Campaigns on BOLDDirk Steinke & Robert Hanner

What are Campaigns?

Over the past six years, a number of researchers with shared interests have started campaigns to collate and share information on the collection and registration of DNA barcodes from specific families and regions of life. While these campaigns are not part of the formal iBOL structure, most of them work closely with the relevant iBOL Working Group(s) and with Barcode of Life Database Systems (BOLD) towards the ultimate goal of a barcode reference library of all life on Earth.

iBOL website

Taxonomic Campaigns

• usually global in scope• progress tracking by taxonomy,

and often region

National or Regional Campaigns

• national in scope (iBOL nodes)• progress tracking by taxonomy,

perhaps individual research groups

Topical or Biota Campaigns

• variable in scope (e.g. iBOL WGs)• progress tracking at least by taxonomy

Recent request

To do this efficiently, we really need a webpage with a virtual checklist, similar to the All Leps page (http://www.lepbarcoding.org/). This would really give the project thrust and reduce the number of animals sacrificed by supplying a forum to:

1) organize our species lists and track progress2) advertise others to assist with collections3) tackle problems with existing data on Genbank and BOLD (e.g., MCOI vs FCOI, misidentifications, contaminated sequences, etc.)4) encourage others with COI data to supply metadata and photograph vouchers via BOLD5) create a virtual online DNA and photo guide for one of the most imperiled groups in the world, the freshwater pearly mussels!

Is this something you could help with? I'm able to write all the text, supply and manage the checklist and establishing myself as the point of contact for anyone interested in participating. Several pages appear to be using a similar template that would fit well with our project.

• needs to be requested with BOLD

Campaign

BOLD’s hierarchy

Container Container

• project type “Folder project” – contains projects

Project Project

Project Project

Project Project

Project Project

Project Project

Project Project

• project type “Data project” – contains data records

BOLD’s hierarchy

BOLD’s hierarchy

Project list in BOLD 2.5 and 3.0

• total number of specimens and sequences of all projects in a container• total number of unique species in a container• summary of all markers• project tags

Tags

The new user console

Your data by campaigns

Searching bytags

Recent activities in your projects

Data upload across projects

External connectivity

• search for taxa and country/province(inclusive and exclusive)

• eSearch returns a text or xml file

• filter against a checklist (progress count)

• request download of records based on search results

• display data retrieved through eFetch on website or reports

Webservices

General Progress breakdown

Progress by region

Webservices

What is needed?

Checklist(s)

• compulsory for members• curated and updated on a regular basis• standards for interim taxonomy• provided to BOLD for data submission validation

Best practice

• vantage point – Barcode Data Standard (CBOL) • data standards for optimal tracking, reporting, and communication• common organisational structure on BOLD• confidence measurements for taxonomy

Web Site

• community platform• checklists, wishlists…• Web Site Package provided by BOLD

Thank you!