| Full citation: | Authors | Rees, T.; Zhang, Y. (2007). Evolving concepts in the architecture and functionality of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, in: Vanden Berghe, E.; Appeltans, W. et al. (Ed.) (2007). Proceedings of 'Ocean Biodiversity Informatics': an international conference on marine biodiversity data management Hamburg, Germany, 29 November - 1 December, 2004. IOC Workshop Report, 202, VLIZ Special Publication 37: pp. 167-176 |
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Reference no: 107221
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Document type: Conference paper
Thesaurus terms: Biogeography; Information systems
Habitat: Marine
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- Vanden Berghe, E.; Appeltans, W.; Costello, M.J.; Pissierssens, P. (Ed.) (2007). Proceedings of 'Ocean Biodiversity Informatics': an international conference on marine biodiversity data management Hamburg, Germany, 29 November - 1 December, 2004. IOC Workshop Report, 202, VLIZ Special Publication 37. Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie/UNESCO/VLIZ/IOC: Paris, France. VI, 192 pp., details
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| Abstract: |
The initial release of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, provided a distributed search mechanism to retrieve marine species distribution records from a range of remote data providers in real time, based on a match on species scientific name and other parameters if specified. This ‘fully distributed’ version 1 of OBIS was upgraded in 2004 to provide improved functionality, system response times, and metadata-level information on available data via the OBIS system, by the introduction of two new components, an ‘OBIS Index’ comprising a species name index and a spatial index, and a local cache of commonly queried attributes of OBIS data items, refreshed on a rolling basis from the remote data providers. The conceptual, implementation and performance aspects of these developments are described in the present paper. |
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