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GISIN Web SiteEnabling Invasive Species Data Interchange

GISIN technical team

GISIN Training

Data Flow

GISIN CacheOccurrences, Species Status, Species Resource URLs

File Upload Web Services

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End-Users

File Upload

File types:Text-based: Comma or tab

Flexible interface:Map columns in file to concepts and values• Map your values to GISIN values

Provide other values as “Single Value”

Immediate feedbackErrors for rows that were not added

Errors for each cell with problems

Exercise: Upload

Upload sample SpeciesStatus fileIf not still logged in, login

Click on “Provide Data”

Click on “Uploaded Files”

Click on “Upload File”

Click on “Browse” and find the sample file

Click on “Open” and then “Upload”

You should see a message that the file has been uploaded

Click on “To Uploaded GISIN Files”

Exercise: Add To Cache

Click on the uploaded file and click “View”

Click on “Add To Database”

Click on “Occurrences” and click “Submit”

Next to “kingdom” select “Single Value” and select “Plantae” in the popup menu that appears

Next to “scientificName” select “In Column” and then select the “SciName” column in the popup menu that appears

Exercise: Add To Database

Next to “decimalLatitude” select “In Column” and then select “North” in the popup that appears

For “decimalLongitude” select “West”

Next to “startCollectionDate” select “In Column” and then “SurveyDate”

Next to “endCollectionDate” select “In Column” and then “SurveyDate"

Exercise: Add To Database

Click “Submit”

This page shows up to 10 rows from the file mapped to the GISIN protocol

If any errors are found they will appear in red and you can place your mouse cursor over them to see the error message

Click “Submit” and then “Submit” again

The results page includes the number of rows added and the number of errors

Click “Search for Added Data” to see the data you’ve added to GISIN

Exercise: Add To Database

Click “Submit”

This page shows up to 10 rows from the file mapped to the GISIN protocol

If any errors are found they will appear in red and you can place your mouse cursor over them to see the error message

Click “Submit” and then “Submit” again

The results page includes the number of rows added and the number of errors

Click “Search for Added Data” to see the data you’ve added to GISIN

Data Quality

Automatic checks:Required fields

Please upload data that:Has been checked for accuracy and precision

You have permission to share

Is not already in GISIN • Encourage original providers to upload

SpeciesStatusRequired:

scientificName

kingdom

Locality or location

Model specific

harmful

origin

presence

Optional:startValidDate,

endValidDate

validDatePrecision

abundance

distribution

persistence

rateOfSpread

regulartoryListing

trend

publicationDate

publicationDatePrecision

Presence

Presence:Unknown

Absent

SometimesPresent

Present

Reported

Harmful and Origin

Harmful:Unknown

Yes

Potentially

No

Together:Harmful = Yes, Origin = Exotic -> Invasive

Origin:Unknown

Indigenous

Exotic

Exercise: Add To Cache

Click on the uploaded file and click “View”

Click on “Add To Database”

Click on “SpeciesStatuses” and click “Submit”

Next to “scientificName” select “In Column” and then select the “SciName” column in the popup menu that appears

Next to “origin” select “In Column” and then select “Origin” in the popup menu

Exercise: Add To Database

Next to the popup click the “Map It” button

Use the popups to map each of the values from the file on the left to the GISIN protocol value on the right.

Click “Submit”

Repeat this for countryCode, harmful, kingdom, and presence.

Note: You can also add a single value for all the rows in a file

Exercise: Add To Database

Click “Submit”

This page shows up to 10 rows from the file mapped to the GISIN protocol

If any errors are found they will appear in red and you can place your mouse cursor over them to see the error message

Click “Submit” and then “Submit” again

The results page includes the number of rows added and the number of errors

Click “Search for Added Data” to see the data you’ve added to GISIN

Exercise: Add ResourceURLs

Go through the same steps as for SpeciesStatus for the file:

ResourceURLSamples.txt

Select Species Resource URL for the data model

SpeciesResourceURL

Required:scientificName, kingdom

resourceType:• Profile, Expert list, Image, Video, Reference list,

Identification key, Risk assessment, Unknown

URL:• Full Uniform Resource Locator

– http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=1538&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN

Next Steps

Upload real data to the LIVE server www.gisin.org

Let us know if you have problemsjarnevichc@usgs.gov

Jim.Graham@colostate.edu

crall@wisc.edu

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