The purpose of this study is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast number of bird observations, based on the interaction between recreational and professional bird watchers. It has adopted international guidelines, such as Darwin Core ...
The purpose of this study is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast number of bird observations, based on the interaction between recreational and professional bird watchers. It has adopted international guidelines, such as Darwin Core 2.0 and DiGIR protocol, for data standard and exchange protocol. For the data quality control, the entered data are accompanied by comment function and go through the verification by expert’s reviews (by mailing service). The ecological information of bird was generated from observational and habitat data. The statistical analysis function based on the region and time is accomplished to identify the variation and ecological tendencies of birds. With these various functions, KBIS (The Korean Bird Information System) are expected to play a great role in the conservation and protection of birds, collaborative partnerships, and environmental governance to the biodiversity community.
In the results, KBIS aims to construct a cooperative partnership domestically and internationally through the acquisition, management and sharing of Korean bird information involving both expert and non-expert groups. KBIS has six goals: data standard, system linkage, data diversity, utilization, taxon bird knowledge network, and statistics. The key features of KBIS are to provide a simple search, gallery (photographs), and community to lead the participation of numerous non-experts, especially amateur bird watchers. The function of observation data submission through the internet has been accomplished. It also provides bird banding database, statistics, and taxon network for experts. Especially, the statistics part provides the user with easy understanding of ecological trends of species based on the time and region.
In conclusions, KBIS is a tool for the conservation and management of bird diversity and ecosystem that encourages users to participate by providing the open-free data access and input web-interface. It will enhance bird knowledge networking activities locally, nationally and internationally. In addition, it provides opportunities to enhance the public awareness for the preservation of bird diversity and species information in relevant localities through the database construction and networking activities.