{"id":15250,"date":"2026-09-19T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wii-saconrp.in\/beta\/?page_id=15250"},"modified":"2026-09-19T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:52:31","slug":"national-ornithological-databank-nod-cell-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wii-saconrp.in\/beta\/national-ornithological-databank-nod-cell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Ornithological Databank (NOD) Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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National Ornithological Databank<\/div>\n

Biodiversity Information & Data Management<\/h3>\n

Biodiversity information, marked by attributes like data reliability and currency, remains the cornerstone of our efforts to draw up conservation policies, strategies, and action plans. A vast majority of this key information even for well-documented taxa like birds and mammals remains scattered in scientific literature and project reports, most of which are inaccessible to user community leading to an apparent vacuum in biodiversity information sphere.<\/p>\nThis is clearly untenable given the volume of precious resources \u2013 time, money, and intellect that have already been invested in generating knowledge on our vast biodiversity. Moreover, lack of access to biodiversity data often leads to duplication of efforts to collect the crucial information \u2013 a further drain on our resources. To overcome these issues of data irretrievability, biodiversity databases, standardized for scale and interoperability, need to be developed and commissioned for public use.\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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NOD CELL<\/div>\n

In an effort to fill in this gap, SACON has established National Ornithological Databank (NOD) Cell, a data-portal on Indian ornithology in order to achieve the \u2018last-mile\u2019 connectivity between data sources and user community.<\/p>\n\n

\n\u201cto create a databank on Indian ornithology and natural history, and disseminate knowledge relating to ornithology and natural history for the benefit of the community\u201d.\n<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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NOD Cell Inauguration<\/h3>\n

NOD Cell was formally inaugurated on 24th March, 2017 by Shri. Ajay Narayan Jha, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India in the presence of Dr. T. Chandni, Scientist-G and Advisor, MoEF&CC.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Main Objectives of the NOD Cell<\/h3>\n
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01.<\/strong>\nTo collate, organize, authenticate, curate, and make key information\/data on Indian ornithology.<\/div>\n
02.<\/strong>\nTo serve as a single-window clearing house on Indian ornithology and natural history.<\/div>\n
03.<\/strong>\nTo publish a serial \u2018Indian Ornithological Abstracts\u2019<\/em> providing a periodical abstracting service.<\/div>\n
04.<\/strong>\nTo publish a quadrennial \u2018State of Indian Birds\u2019<\/em> report summarizing the current conservation status of Indian birds and their habitats.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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NOD Cell Management<\/h3>\n

Director, SACON is the Nodal Officer of the NOD Cell and it is managed by a team comprising Dr. Rajah Jayapal, Principal Scientist (Ornithology) & Coordinator-NOD Cell, Mr. Manoharan, Librarian In-charge, and Ms. C. Divyapriya, Programme Fellow.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Current Databases<\/h3>\nCurrently, NOD cell is working on the following databases on Indian birds:\n
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It is planned to curate all the data and make them available in an open-access web portal.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Online Ornithological Database<\/h3>\nWe are glad to inform that the database on ornithological theses and dissertations has just been published as an online portal, where users can search for academic works on Indian birds through keywords. The web portal was developed by the students and faculty of Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology.\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Theses \u00a0 | \u00a0 2000+ Keywords<\/div>\n

This is a work in progress and has over 800 theses with about 2000 keywords till date. The beta version of the searchable database can be accessed below.<\/p>\n\nAccess Searchable Database\n<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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