A first prototype for indexing, visualizing and mining heterogeneous data in Mediterranean ecology

Romain David (1) , Jean-Pierre Feral (1) , Sophie Gachet (1) , Alrick Dias (1) , Cyrille Blanpain (2) , Julien Lecubin (2) , Cristinel Diaconu (3) , Christian Surace (4) , Gibert Karina (5)

1 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
2 OSU PYTHEAS - Institut Pythéas
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
5 Department of Statistics and Operations Research Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona

Although biodiversity has been extensively studied over the last centuries, recent evidences suggest that links between collected data are still be missing. In order to fill this knowledge gap and at the initiative of the CNRS Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE), IndexMed , a unique and multidisciplinary consortium consisting of ecologists, sociologists, economists, mathematicians, IT specialists and astronomers was created. Through exploratory projects, IndexMed develops new methods for analyzing data on Mediterranean biodiversity and implements solutions based on interoperability technologies already deployed in other disciplines. In particular, IndexMed aims to build a prototype of such data graphs and "data cubes". This paper will first explore the ability of tools and methods by means of graphs to connect biodiversity objects with non-centralized data. It will then introduce the use of algorithms and graphs to analyze environmental and societal responses and presents a prototype under development.

Mots clés: data traceability; data-mining; decentralized information systems; ecology; data cubes; heterogeneous data; data indexing; data mining; data visualization; Mediterranean ecology; IndexMed consortium interdisciplinary framework; biodiversity; INEE; data graphs; interoperability technologies; data analysis; Indexing data; data qualification; CNRS Institute of Ecology and Environment

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie; Environnement et Société; Ecosystèmes; Bio-informatique [q-bio.QM]; Base de données [cs.DB]; Technologies Émergeantes [cs.ET]

Romain David, Jean-Pierre Feral, Sophie Gachet, Alrick Dias, Cyrille Blanpain, et al.. A first prototype for indexing, visualizing and mining heterogeneous data in Mediterranean ecology: within the IndexMed consortium interdisciplinary framework. 11th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), Kokou Yetongnon, Albert Dipanda, University Of Bourgogne, France and Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France, Nov 2015, Bangkok, Thailand. pp. 232-239, ⟨10.1109/SITIS.2015.119⟩. ⟨hal-01433600⟩