formats: distribution maps (either static or interactive), fact sheets/species profiles, and species occurrence reports. In order to accomplish these results, the importance of standardizing field formats and a core group of required data fields was emphasized. Workshop participants were asked to consider the survey results during their discussions.