Data Integration: The Ocean Biogeographic Information System

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 331-353

  Berghe, Edward Vanden ^a   Stocks, Karen I ^b   Grassle, J Frederick ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS); Data sharing challenge willingness to share data, a prerequisite to data portals; Free and open data sharing determining factors, data exchange policy of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO; International Council for Science (ICSU) and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC); OBIS, at the stage international source of data and Web based tools defining habitats, communities and biogeographical units in marine environment; OBIS, both a secure repository for data and a ready source of data for a growing user community of scientists and educators; OBIS, evolving into a community of practice people, organizations sharing a vision to make marine biogeographic data; OBIS, working closely with other players in the field of biodiversity informatics; Using the data; World Ocean Database (WOD) and derived products, such as World Ocean Atlas (WOA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886451444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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