National Biodiversity Information

System (NBIS)

Brenda Daly and Gert Conradie

15 August 2018

Server Room (aka The Cloud)

Current state

• Data compilation

– Assembling, organising

and publishing Data

Partner data

• Data extraction

– Digitising specimen records (taxon names and

geographic locations)

Acanthopsis

• Data visualisation

– Data on maps and

information pages

Where are we going?

Data provision Tool

development Key/real

questions

Proactive and reactive

NBIS Phase 1: Scoping and design

Information Systems and

Business & Technology

Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Documented

Physical Infrastructure and

Capacity Requirements

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Phase 1: Scoping

and Design of the

Architecture Signoff

Stakeholder

Engagement

(Meetings &

Feedback)

NBIS Phase 2: Implementation

Metadata

Ecosystem

Pages

Taxonomic Services

Backbone

Plot Sample Data

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Biodiversity

Passport

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July 2018 April 2020

"Waterfall" versus "Agile" Approach to Product

Development

Taxonomic Service Backbone

Taxa

Search

Results

NBIS Graphical User

Interface (GUI) Taxonomic Services Backbone

TaxaMatch API

Taxa

BODATSA

Taxa

ZODATSA

Taxa

Reconciliation

&

Aggregation

NBIS Process Workflow

Metadata

User

Search

Results

Biodiversity Advisor SANBI Metadata Node

South African Spatial

Data Infrastructure

(SASDI) Metadata Node

Assign

DOI

Ecosystem Pages

Database

Plot sample data

Staging Environment

Staging

Area Database

Published

Web Interface

Data Download

Data extraction from

the source systems

Read only, high

performance indexes

Production

Area

Other exciting functionality

• Biodiversity Passport

• Mobile app providing a simplified version of

BGIS interactive maps

• Context object for reporting data errors

• Monitor and tracking (usage and downloads)

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