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LIFE RIPARIAS

Reaching Integrated and Prompt Action in Response to Invasive Alien Species
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This page aims to synthetically document the software developed for the LIFE RIPARIAS project and it is based on the work package it belongs to.

Action A1 - Improving data flow for early detection

Dataflow: the big picture

data flow

The dataflow shown above can be divided into a left part and a right part.

  • The left part depicts how data flows to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), “an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth" (source: "What is GBIF?" webpage). Notice that some data providers such as iNaturalist and observations.be/waarnemingen.be publish their data about alien species on GBIF on a regular basis. Therefore, no mapping of their data is needed in the context of LIFE RIPARIAS.

  • The right part shows how standardized data are retrieved from GBIF and fed regularly into the LIFE RIPARIAS aggregated database. The early detection system is built upon it.

Setup dataflows to GBIF (Action A.1.3)

Publishing observations data to GBIF means standardizing them following the international Darwin Core standard, intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity. The data mapping can be performed in different ways depending on the data provider: some of them could opt for mapping their own data and hosting them in the same database hosting the raw data. They could also opt for installing the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), thus being completely independent from the EVINBO team oscibio, responsible for this action. Others could opt for sharing their own raw data with oscibio for assistance during the mapping and using the INBO's IPT for publishing. Data providers are invited to become official GBIF data publishers, even if their data are hosted on INBO's IPT.

RIPARIAS aggregated database and early warning system (Action A.1.2)

Observations of a list of IAS is harvested from GBIF and imported in an aggregated LIFE RIPARIAS database every night. Above the database, an early warning system is built, manageable via a website: https://alert.riparias.be/. Alerts can be set up by the user after the log-in with a combination of taxonomic and/or geographic filters. An alert results in configurable periodic email notifications. An early alert system mock-up was developed to show what is intended to be reached at the end of the development process (i.e. after version 2 is completed).

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  1. gbif-alert gbif-alert Public

    GBIF Alert is a GBIF occurrence based alert system.

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  2. pov-fishes-occurrences pov-fishes-occurrences Public

    DwC mapping of the fishes and crayfishes occurrences of the Provincial Center of Environmental Research (PCM) in East Flanders, Belgium

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  3. vmm-macrophytes-occurrences vmm-macrophytes-occurrences Public

    DwC mapping of Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) macrophytes occurrences

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  4. manIAS manIAS Public

    Development of a data exchange format for sharing data about the management of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and wildlife.

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  5. occurrences-publishing occurrences-publishing Public

    High-frequency occurrence GBIF publication for RIPARIAS

  6. .github .github Public

    Description of LIFE RIPARIAS GitHub organization

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  • rato-occurrences Public

    DwC mapping of RATO vwz occurrences

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    R 0 MIT 1 22 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Dec 16, 2024
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    DwC mapping of the fishes and crayfishes occurrences of the Provincial Center of Environmental Research (PCM) in East Flanders, Belgium

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    R 2 MIT 0 2 1 Updated Dec 15, 2024
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    DwC mapping of Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) exoten rattenapp occurrences

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    R 0 MIT 0 2 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Dec 9, 2024
  • gbif-alert Public

    GBIF Alert is a GBIF occurrence based alert system.

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    Python 8 MIT 2 59 1 Updated Nov 25, 2024
  • pov-ias-plants-occurrences Public

    DwC mapping of the alien plants occurrences of the Provincial Center of Environmental Research (PCM) in East Flanders, Belgium

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    R 0 MIT 0 3 0 Updated Jul 22, 2024
  • taxon-keys-early-alert Public

    Retrieve GBIF taxon keys for use in the early alert tool. Detect changes in the GBIF Backbone taxonomy.

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    R 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Jul 22, 2024
  • riparias-target-list Public

    List of LIFE RIPARIAS target species

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    CSS 0 MIT 0 0 1 Updated Mar 19, 2024
  • union-list Public

    List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern

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    CSS 0 MIT 0 8 0 Updated Oct 19, 2023
  • early-alert-webapp Public

    The source code of the LIFE RIPARIAS early alert web application

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    Python 0 MIT 0 11 0 Updated Jul 31, 2023
  • anb-plants-occurrences Public

    DwC mapping of IAS plant monitoring data collected by Agentschap Natuur en Bos (ANB)

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    R 0 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Nov 22, 2022
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