Information for decision making

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Information for decision making

• Migrating from fragmented visions to solve
  punctual problems
• (reacting to crisis)
• to
• Systemic and integrated approaches with a strong
  predictive character (avoiding crisis)

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Essential

• collaboration and data sharing
• Research community
• Researchers and policy makers
• Researchers and educators
• Other communities
• quality information (or known quality)
• interoperability

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New Scenario

• Advances in information and communication
  technology (communication, collaboration, and
  data sharing)
• Internet
• World Wide Web (one software ? access to
  practically all systems worldwide)
• XML for structured documents and data on the web
  ? standards, interoperability, information for
  different target users (XSL)
• Open source developments (free software,
  collaborative development)

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Basic concepts (CRIA)

• Using open source software (whenever possible)
• Adopting common standards and protocols
• Making all information freely available on the
  internet
• Integrating with other initiatives
  (data/information sharing)
• Establishing Partnerships
• Software development
• Data/information integration(name and locality
  servers, herbaria, etc.)

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Flora brasiliensis

• Flora brasiliensis as the baseline for
  Brazil's checklist
• Digitalization
• Creation of data descriptors
• preserving original information and adding value
  with recent scientific knowledge
• Updating name, locality
• Integration with other information systems

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Flora brasiliensis ? Brazilian cheklist

• Challenges
• Maintaining a dynamic, integrated, and
  distributed system
• Updating and validating data and information
• Working with different quality levels (validated
  data, field records)
• Different users different uses Information for
  taxonomy, conservation, ...

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Diagram
Checklist Flora of Brazil
Flora brasiliensis
State and Regional Floras of Brazil

• Tools/Developments
• Predictive Modeling
• Interoperability protocols
• name locality servers
• identification keys
• field guides
• ....

Brazils Virtual Herbarium
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Processes to be discussed and defined
Data Input (sources, content, formats, standards)
Validation, Update (mechanism, authority)
Checklist
Tools (keys, name server, maping, modeling)
Data Output users, (add value) integration, inter
operability
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http//sinbiota.cria.org.br
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Database
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• Tools
• Virtual Catalog
• Modeling
• ....

Data Gateway
Internet 2
Species Analyst
Col 1
Cache Node
SinBiota
SICol
Internet
P1
Pn
Col 2
Col 3
CRB
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Modelagem distribuição esperada para duas
espécies de Anadenanthera
Slide Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira
(marinez_at_cria.org.br)
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Integrated with initiatives worldwide

• Catalogue of Life
• Virtual Herbarium of the World
• Flora of the World
• Species Analyst
• ....

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Overall Goal Develop an Integrated Information
System of the Knowledge Base