1. GBIF Strategic Plan 2017-2021 Alberto González-Talaván
Image by Fran Priestley, obtained via
Alberto González-Talaván

2. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

3. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

4. PRIORITY 1 – DELIVER RELEVANT DATA
GBIF seeks to deliver data which support scientific research (as summarised each year in the Science Review). The overall priority is to support both 1) taxonomic and species-oriented research and 2) environmental, conservation and sustsainability research and planning.
All other priorities support the goal of delivering the best possible data for these uses.
Engage expert communities – Deliver relevant data products

5. Supporting future planning
Biodiversity
Commitments
Biodiversity
Assessments
Biodiversity
Models
Meeting big national and global needs depends on government commitments (as coordinated through the CBD). IPBES exists to coordinate global and regional assessments to guide and support these commitments. These assessments should be based on the best available models, which in turn depend on the best possible data. Coordinated work on delivering and organising biodiversity data can support this whole process.
Biodiversity
Data
Engage expert communities – Deliver relevant data products

6. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

7. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

8. PRIORITY 2 – IMPROVE DATA QUALITY
Graph showing growth in data within GBIF, highlighting the proportion of records which include at least 1) a species-level name, 2) geospatial coordinates, 3) the date of occurrence and 4) indication whether the record relates to a specimen, botanic garden plant, field observation, fossil, etc. These are shown as ”Complete”
A goal must be to reduce the proportion of ”Incomplete” records
Automated processing – Expert curation – Quality indicators

9. TODAY – FRAGMENTED KNOWLEDGE
Id: CURC
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 13.41
Longitude: 52.52
Distribution
Modeller
Uses
Id: CURC
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 13.41
Longitude: 52.52
Environment
Agency
Rejects x
Id: CURC
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude:
Longitude:
Climate
Change
Researcher
Corrects
Current tools and processes enable access to data but the work of different users does not contribute to long-term data improvement and does not enable all users to see the best and latest version
Id: CURC
Species: Acalles dubius
Species: Acalles camelus
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 13.41
Longitude: 52.52
Id: CURC
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 13.41
Longitude: 52.52
Digitises
Reidentifies
Curator
Taxonomist
Automated processing – Expert curation – Quality indicators

10. FUTURE – SHARED KNOWLEDGEBASE?
Environment
Agency
Climate
Change
Researcher
Distribution
Modeller
Flags issue
Global Biodiversity Knowledgebase
Uses
Corrects
Publishes
model
Id: CURC
Version: 2
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 13.41
Longitude: 52.52
Issue detected: Locality
Id: CURC
Version: 3
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 52.52
Longitude: 13.41
Id: CURC
Version: 6
Species: Acalles camelus
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 52.52
Longitude: 13.41
Sequence: ATTGCA...
Image: jpg
Id: CURC
Version: 4
Species: Acalles camelus
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 52.52
Longitude: 13.41
Id: CURC
Version: 1
Species: Acalles dubius
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 13.41
Longitude: 52.52
Id: CURC
Version: 6
Species: Acalles camelus
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude: 52.52
Longitude: 13.41
Sequence: ATTGCA...
Image: jpg
Distribution model
Acalles camelus
Sequences
Uses
Images
Technician
Photographer
The future goal must be to enable all users to contribute together to a single shared view of the data, which continuously gets improved and linked to uses
Reidentifies
Digitises
Curator
Taxonomist
Automated processing – Expert curation – Quality indicators

11. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

12. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

13. PRIORITY 3 – FILL DATA GAPS
Major gaps, especially in Asia, former Soviet Union, Middle East and north Africa
Comprehensive taxonomy – Target gaps – Expand publisher base

14. Relative volumes of data records in GBIF by year of occurrence
Temporal coverage
Most records are very recent
Relative volumes of data records in GBIF by year of occurrence

15. coverAGE for different groups
Plantae: 133,099,411 records
Aves: 271,114,222 records
Coverage varies for different groups. Largest number of records for birds but much more uneven than plants
Fungi: 7,492,918 records
Coleoptera: 7,124,516 records

16. INCONSISTENT COVERAGE and Resolution
At coarse resolution, data are reasonably widely and evenly spread. At finer scales, it becomes clear that coverage is very uneven. Some intense coverage for some counties. Gridded data in other areas. Can see linguistic line through Belgium – much data from Flemish regions, less from French.

17. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

18. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

19. PRIORITY 4 – ENHANCE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS INFRASTRUCTURE
Users need all biodiversity information to work together and for it to be possible to create synthetic complex data sets
Informatics partnerships – Common standards – Stable infrastructure

20. Evolving the Taxonomic Framework
Global checklist remains biggest problem. Catalogue of Life incomplete. GBIF, EOL and others augment it in different, incompatible ways. Need to work together on building a combined, best-possible checklist as soon as possible. All should use same species identifiers.
Species databases
Species databases

21. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

22. Organize Biodiversity Knowledge Empower Global Network
FIVE PRIORITIES FOR
Deliver Relevant Data
Improve Data Quality
Fill Data Gaps
Organize Biodiversity Knowledge
GBIF has identified 5 focus priorities for the next few years
Empower Global Network

23. PRIORITY 5 – EMPOWER GLOBAL NETWORK
GBIF is network especially of national activities. Each country needs its own strategy to enable stakeholders to work together (pale blue), to mobilise data (brown), serve users (yellow) and develop national data infrastructure (dark blue)
Remove barriers – Increase benefits – Enhance capacity

24. Developing strong national activity
Training materials and capacity development activities

25. Free and Open Data
Tools, standards, policies, licences and identifiers to support free and open data sharing and open data-driven science.