monitoring) - Machine observations (bio-logging, camera-trapping) - Specimens (from collections) - Species information - Dataset information What data can you find? gbif.org/dataset-classes
- Standardized to Darwin Core - Processed by GBIF - Linked to taxonomic backbone - Flagged for data quality issues - Accessible through unified search interface (and API) gbif.org/occurrence/search
tools and partners 4. Prepare data for publication 5. Choose a Creative Commons license 6. Publish datasets How to publish data? gbif.org/publishing-data
Metadata Data Source database publish & register (manual) standarize & upload (manual) standarize & upload (manual) 1. Provide: - Data as Darwin Core - Metadata as EML (via editor) 2. Publish as Darwin Core Archive 3. Register dataset with GBIF 4. Optional: republish with updated/new data
Open software & standards - Open datasets - Bird GPS tracking (18) - Fish acoustic telemetry (8) - Camera traps (2) How we publish machine observation data oscibio.inbo.be
Zenodo - Movebank data model 3. Occurrence data on IPT - Darwin Core (subsampled) - EML metadata 4. GBIF harvests data MOVE2GBIF inbo.github.io/movepub 1 2 3 1 2 3
Open data on Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) - ETN data model - Darwin Core (subsampled) - EML metadata 3. GBIF harvests data inbo.github.io/etn github.com/inbo/etn-occurrences Fish telemetry: model 1 GBIF Data ETN CSV files + DwC Archive IMIS Metadata manual manual automatic after approval automatic 1 2 3
automatic 1. Data & metadata in Agouti 2. Open data on IPT - Camtrap DP standard 3. GBIF harvests & transforms data - Darwin Core (subsampled) - EML metadata inbo.github.io/camtrapdp camtrap-dp.tdwg.org Camera traps: model 2 1 2 3 transform
species - Wildlife management - Invasive species management - Does our open data on GBIF support policy & conservation? vlaanderen.be/inbo Impact on policy & conservation
- COP16 (December 2024) UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) “Encourages Parties to join relevant biodiversity-related networks, such as the [Global Biodiversity Information Facility], with a view to developing capacities to manage and share data and information, in order to manage and conserve biodiversity effectively.” —CBD SBI/4/L.4:2 [in draft] cbd.int/gbf
mitigate the impacts of invasive alien species - 1.7k papers using GBIF data - Target 15: Enable business and financial institution transparency and data sharing Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) doi.org/10.35035/3k5a-tv18
- gbif.org/health: human health, in particular with data relating to disease vectors - 500 papers using GBIF data - gbif.org/climate: global efforts both to mitigate and to adapt to climate change UN Sustainable Development Goals
data - IUCN Red List assessments - 25k assessments citing GBIF - Collaboration with national and international initiatives Other policy & conservation use