Metadata for Models Generated by OpenModeller

In the last years, the economic development has grown on a large scale and accelerating the destruction of the ecosystem process, increasing the demand for tools and methods to support decision making with regard to biodiversity conservation. According to Berendsohn et al. (2011), one of the most serious “bottlenecks” in the scientific workflows of biodiversity sciences is the need to integrate data from different sources, applications software, and services for analysis, visualization and publication. The main reasons to use metadata patterns in modeling tools are: allow representation of clearer information, interoperate data between repositories, provide standardized structures, increase data accessibility (Dziekaniak, 2010), preserving information resources and documenting legal aspects of resources (Berendsohn et al., 2011). In this context we can explore the Dublin Core metadata, because this help us standardize the models, generated by species distribution modeling tools. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and Biological Collection Access Service (BioCASE) are examples of tools that make use of metadata can cite some of them: ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data) and also the DwC (Darwin Core) metadata that is used to support information from the portals DNA Bank Network and the GeoCASE (Berendsohn et al., 2011). Now, EDIT Platform supports the export and import of data in the standards (ABCD, DwC and also in the SDD structured Descriptive Data). Among other tools can also cite openModeller (Munoz et al., 2011), receiving information by GBIF and TAPIR/Darwin Core system, utilizing as metadata standards Darwin Core and ABCD.