Kim Hyun Woo, Yoon Sungsoo, Kim Mokyoung, Shin Manseok, Yoon Heenam, Kim Kidong
National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon-gun, South Korea National Institute of Ecology Seocheon-gun South Korea.
Biodivers Data J. 2021 Feb 17;9:e61866. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e61866. eCollection 2021.
Environmental crisis challenges the human race harder than ever before. Ecologists have produced a massive amount of data to cope with the crisis. Accordingly, many national scale ecological database systems have been developed worldwide to manage and analyse these datasets. However, in Korea, ecological datasets produced by different research institutes for different purposes have not been integrated or serviced due to poorly designed information infrastructure. To address this obstacle, we present EcoBank (www.nie-ecobank.kr), an open, web-based ecological database platform designed to play an important role in ecosystem analysis, not only in Korea, but also worldwide.
The architecture of EcoBank comprises core technologies of WebGIS, Application Programming Interface (API), responsive web and open-source software (OSS). Comprehensive ecological datasets from three different sources, including the National Institute of Ecology (NIE) in Korea, related national and international platforms and repositories, enter the three conceptual modules in EcoBank: data management, analysis and service. Diverse potential stakeholders of EcoBank can be classified into three groups: researchers, policy-makers and public users. EcoBank aims to expand its horizons through mutual communication amongst these stakeholders. We opened and launched the EcoBank service in December 2019 and have now begun to broaden its network by linking it to other data platforms and repositories over the globe to find possible solutions to ecological issues in Korea.
环境危机对人类的挑战比以往任何时候都更加严峻。生态学家已产生大量数据以应对这一危机。相应地，全球已开发出许多国家级生态数据库系统来管理和分析这些数据集。然而，在韩国，由于信息基础设施设计不佳，不同研究机构出于不同目的产生的生态数据集尚未得到整合或提供服务。为解决这一障碍，我们推出了EcoBank（www.nie - ecobank.kr），这是一个基于网络的开放式生态数据库平台，旨在不仅在韩国，而且在全球范围内的生态系统分析中发挥重要作用。
EcoBank的架构包括网络地理信息系统（WebGIS）、应用程序编程接口（API）、响应式网页和开源软件（OSS）的核心技术。来自三个不同来源的综合生态数据集，包括韩国国立生态研究所（NIE）、相关的国家和国际平台及存储库，进入EcoBank的三个概念模块：数据管理、分析和服务。EcoBank的不同潜在利益相关者可分为三类：研究人员、政策制定者和公众用户。EcoBank旨在通过这些利益相关者之间的相互交流来拓展其视野。我们于2019年12月开放并推出了EcoBank服务，现在已开始通过将其与全球其他数据平台和存储库相链接来扩大其网络，以寻找解决韩国生态问题的可能方案。
