IMERSS, the Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea, is building a federated collection of datasets on biodiversity for localities in the area, together with matching configurations of our web-based visualisation software. This mini-portal collects links to the data and these visualisations as hosted in GitHub pages and elsewhere. As well as showcasing the datasets themselves, this collection also highlights the flexibility of the visualisation framework and its ease of adaptation to map-based or non map-based data, with the ability to weave content from artists, designers and local communities into the presentation.
Our best-curated dataset, the result of a 2 year process of repeatedly reconciling:
The "fusion" file specifying the weaving of the data sources in this direction can be found in GitHub at fusion.json5 and the final raw observation data prior to visualisation is at reintegrated-obs.csv.
The "fusion" file specifying the weaving of the data sources in this direction can be found in GitHub at fusion.json5 and the final reconciled checklist is at reintegrated.csv. The export files (CSV, XLSX) ready for submission to Pensoft and GBIF are at arphified.
There is a Figma visualisation showing the "two-ended funnel" of this data reconciliation pipeline.
As a result of discrepancies arising in the observation counts as a result of some observations being eliminated as part of the submission of the final dataset to GBIF, the configuration visualisation submitted to the journal was a stripped-down map just showing datasets and observation counts. However, a full visualisation of the data is also available here showing the full datasets in their original form with the same panels as seen in the Life List above, together with the map view.
The data paper was published in the Biodiversity Data Journal on 2022-03-10 as Toward an atlas of Salish Sea biodiversity: the flora and fauna of Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada. Part I. Marine zoology.
A project undertaken for the Valdes Island Conservancy, the Valdes Island Biodiversity visualisation weaves together observation data from many sources: citizen science data from iNaturalist, institutional scientific data from the Royal BC Museum and the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum as well as data from local specialists such as Pacific Marine Life Surveys and the Valdes Island Conservancy itself.
This is a gridded map-based visualisation using the GBIF map tile set.
The "fusion" file specifying the weaving of the data sources can be found in GitHub at fusion.json5 and the final raw observation data prior to visualisation is at reintegrated-obs.csv.
A preliminary visualisation of the species list for the Átl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, compiled by the Squamish Environment Society under the direction of Judith Holm. This compiles information citizen science data from iNaturalist, institutional scientific data from the Royal BC Museum and the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum as well as data from local specialists such as K. Ricker and C. Dale's checklist of birds and the Squamish Environment Society itself.
The "fusion" file specifying the weaving of the data sources can be found in GitHub at fusion.json5 and the final raw observation data prior to visualisation is at reintegrated.csv.
Our most developed visualisation, an ecocultural mapping pilot incorporating data from Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members on cultural values, written and spoken Hul'qumi'num names of regions and species, as well as ecological community boundaries exported from the QGIS geographic information system, fused together into a single interactive system. Xetthecum is a small area on the southwest coast of Galiano Island, also known as Retreat Cove. A YouTube video presented by Dana Ayotte has been published at Ecocultural Mapping Tool and was presented at the April 2022 Indigeverse conference. Final raw observation data is at reintegrated-obs.csv and provenance of community-curated ecocultural data is at provenance.txt.
