Department of Sustainable Development

IABIN Technical Working Group meeting

Knoxville/Oak Ridge, TN, USA

August 4-7, 2010

Agenda

The IABIN (www.iabin.net) Technical Working Group Meeting was held in Knoxville, Tennessee August 4-6, 2010. The information technology representatives from the Coordinating Institutions reviewed the status of tools/applications, data content grants, (http://www.oas.org/dsd/IABIN/Component2.htm), and value added products, that are being financed under Component #3 (http://int.usde.oas.org/IABIN/Component%203v2/Component3v2.htm ). The meeting was organized by Mike Frame, coordinator of the IABIN Catalogue (http://iabin-catalog.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt).

The overall goal was to get better coordination between the Thematic Institutions. Thus data from species/specimens, pollinators, invasive species, protected areas, and ecosystems will be uploaded on a geospatial platform (DataBasin -- http://databasin.org) and manipulated to facilitate research on climate change, ecosystems services, and carbon sequestration potential for possible carbon offset projects (as examples) that might be further explored through a follow up IABIN project. The agenda of an IEC/Coordinating Institution meeting to be held February 14-16, 2011 at INBio in Costa Rica was discussed.

Presentations:

Data Integration and Analysis Center (IABIN DIAC) - A Pilot Application for the Integration, Visualization, Query, Analysis and Sharing of IABIN Thematic Network Data

IABIN Technical Working Group meeting - Knoxville August, 2010

Data Integration and Analysis Center (IABIN DIAC) -Version 2: A Pilot Application for the Integration, Visualization, Query, Analysis and Sharing of IABIN Thematic Network Data

Building the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network - University of Tennessee

I3N Open source database

IABIN’s Ecosystem Thematic Network: A regional initiative to advance the use and integration of ecosystem information

IABIN Thematic Network: Fundraising, Coordination Meeting--Background, Goals.

The Pollinator Information Network of the Americas: IABIN Pollinator Thematic Network

IABIN Data Thematic Networks - What IABIN Can Do for YOU.

Species and Specimen Thematic Network Report, Progress Report