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GBIF Cloud Data space

Environment Data Space Provider

16th-17th February 2021

Rui Figueira, GBIF Portugal

Francisco Pando, GBIF Spain

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The work of the EGI Foundation

is partly funded by the European Commission

under H2020 Framework Programme

EGI: Advanced Computing for Research

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Outline

  • Background about the scientific community
  • Ambition and challenges
  • High-level architecture
  • Technical requirements
  • Capacity requirements
  • Integration support
  • Timeline
  • Training for external users

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May 6, 2019 - News headlines - IPBES Global Assessment Preview

Background about the scientific community

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May 6, 2019 - News headlines - IPBES Global Assessment Preview

GBIF mediated data essential to many of the scientific papers and indicators cited in the IPBES

Background about the scientific community

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and research infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

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BY THE NUMBERS

15 Feb 2021

Species occurrence records

1,655,551,423

Datasets

56,432

Country �participants

62

Organizational �participants

39

Publishers

1,644

Average records served per month (2019)

39.8 billion

Average monthly user session (Jan-Jun 2019)

214,876

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Background about the scientific community

All environments

Land

Sea

All ecologies

Interactions

Air

Invasive

Pollution

Many uses

Conservation

Support decision

Research

All environments

All ecologies

Many uses

GBIF mediated data:

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Invasive species

Yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) expansion in Europe

2005

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Invasive species

Yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) expansion in Europe

2010

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Invasive species

Yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) expansion in Europe

2015

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Invasive species

Yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) expansion in Europe

2019

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Conservation in Europe - directives

Habitat and Bird directive reports, while done nationally, require regional approaches

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Data requirements / biogeographic levels / conservation / legislation

Challenges: biodiversity research community

Community challenges

Need for front-office easy to use applications that unleash power of data and computational resources

Global Regional National Local

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GBIF data for global to local analysis

GBIF.org - global portal

  • services designed for the global community

National/regional portals

  • customised services to support national priorities

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High-level architecture of the Data Space

Living Atlases shared data infrastructure

PT

ES

region 1

theme 1

HUB 1

HUB 2

...

HUB x

invasive species, endangered species, Iberian floras and faunas...

Living Atlases - sharing infrastructure at Iberian level

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BY THE NUMBERS

Species occurrence records

44.4 + 11.3 = 55.7 M

Datasets

340 + 200 = 540

Publishers

124 + 23 = 147

IN IBERIA

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High-level architecture of the Data Space

  • improve analysis
  • improve availability
  • improve biodiversity management
  • help sound and better science

in the scope of and

data

Infrastructure

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High-level architecture of the Data Space

image by David Martin (ALA)

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) architecture

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High-level architecture of the Data Space

PostgreSQL

Languages

Web applications

Databases

Indexing

Web server

Implementation

VM instances

Java Web Applications WAR

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Technical requirements

AAI: GBIF solution relies on OpenID connect

Platform

IaaS

Provider

Research Platforms

Operators

Users of Generic Platforms

and client tools

Accounting, Monitoring,…

Iberian Distributed Computing Infrastructure

Federated Cloud

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Capacity requirements

Different Flavors

~24 Running Instances

>800 VCPUs

2 TB

Internal Disk

> 20 TB

Volume Disk

> 1.5 TB

Memory

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Timeline

Provide a timeline for the implementation phase.

Timeline should include:

  • Current status : Individual databases for GBIF_ES and GBIF_PT
  • When a new release of the service will be available for first tests: M12
  • When the setup will be ready for production use : M18
  • Plans to release it in EOSC? M18
  • Plans to scale-up the setup in stages?

Current

Individual databases for GBIF_ES and GBIF_PT

First tests of the �Iberian Pilot

M12

Production use

M18

Release in EOSC

M18

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Training for external users

Planned workshops for 2021 (GBIF Spain). All online via http://elearning.gbif.es (service registered in the EOSC Marketplace)

Online workshop: Publication of biodiversity data from polar regions

Tentative dates: May 2021

Online workshop: Standardization and publication of ecological data within the framework of the LTER Spain network

Tentative dates: June 2021

Iberoamerican online workshop: Collection databases and Genbank

Dates: 2nd semester (September / October)

Teaching hours: 30 hours

IV Online Workshop: Management, visualization and analysis of data in ecology with R (initiation level)

Dates: to be defined

30 teaching hours

III GBIF.ES online workshop: Quality in biodiversity databases

Dates: to be defined

30 teaching hours

Online workshop: Use of the GBIF Spain biodiversity data portal

Dates: to be defined

30 teaching hours

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Thank you!

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