IABIN Executive Committee / Coordinating Institution Meeting

GBIF and IABIN: status and opportunities in 2011

Juan Bello, Mélianie Raymond & Alberto González-TalavánProgramme OfficersGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)atalavan@gbif.org

February 2010

Membership in the Americas

• Argentina• Canada• Chile• Colombia• Cuba• Costa Rica• Mexico• Nicaragua• Peru• Uruguay• USA

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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

http://data.si.edu/dwc/archive.zip

5/19

A stable publishing solution

• Re-built following community consultation• Provide a supported, evolving publishing tool• Supports all three CORE data types• 2011 - 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 Email!• 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 Q4-2011

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 2011

13/19

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 2010CEPDEC Tanzania Pilot Project

• Development of a decision-making support tool

• Two regional workshops in October-November

SEP-CEPDEC

• Regional workshop in Vietnam, 9 - 21 May

• Upcoming workshop for 22 countries on Biodiversity Data Use, Paris 22-26 November

16/19

Welcome Box 2010-2011

• A package of keydocumentation 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 Q1 2011 for release at Oct 2011

17/19

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 SiteLaunched in August 2010. Stats:

• Task Groups• Regional Nodes groups• Training experts and

language groups• Thematic groups

• 510 Users• 43 thematic groups• 275 files published• +1800 messages exchanged

Currently supporting:

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IABIN Executive Committee / Coordinating Institution Meeting

GBIF and IABIN: status and opportunities in 2011

Juan Bello, Mélianie Raymond & Alberto González-TalavánProgramme OfficersGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)atalavan@gbif.org

February 2010