Biological and Ecological Data

For Biological and Ecological Data, the infrastructure either hosts or provides seamless access to occurrence records and nomenclature data from the following data sources:

• Catalogue of Life: this data source offers an integrated checklist and a taxonomic hierarchy of more that 1.3 million species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms www.catalogueoflife.org;
• FAO List of Species for Fishery Statistics Purpose (ASFIS): this includes 12,000+ species of interest or relation to fisheries and aquaculture www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en;
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): this data source offers more than 430 million of records on species and more than 14,000 datasets aggregated from 580+ publishers; www.gbif.org;
• Fishbase: this data source offers access to 32700 Species, 302900 Common names, 53600 Pictures, 49700 References aggregated thanks to the effort of thousand collaborators;
• Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG): this data source offers access to over 465,000 genus names and 1.6 million species names www.obis.org.au/irmng;
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS): this data source offers authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world www.itis.gov;
• National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy: this data source offers a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases. This currently represents about 10% of the described species of life on the planet www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy;
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): this data source offers more that 37 million records on species and 1,300+ datasets www.iobis.org;
• SeaLifeBase: this data source offers access to 126000 Species, 27300 Common names, 11900 Pictures, 18200 References aggregated thanks to the effort of hundred collaborators;
• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): this data source offers species "names" for more than 200,000 species including 300,000+ species names and synonyms and 400,000+ taxa www.marinespecies.org;
• World Register of Deep-Sea Species (WoRDSS): this data source offers species "names" for deep-sea species based on WoRMS www.marinespecies.org/deepsea.

Spatial Data

For Spatial Data, the infrastructure either hosts or provides seamless access to more than 300 variables in 2D and 3D space. Those chemical and physical variables have a global spatial coverage and cover several decades. Among the others, it is worth noticing the following integrated data providers:

• FAO GeoNetwork: This data source exposes spatial data maintained by FAO and its partners geonetwork.fao.org;
• World Ocean Atlas: This data source give access to a number of environmental variables.In particular, iMarine focuses on some indicators including Apparent Oxygen Utilisation, Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate, Oxygen Saturation, Phosphate, Sea Water Salinity, Sea Water Temperature, and Silicate www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pr_woa09.html;
• Marine Regions: This data source give access to a standard list of marine georeferenced place names and areas including EEZ www.marineregions.org;
• myOceans: This data source give access to a number of environmental variables. In particular, the ones currently integrated focus on some indicators including ice concentration, ice thickness, ice velocity, mass concentration of chlorophyll in sea water, meridional velocity, mole concentration of dissolved oxygen in sea water, mole concentration of nitrate in sea water, mole concentration of phosphate in sea water, mole concentration of phytoplankton expressed as carbon in sea water, net primary production of carbon, salinity, sea surface height, temperature, zonal velocity, wind speed, and wind stress www.myocean.eu.

Statistical Data

For Statistical Data, the infrastructure offers seamless access to the following data sources:

• IRD UMR EME/Observatoire Thonier SDMX Registry and Repository: This data source exposes (a) the Sardara database that contains tuna captures data from several countries, aggregated according to CWP statistical squares (1'x1' or 5'x5') and (b) the ObServe database that contains tuna and bycatches captures observed by scientific observers onboard French industrial purse seiners.
• SDMX Codelists either directly accessed from the FAO Registry, or manually uploaded through the facility developed in the context of ICIS www.fao.org/figis/sdmx.
• StatBase (Economic Commission for Africa): this data source collects and organises data about several sectors including Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Industry, Population. Data are collected from several data providers including African Development Bank, Central Bank of Central African States, Freedom House, International Energy Agency, OECD, United Nations Industrial Development Organization.