Case Study: Open Access Data Sharing for Borneo’s Ecological Data
Case Summary
Borneo is the third largest island in the word with 50% of the land are covered by forests.
Borneo also known for its biodiversity with 15,000 plant species, 1400 amphibians, mammals,
and reptiles [1]. However, these data cannot be accessed because lack of awareness of open
access data sharing. The data only can be accesses by internal users as it is only available at
institutional and government. Public users such as researcher and ecologist need to collect the
data even though the data is actually exist and cause researchers waste of time, resources and
money. Here, this study proposed an open access data sharing portal called BorEco and only
using the Borneo’s ecology data that been collected by the researcher or ecologist. The
researchers or ecologist can submit their dataset and also can re–use other researcher’s data.
Thus, this portal provides opportunity to discover and inspect the available dataset so that new
important finding can be explore further. User also do not need to integrate multiple dataset
form multiple sites manually as the portal are provide this features.
Introduction
In the 21st century, ecology data is evolving rapidly across the time and there has been
growing awareness for open access data sharing for ecologists and researchers across
worldwide. The ecology data have wide range from the attributes of environment such as
temperature to the physical environment (example: soils, water). This data can be transformed
