IABIN Executive Committee / Coordinating Institution Meeting

1. 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)atalavan@gbif.org February 2010

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

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

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

5. 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

6. Improve network performance Darwin Core Archives • Faster • Evolutionary – not revolutionary • Consolidated – one format for both core data types • New exchange unit • Published as a URL! http://data.si.edu/dwc/archive.zip 5/19

7. A stable publishing solution Integrated Publishing Toolkit 2.0 • 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 6/19

8. 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

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

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

11. Nodes Portal Toolkit (NPT) • 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 10/19

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

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

17. 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, 9 - 21 May • Upcoming workshop for 22 countries on Biodiversity Data Use, Paris 22-26 November 16/19

18. Welcome Box 2010-2011 • 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 Q1 2011 for release at Oct 2011 17/19

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

20. The GBIF Community Site Launched in August 2010. Stats: • 510 Users • 43 thematic groups • 275 files published • +1800 messages exchanged Currently supporting: • Task Groups • Regional Nodes groups • Training experts and language groups • Thematic groups 19/19

21. 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) atalavan@gbif.org February 2010