RL Categories & CriteriaEditing an assessment on the Species Information ServiceList of assessments for a species on the Species Information ServiceIndividual species data on the Species Information ServiceSpecies Information Service home pageAlison Heittman & Caroline Pollack, working on the SIS redesign. November 2010SIS redesign: team work session at IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland to improve the navigation and user experience for SIS. November 2010. Rob Heittman & Craig Hilton-Taylor, working on SIS at IUCN headquarters in Gland, November 2010.SIS redesign: team work session at IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland to improve the navigation and user experience for SIS. November 2010. IUCN's Jim Ragle conducting an SIS training session at the 2008 World Conservation Congress' Species PavilionJim Ragle, IUCN Senior Programme Officer, Species Information, conducting a training session for assessing species for the Red List at the 2008 World Conservation Congress in Barcelona

Species Information Service Toolkit

The Project

The Species Information Service Toolkit ("SIS") is used by biologists around the world to gather data and publish assessments to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the authoritative worldwide reference on threatened species and a measurement tool for the United Nation's Millenium Development Goals.  Hundreds of specialists contribute thousands of changes per day: managing the taxonomy as well as drafting, editing, reviewing, and approving species assessment data. An expert system based on the published categories and criteria evaluates the data to verify the species' Red List Category (Critically Endangered, Vulnerable, Least Concern, etc.).

The Work

  • Google Web Toolkit, a technology for compiling Java into browser-based applications
  • Ext GWT (GXT for short), a widget library for browser-based applications
  • Hibernate, an object-relational mapping technology
  • OSGi, a framework for dividing Java programs into hot-pluggable modules
  • Restlet, a framework for writing web services in the REST architectural style
  • The Partners

    Jim Ragle, Ackbar Joolia, Craig Hilton Taylor, Caroline Pollack, Rasanka Jayawardana, Julie Griffin, Jennifer O'Sullivan, Rob Heittman, Alison Heittman, Sam Graham, Carl Scott, Adam Schwartz, Elizabeth Schwartz, Dave Fritz, Tiffany Broadbent, Matt Ritter, IUCN, Solertium

    Insight