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Conference paper

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Evolving concepts in the architecture and functionality of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System

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.

Bibliographic citation

Rees, T.; Zhang, Y. (2007). Evolving concepts in the architecture and functionality of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, in: Vanden Berghe, E. et al. (Ed.) Proceedings Ocean Biodiversity Informatics: International Conference on Marine Biodiversity Data Management, Hamburg, Germany 29 November to 1 December, 2004. VLIZ Special Publication, 37: pp. 167-176

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Marine

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