LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
MedOBIS
MedOBIS is the Regional OBIS Node for the Mediterranean Sea. It is hosted by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture https://imbbc.hcmr.gr/ (IMBBC), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR https://www.hcmr.gr/en/ , Heraklion (Crete). Launched in 2003, it has already been operational in 2005 as a Tier 3 Node of EurOBIS and covered the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Under the European projects EMODNET and LifeWatchGreece (started in 2013), it became a Tier 2 node and extended to all Mediterranean Sea.
MedOBIS provides access to data from a wide range of sources and time periods, including new and historical data sets. MedOBIS actively contributes to global scientific efforts for FAIR and OPEN data.
The MedOBIS vLab consists of the MedOBIS IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit- http://ipt.medobis.eu/ ), which is available for sharing data and metadata, and Medobis viewer as a geodata tool, developed by open layers for visualization. MedOBIS can accept any data files from its data sources or data providers, and it publishes these data on its Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), which is harvested by central OBIS. The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) is developed and maintained by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). For more information check here: https://obis.org/manual/contribute/
MedOBIS currently (2021) hosts 54 datasets, covering the period 1844 to 2017, with over 77,000 occurrence records accompanied with taxonomical, trait, geographical and environmental information. Login is required to access the vLab; while the IPT is open to any user.
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Identification
- Date ( Creation )
- 2005-01-30
- Status
- Completed
- Version
- 1.0
- Keywords
- biodiversity datasets
- Keywords
- Mediterranean Sea
- Keywords
- metadata records
- Keywords
- FAIR data
- Keywords
- biogeographic data
- Access constraints
- License
- Use limitation
- Metadata records are freely available under a Public Domain (CC0 1.0) License; while data are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
- OnLine resource
- Link to the VRE ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- Info page ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Service Name
- Visualization
- Service Description
- By logging in MedOBIS vLAb the user can visualize datasets using the + tab, on the left of the application. The attribute table of the selected dataset is activated on the bottom. The user can zoom in and zoom out, find information for each point, show the legend, and save as csv or kml. Any other format of data, such us shapefiles coming from other projects can also be visualized on the map.
- Service Name
- Metadata
- Service Description
- This information is retrieved from MedOBIS IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit).
- Service Reference (id)
- http://ipt.medobis.eu/
- Publications about this VRE
- De Pooter, D., Appeltans, W., Bailly, N., Bristol, S., Deneudt, K., Eliezer, M., Fujioka, E., Giorgetti, A., Goldstein, P., Lewis, M., Lipizer, M., Mackay, K., Marin, M., Moncoiffé, G., Nikolopoulou, S., Provoost, P., Rauch, S., Roubicek, A., Torres, C., van de Putte, A., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Vinci, M., Wambiji, N., Watts, D., Klein Salas, E., & Hernandez, F. (2017). Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets – expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e10989. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e10989.
- Publications about this VRE
- Mavraki, D., Fanini, L., Tsompanou, M., Gerovasileiou, V., Nikolopoulou, S., Chatzinikolaou, E., Plaitis, W., & Faulwetter, S. (2016). Rescuing biogeographic legacy data: The “Thor” Expedition, a historical oceanographic expedition to the Mediterranean Sea. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e11054. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e11054.
- Publications about this VRE
- Tsikopoulou, I., Legaki, A., Dimitriou, P., Avramidou, E., Bailly, N., & Nikolopoulou, S. (2016). Digging for historical data on the occurrence of benthic macrofaunal species in the southeastern Mediterranean. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e10071. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e10071.
- Publications about this VRE
- Chatzinikolaou, E., Faulwetter, S., Mavraki, D., Bourtzis, T., & Arvanitidis, C. (2016); Data Policy and Data Sharing Agreement in the LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e10849. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e10849.
- Publications about this VRE
- Gougousis, A., & Bailly, N. (2016): LifeWatchGreece Portal development: architecture, implementation and challenges for a biodiversity research e-infrastructure. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e9434. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e9434.
