IABIN Executive Committee / Coordinating Institution Meeting GBIF and IABIN: status and opportunities in 2011 Juan Bello, Mélianie Raymond & Alberto González-Talaván Programme Officers Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) February 2010

Membership in the Americas Argentina Canada Chile Colombia Cuba Costa Rica Mexico Nicaragua Peru Uruguay USA 1/19

GBIF in 2011: Consolidation Data Publishing, Discovery & Access Data Quality & Data Use Platform for engagement Building of Biodiversity Information Facilities 2/19

Core publishing targets Sufficient coverage of fit-for-use data A comprehensive “catalog of catalogues” A comprehensive inventory of data collections and species checklists. occurrences taxon metadata and focus 3/19

Publishing Improvements for who? Current data publishers primarily institutional, technically capable. Low-tech/high biodiverse regions and for small/individual data holders ‘Disenfranchised” potential publishers who currently don’t recognise GBIF as a publishing option 4/19

Improve network performance Faster Evolutionary – not revolutionary Consolidated – one format for both core data types New exchange unit Published as a URL! Darwin Core Archives 5/19

A stable publishing solution Re-built following community consultation Provide a supported, evolving publishing tool Supports all three CORE data types Establish a Steering Committee to guide product direction A Platform for offering Community Services * The IPT is not the only component of our advanced and stabilising infrastructure Integrated Publishing Toolkit 2.0 6/19

Lower the barriers to publishing For database managers and biologists Low tech, no writing XML! Publishing with spreadsheets! Publishing via ! Data Hosting Centers using the Integrated Publishing Toolkit 7/19

Engage new communities Extensible Biodiversity Data Publishing Infrastructure Around the Core data types Simple Extensible Internationalised Standards-based 8/19

Improved discovery and access 2011 Portal refinements begin 3 core data types Increased data processing and integration Upgraded web services Annotation services New GBIF Data Portal + Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System & Metadata catalogue + Persistent Identifiers + … 9/19

A community-driven initiative initiated in 2009 Bruno Danis and Nabil Youdjou (Belgium Biodiversity Platform, Scar-MaBIN, ANTABIF) coordinate the development Chinese Taipei, Canada BIF & NLBIF willing to contribute NPT beta version expected by Q Nodes Portal Toolkit (NPT) 10/19

Enable Data Quality Assessment & Improvement as part of the Network Today done in Copenhagen Tomorrow – through the network Improvements made BEFORE data published New and increased roles for participating in GBIF 11/19

Leverage investments Impact based on use of infrastructure not access to GBIF-mobilised data 12/19

Regional engagement process Five regional meetings held in 2010: – Africa (Uganda; English/French) – Asia (India; English) – Europe (Spain: English) – Latin America (Peru, Spanish) – North America (Canada, English) Improved opportunities for collaboration and coordination Regional recommendations and action plans Roadmap for continuation of the process in /19

Regional Training 2010: Asia 4 events 97 people 5 GBIF Participants 11 different countries 14/19

Mentoring in 2010 Three projects received grants: TogoBIF with GBIF France GBIF India with Atlas of Living Australia KenBIF with GBIF Finland 15/19

CEPDEC 2010 CEPDEC Tanzania Pilot Project Development of a decision-making support tool Two regional workshops in October-November SEP-CEPDEC Regional workshop in Vietnam, May Upcoming workshop for 22 countries on Biodiversity Data Use, Paris November 16/19

Welcome Box A package of key documentation and tools Designed for new Node Managers, but relevant and useful to all Guidelines and first steps in establishing a BIF Available through the Online Resource Centre Testing in Q for release at Oct /19

Experts Network and E-Learning Consultation with the Nodes finalised. Report in preparation. Task group work finalised, report available. GBIF Virtual Classroom under development. Electronic Learning IPT experts network successfully giving support through helpdesk. 2 language networks established: Spanish and French. Language & Experts Network 18/19

The GBIF Community Site Launched in August Stats: Task Groups Regional Nodes groups Training experts and language groups Thematic groups 510 Users 43 thematic groups 275 files published messages exchanged Currently supporting: 19/19

IABIN Executive Committee / Coordinating Institution Meeting GBIF and IABIN: status and opportunities in 2011 Juan Bello, Mélianie Raymond & Alberto González-Talaván Programme Officers Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) February 2010