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GBIF and GPSC. Vishwas Chavan Senio r Program Officer, DIGIT vchavan@gbif.org. GBIF Mission. … to make the world’s biodiversity data freely and universally available via the Internet. What is biodiversity?.
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GBIF and GPSC Vishwas Chavan Senior Program Officer, DIGIT vchavan@gbif.org
GBIF Mission … to make the world’s biodiversity data freely and universally available via the Internet What is biodiversity? • GBIF follows the broadly outlined CBD recognition of levels of biological diversity: • Molecules / genes • Species • Ecosystems / ecology
4 Themes Informatics Content Participation Campaigns Digitisation and Mobilisation of Primary Biodiversity Data (DIGIT) Electronic catalogue of names of known organisms (ECAT) Outreach and capacity building (OCB) Building regional and local infrastructure (NODES) Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA) GBIF has six main areas of work GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø TRAINING
Biodiversity conservation need easy access to (digitised) data 150 million records GBIF is currently serving 160 million species occurrence records....
1 degree cells with occurrences > 100000 1 X 1 degree cell mean approx. 111 X 111 Km
Many specimens remain to have their data digitized • Many records are already digital... • … but are not yet being shared Growth rate actually needed – Billion Record goal
DIGIT: Digitisation and Mobilisation of Primary Biodiversity Data
Observations / Monitoring Biological Collections Primary Biodiversity Data N A M E S Other data types Multimedia Resources Increased digitisation and mobilisation and access to “fit-for-use” primary biodiversity data through GBIF network
GASP for mobilising pollinators related Natural History Data Moving beyond Specimen based Data GPSC Observational Data and Multimedia Resources repositories Long Term Data Management GPSC Data Rescue Centres Collation and Dissemination of multilingual data Pollinator specific exchange schemas! GPSC: Issues and Challenges!
Global partnership or Regional initiative? Resources Discovery to Data Mobilisation: Challenge? – Incentives to data contributors! Improving “fitness for use” for multiple purposes – Relevance to Global to Local issues Synergy between GPSC and other initiatives Aggregator to Mentor to similar initiatives Plans for sustainable future of GPSC beyond funding phase GPSC: Issues and Challenges!
Thank You! E-mail: vchavan@gbif.org