Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

Avian Knowledge Network

Project Website

http://www.avianknowledge.net

Project Description

The Avian Knowledge Network (AKN) is an international organization of government and non-government institutions focused on understanding the patterns and dynamics of bird populations across the Western Hemisphere.

The goal is to educate the public on the dynamics of bird populations, provide interactive decision-making tools for land managers, make available a data resource for scientific research, and advance new exploratory analysis techniques to study bird populations.

The AKN is organizing observation-based bird monitoring in three fundamental ways. First, we are developing new ways to discover these data by displaying metadata in the bird monitoring data registry (BMDR). Second, we are expanding existing data schemas to organize these data through the bird monitoring data exchange (BMDE). Third, we are building the technical infrastructure to allow access to these data through a federated data grid environment. For more information follow the links below.

Contact

Steve Kelling

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Project Type

Data Aggregator

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

08-Sep-2008

Key Inputs

Number of Observations 48,835,017
Number of Locations 327,852
Number of Taxa 4,827
Number of Partners 45

Key Infrastructure

Data are federated with an extended version of Darwin Core called the Bird Monitoring Data Exchange.
The AKN consists of a series of regional access nodes: CADC (California Avian Data Center, maintained by PRBO Conservation Science), Discover Nature Canada (maintained by Bird Studies Canada), NADC (Northeast Avian Data Center, maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology).

Key Technologies

Darwin Core
DiGIR
FGDC
R
Google Maps
Java

Key Processes

Geographic Scope

Continental - Currently the Western Hemisphere

Taxonomic Scope

All - Avian Taxonomy including subspecies, and types/categories

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