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| Dataset Title: | Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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| Institution: | HCMR (Dataset ID: MedOBIS) |
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Attributes {
s {
ScientificName {
String long_name "ScientificName";
String sdn_P02_name "SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters";
String sdn_P02_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/BPRP/";
String sdn_P02_urn "SDN:P02::BPRP";
String sdn_parameter_name "Taxon of biological entity specified elsewhere";
String sdn_parameter_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SCNAME01/";
String sdn_parameter_urn "SDN:P01::SCNAME01";
String sdn_uom_name "Not applicable";
String sdn_uom_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/XXXX/";
String sdn_uom_urn "SDN:P06::XXXX";
String standard_name "scientificname";
String units "Not applicable";
String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SCNAME01/";
}
InstitutionCode {
String long_name "InstitutionCode";
String units "None";
String units_uri "None";
}
MinimumDepth {
Float32 actual_range 3.0, 1559.0;
String long_name "MinimumDepth";
String units "None";
String units_uri "None";
}
MaximumDepth {
Float32 actual_range 3.0, 1559.0;
String long_name "MaximumDepth";
String units "None";
String units_uri "None";
}
ObservedIndividualCount {
Float32 actual_range 0.0, 41000.0;
String long_name "ObservedIndividualCount";
String units "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/individualCount";
String units_uri "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/individualCount";
}
longitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
Float32 actual_range 12.3, 35.38;
String axis "X";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Longitude";
String standard_name "longitude";
String units "degrees_east";
String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/ALONZZ01";
}
latitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
Float32 actual_range 31.89, 45.7;
String axis "Y";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Latitude";
String standard_name "latitude";
String units "degrees_north";
String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/ALATZZ01";
}
aphia_id {
Float32 actual_range 1.0, 22500.0;
String long_name "aphia_id";
String sdn_P02_name "SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters";
String sdn_P02_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/BPRP/";
String sdn_P02_urn "SDN:P02::BPRP";
String sdn_parameter_name "Identifier (LSID) of biological entity specified elsewhere";
String sdn_parameter_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SNANID01/";
String sdn_parameter_urn "SDN:P01::SNANID01";
String sdn_uom_name "Not applicable";
String sdn_uom_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/XXXX/";
String sdn_uom_urn "SDN:P06::XXXX";
String standard_name "aphia_id";
String units "Not applicable";
String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SNANID01/";
}
}
NC_GLOBAL {
String AccConID "21";
String AccConstrDescription "This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.";
String AccConstrDisplay "This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.";
String AccConstrEN "Attribution (CC BY)";
String AccessConstraint "Attribution (CC BY)";
String AccessConstraints "None";
String Acronym "MedOBIS";
String added_date "2004-12-17 13:02:51";
String BrackishFlag "0";
String CDate "2004-12-07";
String cdm_data_type "Other";
String CheckedFlag "1";
String Citation "Hellenic Centre For Marine Research, MedOBIS - Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management Department, Heraklion, Greece. Http://www.medobis.org/";
String Comments "None";
String ContactEmail "arvanitidis@her.hcmr.gr";
String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
String creator_name "Gerovasileiou, Nikolopoulou, Mavraki, Arvanitidis";
String CurrencyDate "None";
String DasID "481";
String DasOrigin "Data collection";
String DasType "Data";
String DasTypeID "1";
String DateLastModified "{'date': '2025-02-18 01:34:01.301036', 'timezone_type': 1, 'timezone': '+01:00'}";
String DescrCompFlag "0";
String DescrTransFlag "0";
Float64 Easternmost_Easting 35.38;
String EmbargoDate "None";
String EngAbstract "The Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System (MedOBIS) is a distributed system that allows you to search multiple datasets simultaneously for biogeographic information on marine organisms.";
String EngDescr
"An attempt to collect, format, analyse and disseminate surveyed marine biological data deriving from the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea region is currently under development at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR, Greece). The effort has been supported by the MedOBIS project (Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System) and has been carried out in cooperation with the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the National Institute of Oceanography (Israel) and the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (Ukraine).
The aim is to develop a taxon-based biogeography database and online data server with a link to survey and provide satellite environmental data. In its completion, the MedOBIS online marine biological data system (http://www.medobis.org/) will be a single source of biological and environmental data (raw and analysed) as well as an online GIS tool for access of historical and current data by marine researchers. It will function as the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea node of EurOBIS (the European node of the International OBIS initiative, part of the Census of Marine Life).
The spatial component of data has led to the integration of datasets by means of the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. The latter is widely used as the natural framework for spatial data handling. GIS serves as the basic technological infrastructure for several online marine biodiversity databases available on the Internet today. Developments like OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, http://www.iobis.org/), OBIS-SEAMAP (Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, http://seamap.env.duke.edu) and FIGIS (FAO Fisheries Global Information System, http://www.fao.org/fi/figis) facilitate the study of anthropogenic impacts on threatened species, enhance our ability to test biogeographic and biodiversity models, support modeling efforts to predict distribution changes in response to environmental change and develop a strong potential for the public outreach component. In addition, such online database systems provide a broader view of marine biodiversity problems and allow the development of management practices that are based on synthetic analysis of interdisciplinary data.
Towards this end, a new online marine biological information system is developed. MedOBIS (Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System) intends to assemble, formulate and disseminate marine biological data for the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions focusing on the assurance and longevity of historical surveyed data, the assembly of current and new information and the dissemination of raw and integrated biological and environmental data and future products through the Internet.
To provide a taxon-based search capability to the MedOBIS development, the sampling data as well as the relevant spatial data are stored in the database, so taxonomic data can be linked with the geographical data by queries. To reference each species to its location on the map, the database queries are stored and added to the applet as individual layers. A search function written in JavaScript searches the attribute data of that layer, displays the results in a separate window and marks the matching stations on the map. Finally, selecting several stations by drawing a zooming rectangle on the map provides a list with predefined themes from which the user may select more information.
As more data will be assembled in time-series databases, an additional future work will include the development of MedOBIS data analysis phase, which is planned to include GIS modeling/mapping of species-environment interactions.";
String FreshFlag "0";
String GBIF_UUID "83bede10-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a";
Float64 geospatial_lat_max 45.7;
Float64 geospatial_lat_min 31.89;
String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
Float64 geospatial_lon_max 35.38;
Float64 geospatial_lon_min 12.3;
String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
String history
"2025-03-09T23:24:52Z (local files)
2025-03-09T23:24:52Z http://erddap.eurobis.org/erddap/tabledap/MedOBIS.html";
String infoUrl "None";
String InputNotes "S:\\datac\\original datasets\\Marbef\\Europe\\EurOBIS\\MedOBIS[481]\\medobis_masterbase.mdb";
String institution "HCMR";
String keywords "aphia_id, InstitutionCode, latitude, longitude, MaximumDepth, MinimumDepth, ObservedIndividualCount, ScientificName";
String License "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/";
String license
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
String Lineage "None";
String MarineFlag "1";
String modified_sync "2021-02-04 00:00:00";
Float64 Northernmost_Northing 45.7;
String OrigAbstract "None";
String OrigDescr "None";
String OrigDescrLang "None";
String OrigDescrLangNL "None";
String OrigLangCode "None";
String OrigLangCodeExtended "None";
String OrigLangID "None";
String OrigTitle "None";
String OrigTitleLang "None";
String OrigTitleLangCode "None";
String OrigTitleLangID "None";
String OrigTitleLangNL "None";
String Progress "In Progress";
String PublicFlag "1";
String ReleaseDate "Dec 17 2004 12:00AM";
String ReleaseDate0 "2004-12-17";
String RevisionDate "None";
String SizeReference "2953 species; 776 stations";
String sourceUrl "(local files)";
Float64 Southernmost_Northing 31.89;
String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
String StandardTitle "Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System";
String StatusID "1";
String subsetVariables "ScientificName,aphia_id";
String summary "The Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System (MedOBIS) is a distributed system that allows you to search multiple datasets simultaneously for biogeographic information on marine organisms.";
String TerrestrialFlag "0";
String title "Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System";
String UDate "2022-08-03";
String VersionDate "Dec 7 2004 12:00AM";
String VersionDay "7";
String VersionMonth "12";
String VersionName "1";
String VersionYear "2004";
String VlizCoreFlag "1";
Float64 Westernmost_Easting 12.3;
}
}
Data Access Protocol (DAP) and its
selection constraints.
The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.
Tabledap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/pmelTaoDySst.htmlTable?longitude,latitude,time,station,wmo_platform_code,T_25&time>=2015-05-23T12:00:00Z&time<=2015-05-31T12:00:00Z
Thus, the query is often a comma-separated list of desired variable names,
followed by a collection of
constraints (e.g., variable<value),
each preceded by '&' (which is interpreted as "AND").
For details, see the tabledap Documentation.