WebBee
A Brazilian information network on bees.
CODATA Workshop
8-10 May 2007 – Atibaia - Brazil
• Antonio Mauro Saraiva
– Universidade de São Paulo
– Escola Politécnica
– Agricultural Automation Lab.
Initially: a web-based monitoring system
• Focus on automatic data acquisition
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Colony monitoring network
• Temperature, Humidity
• Flight activity
– Bee counter
• thermoregulation
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A step ahead: an information system
• Knowledge and information on bees need to be
– organized, preserved, shared, published(!)
• Target audience
– scientists, beekeepers, students, teachers, policy makers,
agricultural producers…
• Increase public awareness on the importance and uses of pollinators
– in Portuguese and other languages
WebBee: information system
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Bee species data: biology, taxonomy, distribution,
Hives, equipment & numerical data
Beekeeping, plants visited
Bibliography
– Dynamic web pages: database
– Multimedia: texts, images, videos
• Web–based: easy access and sharing
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Database – Species catalog
•images and texts
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Database – Weather station (at IB – USP, São Paulo)
graphics and table
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Database of Bibliography
Documents: description and files
(PDF; DOC, etc)
WebBee - a network
• Groups cooperate on providing data
– Species information
– Experimental data / weather stations
– By region, taxon…
• Distributed Effort
• Intellectual property
– authorship
– neutral domain: www.webbee.org.br
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Participants:
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BeeLab – Instituto de Biociências da USP
Agricultural Automation Lab – Escola
Politécnica - USP
Embrapa Amazônia Oriental
BeeLab - Empresa Baiana de Desenvolvimento
Agrícola – EBDA
Universidade Est. de Feira de Santana - UEFS
Status
• Centralized database
• Remote data-entry
• Other features:
– plants visited (names, images)
– pollen characteristics
Brazilian Pollinators Initiative (BPI)
website
• events
• publications
• timeline
• activities
Other features
• tribute to important Brazilian scientists
– Web pages for
• Dr. Jesus S. Moure,
• Dr. Paulo Nogueira Neto
• Dr. Warwick E. Kerr,
– have already been / are being developed.
• Individual contributions
• Dr. Rodrigo Singer
– Bees and orchids
• Dr. Anthony Raw
– megachilidae
Virtual network center of
ecosystem services
• Research consortium
– Escola Politécnica & Instituto de Biociências (USP),
– Instituto de Botânica
– University of California, S. Diego
• Objectives
– Develop WebLabs two ecosystem services
• Pollination
• Photosynthesis
• Research / Education / Awareness raising
• Use / develop content / applications for the Advanced
Internet
High resolution images of bees
• Database
– high resolution images (several Mpixels)
High resolution images for
identification and classification
Instead of this image
• It may replace the real specimen
• which is usually sent by mail for comparison
Use of Video via Internet on R&E
on Pollination
Objectives:
• Research
– Allow remote access to field or lab experiments
– Facilitate collaboration between researchers
– Use an Advanced Internet for real-time video
streaming: HD video
• Education / training / decision making
– Make available materials on biology/ keeping of bees
– Reach wider audience
– “commodity” Internet – SD videos
Database - Video
• Research and educational videos
– SD video (640x480)
• easy access via Internet
– behavioral patterns of each species.
– students, researchers and beekeepers
can recognize bee species
Behavior at the bee hive
entrance (Melipona crinita)
The IABIN Pollinators
Thematic Network
InterAmerican Biodiversity
Information Network
PTN Vision
A Pollinators Thematic
Network for the
Americas
which will facilitate
integration of
information about
pollinators
in an efficient retrieval
system
IABIN - PTN
• Co-Evolution Institute
• USP - Universidade de Sao Paulo
• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• NBII - National Biological Information
Infrastructure
• CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação
Ambiental
PTN System Content
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Scientific and
common names
Experts
Specimens and
observations
Pollinator-plant
associations
Literature
PTN Architecture
IABIN PTN
Portal
Specimens in
Collections
Experts
Database
Tapir/Digir
DwC
IABIN
specimen
data host
Plant-pollinator
relationship
Experts DB
Checklist of
collections/
pollinating
species
Literature
Tapir/Digir
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IABIN – SSTN
WebBee
Tapir/Digir
DwC
IABIN-SSTN
WebBee
SpeciesLink
SpeciesLink
Species Data
Providers
GBIF
IABIN – PTN
Specimen data
providers
GBIF
PTN Group Portal
pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br
Visit us at:
http://www.webbee.org.br
Thank you !
(Originally a) HD video