Anne-sophie Archambeau

Institute of Research for Development | IRD · MNHN/UMS PatriNAt

In April 2021, a Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) project was launched to deliver a regional data platform of West and Central African herbaria, which just concluded in April 2023. A dataset containing 168,545 herbarium specimens from 6 different countries: Togo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Benin, Guinea Conakry and Cameroon, is now visible o...

The OpenObs project, led by Patrinat, was launched in September 2017, and the first version of this tool was released in October 2020. OpenObs is based on the Atlas of Living Australia platform, supported by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) community, particularly the Living Atlases (LA) collective. OpenObs enables the visualizat...

The French “Traits” working group was created in 2021 to support the development of the national knowledge base on species life traits managed by the PatriNat department*1, to identify and implement a suitable standard for managing and sharing species life traits (including interactions) at the national, then international, level. Its core members...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) data enables biodiversity to be monitored at unprecedented resolution and scale. There is great potential in combining knowledge from traditional and innovative methods such as eDNA for biodiversity assessment. eDNA use cases are increasing in aquatic and marine environments, and studies on soils have been developed in rece...

Wildlife diseases have an impact on biodiversity, economy, and public health. As this impact increases with climate change, land‐use change and trade, a multidisciplinary approach in analysing data from these different disciplines is increasingly required. The need for a common data standard to improve data sharing of surveillance efforts is thus l...

Wildlife diseases have an impact on biodiversity, the economy, and public health. Better knowledge of disease patterns would be to the benefit of conservation measures, livestock production and, thus, ultimately human health. Nevertheless, disease surveillance systems operate mostly at a national scale, with incompatible data structures, inhibiting...

The French national biodiversity data hub (“Pôle National de Données de Biodiversité” - PNDB) is a national e-infrastructure created in 2018 and led by the National Museum of Natural History, contributing to the Open Science policy of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI). PNDB contributes to building an integrative fram...

Data quality and documentation are at the core of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016). Regarding biodiversity and more broadly ecology domains, complementary solutions of the well-known data standard (notably through Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al. 2012)) orientation are emerging from the intens...

Natural history collections represent extraordinarily rich and diverse sets of objects. These collections also correspond to colossal datasets that allow us to respond to extremely varied scientific and societal issues. This chapter presents facets of data reuse from natural history collections. It presents some suggestions to optimize the uses of...

The Environmental and Earth sciences are faced with complex and dynamic challenges: they cannot be solved in isolation from each other or from other sciences, such as the social and health sciences. Researchers who tackle real world challenges must have data that are easy to use and understandable in a variety of contexts. An important element of u...

The label transcription and imaging of specimens in key African herbaria has been ongoing since the early 2000s. Many collections in Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea Conakry, and Togo are now fully transcribed and partially digitized. More than 200 000 transcribed specimens are available with the following distribution: Benin: 45 000 C...

Les collections d’histoire naturelle représentent des ensembles d’objets extraordinai- rement riches et divers. Ces ensembles correspondent également à des jeux de données colossaux qui permettent de répondre à des problématiques scientifiques et sociétales actuelles extrêmement variées. L’informatisation des collections d’histoire naturelle pendan...

The global aims of the biodiversity field are to understand the underlying mechanisms of nature, document and capture the state and dynamics of ecosystems, and build predictive models for the future. This understanding is based on access to and use of data, models and analysis tools, produced in ever-greater quantities, and used by diverse communit...

GBIF Togo, hosted at the University of Lomé, has published more than 62,200 occurrence records from 37 datasets and checklists. As a node participant of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) since 2011, it has participated actively in several projects including the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme. GBIF facilitates...

GBIF France, the French node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, has been hosted by the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) since 2006 and is actively involved in various national and international projects related to data mobilization. The INPN (National Inventory of Natural Heritage) information facility, hosted since 2005 by t...

The power and configurability of the the Atlas of Living Australia tools have enabled more and more institutions and participants of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility adapt and install biodiversity platforms. For six years, we have demonstrated that the community around this platform was needed and ready for its adoption. During the symp...

The SHARC (SHAring Reward & Credit) interest group (IG) is an interdisciplinary group set up in the framework of RDA (Research Data Alliance) to improve crediting and rewarding mechanisms in the sharing process throughout the data life cycle. Notably, one of the objectives is to promote data sharing activities in research assessment schemes at nati...

SHARC (SHAring Reward & Credit) est un groupe d'intérêt scientifique interdisciplinaire créé dans le cadre de RDA (Research Data Alliance) dans le but de faciliter le partage des données de recherche (et des ressources) par la valorisation de l'ensemble des activités pré-requises à ce partage, tout au long du cycle de vie des données. Dans ce cadre...

The RDA-SHARC (SHAring Reward & Credit) interest group is an interdisciplinary volunteer member-based group set up as part of RDA (Research Data Alliance) to unpack and improve crediting and rewarding mechanisms in the sharing process throughout the data life cycle. Background and objectives of this group are reported here. Notably, one of the obje...

There is no sign of saturation in accumulation of alien species (AS) introductions worldwide, additionally the rate of spread for some species has also been shown to be increasing. However, the challenges of gathering information on AS are recognized. Recent developments in citizen science (CS) provide an opportunity to improve data flow and knowle...

GBIF Benin, hosted at the University of Abomey-Calavi, has published more than 338,000 occurrence records in 87 datasets and checklists. It has been a Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node since 2004 and is a leader in several projects from the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme. GBIF facilitates collaboration b...

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) (https://www.ala.org.au/) is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node of Australia. They developed an open and free platform for sharing and exploring biodiversity data. All the modules are publicly available for reuse and customization on their GitHub account (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustrali...

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) (https://www.ala.org.au/) is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node of Australia. In 2010, they launched an open and free platform for sharing and exploring biodiversity data. Thanks to this new infrastructure, they have been able to drastically increase the number of occurrences published through t...

Data produced within marine and terrestrial biodiversity research projects that evaluate and monitor Good Environmental Status, have a high potential for use by stakeholders involved in environmental management. However, environmental data, especially in ecology, are not readily accessible to various users. The specific scientific goals and the log...

Data produced by biodiversity research projects that evaluate and monitor Good Environmental Status have a high potential for use by stakeholders involved in [marine] environmental management. The lack of specific scientific objectives, poor organizational logic, and a characteristically disorganized collection of information leads to a decentraliz...

Data produced by biodiversity research projects that evaluate and monitor Good Environmental Status have a high potential for use by stakeholders involved in [marine] environmental management. The lack of specific scientific objectives, poor organizational logic, and a characteristically disorganized collection of information leads to a decentraliz...

In a production framework of multi-source data in ecology, the equivalence of observation systems and inter-calibration become crucial. Increasingly, integrative trans-disciplinary approaches become necessary in the study of systems where measurement in each discipline is patchy, imprecise and badly distributed. Yet all the variables (biotic, abiot...

Concerning studies about biodiversity and socio-ecological systems (SES), the data production in the coastal and marine area is expensive and still has a low level of automation. Long time series and/or large spatial areas studies are difficult to conduct, and when it is necessary to involve several observers, the robustness and reproducibility of...

Data produced by the SeasEra CIGESMED project (Coralligenous based Indicators to evaluate and monitor the "Good Environmental Status" of the MEDiterranean coastal waters) have a high potential to be used by several stakeholders involved in environmental management. A new consortium called IndexMed whose task is to index Mediterranean biodiversity d...

Dans le cadre des études sur la biodiversité et les systèmes socio-écologiques (SSE), la production de données dans le domaine littoral et marin est à la fois coûteuse et peu automatisée. Les suivis de longues séries temporelles et/ou à larges emprises spatiales sont difficiles à mener, dès lors qu’il faut recourir à plusieurs observateurs, et la r...

Que ce soit pour les études sur la biodiversité ou pour la connaissance des systèmes socio-écologiques, la production de donnée s’intensifie et se diversifie. Les longues séries temporelles et/ou les études à large emprise spatiale sont difficiles à analyser. Dès-lors qu’il faut recourir à plusieurs observateurs la robustesse de l’observation est p...

In a production framework of multi-source data in ecology, the equivalence of observation systems problematics and inter-calibration of observers become crucial. Increasingly, the need for integrative multi- or trans-disciplinary approaches becomes necessary, in the study of systems where data output in each discipline is discontinuous, somewhat im...

Since 2001, the international community has established a consortium, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), to encourage free and open access to primary data on biodiversity (specimens in natural history collections, and field observations of living organisms). In March 2013, nearly 400 million data are accessible via the GBIF portal...

1 Résumé -Depuis 2001 la communauté internationale s'est organisée en un consortium, le GBIF, pour promouvoir et développer l'accès libre et gratuit aux données primaires sur la biodiversité : spécimens biologiques détenus à travers le monde dans les collections, et observations sur les organismes vivants effectuées sur le terrain. Avec presque 400...

This study presents oceanic distributions of stable isotopes ( of water and of ΣCO2) and CFC-12 from samples collected during the CIVA1 cruise (February/March 1993), across the Southern Ocean, along a meridian section at 30°E, from South Africa (44°S) to Antarctica (70°S). The isotopic measurements show important variations between the subantarctic...