1. Session 05: Promoting data publishing
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Mélianie Raymond
GB22 Training event for Nodes - 5 October 2015

2. Data holders – a key audience for GBIf
One of the six GBIF audiences
Diverse group including:
Natural history collection curators
Authors and publishers of scientific research
Libraries
Citizen scientists
Generators of remotely-sensed data
Environmental impact assessment consultants
Indigenous and local communities…

3. Primary communication needs
Information on the importance and benefits of sharing and publishing data in standard formats that make them widely discoverable and re-usable
Clear guidance on how to publish data
Onward communication tools to make the case for investment in digitization and publication of biodiversity data

4. Key messages GBIF is of value because it:
Enables efficient means to mobilize, manage and publish digital biodiversity data
Helps provide institutional visibility and recognition for sharing biodiversity data in formats suitable for discovery and re-use
Provides free, open-access tools and guidance for publishing digital datasets
Promotes practices that ensure data persistence and data provenance
Helps comply with open data regulations and requirements

5. Examples – Posters & presentations

6. Examples – Infographics

7. Examples – Videos Belgian Biodiversity Platform reBiND project
Que es el SiB Colombia?
AgroMag in Benin

8. Other ideas

9. Presentation of resources and group discussion
Session outline
Split into two subgroups
Choose a scenario and inform the other subgroup
35 min to prepare resource
Present resource to the other subgroup
Group discussion taking the role of a data holder
Swap!
Share experiences on community site
Scenario 1
Scenario 3
35 min
Presentation of resources and group discussion

10. Scenario 1
Type of interaction: Running a booth at an international congress of conservation practitioners
Target audience: International conservation biologists, NGOs and policy makers with limited prior knowledge of GBIF
Examples of resource type: Brochure/handout, or poster, a series of posts in social media, an ad in the congress booklet…
Photo: Dmitry Schigel at GBIF booth at ICCB-ECCB Montpellier, August 2015 (credit Alberto González-Talaván)

11. Scenario 2
Type of interaction: An institutional visit to a major natural history museum in the process of digitizing their collections Target audience: Museum staff - curators, taxonomists
Examples of resource types: Presentation, draft script, brochure/handout…
Photo: Dmitry Lyskov at Moscow University Herbarium; photo credit Alexey Seregin

12. Examples of resource type: Presentation deck, poster, video…
Scenario 3
Type of interaction: You are approached by a member of your board with a request for material to promote data publishing at an upcoming scientific conference.
Target audience:
Scientific researchers; e.g. marine biologists; agrobiodiversity specialists…
Examples of resource type: Presentation deck, poster, video…
Photo: Posters at Africa Rising conference, May 2015

13. Session 05: Promoting data publishing
Image from Billy W obtained via
Mélianie Raymond
GB22 Training event for Nodes - 5 October 2015