Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics

Biodiversity data is complex with different levels of data standard and quality. It also exists in non discrete data boundaries over a wide spectrum, from variation in genes to diversity of species within an ecosystem. Data sources and collections are also very diverse as it is a mix of analogous le...

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Main Authors: Shamsir, Mohd. S., Al-Hadi, Muhammad, Nik Wan, Nik Ahmad Firdaus
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Published: 2009
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spelling my.utm.94072020-06-15T03:46:15Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/9407/ Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics Shamsir, Mohd. S. Al-Hadi, Muhammad Nik Wan, Nik Ahmad Firdaus QH Natural history Biodiversity data is complex with different levels of data standard and quality. It also exists in non discrete data boundaries over a wide spectrum, from variation in genes to diversity of species within an ecosystem. Data sources and collections are also very diverse as it is a mix of analogous legacy data and mostly digitized real time observations. Making biodiversity data visible, accessible and usable has always been a challenge, ever more now as the increasing awareness of the importance of biodiversity has widened the audience to non specialist stakeholders. Hence, this motivated us to develop a marine biodiversity management system (MBMS) to enable collaborative curation of marine biodiversity data. It is available as an easy Web based intuitive interface that is suited to collaborative real time curation by multiple researchers from different ecological and biodiversity research groups typified in Malaysian research community. The MBMS has an interactive visualization interface designed for marine data variables such as depth and current flow that provides an effective way of presenting large amounts of complex information to a wide audience using visual cues that are more intuitive than those of a conventional map. It is also designed to incorporate different layers of knowledge to allow selective viewing to protect sensitive indigenous biodiversity data. 2009 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Shamsir, Mohd. S. and Al-Hadi, Muhammad and Nik Wan, Nik Ahmad Firdaus (2009) Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics. In: International Conference of Marine Ecosystems (INCOME 09), 26-28 May 2009, Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia.
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Shamsir, Mohd. S.
Al-Hadi, Muhammad
Nik Wan, Nik Ahmad Firdaus
Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
description Biodiversity data is complex with different levels of data standard and quality. It also exists in non discrete data boundaries over a wide spectrum, from variation in genes to diversity of species within an ecosystem. Data sources and collections are also very diverse as it is a mix of analogous legacy data and mostly digitized real time observations. Making biodiversity data visible, accessible and usable has always been a challenge, ever more now as the increasing awareness of the importance of biodiversity has widened the audience to non specialist stakeholders. Hence, this motivated us to develop a marine biodiversity management system (MBMS) to enable collaborative curation of marine biodiversity data. It is available as an easy Web based intuitive interface that is suited to collaborative real time curation by multiple researchers from different ecological and biodiversity research groups typified in Malaysian research community. The MBMS has an interactive visualization interface designed for marine data variables such as depth and current flow that provides an effective way of presenting large amounts of complex information to a wide audience using visual cues that are more intuitive than those of a conventional map. It is also designed to incorporate different layers of knowledge to allow selective viewing to protect sensitive indigenous biodiversity data.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Shamsir, Mohd. S.
Al-Hadi, Muhammad
Nik Wan, Nik Ahmad Firdaus
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Al-Hadi, Muhammad
Nik Wan, Nik Ahmad Firdaus
author_sort Shamsir, Mohd. S.
title Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
title_short Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
title_full Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
title_fullStr Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
title_full_unstemmed Collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
title_sort collaborative curation in marine biodiversity informatics
publishDate 2009
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/9407/
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