GBIF Work Programme 2022 Annual Update to Implementation Plan 2017–2022

Communications to promote value proposition responses to the 20 review (€30K).

Support for Living Atlas Activity (€20K).

alliance for biodiversity knowledge (€10K).

Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (€80K).

Consultancy to begin development of improved data models (€30K).

Contracted Web Development (€20K).

To support contractor and costs to maintain and update processes for constructing the GBIF taxonomic backbone in conjunction with COL+ (€108K).

Human disease vector data mobilization campaign (€25K)

Soil biodiversity data mobilization campaign (€25K)

Up to €80,000 for a quantitative analysis of the value and impact of the GBIF network

JRS Biodiversity Foundation additional contribution to African Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) projects: €411K

Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project (EU Horizon 2020): Developer costs €66K

Support for Asia regional support contracts through SYNTHESYS+ (European Union): €109K

Salary subsidies (BID, SYNTHESYS+, DiSSCo Prepare and BiCIKL): increased to €152K

Commission risk assessment study for sensitive species data (€15K)

Launch a new call for proposals under the Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (€80K)

Support further development of the Living Atlases community (€15K)

Support for 2022 Regional Nodes Meetings (€32K) - note that some meetings will be supported from supplementary funds or funds reserved from previous budgets

Support for the alliance for biodiversity knowledge (€20K)

Update GBIF data models (€40K)

Maintain and update processes for constructing the GBIF taxonomic backbone. €108K has been allocated in the budget to support GBIF contractor costs

Web Developer contract (€30K)

Support for thematic data mobilization (€40K)

Support for phylogenetic integration with occurrence data (€20K)

Governance funds: Launch 2022 calls for the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and Young Researchers Awards (€25K)

Improve representation of individuals on GBIF.org, with more coherent and integrated handling of the roles and profiles of Secretariat staff and network members, including biographies, activities and other related information

Develop new training module on data quality management, targeted at GBIF nodes

Monitor impact of GBIF training programmes, based on uptake of existing training resources, skills certification through digital badges, replication of courses throughout the network, and outputs of data and other products linked to participation in training

Further develop joint guidance with OBIS on publication of marine datasets through both networks

Mature the technical capabilities and community processes to expand the hosted portal service, focusing on the needs of GBIF participant nodes. This activity assumes positive feedback from participants of the pilot program. The expanded programme will determine the level of service that will be available to each node (including number of portals), and possible additional services that would be available through extra financial contributions

Continue support for the Living Atlases collaboration through extended contract for the technical coordinator (€15K)

Support in-person regional nodes meetings for 2022, if permitted by the travel situation (€32K from core funds)

Actively explore supplementary funding for additional regional support contractors in Latin America, the Pacific, and E Europe/Caucasus/Central Asia

Refresh existing guidance materials for GBIF nodes and associated support, including node-level mentoring, capacity self-assessment and training for national-level project teams

Develop guidance on best practices for working with indigenous and local knowledge, including application of the CARE principles, following recommendations of the working group established during 2021

Building on the 2021 work of the sensitive species working group, commission an analysis of the current scale of sensitive species data published through GBIF, evaluation of the evidence that such data presents risks of harm, and recommendations for applying a risk assessment approach (€15K)

Based on work carried out in 2021, develop plans for the future of the IPT

Implement new technical documentation website

Review the current status and models of participation in GBIF both at national and organization level, with a view to developing recommendations for the new strategic implementation period at GB29

Take a more proactive role with HoDs through global science collaboration activities such as the Group of Senior Officials

Use the delayed agreement of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to further emphasize GBIF’s value to countries and promote expanded participation

Organize the 3rd Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC3), hosted by the LifeWatch European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), to address the ongoing operation and governance of the alliance for biodiversity knowledge (€10K)

Organize and run the 2nd SYNTHESYS+ workshop relating to citation of collections

Launch a call for proposals under the 2022 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (€80K)

Following approval of the resource mobilization strategy at GB28, develop implementation road map and begin implementation, with a view to targeting additional supplementary funds as well as consolidating core contributions from Voting Participants

Subject to an improved travel situation in 2022, organize an in-person engagement meeting in Asia, using supplementary funds from BIFA (€20K) and the SYNTHESYS+ project (€19K), co-located with the 2022 Asia regional nodes meeting

Continue to participate in the ongoing Open Digital Specimen and Extended Specimen Network standards development and strive towards a common solution

Together with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), support the Living Atlas community, in adoption of the shared data pipelines

Following open review of the revised data model, prototype new infrastructure that allows the demonstration of data mapping, publishing and indexing into new catalogues, developed in an open manner. This will involve development in the IPT, new data pipelines, APIs and user interfaces to explore content and communities of data publishers willing to shape data for the pilot. It is envisaged one or more developer workshops will be arranged to encourage more open development and collaboration

Ensure all vocabularies are included in the GBIF Registry and maintained in a collaborative manner

Complete outstanding tasks to integrate the extended Catalogue of Life in GBIF, partly within the framework of the BiCIKL project

Maintain and update processes for constructing the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, including monitoring the content and helping to prioritize editorial effort. €108K has been allocated in the budget to support GBIF costs. This work is in collaboration with Catalogue of Life

Explore feasibility of supporting national taxonomies for exploring GBIF occurrence data to better enable national-level reporting (carried over from 2020 and likely to be incomplete in 2021)

Continue and expand the taxonomy curation pilot projects in collaboration with COL and the taxonomic community

Complete outstanding tasks to deploy an enriched GRSciColl providing search and access of collections, specimens and people

Focus on content of GRSciColl: cleanup of existing entries and registration of new ones by promoting use and giving training and support to editors, and promoting consistent use of codes within data shared

Seek to identify links between journal articles and collections based on the collection codes, within the framework of the EU-funded BiCIKL project

Support user interface translations for GRSciColl

Carried over from 2020: Explore synchronization of content with the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) Registry (under development)

Publish updated best practices on prioritizing data mobilization based on data gap analysis, for incorporation into guidance for nodes and data publishers

Explore the use of data gap analysis to prioritize support for data mobilization through funded programmes coordinated by GBIF, and to document the value added by existing projects

Work with partners to address the information needs of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework through filling priority data gaps, including for those countries not yet participating in GBIF

Building on the framework developed in 2021, establish data mobilization campaigns for additional thematic data streams (possibly freshwater, DNA-derived data and tropical biodiversity) (€40K)

Seek supplementary funding to support scaling up of support for thematic data mobilization throughout the GBIF nodes network (see also Activity 3c)

Continue working with partners to increase mobilization and improve visibility of biodiversity monitoring datasets in GBIF

Building on preparatory work and partnerships developed in 2021, scale up mobilization of primary biodiversity data from the private sector, through the Data4Nature initiative and establishment of help desk services

Engage additional sectoral associations, financial and other initiatives to integrate biodiversity data-sharing commitments into best practices for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) or regulatory requirements

Continue to implement workflow for prioritizing and drawing upon potential data sources reported through the ‘suggest a dataset’ tool, including involvement of nodes, mentors and crowdsourced solutions (carried over from 2021)

Based on the outcome of the re-evaluation, work with interested parties to roll out a workflow for processing data mobilization requests arising from the ‘suggest a dataset’ tool

In consultation with journal publishers, explore solutions to enable academic authors to submit and publish datasets to GBIF alongside research articles

Further develop the model for sponsored data papers, in connection with mobilization campaigns from thematic data streams

Continue BiCIKL collaboration to improve integration of data extracted from research literature

Support adopters of cloud technologies for accessing GBIF-mediated data, and revise procedures and formats as necessary.

Explore opportunities to strengthen integration of the GBIF network within research data infrastructures

Implement improvements to data validation reports identified in community consultation

Promote integration of the data validator in tools connected to GBIF, including the IPT, through use of the validator API

Explore what can be enabled to offer annotation services in GBIF.org following ideas offered during the consultation topic during 2021 (see Activities 1f and 2a).

Continue to explore the use of the GBIF data index to support stable persistent resolvable identifiers for all specimens and occurrence records (see Activity 2a)

Consolidate training resources aimed at academic users and publishers of GBIF-mediated data, for use in funded programmes and guidance for nodes

Support implementation of the BioDATA and BioDATA Advanced projects through partners in Norway, Ukraine, Armenia, the Russian Federation and South Africa

Promote GBIF at relevant fora including the 9th International Barcode of Life Conference, scheduled for August 2022, and the International Congress of Entomology, scheduled for July 2022

Begin pilot project to integrate phylogeny with occurrence data (€20K)

Coordinate work of the expert group on mobilization and use of data on zoonotic diseases based on outputs from the systematic review commissioned in 2021

Continue programme for mobilization of soil biodiversity data through partnerships and work streams initiated in 2021

Continue partnership with the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group and the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat to improve content and curation of data relating to invasive alien species

Through the alliance for biodiversity knowledge, hold a workshop on the outcomes of the analysis of primary data needs for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, involving partners in GEO BON, the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, CBD Secretariat and others

Implement a process enabling key checklists to be used in filtering occurrence data, such as Red Listed species and invasive alien species (carried over from 2020 and likely to be incomplete in 2021)

Work with the new secretariat of GEO BON to improve connections between Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs) and nodes at national, regional, thematic and global levels

Continue collaboration with IUCN to implement the Memorandum of Cooperation, including exploration of publication of reference datasets associated with Red List assessments, and development of training material for use of data in the Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) process

Continue to engage with the IPBES Data and Knowledge Task Force to support use of GBIF-mediated data in ongoing and upcoming assessments

Publish quantitative analysis of the value and impact of the GBIF network, and promote in engagement with governments, funders and other partners

Launch Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and Young Researchers Awards competitions for 2022 (€25K), and generate communications connecting past awardees with subsequent work and impact

Explore options for a 'Nodes Award Scheme' to recognize progress, performance and innovation across the community

Produce communication materials including short videos demonstrating the impact of GBIF’s funded programmes such as BID and BIFA

Complete and promote communication materials demonstrating GBIF’s impact across thematic communities, thereby supporting the case for increasing the number of Voting Participant countries

Improve representation of individuals on GBIF.org, with more coherent and integrated handling of the roles and profiles of Secretariat staff and network members, including biographies, activities and other related information

Andorra: We are working on purely national activities (migration of the portal to an AmazonWS server, script correction, etc.).

Argentina: Once the pandemic is resolved (we have an estimate of the possibility of vaccination only in April 2021) the plan is to resume the pending activities of 2021. All our node performs its tasks with the home office mode and it has been impossible to continue with many activities that depend on of the Ministry. Therefore, being able to resume activities normally would be our priority one.

Belgium: Many mentors/trainers/translators activities.

Brazil: Citation tracking possibilities were evaluated, but not implemented. Was implemented a tool that allows the user to know the number of downloads made for each collection, thus valuing the datasets of a given publisher.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF staff members facilitated the BIFA workshop as mentors and helped the evaluation of BIFA and CESP projects. TaiBIF node manager is serving as Deputy Representative for Asia.

France: We are involved as mentors and translators in different online trainings, we organized a webinar on data mobilization and we are engaged in Living Atlases symposiums. We are promoting the use of ORCID identifiers among our community of data providers.

Korea, Republic of: The new two institutes has participated in Korean Biodiversity Consortium in 2021. Field surveys on biodiversity data with the Korean Biodiversity Consortium (approx. 70 people) has been conducted in June and September 2021 to collect biological samples and occurrence data from the principal classification. KBIF collected the data from the institutions participated in the field investigations, and incorporated the data into GBIF data portal.

Mauritania: Improvement of knowledge on the biodiversity of three wetland areas in Mauritania.

Spain: We did some dissemination on the matter and got back some interest …​ and GBIF ambassadors.We collaborated in the proposal for a BID project led by Cuba, that was finally awarded. We look forward to start working in it soon. We led a CESP proposal in partnership with Argentina and Colombia that was turned down. Besides we participate, learn and contribute in initiatives such as LifeWatch, DiSSCo, and EOSC.

Sweden: GBIF-Sweden staff have contributed to several evaluation processes organized by GBIF (BID, Hosted Portals) and by our neighbouring colleagues in Norway (data mobilization projects proposals).

Uganda: In 2021, the Uganda node supported the response to the Biodiversity for Development programme call for concept notes. A total of 5 concept notes were endorsed.

Andorra: Significantly increase the number of data on the national portal, with an important data reorganization. Then make the GBIF portal more widely available to biodiversity managers in Andorra. All these actions must have to permit a better network’s long-term sustainability in Andorra.

Argentina: Unfortunately, we (partially) follow the restrictions due to COVID19 and our situation is not different from the previous year. It remains our priority to reactivate face-to-face activities as soon as possible, despite everything, we have transferred the activities of data publication and support to publishers to virtual media, as well as training.

Belgium: Organize EBRII conference to gather all Biodiversity Informatics people of our country. Continue our mentors/trainers/translators activities.

Brazil: Continue the assessment of citation tracking possibilities; communicate the benefits to publishers.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF will continue to work closely with the Secretariat on these.

France: We will continue to support and organize workshops, webinars, symposia, and other events aimed at increasing digitization, mobilization, and research use of biodiversity data. Continue to update the metadata of the organizations and disseminate the benefits of using ORCID.

Korea, Republic of: The field surveys of 2022 on biodiversity data with the Korean Biodiversity Consortium will be conducted in June and September 2022. And new two institutes will be participated in Korean Biodiversity Consortium in 2022.

Spain: Support of data providers, data users, and interested parties in GBIF and biodiversity data is provided through a range of core operations: annual training program, e learning platform. Data publication and quality control services (inc. IPT), helpdesk, software development, communication services, Citizen Science services.

Sweden: To the extent possible and asked for we will continue to provide such support as described above. We encourage being included in the public catalogue of potential trainers, mentors, technical support persons etc.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: At TDWG, our 2021 Conference Theme: Connecting the world of biodiversity data: standards uniting people, processes, and tools highlights that we understand, value, and note the need to focus on the fact that people create much biodiversity data (or create the tools that collect automated data), and people use, curate, develop policies and tools, and publish using this information. Our plans include developing a new strategic plan for TDWG, and continuing work to build a community understanding of a) how to contribute to standards development, b) how to implement them, and c) help the community to adopt any changes in the standards. This work will include continuing to strategize around what the Technical Architecture Group of the future looks like for TDWG. Additionally, TDWG notes the worldwide strain on all for constant "virtual" meetings (due to Covid). While in-person meetings require a lot of logistics, so too do virtual or hybrid meetings. The costs (both for humans, and software to do this well) are high. We have very actively sought support this year in order to enhance what our small group can manage. We are already doing similar for next year.

Uganda: The successful proposals will be helped to publish the datasets in the GBIF data portal through participating in the activities preceding data publishing.

During 2021, collaboration between nodes and secretariats from GBIF and the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) resulted in a series of videos prepared for the virtual Global Nodes Meeting, outlining the overlaps and differences involved in publishing marine data for the two networks. This collaboration is the first step towards aligning guidance and training materials between OBIS and GBIF, with further opportunities provided by the data mobilization workshops in the second phase of BID, especially in the Caribbean where several funded projects have a marine focus.

Following the release of manuals updating guidance on georeferencing, data cleaning and generalizing data on sensitive species, GBIF’s core documentation programme proceeded with identification of further guidance to be commissioned in 2021. These include updated guidance on digitization and publication of data from camera traps, and new guidelines on species migration and telemetry data, targeted filling of data gaps and data quality.

Work on developing an e-Learning strategy to support GBIF’s training needs has begun and will be completed in the final quarter of 2021.

While opportunities to engage with external projects remained limited due to the pandemic, GBIF continued to support and develop training materials for the BioDATA programme, and a graduate programme for the UK Natural Environment Resource Council (see Activity 5a).

Work was scheduled for the final quarter of 2021 to develop the curriculum for a data quality management course aimed at nodes, with rollout expected to carry over to 2022.

The Secretariat launched a new sign-up form for volunteer mentors, and further steps for engaging and monitoring the work of mentors were planned for the final quarter of 2021.

Improvements to the guidance materials for project writing, including better organization of FAQs and subtitles for guidance videos, are under way and expected to be substantially completed by the end of 2021.

Develop new training module on data quality management, targeted at GBIF nodes

Monitor impact of GBIF training programmes, based on uptake of existing training resources, skills certification through digital badges, replication of courses throughout the network, and outputs of data and other products linked to participation in training

Further develop joint guidance with OBIS on publication of marine datasets through both networks

Argentina: Participation as mentor and trainer (national, regional and global), (start to) publish the National Biodiversity Inventory of the Environment Secretariat on the ALA Portal of Argentina . Continue with the advice of our publishers to facilitate and promote the publication of data sets.

Belgium: Help developing an online data cleaning course, to support guidance on expected data quality services.

Brazil: Tutorials were made available on the national platform, and an alignment with OBIS Brazil was carried out.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF developed a training module on publishing data paper and is developing a training module on the use of GBIF-mediated data.

Finland: FinBIF has actively been training FinBIF staff and the Finnish biodiversity informatics community in various skills in biodiversity informatics: georeferencing, data cleaning and data management by providing workshops and trainings.

France: GBIF France supplied trainers and mentors for online workshops organized by GBIF during 2021 under BID and BIFA for capacity enhancement in data publishing. We cooperated with Cameroon and Benin to prepare a mentoring CESP proposal which has been accepted in 2021.

iDigBio: iDigBio hosts a large number of workshops, webinars, symposia and other event on digitization and data related topics. iDigBio gave a presentation about several of these opportunities at the April 2021 GBIF Community Webinar.

Mauritania: Training of students; raising public awareness of endangered species and sources of pollution in continental wetlands.

Netherlands: The Dutch node has supported and guided the development of a successful BIFA application from Indonesia. NLBIF as DiSSCo-NL national node representative has provided a workshop on harmonizing and updating GRSciColl records for the entire DiSSCo consortium.

South Africa: The annual Forum will continue in the form of online virtual engagements with the community.

Spain: Capacity building for the different communities involved in GBIF is a pillar of our ongoing strategy. Our e-learning platform and the use that GBIF and its communities make of it so proves it. We plan to continue and expand this area of activity and collaboration. Activities directed to enhance the network’s capacity are well under way. These may be summarized as follows: Workshops (this year all held remotely on the GBIF Spain eLearning Platform

Sweden: In giving several courses directly or indirectly related to biodiversity informatics (basic and advanced training) in part using tools developed by, and in connection to GBIF - incl. other nodes - GBIF-Sweden has contributed to strengthening the national and regional community of bio- and biodiversity informaticians. We have actively contributed to the development of tools for genomic data provisioning and use.

Uganda: The Ugandan Node together with the French node provided technical help for the data publishing organizations in Uganda notably National Fisheries Research Resources Institute.

Argentina: Participation as mentor and trainer (national, regional and global). Continue with the advice of our publishers to facilitate and promote the publication of data sets. Continue with the implementation of the Regional Portal for LAC, as well as the activities proposed by the CESPs in which Argentina is the leader/participant. Strengthen ties with other nodes/organizations through thematic networks. Coordinate and improve the data of the institutions/collections/staff of Argentina in the GRSciColl.

Brazil: Alignment and technical guidance with OBIS Brazil will be continued.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF will continue to expand the topics in the national training workshops and will develop virtual training workshops.

France: GBIF France will continue support for capacity enhancement activities and workshops. We plan to reuse the BID data mobilization training and some other available materials at national level and we will spread the joint guidance with OBIS on publication of marine datasets as soon as it will be available.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue offering its training and workforce development activities via workshops, webinars, symposia, and other events.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Based on the biodiversity data mobilization survey we are doing in 2021, ICIMOD will try to explore opportunity for capacity strengthening for data mobilization in collaboration with CAS Node. We will also be seeking help from GBIF Secretariat in terms of technical expertise.

Mauritania: As part of the response to climate change, we plan to work on the seagrass beds of the National Park, Banc d’Arguin, and the restoration of coastal ecosystems in this protected area, which is an international connectivity point for the green turtles.

Netherlands: Motivate and support potential GBIF partners to develop and submit applications to The BID and BIFA calls.

**South Africa: SANBI-GBIF will continue to conduct training workshops and develop communities of practice in identified biodiversity informatics areas.

Spain: Besides continuing and expanding this area of activity and collaboration, we plan to upgrade our eLearning Platform to incorporate new functionalities, to make easier for everyone to re-use the material hosted there, and to facilitate finding them.

Sweden: Through integration into the new Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI) context, comprising all major active units within the biodiversity informatics field in Sweden within one organization, we will increase our capacity and activity to strengthen and encourage data mobilization, enhance data flow and and support data use.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: Our plans now, and going forward include our TDWG Outreach and Communications Committee, currently led by Mareike Petersen. With this group’s efforts, we are planning events like webinars (e.g. Darwin Core Hour) that help us bridge and expand participation in the world between those who develop standards, those who build tools to implement them well, those who use them (e.g. in their CMS, on export from their CMS), those who work to make our data more discoverable (e.g. schema.org, bioschemas.org), those who use these data for regional / national / global resource tracking and planning, and those who publish using these data.

Uganda: Train more stakeholders on the use of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit for data paper publishing.

Due to the continuing COVID-19 travel restrictions, plans for in-person regional nodes meetings during 2021 were impossible to implement. Instead, and through consultation with the Nodes Steering Group, the Secretariat decided to organize a virtual Global Nodes Meeting in June/July 2021, returning to the usual cycle of holding such meetings every second year. As part of the series of sessions held over five days, regional breakout sessions were organized for all six of the GBIF regions. To maximum engagement during the meeting, a series of videos produced by Secretariat staff, nodes and other partners were made available ahead of time, with the live sessions focused on panel discussion and interventions from participants. The virtual format attracted record attendance for a Global Nodes Meeting, with 168 participants attending at least one live session, including node managers, node staff and observers from all regions.

The involvement of OBIS in the virtual Global Nodes Meeting laid the ground for improved connections between OBIS and GBIF nodes, and this is evident from the progress reported by several nodes. Further work is planned for the remainder of 2021 to map the overlap and gaps between the two networks and determine where further connections could be made, including at regional level.

The Secretariat established a working group involving several nodes to share experiences and make recommendations on working with indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), especially with regard to application of the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance.

The Secretariat began development of guidelines to provide more consistent visual branding of products and platforms associated with GBIF nodes, regions and publishers, as well as externally-managed platforms with a dependency on GBIF services. This was in connection with the hosted portal programme (see below), and outcomes of the work are planned for rollout in the final quarter of 2021.

Following a call for expressions of interest from nodes to take part in the pilot phase of the GBIF hosted portal programme, the Secretariat accepted 19 hosted portal projects, covering institutional, national, regional and thematic examples. The first version of the technical framework was complete as of July 2021, and participants were in the process of preparing their content and styling. Terms were drawn up through legal consultation enabling the Secretariat to provide this hosted service through agreements with participating nodes. The first portals were expected to be made public on the internet in August 2021.

Consideration of possible pricing structures for additional services was deferred until the completion of the hosted portal pilot, and will be taken up in the final quarter of 2021 and continued into 2022.

Following discussion of the concept of regional offices at GB27 a stepwise approach to regional support was adopted in 2021, and the selection of regional project support contractors for Africa, the Caribbean and Asia (see Activity 1g) may be seen as the first step in this process.

The Living Atlas community has continued to collaborate virtually throughout the Covid disruption with activity from 16 partners and virtual technical sessions with five. The toolkit that configures and manages an installation has been reworked to simplify the processes, and installations are now able to include DOI citation and Sensitive Data Service modules. The community of users are increasingly contributing code to the core ALA software, particularly from France, Sweden and Spain, and the Technical Coordinator has contributed to the GBIF / ALA data pipeline work in preparation for rolling out across the wider Living Atlas community. A new website is near completion, and revisions to the community MoU, branding and documentation have been ongoing.

Mature the technical capabilities and community processes to expand the hosted portal service, focusing on the needs of GBIF participant nodes. This activity assumes positive feedback from participants of the pilot program. The expanded programme will determine the level of service that will be available to each node (including number of portals), and possible additional services that would be available through extra financial contributions.

Continue support for the Living Atlases collaboration through extended contract for the technical coordinator (€15K)

Support in-person regional nodes meetings for 2022, if permitted by the travel situation. The Asia regional nodes meeting will co-located with the Asia regional engagement meeting and supported by supplementary funds (see Activity 1g); €28,000 is carried over from 2020 for hosting of the Africa regional meeting in Togo; €32,000 will be available from the 2022 Work Programme budget to support additional meetings.

Actively explore supplementary funding for additional regional support contractors in Latin America, the Pacific, and E Europe/Caucasus/Central Asia

Refresh existing guidance materials for GBIF nodes and associated support, including node-level mentoring, capacity self-assessment and training for national-level project teams

Develop guidance on best practices for working with indigenous and local knowledge, including application of the CARE principles, following recommendations of the working group established during 2021

Argentina: Mentor to new nodes. Support and organization of regional nodes meeting.

Belgium: CKAN Data portal, a light weighted solution for national nodes. See Belgian Biodiversity Data portal.

Brazil: Only one assessment for the private sector approach was carried out. Regarding the infrastructure of the national platform, the Living Atlas tool was updated, in addition to important updates and improvements to the website.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF staff members form a reading group on the topics related to biodiversity informatics.

Finland: FinBIF has shared best practices in developing national node for European colleagues by having several meetings. There has also been relevant cooperation with the Nordic countries in e.g. taxonomy.

France: We keep on to contribute and support the Living Atlases community while implementing the French national portal "openobs": sharing code on GitHub, support other nodes of the community, contribution to workshop and symposium.

iDigBio: iDigBio regularly participates in the GBIF community webinars, Global Nodes Meetings, Governing Board meetings, and North America regional meetings. iDigBio continues to host regular meetings of the Collections Data Infrastructures Working Group CDIWG.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Explore possibilities to jointly organize HKH level regional workshop to define data gap in collaboration with CAS and other GBIF Asian Node. This work did not materialize, however the biodiversity data mobilization capacity survey we are doing this year will allow us to understand the need on part of the our HKH member countries, and guide our future actions to support the data mobilization process as per their need. Partnership and support with other institutions will also be formally explored in 2022. The possibility of joint work between ICIMOD and CAS was outlined by the HKHBIF node presentation during the Asian Regional Node meeting. Prof. Ma Keping, Head of Delegation of CAS China Node acknowledged the possibility of collaboration with ICIMOD in future. Formal discussion between Head of Delegations would be necessary.

Korea, Republic of: New IT staff has been employed to operating and managing the KBIF IPT server in May 2021, and constantly working on updating the data to increase usability in use in research, exhibition, and education.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF has supported the establishment of the ACM, as part of the broad concept to establish regional offices (bullet 5). The Node has developed a draft resource diversification strategy for consideration. SANBI-GBIF will also be presenting the ACM efforts at a Digitization Conference organized by GBIF/IDigBio and The U.S. National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian (NMNH).

Spain: We (in conjunction with GBIF-Portugal and technological partners - EGI, Ibergrid) have submitted a proposal to the EC for a project aiming fort the developing of a pilot biodiversity data portal for Europe. All Living Atlases activities continue. Progress: The mentioned EC project was granted and initial works started. More details here. Currently prototyping some ALA spatial module capabilities.

Sweden: GBIF-Sweden staff participated in workshops e.g. customizing ALA portals (Tanzania) ans on sensitive species, and in consultations on digital extended specimens (Alliance for Biodiversity Knowledge and internationally. We have continued to develop and provide tools for biodiversity data management under the SYNTHESYS+ and DiSSCo headings.

Uganda: The Uganda node participated in the virtual events in 2020 and 2021.

Argentina: Mentor to new nodes. Support and organization of regional nodes meeting.

Belgium: Continue to adapt our CKAN data portal.

Brazil: For the coming year we expect greater involvement with the private sector. Regarding tools and services, training and help desk will be maintained for the IPT and another tools of Living Atlas.

France: We will continue to participate in the activities of the Living Atlases Community.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to participate in the GBIF community webinars, Global Nodes Meetings, Governing Board meetings, and North America regional meetings. iDigBio will continue its partnerships, discussions, and collaborations among the major global aggregators via the Collections Data Infrastructures Working Group (CDIWG).

Mauritania: Equipment for creating databases and for digitizing and sharing information on biodiversity.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF will engage as a participant in the GBIF-Africa Network.

Spain: As the EGI-ACE will be in full motion we plan to deliver a first prototype of the joint portal, and start evaluating it. It will fully integrated in the EOSC infrastructure and procedures. We plan to increase the capacities of our national data portal to take better advantage of the spatial module. We aim to deploy several hubs in responding a demand by some institutions to present a more coherent view of their publisher data.

Sweden: We intend to maintain, possibly increase, during 2022 our participation in similar activities as in 2021. By remaining an active part in the Living Atlases Community (LAC) we expect to contribute as before to tools and skills development internally and in connection to joint endeavours, and by incorporating colleagues from partners in the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure into our common capacity pool we will be even more able to assist and support efforts to strengthen node’s skills.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: In general, TDWG activities benefit from Node Member participation and our outputs benefit Nodes. We will continue to align with GBIF efforts and needs as our objectives and reach complement each other.

Uganda: More participation by Ugandans in the events.

The first bi-annual newsletter to data publishers is scheduled for the final quarter of 2021.

Enhancements were made to the pages associated with DOI citations of GBIF-mediated data, to enable easier export of citations using standard formats.

Exploration of push notifications to data publishers for new citations was deferred.

Further development of regional helpdesk services was redirected into the establishment of the regional project support contractors (see Activity 1g).

The open curation of vocabularies has been included in the GBIF registry with the LifeStage vocabulary being the first pilot used by GBIF and the ALA. Work is underway with the TDWG Vocabulary Task Group to migrate all existing vocabularies into the registry. Once complete, communities can get involved in the maintenance of the vocabularies which dictate how data is treated in GBIF.org.

Building on the 2021 work of the sensitive species working group, commission an analysis of the current scale of sensitive species data published through GBIF, evaluation of the evidence that such data presents risks of harm, and recommendations for applying a risk assessment approach (€15K)

Based on work carried out in 2021, develop plans for the future of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT).

Implement new technical documentation website

Argentina: Argentina has a collection catalogue (and institutions) since 2003. We keep updating it. Try to reduce the number of IPT to centralize all the data sets in one IPT.

Belgium: Helpdesk IPT and Darwin Core users.

Brazil: Tutorials and training in the use of the IPT were improved and made available on the national platform website. The data flow was discussed with the SiBBr Steering Committee, in order to better structure the role of the national node.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF holds regular training workshops on data publishing and mobilization and continues to provide the help desk service to data publishers.

Finland: FinBIF has continued to support the Russian initiatives in sharing data to GBIF through EarthCape Biodiversity Data Platform. FinBIF has supported the sharing of Russian alien species information with GBIF in the project “Collaborative Data and Information Exchange Network for Managing Invasive Alien Species”. FinBIF has also provided support to Vietnam National University in sharing Bryophyte data to GBIF through FinBIF IPT installation.

France: GBIF France offers data hosting and maintains IPT instances for several national institutions and a dozen of southern countries. Our IT engineer contributed to the development of the IPT by implementing new functionalities and participated in the tests of the future version 2.5.

iDigBio: iDigBio is an active partner with GBIF on the global collections registry (GRSciColl). iDigBio continues to actively seek new specimen-based biodiversity datasets for ingestion by both iDigBio and GBIF as part of its mission to coordinate a national digitization effort in the United States.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Sensitize data holders and data providers in ICIMOD’s eight regional member countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region about the importance of data publishing, and use of global publishing platform. Created a HKHBIF web platform to sensitize data holders and data providers in the HKH region. Also contributed to an opinion article to highlight importance of open access to data.

Korea, Republic of: Two institutions per year has been engaged in the Korean biodiversity data network as potential data publishers.

Mauritania: Continue the digitization of the botanical collection of the National Herbarium of Mauritania (HNM).

South Africa: The Node will continue hosting of the IPT and will continue its support to data publishers. The Node is part of the pilot Hosted Portals implementation.

Spain: IPT maintenance, publisher support, publishers (factual and potential) training (See activity 1b.), data validation, quality control and associated tasks are operations routinely and continuously carried out by the node.

Sweden: As described above GBIF-Sweden participates in the newly set up working group of nodes to document the various approaches across the community in application of national sensitive species lists. We have NOT contributed, but have followed closely the development of the future "IPT solution".

Uganda: A freshwater biodiversity data portal was developed and launched. This was a result of a grant from the BID programme.

Andorra: Capture more data publishers.

Argentina: Argentina has a collection catalogue (and institutions) since 2003. We keep updating it.

Belgium: Helpdesk IPT and Darwin Core users.

Brazil: Training activities and data publication will be continued and strengthened with CESP’s project "The role of Zoological Collections Networks to enhance and fill taxonomic and geographic gaps in open access databases" with a focus on training curators of zoological collections for the use of Specify 7.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF will continue to provide these services and will actively contact data publishers to help them prepare and clean data for publishing.

Finland: FinBIF is building API connections for sharing occurrence data through API’s to replace the IPT installation. This would greatly facilitate the sharing of the rest of the Finnish datasets to GBIF by minimizing manual work needed e.g. in recording metadata.

France: GBIF France will continue to support data hosting and publishing services for national institutions and southern countries. We are willing to continue to help in the development and testing of the future version of IPT.

iDigBio: With renewed funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, iDigBio will continue its efforts to coordinate a national digitization effort in the United States. iDigBio will continue to work with GBIF on the global collections registry (GRSciColl).

Korea, Republic of: Two institutions which has been engaged in the Korean biodiversity data network in 2021will be participated in data publishers. We are checking the data quality of them.

Mauritania: We will continue to digitize botanical samples and we will continue our explorations of wetlands that harbour endangered species in this tropical fringe in Mauritania on the southern edge of the Sahara and east of the Atlantic. It will involve exploring the forests of herbaria, mangroves and marine and coastal algae still very little known in Mauritania and which respond to an international concern for carbon fixation and the mitigation of global warming.

South Africa: The Node will continue hosting of the IPT and will continue its support to data publishers.

Spain: Same as 2021, plus updating the IPT to the latest version and hiring a second person as core staff to cope with the work load in this area and provide a better service to the publishers.

Sweden: 2022: In 2022 we will continue our efforts to encompass different kinds of lists of sensitive or otherwise ( specifically appointed species (global, national, regional red, grey, black lists). Our practical/technical support to data providers will continue and include also "new" data types.

Switzerland: Contribute to the sensitive species working group.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: In general, TDWG activities benefit from Node Member participation and our outputs benefit Nodes. We will continue to align with GBIF efforts and needs as our objectives complement each other. For example, we will have a webinar in September that focuses on recent changes to DwC to help everyone (including Node Managers) understand them, and answer any questions about how to implement them.

Uganda: To increase the usage of data in the decision making process. To assist in use of GBIF mediated data in developing the National redlist for Fish in Uganda.

Pro-active engagement in the delayed process for agreeing the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has maintained GBIF’s profile in supporting national implementation of global goals and targets to address the biodiversity crisis. Acknowledgement of GBIF in decisions and background documents still under negotiation ahead of the COP15 meeting in China will provide important additional support for expansion of GBIF’s membership in the coming decade, especially in relation to GBIF’s role to support indicators, taxonomy, knowledge management and capacity development (see also Activity 5c).

Plans for an annual call for regional outreach proposals were deferred due to the impossibility of travel during 2021.

Exploration of potential additional funded capacity programmes was initiated through discussions with a number of potential funding partners; this will be carried over into implementation of the resource mobilization strategy in 2022 (see Activity 1g).

Further progress in translation of web content and key publications to support internationalization of GBIF.org was planned for the final quarter of 2021. In addition, the contracting of professional live interpretation for virtual events was piloted in the BID Caribbean data mobilization workshop, and will be further considered for the regional engagement webinars.

A catalogue of capacity enhancement services has been drafted as an internal document, and will be developed further in the final quarter of 2021 to support outreach materials for funders under the resource mobilization strategy (see Activity 1g).

A set of communication products supporting GBIF’s value proposition across key thematic areas was commissioned and will be rolled out in the final quarter of 2021.

Review the current status and models of participation in GBIF both at national and organization level, with a view to developing recommendations for the new strategic implementation period at GB29

Take a more proactive role with HoDs through global science collaboration activities such as the Group of Senior Officials

Use the delayed agreement of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to further emphasize GBIF’s value to countries and promote expanded participation

Argentina: Argentina participates actively in the translation of GBIF content. Support is provided, as a regional representative, to all countries that do not have a node yet, but are interested in joining GBIF.

Belgium: French and Dutch translations to help maintaining and expanding internationalization of GBIF.org.

Brazil: The internationalization of GBIF.org has been expanded, through the communication of notices on the SiBBr website and on social networks, in addition to making GBIF documents and guides available for specific users. We are also structuring and publishing data from long-term research programs (PELD and PPBIO programs).

France: Contribution to French translations on GBIF.org, BID workshop materials and support to francophone countries through documentation and engagement with countries or institutions. Via our contribution as trainer or participant in working group in EU project such as COST MOBILISE or DiSSCO prepare, we try to reinforce awareness on GBIF.

iDigBio: iDigBio, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and GBIF are collaborating on a two-day virtual event that highlights the collective successes of mobilization and digitization efforts in the US and abroad. The event will be held on 22-23 Sep. Topics will include:

Korea, Republic of: As of September 2021, 61 organizations are participated in the Korean Biodiversity Consortium to strength our data network.

Netherlands: NLBIF has contributed to a successful BIFA application from Indonesia which might result in the future expansion of the GBIF network.

Spain: Maintaining and expanding our ties with LifeWatch, increasing participation with the LTER communities via our participation the eLTER Plus and eLTER PPP, projects (EC funded) Willing to get involved in BID projects pertaining the Caribbean. Progress: Work progressing according to plan. Workshops targeted to specific communities (polar research, LTER) aimed towards this objective.

Sweden: By participating in, and staying updated with several of the most influential organizations (active participation, visiting - virtual - conferences), Our staff is well updated with the general progress on the BI field och activity. Until GB28 we hold a position in their Nodes Steering Group, and have - as always - participated in Global Nodes Meeting and the Governing Board (HoD associate representative).

Uganda: The community of practice for biodiversity informatics enhanced with more open data ambassadors from Uganda.

Argentina: Argentina participates actively in the translation of GBIF content. Support is provided, as a regional representative, to all countries that do not have a node yet, but are interested in joining GBIF.

Brazil: Through two CESP Projects, SiBBr will increase integration with curators and publishers in Brazil and other partner countries

France: Help for French translations and support to francophone countries will continue.

Korea, Republic of: Another two institutions will be engaged in the Korean biodiversity data network will be participated in 2022 as potential data publishers.

Mauritania: Work on endangered species, work in progress on medicinal and aromatic plants, work on invasive species.

Netherlands: Continue activities to motivate partners and countries to start sharing open biodiversity data through the GBIF network.

Spain: We plan to continue with our series of workshops targeting specific communities and maintain specific contacts. We signed in support of the Alliance for Biodiversity Knowledge, and would be happy to contribute, but we do not see how.

Sweden: GBIF-Sweden needs to be aware and part of the global community and will remain as participants in all relevant meetings and situations. However we have decided NOT to present a candidate for the new Nodes Steering Group in 2021 as we think this should be someone else’s task for some time to come now. We will return to nominate candidates to such positions later on as we intend to shift our present Node Manager for a new colleague late 2021.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG plans to continue to strategize and offer ways to participate around the clock, around the world, and in multiple ways and languages. We’ll continue to do so. We are in contact with Pensoft, for example, for the last year, about changes we’d like to see in ARPHA so that abstracts in BISS can be in multiple languages. Pensoft assures us that changes like this are coming that will enhance our abilities to make our data and our information FAIR and extensible.

Uganda: Train more open data ambassadors with certifications.

Organize the 3rd Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC3), hosted by the LifeWatch European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), to address the ongoing operation and governance of the alliance for biodiversity knowledge (€10K)

Organize and run the 2nd SYNTHESYS+ workshop relating to citation of collections

Argentina: Continue contributing to national, regional and global activities.

Brazil: There was a monitoring of activities and services made available at GBIF. The calls for the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and Young Researchers Awards 2021 were nationally released.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF worked with major data holders in Taiwan to develop five-year strategic plans for enhancing data mobilization and developing biodiversity informatics through Taiwan Biodiversity Information Association (see Activity 3c).

Finland: An article describing the structure of FinBIF was published: Schulman, Leif; Lahti, Kari; Piirainen, Esko; Heikkinen, Mikko; Raitio, Olli; Juslén Aino (2021). The Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility as a best-practice model for biodiversity data infrastructures. Scientific Data doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00919-6. FinBIF has been actively participating in SYNTHESYS+ and DiSSCo projects and in CETAF.

France: Continue contributing to national, regional and global activities. Links with the French bon of GEOBON.

iDigBio: iDigBio currently hosts the steering group for the GBIF North America region. In addition, iDigBio has often been hosting the regional meetings of GBIF North America.

Korea, Republic of: Data gap discovery is carrying out for the data from National Science Museum, a record of approx. 5.14 Mil. National Institute of Ecology uploaded total 1,000,134 occurrence data (1 dataset) to GBIF data portal in December 2020. East Asia Biodiversity Conservation Network uploaded total 100 occurrence data (1 dataset, Flora of the Korean DMZ and adjacent area) to GBIF data portal in February 2021. National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea uploaded total 68,832 occurrence data (1 dataset) to GBIF data portal in June 2021.

Mauritania: We are counting on the institutional support of our establishment and on the national research and innovation agency for the execution of our work plan.

South Africa: Further engagements with SANBI-GBIF Node Manager and HoD/DSI to evolve the Node planning. GBIF YRA national process established and call distributed.

Spain: Ongoing collaborations and activities with LifeWatch, Synthesys , and CETAF. Increase collaboration and integration of our citizen science activities with iNaturalist.

Sweden: Since 2020, the strategic (5-yr), and annual work plans of GBIF-Sweden are integrated into the same plans for SBDI (the former now spanning over 2021-2024). Where applicable they are heavily congruent with GBIF:s planning, yet of course more detailed and extended where specifically needed. As described we thus follow the development of the ABK and GBIC1, 2 and 3. Buy being an active partner in the SYNTHESYS+ and DiSSCo we also by necessity have to stay engaged in these and other related organizations.

Uganda: Participated and facilitated in the the biodiversity informatics stakeholder activities. Data publishing and resource mobilization efforts were supported through provision of recommendation letters and endorsements for support.

Andorra: Significantly increase the number of data on the national portal, with an important data reorganization. Then make the GBIF portal more widely available to biodiversity managers in Andorra. All these actions must have to permit a better network’s long-term sustainability in Andorra.

Argentina: Continue contributing to national, regional and global activities.

Brazil: Participation and monitoring of GBIF activities and national dissemination of these activities will be continued in the coming year.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF will work together with the members in the Association on implementing the plans.

France: Continue contributing to national, regional and global activities. Ongoing collaborations and activities with EU and southern projects. Increase collaboration with national iBOL node.

iDigBio: iDigBio plans to continue attending, supporting, and/or hosting meetings for the GBIF North America Region as required/requested.

Korea, Republic of: We have a plan to complete the data gap discovery for the data from National Science Museum, a record of approx. 5.14 Mil. within next year.

Mauritania: We also count on GBIF to support next phase of certain activities within the framework of the digitization and the training of the agents of the research institutions.

South Africa: Continue contributing to national, regional and global activities.

Spain: Besides continuing with on going collaborations, we plan to participate in GBIC3, and Synthesys+ workshop.

Sweden: See above! GBIF-Sweden will continue in 2022 to encourage its staff and SBDI partners to engage in any relevant joint activity in the BI community.

Uganda: To coordinate the national node participants to take part in the various biodiversity informatics opportunities like capacity enhancement concepts among others.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG is participating in BiCIKL. TDWG and BiCIKL will hold a joint TDWG-BiCIKL2022 Conference in Sofia in October (in-person preferred, but may be hybrid, or virtual, depending on Covid). TDWG looks forward to GBIC3 as part of the Alliance for Bio and continuing the work to imagine the future together.

Launch a call for proposals under the 2022 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (€80k)

Following approval of the resource mobilization strategy at GB28, develop implementation road map and begin implementation, with a view to targeting additional supplementary funds as well as consolidating core contributions from Voting Participants

Subject to an improved travel situation in 2022, organize an in-person engagement meeting in Asia, using supplementary funds from BIFA (€20,000) and the SYNTHESYS+ project (€19,000)

Andorra: We have financial assistance from the government of Andorra to cover part of the operating costs of GBIF Andorra.

Argentina: Participation in 2 CESP programs (as a participant).

Belgium: Help by mentoring BID, BIFA, CESP projects. At national level, the Belgian Biodiversity Platform :

collaborates with LifeWatch.BE

acts as IPBES National Focal Point.

Brazil: A new CESP proposal was submitted, and the proposal approved in 2020 is being implemented with the countries of Latin America for the strengthening of regional nodes.

Finland: The research infrastructure funding for FinBIF from the Academy of Finland is used to contribute to GBIF work. The entire work of FinBIF aims to expand and develop the national network and resources. The cooperation with Russian initiatives has been ongoing.

France: We are partners in 1 CESP mentoring project led by Cameroon and 2 BID projects in Africa : 1 regional led by Togo (Progress towards a regional data platform of West and Central African herbaria) and 1 national led by Ivory Cost (Mobilization and strengthening of biodiversity data supporting sustainable development in Côte d’Ivoire) We were trainer and mentor for the virtual data mobilization trainings for BID grantees in Africa (May 2021) and the Caribbean (August 2021).

iDigBio: iDigBio, GBIF, ALA, and DiSSCo are making a concerted effort to coordinate efforts via the Collections Data Infrastructures Working Group (CDIWG). iDigBio became a member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). iDigBio regularly participates in the collaborative efforts of GBIF, BCoN, and DiSSCo, among others, to forge a path for implementation of Extended Specimens.

Korea, Republic of: East Asia Biodiversity Conservation Network uploaded total 100 occurrence data (1 dataset, Flora of the Korean DMZ and adjacent area) to GBIF data portal in February 2021. National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea uploaded total 68,832 occurrence data (1 dataset) to GBIF data portal in June 2021. National Institute of Ecology and National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea will upload more than total 700,000 occurrence data from the both institutes within 2021, and also share the coordinates (partially updated) which is already published and potential datasets in GBIF portal.

Mauritania: On the level of the Node.

Spain: Plans: Aiming to contribute to the CESP and BID programs. Progress: Participation in CESP:0, in BID: 1.

South Africa: Draft Resource Diversification Strategy developed and shared with Africa Nodes, for consideration. Continued data mobilization funding through FBIP large and small grants.

Sweden: 2021: Although we cannot support financially external initiatives, by pooling resources allocated to biodiversity informatics in Sweden into the SBDI, and offering expertise thus mobilized, we hope to be able to be more supportive technically to GBIF globally. This goes for 2021 and 2022 (plus in at least the near future thereafter!).

Uganda: The National Node reviewed and endorsed 5 project concepts and 1 was successful and funded. Participated in the proposal development for the more resources regarding biodiversity information for reporting on the 3 UN RIO Conventions for Uganda.

Andorra: We have financial assistance from the government of Andorra to cover part of the operating costs of GBIF Andorra.

Argentina: Participation in 3 CESP programs (1 as coordinator, 2 as a participant).

Belgium: Get involve in DiSSCo.BE. Coordinate the BiodivERsA Partnership, a coordinated European initiative of biodiversity research funding agencies.

Brazil: Implementation of the two CESP proposals coordinated by the Brazilian node.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF attempts to coordinate biodiversity informatics-related resources among major data holders in Taiwan through Taiwan Biodiversity Information Association (see Activity 3c).

France: Aiming to contribute to the CESP and BID/BIFA programs.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue its partnerships, discussions, and collaborations via CDIWG, RDA, and BCoN International Partners.

Mauritania: We intend to connect with our partners.

South Africa: National funding process for data mobilization to continue.

Spain: Same as for 2021.

Sweden: 2022: Same as in 2021: Although we cannot support financially external initiatives, by pooling resources allocated to biodiversity informatics in Sweden into the SBDI, and offering expertise thus mobilized, we hope to be able to be more supportive technically to GBIF globally. This goes for 2021 and 2022 (plus in at least the near future thereafter!).

Uganda: To increase awareness and encourage more stakeholders to increase the response to the call for proposals. Monitor and mentor the successful project implementation to achieve the intended goals of supporting conservation decision making.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG looks forward to continued collaboration with GBIF in the coming years to help as we can with coordinating resources, use of those resources, access to them, and contributing to the development of new ones.

Making FAIR data for specimens accessible

Extending, enriching and integrating data

Annotating specimens and related data

Attributing work done (Data Attribution)

Analysing/mining specimen data for novel applications

Robust access points and data infrastructure alignment

Persistent identifier (PID) scheme(s)

Meeting legal/regulatory, ethical and sensitive data obligations

Workforce capacity development and inclusivity

Transactional mechanisms and provenance

Partnerships to collaborate more effectively

Explore standards and interfaces to allow brokering of data clustering annotations to data publishers; broaden the capabilities to include external annotations

Review the GBIF Metadata Profile to explore the feasibility and benefits of migrating to the latest version of Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

Revise the GBIF quarterly data analytics, to follow recent changes in data processing, such as handling counts of absence-based records

Continue to participate in the ongoing Open Digital Specimen and Extended Specimen Network standards development and strive towards a common solution

Together with the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), support the Living Atlas community, in adoption of the shared data pipelines

Following open review of the revised data model, prototype new infrastructure that allows the demonstration of data mapping, publishing and indexing into new catalogues, developed in an open manner. This will involve development in the IPT, new data pipelines, APIs and user interfaces to explore content and communities of data publishers willing to shape data for the pilot. It is envisaged one or more developer workshops will be arranged to encourage more open development and collaboration (€40K)

Ensure all vocabularies are included in the GBIF Registry and maintained in a collaborative manner

Argentina: Complete the pending 2020 objective and be able to obtain more information and training on Frictionless Data.

Belgium: Further integration of Frictionless Data, EML and Darwin Core, see 2019 tool Frictionless Darwin Core.

Brazil: Several ecological datasets were published on the SiBBr platform, and an ecological data repository was implemented. A continuous effort has been made to improve the visualization of these data with the integration of different variables.

Finland: FinBIF has been actively developing and improving the FinBIF schema also taking into account it’s compatibility to fit the data standards. FinBIF has applied for the certificate of a trustworthy data repository (Core Trust Seal). Process to meet the requirements is ongoing. FinBIF has also made preparations to become more FAIR compatible (mostly technical requirements).

France: Contribution on the development of new functionalities in the IPT and support to the LA community.

iDigBio: iDigBio, GBIF, ALA, and DiSSCo are making a concerted effort to coordinate efforts via the Collections Data Infrastructures Working Group (CDIWG). iDigBio regularly participates in the collaborative efforts of GBIF, BCoN, and DiSSCo, among others, to forge a path for implementation of Extended Specimens.

Mauritania: site GBIF Mauritania en veuil.

Spain: Plans: We plan to integrate Plinian Core compliant data in our ALA-based national data portal; linking species level information based on Plinian Core with occurrence-level data based on Darwin Core. Progress: Plinian Corespecification and documentation has been refined and put in a form complaint wit the TDWG SDS. Developments works to integrate Plinian Core into the ALA architecture are being delayed. We lead de revamp and update of the TDWG’s World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). We participate in the TDWG "Biological Interactions Interest Group.

Sweden: 2021: GBIF-Sweden has continued to participate in the ongoing Open Digital Specimen and Extended Specimen Network standards development. Dissemination of the ODS concept is in progress locally and nationally. We continue to support and participate in the Living Atlas community adopting shared data pipelines. We stay updated but do not participate in practice in the development of the "new IPT". We are prepared to examine and contribute to the pilot.

Uganda: Data quality remains a key issue due to the different data formats available amongst stakeholders. Integrated Publishing Toolkit has been applied in the stakeholder data publication efforts. This was so with technical help from the French node.

Andorra: More participation in the Living Atlases community to better understand the new potential of new data standards.

Argentina: Complete the pending 2020 objective and be able to obtain more information and training on Frictionless Data.

Belgium: Further exploration of modern data packaging such as Frictionless Data.

Brazil: Research on tools for ecological data integration will be continued.

France: Aiming to adopt new data pipelines and contribute to the implementation and testing of new development. Willing to take part on the developer workshop if possible

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue its partnerships, discussions, and collaborations via CDIWG and BCoN International Partners. iDigBio will also continue to promote data standards and vocabularies via its many training and workforce development activities.

Mauritania: Plans to collect new biodiversity data and share it with GBIF.

Spain: To continue standard development works (Plinian Ciore, GeoSchemes, Interactions). Impulse, develop and complete the integration of Plinian Core into the ALA architecture.

Sweden: 2022: Still progressing with the setting up of SBDI we will follow, and where appropriate participate/contribute to data model work and implementation.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: Certainly TDWG members have been part of this effort and will continue to be. As current Chair, I’m also very interested in how we help people implement and successfully adopt updated, modernized? data standards.

Uganda: Conduct a data management training for potential data publishers in Uganda.

Complete outstanding tasks to integrate the extended Catalogue of Life in GBIF, partly within the framework of the BiCIKL project

Maintain and update processes for constructing the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, including monitoring the content and helping to prioritize editorial effort. €108,000 has been allocated in the budget to support GBIF costs. This work is in collaboration with Catalogue of Life.

Explore feasibility of supporting national taxonomies for exploring GBIF occurrence data to better enable national-level reporting (carried over from 2020 and likely to be incomplete in 2021)

Continue and expand the taxonomy curation pilot projects in collaboration with COL and the taxonomic community.

Argentina: Complete the pending 2020 objective.

Brazil: Some reference lists such as the CITES species list and the invasive species list have been added to SiBBr national platform, but the taxonomic reference list for microorganisms has not yet been added.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF developed a protocol for exchanging scientific names among databases in Taiwan, and is developing a taxonomic information management tool to facilitate the work of taxonomists and integrate different taxonomic views.

Finland: FINBIF maintains a national checklist of Finnish species, which is publicly available in the portal Species.fi. FinBIF gathers up-to-date information about Finnish species into the checklist, which also functions as a basis for handling observation and specimen data. An annual version of the checklist was published in January. The checklist is maintained with a tool “TaxonEditor” developed by FinBIF. Nordic cooperation has been ongoing to harmonize the taxonomy and map the taxon concepts with tool TaxonID. More info: Piirainen E., Laiho E.-L., von Bonsdorff T., Lahti T. (2019) Managing taxon data in FinBIF. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37422. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37422

France: Update of TAXREF, the French national checklist.

iDigBio: iDigBio uses the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy in its data ingestion processes.

Korea, Republic of: We are continuously updating and correcting the incorrect or misspelled names in occurrence records.

Netherlands: NLBIF has financially contributed to the development of the new COL and has funded (30k euro) a new COL application to 1) mobilize national (Dutch) species checklist through COL, 2) develop training materials on the use of COL, and 3) to expand the Dutch user community of COL.

South Africa: Efforts to mobilize taxonomic data and support the names infrastructure has been conducted.

Spain: We will continue working on the activities already ongoing in 2020 in this area.

Sweden: 2021: GBIF-Sweden continues to offer updated versions of national checklist "Dyntaxa" connected to CoL. Also bringing in Micro-fungi and OTU:s/MOTU:s, Bacteria, and Archaea.

Switzerland: National checklists registered for Butterflies and forester moths.

Uganda: Some of the stakeholders have been trained by the BID project on this aspect of work.

United Kingdom: RBG Kew will continue to work with GBIF/COL+ partnership in providing nomenclatural and taxonomic data for use in the COL+ infrastructure.

Andorra: Correction of the plant species names according to the new Pyrenean reference system.

Argentina: Complete the pending 2020 objective.

Brazil: The reference list for microorganisms should be included in the national platform, in addition to updating the current lists of species of flora and fauna.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF will expand the current name-based scientific name ID system and integrate a taxon-based ID system.

Finland: FinBIF is planning to map the national taxonomy to GBIF backbone taxonomy (COL+).

France: Publishing of new version of TAXREF.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to use the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy in its data ingestion processes.

Mauritania: Develop national taxonomies in order to explore GBIF occurrence data thus enable reporting at the national level.

Netherlands: Support the further development of COL where possible.

South Africa: Efforts to mobilize taxonomic data and support the names infrastructure will continue.

Spain: We participate in the development and maintenance of the national official taxon name lists. We work in coordination with Ministry for the Ecological Transition, and in partnership with other CSIC’s research groups.

Sweden: 2022: Continued work with checklist data for various groups of organisms.

Switzerland: Publication of national species checklists for red list groups and important invertebrate groups (continued).

Uganda: To continue supporting the use of Digital Object Identifiers by data publishers in Uganda.

United Kingdom: RBG Kew will continue to support GBIF/COL+. We will also release a name registration system for vascular plants based on IPNI.

Complete outstanding tasks to deploy an enriched GRSciColl providing search and access of collections, specimens and people

Focus on content of GRSciColl: cleanup of existing entries and registration of new ones by promoting use and giving training and support to editors, and promoting consistent use of codes within data shared

Seek to identify links between journal articles and collections based on the collection codes, within the framework of the EU-funded BiCIKL project

Support user interface translations for GRSciColl

Carried over from 2020: Explore synchronization of content with the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) Registry (under development)

Andorra: None. This type of data is practically non-existent in Andorra.

Argentina: Keep working with our catalogue and collaborate with the GRBio / GRSciColl initiative presented at GBIF.

Belgium: pilot GRSciColl cleanup for Belgian institutions.

Brazil: It was not possible to add the DOI on the national platform, but the registration of collections on SiBBr was expanded and improved in several aspects, such as the addition of a tool that enables the monitoring of downloads.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF is developing a web portal for cataloguing the natural history collections in Taiwan and sharing their information.

France: Support with review and metadata about French Biological Collections to GRSciColl.

iDigBio: iDigBio staff actively participate in TDWG and the Natural Collections Description (NCD) group. iDigBio is an active partner with GBIF on the global collections registry (GRSciColl).

Korea, Republic of: KBIF will support other institution to catalogue their natural history collections, and share the data with GBIF.

Mauritania: Digitization of several data on halophile plants and wetland biodiversity.

Netherlands: NLBIF as DiSSCo-NL national node representative has provided a workshop item for DiSSCo partners on harmonizing institutional and collection identifiers at GRSciColl as a first step to start providing full collection descriptions and to monitor digitization progress.

South Africa: The Natural Science Collections Facility, funded by the Department of Science and Technology plays a key role in the development of catalogues for collections.

Spain: Plans: We plan to work in ways to synchronize our Registry and the GBIF Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) to make available the most complete, coherent and updated information through these two outlets. Progress: We are finalizing the updating and publication "National Registry of Natural history Collections and Biodiversity Databases" which will the base for in turn review and synchronized it with the GRSciColl.

Sweden: 2021: Discussion over GRSciColl contribution has been held locally but not yet reached practical work level. Swedish Museum of Natural History (SMNH; SBDI’s and GBIF-Sweden´s principal organization) member of CETAF.

Uganda: The Fresh water occurrence data sets are being digitized and published in the National freshwater biodiversity data portal.

Argentina: Coordinate and improve the data of the institutions / collections / staff of Argentina in the GRSciColl.

Belgium: Maintain GRSciColl for Belgian institutions and collections.

Brazil: Continue the registration of collections with an evaluation to improve the metadata completion form by curators.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF will continue the web portal development.

Finland: FinBIF is improving the findability of metadata by providing a publicly available catalogue for metadata search - so far the metadata, although open data, has not been easily browsed or searched except in a closed system (collection management system). Also the process for improving the quality of metadata is ongoing in various collections.

France: Continue support with review and metadata about French Biological Collections to GRSciColl.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to support TDWG and the Natural Collections Description (NCD) group. iDigBio will continue to work with GBIF on the global collections registry.

Netherlands: NLBIF as DiSSCo-NL national node representative will provide guidance to the Dutch DiSSCo partners on mobilizing collection description data to GRSciColl following the TDWG CD (Collection Description) and CETAF passport metadata standards.

South Africa: The Natural Science Collections Facility, funded by the Department of Science and Technology plays a key role in the development of catalogues for collections, and this will continue.

Spain: To review and synchronize the "National Registry of Natural history Collections and Biodiversity Databases" with the GRSciColl.

Sweden: 2022: Continued effort to mobilize Swedish natural history collections to add information to GRSciColl, linking also to publications. Swedish Museum of Natural History (SMNH; SBDI’s and GBIF-Sweden´s principal organization) member of CETAF.

Switzerland: Update and completion of GRSciColl Swiss institutional records at collection level (joint survey with SwissCollNet).

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: Of course, TDWG members have been actively working on the Collection Descriptions (CD) standard to support this much-needed metadata. We look forward to seeing it implemented and supporting its further development.

Uganda: More data to be digitized and utilized in the conservation decision making in Uganda.

Publish updated best practices on prioritizing data mobilization based on data gap analysis, for incorporation into guidance for nodes and data publishers

Explore the use of data gap analysis to prioritize support for data mobilization through funded programmes coordinated by GBIF, and to document the value added by existing projects

Work with partners to address the information needs of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework through filling priority data gaps, including for those countries not yet participating in GBIF

Argentina: Continue with the publication of the national inventory of biodiversity and national lists of species. On the other hand, it is expected to feed the national portal with these national listings.

Brazil: As there are long-term research programs in Brazil, covering different geographic regions, an effort was made to publish these data on SiBBr, with training and help desk directed at researchers. Other researchers working with viruses also had training on structuring and standardizing data on DwC.

Finland: FinBIF has prioritized sharing the sensitive and restricted-use data to decision makers. The data is provided to public authorities through a separate portal in which all the data is available to the same extent as it is stored in the data warehouse. The use of this portal requires authorization.

France: We are working on the connection of DEPOBIO, the official national platform for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) data to GBIF.

iDigBio: iDigBio has been working internally and with GBIF to ensure that all data ingested in iDigBio are also ingested in GBIF.

South Africa:Continued engagement of SANBI-GBIF on IPBES task force to support knowledge gaps. Also, the Node will continue efforts to mobilize data through stakeholder engagement. FBIP initiative to continue funding data generation and filling of knowledge and data gaps.

Spain: Plans: Besides continuing the activities with the private sector and environmental administrations, we plan to recover and activate the participation of collections in the light of initiatives such as Synthesys , DiSSCo and CETAF; and increase the involvement of the LTER Community in GBIF though our participation in the eLTER RI projects (eLTER Plus and eLTER PPP) Progress: Work goes according to plan

Sweden: 2021: Started work on preparing and publishing information about taxonomically underrepresented groups (primarily micro-organisms) from hitherto unavailable datasets.

Uganda: The priority has been on embracing open data principles in the Ugandan Public institutions and this is still ongoing.

Andorra: We must first collect the potential data from the different Andorran administrations to be able to identify the gaps.

Argentina: Continue with the publication of the national inventory of biodiversity and national lists of species. On the other hand, it is expected to feed the national portal with these national listings.

Brazil: A survey of biological collections in Brazil is in progress, which will be used for a gap analysis, geographical and temporal, with support from the CESP Project “The role of Zoological Collections Networks to enhance and fill taxonomic and geographic gaps in open access databases”

France: Continuing the activities with the private sector and environmental administrations, and pursue the links with the actors of DiSSCo and GEO BON at national level.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue its work to expand knowledge of what is contained within collections. iDigBio will continue to work to ensure that all data ingested in iDigBio are also ingested in GBIF.

Korea, Republic of: Data gap discovery will be constantly carried out for the data from National Science Museum and some other KBIF data providers.

South Africa: IPBES task force work to continue including discussions on knowledge catalysis and data management plans.

Spain: Same as 2021 plus our targeted contacts with private sector, administrations and LTER researchers, to be expanded with the inclusion of the remote sensing community

Sweden: 2022: Continued work with OTU:s and more - and larger - sets of monitoring data will be provided. Updating already present collections datasets is another priority of GBIF-Sweden - unfortunately slightly neglected due to the heavy focus on organizing SBDI during the recent time period.

Uganda: To contribute to the finalization of the Open data policy for Uganda as we support the establishment of the one stop centre for all freshwater biodiversity data and information for Uganda.

Building on the framework developed in 2021, establish data mobilization campaigns for additional thematic data streams (possibly freshwater, DNA-derived data and tropical biodiversity) - €40k.

Seek supplementary funding to support scaling up of support for thematic data mobilization throughout the GBIF nodes network (see also Activity 3c)

Continue working with partners to increase mobilization and improve visibility of biodiversity monitoring datasets in GBIF

Argentina: Continue with the promotion of the use of sampling event data model for ecological and monitoring datasets

Brazil: Campaigns were carried out to publish long-term research data on SiBBr, with pages for these datasets

Finland:

iDigBio: iDigBio hosted a virtual workshop “Linking and Leveraging Biological Collections: Zoos and Natural History Museums” on 3-5 May 2021 that brought together representatives from living animal collections (zoos), traditional animal preserved specimen collections (natural history museums), universities, a botanical garden, and others.

Spain: Plans: Without abandoning current and consolidated data strings, we plan to focus on LTER communities. Progress: Work goes according to plan.

Sweden: 2021: Preparations were made by SBDI/GBIF-Sweden to mobilize DNA-derived data, including training needed for DNA barcoding and GBIF data mobilization. Another data stream receiving attention by GBIF-Sweden refers to individual ecological research datasets.

Uganda: There is positive coordination among the Clearing House Mechanism under the Convention on Biological diversity with GBIF mediated platforms to harvest data from all possible sources for decision making.

Andorra: Start working with partners to increase mobilization and improve visibility of biodiversity monitoring datasets in GBIF.

Argentina: Continue with the promotion of the use of sampling event data model for ecological and monitoring datasets.

Belgium: DNA-derived data project with other francophone nodes.

Brazil: Several partnerships will be maintained with the group of researchers working with viruses and their hosts, with the publication of these datasets on SiBBr. It is expected to advance in the articulation with the private sector, seeking the publication of data from inventories and assessments of biodiversity.

France: We would like to rely on the new training resources combining skills needed for DNA barcoding and GBIF data mobilization to organize a workshop in 2022 for francophone participants.

Korea, Republic of: Illustrated books using KBIF taxonomic data with images has published 2 books in 2021.

Netherlands: NLBIF has funded two projects, one on mobilizing bat sound data and another on mobilizing MOVEBANK data to GBIF.

Spain: Adding the Remote Sensing Community to our portfolio of biodiversity data streams poorly represented to be targeted and incorporated into GBIF.

Sweden: 2022: In addition to continued work of aforementioned topics, long-term forest inventories data (starting in the early 20th century) will be presented in 2022.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG will continue work via the Humboldt Core task group in TDWG exploring improved standards for exchanging data on species inventories.

Uganda: Continued cooperation and collaboration with all stakeholders.

Building on preparatory work and partnerships developed in 2021, scale up mobilization of primary biodiversity data from the private sector, through the Data4Nature initiative and establishment of help desk services

Engage additional sectoral associations, financial and other initiatives to integrate biodiversity data-sharing commitments into best practices for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) or regulatory requirements

Argentina: Keep promoting the CNC. Keep promoting the CC through RICAP and National Node

Brazil: We have not made significant progress with the private sector. Regarding citizen science data, a tutorial interface was created encouraging the sharing of records through the use of the iNaturalist application.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF has been working closely and holding monthly meetings with five major data holders/users in Taiwan through Taiwan Biodiversity Information Association, which will be officially established after signing a MOU among the six organizations/agencies on September 29, 2021.

Finland: FinBIF has launched a service “Data Bank” which consists of tools for data holders so that they can easily share their data to FinBIF. FinBIF has also started cooperation with Finnish municipalities - almost 70 have already signed an agreement to start using the Public Authorities Portal.

France: GBIF France is involved in the discussions with the French development agency (AFD) and the GBIF Secretariat in the Data4nature initiative. We organized a training session in august for AFD staff and will take part of the event at the IUCN World Conservation Congress taking place in Marseille in September 2021 Due to the pandemic, we organized the webinar for the private sector linked with the CESP project “OpenPSD - Engage and promote the private sector” led by GBIF Spain in early 2021.

iDigBio: Data mobilization is a core activity of iDigBio, including reaching out to collections.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Support publishers from the HKH countries- probably next batch of BIFA grantee from the HKH countries Endorsed research proposal for two BIFA applicants. Publish ICIMOD based biodiversity data from different landscape initiatives. Published 3 datasets from HILIFE landscape and 1 from individual data holder from Nepal. A checklist of Mistletoes of Nepal. List of Medicinal Plants of Gaoligong Mountains. Native Orchids of Gaoligong Mountains Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan. Provide technical services to data publishers in the HKH countries as required- in relation to data publishing in HKH-BIF. Supported BIFA grantee from Nepal to publish six datasets on Mushrooms and Lichens via HKHBIF. Lichens Flora of Nepal at Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Lichens Flora of Nepal at National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH) Lichens Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=lichens_nhm Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH) Mushrooms Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum

Netherlands: NLBIF has assisted several new data publishers to mobilize their biodiversity data among which a private sector ecological consulting partner.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF and the Systematics Division will implement the 2021 Foundational Biodiversity Information Management Forum FBIP Forum, which is a key event to engage the data holders in the community. This will be virtual for 2021 and will be a series of smaller engagements.

Spain: Plans: We plan to maintain connections made within OpenPSD and --building upon it-- expand participation of private sector in GBIF. Collaborating with other GBIF nodes and Secretariat is a given. Progress: Besides maintaining contacts and support with partners identify during the OpenPSD Project, we maintained contacts and discussions with GBIFS (Goodson, Copas) regarding involvement of private sector in GBIF and future plans.

Sweden: 2021: By teaming up in a unified organization (SBDI), a considerable number of ”lukewarm” providers have a stronger commitment to arrange, standardize and begin publishing data with SBDI and thus GBIF-Sweden. This includes governmental agencies, universities (mainly individual researchers but also monitoring programmes run on behalf of agencies). We have not yet seriously confronted private or semi-private data holders but expect to start doing this in the near future. Yet, we have to be cautious not to interfere very strongly with the public conservation management sector in Sweden since this domain has so far by itself and by various responsible agencies been expected to be indigenously run a in parallel to GBIF using idiosyncratic tools for data publication and extraction/analysis. As SBDI we now have the mandate to become ”the major, single gateway to Swedish biodiversity data”.

Uganda: Data holders are encouraged through online help desk support and information sharing.

Argentina: Keep promoting the CNC and the GSB. Keep promoting the CC through RICAP and National Node

Belgium: Engage with Belgian data holders to mobilize DNA-derived data

Brazil: Mobilization for citizen science data, as well as from the private sector should be expanded.

Chinese Taipei: The association plans to recruit more data holders in Taiwan.

France: We plan to maintain connections made within OpenPSD and AFD and building upon it, expand participation of private sector in GBIF.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue its ongoing data mobilization efforts.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: in 2022, we will promote HKHBIF data publishing platform to data holders and also motivate experts, students, and citizens to share information about biodiversity via HKHBIF web platform and contribute stories, research highlight, pictures, species of the month and more.

Netherlands: NLBIF continues to expand the GBIF network through regular node activities and financial support through the NLBIF-call.

South Africa: Pending COVID outcomes the annual Forum will continue either in person or virtual.

Spain: To continue 2021 activities in this regard.

Sweden: 2022: GBIF-Sweden is aware of many data holders which will be approached in due time but as described for 2021, we need to continue soliciting ourselves as SBDI and motivating our existence before being fully accepted by all potential providers. GBIF-Sweden has been accepted but with some suspicion from several sides: collections managers have always complained – without realizing that the responsibility is in fact mainly theirs – about data quality issues, whereas environmentalists have seen GBIF-Sweden – again without being aware of the real situation - as serving mainly collections managers and researchers with far too sophisticated data for their meaningful use. During the entire period of the present Node Manager holding his position (2009-2021) he has constantly struggled to convince both sides to accept the other!

Switzerland: Publication of DNA-derived datasets. Coordinated activities with SwissBOL and InfoSpecies.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: Hm. Via TaxonWorks and the Species File Group, certainly I’m in the position of helping to engage data holders to share their data (collections, nomenclature, trait data, etc). And, in this role of Chair of TDWG, certainly we’re involved in trying to encourage and expand data contributors.

Uganda: This will continue and more data holders will be brought on board.

Continue to implement workflow for prioritizing and drawing upon potential data sources reported through the ‘suggest a dataset’ tool, including involvement of nodes, mentors and crowdsourced solutions (carried over from 2021)

Based on the outcome of the re-evaluation, work with interested parties to roll out a workflow for processing data mobilization requests arising from the ‘suggest a dataset’ tool

Brazil: This activity had no progress.

Finland: FinBIF has mapped out valuable datasets and has continued the work to store them in the database.

iDigBio: iDigBio hosts the Small Collections Network and participated in the Organization of Biological Field Stations annual meeting.

Spain: Plans: Using our National Registry of Biodiversity Collections and Databases, we plan to review, check and help those not publishing data, or that published long time ago to update their participation in GBIF. Progress: National Registry of Biodiversity Collections and Databases, reviewed and updated. Collaborations with GBIFS in tracking and finding about the situation of inactive data publishers

Sweden: 2021: No targeted activity within this field at present – but as described under 3c individually approached researchers known to hold valuable/interesting data are approached and asked to consider spending the extra effort needed to arrange and standardize ”old” data for publication. In fact this is urgently needed as researchers retire, but also very time- and effort-consuming.

Andorra: Start to implement workflow for prioritizing and drawing upon potential data sources.

Brazil: For the next year we hope to bring data from several collections that do not have their datasets available. An ongoing national survey will contribute to get data from different stakeholders.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to provide digitization and workforce development activities and events that are open to all. iDigBio will also continue to provide assistance with digitization, data standardization, and data mobilization within the scope of its mission.

Spain: To Issue National Registry of Biodiversity Collections and Database in various forms and review activity levels of data publisher.

Sweden: 2022: Continued efforts approaching researchers and other data holders as described for 2021, but not highly prioritized in spite of some urgency.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: Again, as TDWG, we’re in a support role. But from a TaxonWorks perspective, we’re certainly involved in rescuing datasets that would otherwise languish.

Uganda: Plans to have a citizen science program envisaged.

In consultation with journal publishers, explore solutions to enable academic authors to submit and publish datasets to GBIF alongside research articles

Further develop the model for sponsored data papers, in connection with mobilization campaigns from thematic data streams

Continue BiCIKL collaboration to improve integration of data extracted from research literature

Argentina: Continue promoting the publication of data papers in Argentine journals.

Brazil: This activity made no progress in 2021.

Finland: Articles published recently:

iDigBio: iDigBio is continuing to develop and refine citation guidance for data obtained from its portal, which is available in the iDigBio Portal.

Netherlands: The NLBIF node manager/DiSSCo-NL NN has accepted the role of liaison officer for the European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT). This European open source taxonomic journal is looking (among others) for mechanisms to persistently link specimen derived data shared through GBIF and DiSSCo in taxonomic treatments.

Spain: Idem 2020

Sweden: 2021: GBIF-Sweden continuously encourage data holders (including potential providers) to publish in Open Access publications, and to always prepare data papers to enhance dataset visibility. We also point out the significance of, and expect correct usage of DOI:s for citation purposes.

Uganda: No progress.

Argentina: Continue promoting the publication of data papers in Argentine journals.

Brazil: TBD

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to update and refine its citation guidance in response to user feedback.

Korea, Republic of: Biodiversity research paper using the mobilized KBIF data has published in JAPB (Journal of Asia Pacific Biodiversity) published by National Science Museum of Korea.

Netherlands: Continue as liaison officer for EJT.

Spain: Idem 2020.

Sweden: 2022: Work is in progress, but again not a high priority (e.g. we have not committed ourselves to BiCIKL) due to our primary focus on organizational matters with SBDI.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG works closely with Pensoft and has been contributing some needs (e.g. supporting multi-language publishing, using bioschemas to improve discoverability) and will be holding our joint 2022 Conference with BiCIKL.

Uganda: This will be explored as well.

Support adopters of cloud technologies for accessing GBIF-mediated data, and revise procedures and formats as necessary.

Explore opportunities to strengthen integration of the GBIF network within research data infrastructures

Brazil: For institutions that do not updated their data for a significant time, a diagnosis was made and it was verified that one of the problems was not updating the IPT version. Thus, for these institutions, the datasets were migrated to the SiBBr’s IPT.

France: We spread the news on the new service for exports to cloud environments. Currently we are not directly involved in EOSC activities but we are working with people involved in EOSC projects.

iDigBio: iDigBio offers a Strategic Planning online short course twice per year - one targeted at herbaria, and the other targeted at all biodiversity collections. The goal is to produce a strategic plan for each represented collection, including vision, mission, stakeholders, strategies, values, goals, objectives, evaluation, and sustainability, among other things.

Spain: We will reactivate this activity set taking into account the lessons learned. Progress: We refined the way our supported applications provide persistent identifiers to occurrence data and other data elements handled and relevant for biodiversity data management.

Sweden: 2021: GBIF-Sweden do not publish any orphaned datasets – although we have noted some that were not recently updated by the provider. In the latter situation the provider has been contacted. We are aware of further providers that need to be pushed for updates. We have not searched for, nor received information regarding ’Derived datasets´citations.

Uganda: There has been no progress regarding orphaned datasets.

United Kingdom: Nicky’s work will continue until March. hopefully she will be able to spend time in Copenhagen with the GBIF team. Unfortunately this work was delayed by COVID.

Andorra: Identified orphaned datasets.

Brazil: The work of migrating the datasets of institutions that do not update their IPT will be continued in the next year

France: Strengthen integration of the GBIF network within research data infrastructures is of great interest and we are eager to collaborate with fellow nodes and Secretariat in this area.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to refine its data mobilization efforts and workflows. iDigBio will continue it work with the community on strategies and solutions for long-term data storage.

Spain: To launch a campaign among GBIF Spain data providers to increase the proportion of records that are published in GBIF with persistent identifiers assigned in origin.

Sweden: 2022: As part of our SBDI data mobilization strategy we will continue to push providers and update datasets as required.

United Kingdom: Nicky Nicolson will continue working with GBIF staff on the resolution of duplicates and hopefully spend time with the GBIF team in Copenhagen.

Implement improvements to data validation reports identified in community consultation

Promote integration of the data validator in tools connected to GBIF, including the IPT, through use of the validator API

Argentina: Training workshops in different areas of the country for data providers. Permanent help desk in the publication and data quality. Participation on a CESP project of Data Quality.

Brazil: This activity made no progress in this year.

Finland: In addition to the process to assign each dataset with a quality label, FinBIF has introduced an annotation system in which users can annotate observations in Species.fi portal. All registered users of Species.fi can make annotations. In addition, experts have more rights to make annotations that affect the visibility of observations. Read more of the quality.

France: GBIF France help to run data quality tests before publishing datasets through GBIF. We organized data mobilization workshops including data quality and promotion of the data validator.

Korea, Republic of: Data gap discovery will be carried out, and constantly updating and correcting the KBIF data.

Netherlands: NLBIF has supervised a MSc student who analysed GBIF download records in order the assess the use and importance of predicates. One of the key findings was that the presence of geographical coordinates without geospatial issues (flag) is among the most.

Spain: plans: Continuing with the Darwin-Test checking of datasets and training workshops as the normal operations of the Spanish Node. Progress: According to plan.

Sweden: 2021: Assuring and maintaining data quality is still primarily considered by GBIF-Sweden to be the responsibility of the providers, feedback in regard to issues found by users being forwarded manually to contacts at host institutions.We have not in our planning expected to take any measures to automatize such information loops but look forward to the integration of the data validator in tools connected to GBIF, including the IPT, using the validator API.

Uganda: Data providers are urged to ensure the fitness for use of their datasets

Andorra: None. We must first take stock of our data.

Argentina: Training workshops in different areas of the country for data providers. Permanent help desk in the publication and data quality. Participation on a CESP project of Data Quality.

Brazil: Tutorials on the data quality tools available in the Living Atlas infrastructure will be made available and disseminated.

Finland: FinBIF will improve automatic validations of the data.

France: GBIF France will continue to run data quality tests before publishing datasets through GBIF. We can test the integration of the data validator in tools connected to GBIF if needed.

Netherlands: Further implement the use of "Issues and Flags" to improve the data quality.

Spain: Same as 20212: this is an ongoing core operation performed continuously.

Sweden: 2022: GBIF-Sweden plans to contact and inform existing data providers about the progress regarding the GBIF data validator tool but primarily for the time being, such matters will continue to be dealt with via the support system developed within the SBDI.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG members are interested in data quality (as in 'adherence to standards' or not). I’m particularly interested in how we can implement the BDQ tests and assertions "locally" to improve and standardize data before it gets to the aggregator. We plan to do this (as much as is feasible) in TaxonWorks. It would be good to continue to pursue how to show those who generate these data, what it 'looks like' in their world. (e.g. "What do [paleo, your group here] folks put in this field?")

Uganda: Support the need to transform mobilized primary data into information and knowledge products.

Explore what can be enabled to offer annotation services in GBIF.org following ideas offered during the consultation topic during 2021 (see Activities 1f and 2a).

Continue to explore the use of the GBIF data index to support stable persistent resolvable identifiers for all specimens and occurrence records (see Activity 2a)

Argentina: Develop strategy and support mechanisms for expert communities to curate sections of GBIF data

Brazil: A curatorship work has been implemented and is ongoing, whenever suspicious records, geographic outliers are identified, publishers are informed at the time of publication.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF has developed a web system for managing monitoring and research projects using camera traps and managing the images, video and annotated data, and is developing a desktop program for data annotation and uploading for the use in field stations without stable Internet connection.

Finland: FinBIF will continue to use and develop the annotation system. FinBIF also has active daily-basis cooperation with collection curators and is providing tools for them for their work. FinBIF participates in DiSSCo and ELViS which enhances the possibilities to curate the collections.

iDigBio: iDigBio regularly participates in the collaborative efforts of GBIF, BCoN, and DiSSCo, among others, to forge a path for implementation of Extended Specimens.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Explore possibilities with China Node (IB) a regional training on enhancing data quality of herbarium specimen This was initially thought as in-person training, so we did not push this forward this year. However, this can be embedded in the capacity strengthening programme we hope to formalize in 2022 after inputs from our data mobilization need survey.

Spain: Continuing 2020 activities in this area.

Sweden: 2021: GBIF-Sweden participated in the consultation on digital extended specimens but understand that our providers have in general less advanced knowledge of its contents and expectations/potential.

Uganda: The National Node has been guiding the data holding institutions to co-opt experts in the processes leading to a publication. Particularly the IT, Biologists and Curators.

Argentina: Develop strategy and support mechanisms for expert communities to curate sections of GBIF data.

Brazil: TBD

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF plans to further develop the camera-trap data management system to better support metric calculation and data visualization.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to streamline its data mobilization workflows and will continue to work with GBIF on the global collections registry. In addition, iDigBio will continue to work with the international community on the Extended Specimen implementation.

Mauritania: Creation of the Gbif Mauritania webpage.

Spain: Same as 2021

Sweden: 2022: We intend to take up a discussion with our providers to inform both parties about the awareness of the requirements and potential of common data curation processes. In earnest, the concept ’digital extended specimens´ is not well known neither among collections curators nor with managers of observational or research datasets.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: From a TDWG, and personal perspective, I note just how hard it is for data providers to update their local datasets (for all the usual reasons). So, we need a) to see future grants that include "integration" of feedback included in the grant costs, and b) software and tools that simplify this process. On a recent grant (just now finishing up), I put in that we would meet with the data providers at the start to explain what we were doing with their data, keep the data providers in-the-loop (i.e. transparency) for the entire grant and meet with them at the end to help them move forward to integrate what ever information they find useful (that we added or enhanced). We will have a paper coming out that discusses some of what we learned in trying to do this that may help enable future efforts to close this currently "one-way" path where we really need loops or a network.

Uganda: Efforts for teams that have a diversified expertise put in place.

The Secretariat developed new training resources in 2021 to support academic uses of GBIF-mediated data, trialled in a virtual workshop for a graduate programme in the United Kingdom coordinated by the Natural Environment Research Council. These resources focus on guidance for finding and downloading data through GBIF.org, data cleaning and best practices for citation. Once consolidated into a standard training package, this material will be incorporated into the GBIF training curriculum for use in GBIF-coordinated workshops and self-instruction (see Activity 1b).

The lack of face to face meetings has limited progress in growing and deploying the corps of Biodiversity Open Data Ambassadors. However, the Secretariat has improved the means of tracking events at which ambassadors may be deployed, and continues to work on the resources available to ambassadors to communicate and promote GBIF.

GBIF continues its engagement with the BioDATA programme, funded by the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU), focused on developing biodiversity data management skills for students in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia. During 2021, the Secretariat worked with GBIF Norway to secure follow-up funding for a four-year 'BioDATA Advanced' project which aims to accelerate biodiversity research through DNA barcodes, collection and observation data with academic partners in Norway, the Russian Federation and South Africa.

Work on engaging professional societies to advance knowledge of GBIF functionalities in user communities did not progress significantly in 2021. Components of this work are carried over into the 2022 Work Programme.

Consolidate training resources aimed at academic users and publishers of GBIF-mediated data, for use in funded programmes and guidance for nodes

Support implementation of the BioDATA and BioDATA Advanced projects through partners in Norway, Ukraine, Armenia, the Russian Federation and South Africa

Promote GBIF at relevant fora including the 9th International Barcode of Life Conference, scheduled for August 2022, and the International Congress of Entomology, scheduled for July 2022

Begin pilot project to integrate phylogeny with occurrence data (€20K)

Argentina: Keep continue attending scientific meetings to continue promoting the national biological data system and GBIF.

Brazil: Analysis and publication tools were disseminated to the academic community

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF has been helping researchers publish data papers and holding mini-symposium on ecological informatics. TaiBIF regularly organizes promotion activities in academic conferences.

Finland: FinBIF is part of an academic institution, University of Helsinki. FinBIF has been providing instructions and trainings for students and researchers such as courses in R. FinBIF also maintains a species learning environment Pinkka for students. FinBIF also has cooperation and projects with research projects (such as LIFEPLAN) and is providing tools for the researchers for collecting observation data in various projects (Glow worm project, Fungi atlas).

France: Contributions to modules in Biology and Systematics master and doctoral modules at MNHN and Sorbonne University.

iDigBio: The Florida Museum of Natural History in collaboration with iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance held the fifth annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, virtually 7-9 June 2021. This was the second year the conference was held virtually. The virtual format again proved successful with 439 registrants from 40 countries.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Conduct a survey with academia of the HKH region in relation to the capacities and challenges for data holders for biodiversity data mobilization. Biodiversity data mobilization capacity survey has been designed, and currently being drafted in lime survey. We will be sending the survey to the universities in the HKH region that are under HUC network, in September. Results will be synthesized by end of November 2021. The survey result is expected to guide our action for 2022.

Korea, Republic of: Commercial companies collaborating with National Science Museum of Korea, such as NAVER, KAKAO, and WOONGJIN THINKBIG provide an e-dictionary to general public and children using the data that KBIF have mobilized.

Mauritania: Master programme on the regeneration of biodiversity.

Netherlands: NLBIF node manager has provided several lectures that include the importance of GBIF mediated data for scientific purposes.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF has developed an MoU with the University of Sol Plaatje for Partnership and collaboration with regards to training and capacity development in biodiversity informatics.

Spain: Planned: Engaging with professional societies: specially with the Spanish-Portuguese Botanical Collections Association, and with the Spanish LTER network. Progress: According to plan.

Sweden: 2021: Being funded by the Swedish Research council (SRC) as a national research infrastructure (with 50% co-funding by the partners in SBDI) GBIF-Sweden’s predominant users are by definition expected to be found within academia. It is mandatory for us to produce key performance indicators regarding the use of the infrastructure in terms of academic users alone. altogether disregarding use by any other group (this in fact being mandatory!). Against this we struggle to convince both the SRC and particularly the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) whose influence on environmental management practitioners otherwise advised to use indigenous tools for data extraction and analysis is inevitably high, of the advantage of instead using and collaborating in developing SBDI and GBIF tools. We obviously have strong connections to academia, yet we still need to find more opportunities to contribute to basic and advanced education, training at least the next generation of researchers and management officials in the use of SBDI and GBIF. As described under the first major heading of the annual work plan update, GBIF-Sweden, and by the SBDI collaboration also our colleagues, participate in, or run a set of courses and workshops in biodiversity informatics in Sweden. Outside of our sphere, interest is unfortunately alarmingly low!

Uganda: Engagement with the academia is still a key priority for the Uganda node. The UNCST is key in the development and sustenance of the national biodiversity data bank housed at Makerere University. Plus more collaboration in the many faculty scholars at the various universities in Uganda.

Andorra: Promote GBIF at local level but there are mostly online universities in Andorra, which makes the task quite difficult (the assistants are not in Andorra, sometimes nor in neighbouring countries).

Argentina: Keep continue attending scientific meetings to continue promoting the national biological data system and GBIF.

Brazil: The dissemination of analysis and publication tools will be continued.

France: Participations to master and doctoral modules to be continued. Possibility to translate some material if needed.

iDigBio: iDigBio is currently planning the 2022 Digital Data conference. iDigBio will continue to publish newsletters, including Biodiversity Spotlight and Research Spotlight articles.

Mauritania: Research on animal and plant biodiversity.

Netherlands: Continue to highlight the importance of GBIF mediated biodiversity data and promote their further use.

South Africa: Will continue efforts with academia.

Spain: Same as 2021: This is a core ongoing operation that is performed continuously.

Sweden: 2022: In 2022 we will continue our efforts to convince all potential present and future users of our services about the advantages and potential of advancing biodiversity informatics to find, attend to and solve problems within their different areas of interest. We seek to participate in conferences and other similar arrangements as frequently as possible, marketing ourselves (SBDI, GBIF) and related organizations.

Switzerland: Coordination with Swiss Research Infrastructures.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: By its very nature, TDWG engages academia and will continue to do so. Certainly we also have a focus on enabling those in the southern hemisphere and other under-served parts of the planet.

Uganda: Continued collaboration with academia especially in the valorisation of Uganda’s genetic resources.

Coordinate work of the expert group on mobilization and use of data on zoonotic diseases based on outputs from the systematic review commissioned in 2021

Continue programme for mobilization of soil biodiversity data through partnerships and work streams initiated in 2021

Continue partnership with the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group and the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat to improve content and curation of data relating to invasive alien species

Brazil: We are monitoring the work of a network of researchers who are collecting viruses in vertebrates, providing support for the DwC standard and subsequent publication in SiBBr and GBIF.

Finland: Compiled user case dossier for DiSSCo. Participation in The Synthesys Virtual Access development and piloting for proper documentation (Digitation on demand)

iDigBio: iDigBio hosts a large number of workshops, webinars, symposia and other event on digitization and data related topics, many of which are community-requested topics.

Spain: Exploring ways on how to engage in these activities in a productive way. First dataset from GBIF Spain on soil diversity published.

Sweden: 2021: Beyond the mentioned focus areas (diseases/human health – introduced and invasive species – soil biodiversity) GBIF-Sweden is aware of several existing and potential needs where our data is useful. We try to approach them all by raising interest in our offerings but have not coordinated nor participated specifically in work towards any of the three classes mentioned. If resources (staff time) were at hand, and provided that it be considered to be within the scope of our task as seen by other organizations in Sweden, we would probably be best suited to continue to explore the opportunity to mobilize further research and monitoring data on under-represented organisms, and from areas in Sweden (including marine environments and for that matter soil) where we know information is still scarce.

Uganda: The node has been involved in the development of the capacity for National Reporting on the 3 UN RIO conventions for the national focal points.

Brazil: Continuing monitoring of a network of researchers working with viruses, as well as documentation of the publication of viruses x hosts datasets.

iDigBio: iDigBio will continue to be responsive to community needs by offering training and workforce development activities via workshops, webinars, symposia, and other events.

Mauritania: We need documents on the value of biodiversity.

Netherlands: The NLBIF node manager as Open Biodiversity Data Ambassador will document user needs for GBIF data wherever relevant.

Spain: To work with this recently contacted community to expand availability of soil biodiversity data in GBIF.

Sweden: 2022: The above (see 2021) is a long-term undertaking, and we will as possible try to commit ourselves to any such activity but have not yet planned for it in our work plan.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG members participated actively in the CETAF-DiSSCo COVID19 Task Force as well as by developing the ViralMuse Task Force https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ViralMuse_Task_Force. Members of ViralMuse would be happy to contribute our expertise to the GBIF task group on mobilization and use of biodiversity data for research and policy on human diseases. Note that Pam Soltis (UF, iDigBio) and Deborah Paul (TDWG, INHS) have an NSF grant to work on exactly what this GBIF group is working on. We’d be pleased to collaborate on activities if deemed appropriate.

Uganda: More continued support and participation in the documentation and mentor-ship of data provider documentation and dissemination efforts.

Through the alliance for biodiversity knowledge, hold a workshop on the outcomes of the analysis of primary data needs for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, involving partners in GEO BON, the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, CBD Secretariat and others

Implement a process enabling key checklists to be used in filtering occurrence data, such as Red Listed species and invasive alien species (carried over from 2020 and likely to be incomplete in 2021)

Work with the new secretariat of GEO BON to improve connections between Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs) and nodes at national, regional, thematic and global levels

Continue collaboration with IUCN to implement the Memorandum of Cooperation, including exploration of publication of reference datasets associated with Red List assessments, and development of training material for use of data in the Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) process

Continue to engage with the IPBES Data and Knowledge Task Force to support use of GBIF-mediated data in ongoing and upcoming assessments

Brazil: Monitoring the tools available in GBIF for the assessment of biodiversity has been carried out, in addition to the dissemination of the tools available in the Living Atlas infrastructure, and also the availability of various thematic lists on SBBr, such as threat lists, invasive lists, sociobiodiversity list.

Chinese Taipei: Biodiversity data has been used to calculate biodiversity indicators through the Taiwan Biodiversity Observation Network (TaiBON) project and some indicators has been used for writing Taiwan’s first national biodiversity report.

Finland: FinBIF has developed tools for the Finnish assessment of threatened species. The Regional Threat Assessment 2020 was published in the Web Service of the Red List of Finnish Species.

iDigBio: iDigBio participated in WeDigBio, Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, a twice-annual event that brings together biodiversity collections, educators and researchers using collections data, and community scientists around the world to mobilize collections data via online platforms. The 6th annual event took place entirely online. During the four days of WeDigBio 2020, over 83,000 digitization tasks were completed, making this the most productive October event yet! The only event that has been more productive was WeDigBio Lite, the online-only event in April 2020 when 135,000 tasks were completed – a goal we look forward to breaking in the future.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: Review of fungi The Landscape Initiative for Far-eastern Himalaya (HILIFE) of ICIMOD is supporting a review work of fungi in far-eastern Himalayan Landscape, based on published literature. The dataset on the diversity of fungi will be published via HKHBIF; Likewise, checklist of flora and mammals is also expected.

Mauritania: Awareness campaigns have been carried out for the protection of the biodiversity of continental wetlands.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF has supported biodiversity assessment efforts through work on the IPBES knowledge and data task force.

Spain: Exploring ways on how to engage in these activities in a productive way. Progress: We are in contact with the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and regional governments to understand their data and science expertise needs regarding biodiversity, and finding ways to support them as well as to assist them in publishing the data they produce and gather in GBIF.

Sweden: 2021: Biodiversity assessment/analysis for assessment is one major focus of SBDI, and although GBIF-Sweden has not been actively involved in the work on producing EBV:s we consistently strive to furnish data users with more and better data for environmental analysis, and with efficient tools to carry out assessments. We contribute by offering SBDI4R (web-enabled version of RStudio with ALA4R pre-installed) and Dockerized R-software bundle Mirroreum for use in the cloud or locally as desired.

Switzerland: Publication of annotated national checklists for selected beetle families (Cantahridae, Lycidae).

Uganda: The node is providing technical backstopping to number of biodiversity assessment efforts within the stakeholder ecosystem. Notably was the development of the national offset guidelines for Uganda.

Brazil: Continue monitoring GBIF activities and disseminate tools and services for biodiversity assessment at the national level.

Chinese Taipei: TaiBIF plans to improve the data pipeline from the data repository to indicator calculation and trend interpretation.

iDigBio: iDigBio plans to continue participation in WeDigBio events.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development: In 2022, we will explore small grants to support assessment and review of key biodiversity resource.

Mauritania: Field mission awareness campaign and training of populations on approaches to conservation and restoration of ecosystems.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF will continue efforts to support assessments through IPBES task force of knowledge and data.

Spain: Same as 2021.

Sweden: 2022: In 2022 work on SBDI4R continues, and the recent update of Mirroreum is promoted. GBIF-Sweden has been represented in GEO BON since the early 2010’s but due to resource shortage unable to commit to any work in practice. Yet we follow advances made with EBV:s, KBA:s, and with IUCN Red and Black listing.

Switzerland: Continuation of data digitization activities in relation with running programs of the Federal Office of Environment.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: Please note from recent NSF grant, we developed a tool for use by the IUCN to visualize the georeferences against the shape files for the Horseshoe Bats and relatives. We successfully worked out a way to give them access to this information. For your purposes, we note they shared with us that most often, groups come to them asking for data, but rarely do groups come to them, offering them data. They were pleased to receive the contact and the data — for use by their IUCN group that manages these particular taxa. (Note of course we selected these taxa for their alleged link to Covid19).

Uganda: To continue provision of the technical support to stakeholders.

Publish quantitative analysis of the value and impact of the GBIF network, and promote in engagement with governments, funders and other partners

Launch Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and Young Researchers Awards competitions for 2022 (€25k), and generate communications connecting past awardees with subsequent work and impact

Explore options for a 'Nodes Award Scheme' to recognize progress, performance and innovation across the community

Produce communication materials including short videos demonstrating the impact of GBIF’s funded programmes such as BID and BIFA

Complete and promote communication materials demonstrating GBIF’s impact across thematic communities, thereby supporting the case for increasing the number of Voting Participant countries

Brazil: Activity did not progress in 2021.

Finland: FinBIF has developed tools for automatic tracking of citations. FinBIF has also launched Restricted Data Request Service for managing data requests for sensitive data or data that have other restrictions preventing open access. The data compiled will shed light on what is restricted-use data needed for (mining, wind farms, power lines, construction etc.) and will give unique data on impact of making restricted data available and accessible.

iDigBio: iDigBio conducts an annual survey of its internal team as well as the collections community, broader scientific community, partners, stakeholders, and others interested in the national digitization effort. The survey is conducted to help track progress toward goals, identify community needs, solicit community feedback, and measure the impact of iDigBio’s activities. iDigBio tracks data use in literature and publishes graphs on its website showing publications resulting from ADBC funding.

Korea, Republic of: We have translated and published the 2020 GBIF Science Review to distribute these to researchers and decision-makers in related fields.

Mauritania: Resilience of local communities.

Netherlands: Naturalis Biodiversity Center together with NLBIF has embarked on a study on the physical and digital use of its collections. This has provided insights on number of downloads from shared data and the importance of data aspects for data users. The most requested predicates included taxon key, the presence of coordinates and the absence of geospatial issues. These metrics, next to the actual use of data in scientific papers, are important KPI’s that assess the impact of data sharing through GBIF.

South Africa: SANBI-GBIF is developing a showcase to support the efforts relating to impact.

Spain: Plans: Implementing the conclusion drawn from the activities mentioned for 2020 in the Nodes' plans. Progress: Data and figures from GBIF Science Reviews and GBIF Overview Slides are routinely used in our communications and reports. Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and Young Researchers Awards are widely promoted and supported. GBIF Spain dataset and publisher performance tracking system was was dismantled in 2016 is being recovered. This was the basis for assessing performance and impact of institutions and projects involved in GBIF from Spain, and we aim to recover this capacity.

Sweden: 2021: Using Matomo software, SBDI/GBIF-Sweden monitor publications using GBIF-mediated data, data downloads and and SBDI services usage on behalf of the Swedish Research Council for annual reports KPA:s).

Uganda: The data and information from and about Uganda in Uganda are increasingly utilized by the scientists and policy makers in Uganda for informed decision making. More response to calls have been reinforced by the available facts to support funding decision making.

Belgium: Reaching Integrated and Prompt Action in Response to Invasive Alien Species (RIPARIAS) LIFE project develops an innovative evidence-based workflow for decision making on IAS management, translating national management objectives to concrete actions by maximizing cost efficiency of management, piloted in Dijle, Mark and Zenne river sub-basins of the Scheldt river basin district. Belgian expert from the Platform to review IAS assessment for IUCN.

Brazil: TBD

iDigBio: iDigBio plans to conduct a community survey in early 2022 to assess the impact of its efforts and to gather community input. iDigBio will continue to track and publish statistics for its website, data portal, data use, and events.

Mauritania: Conduct field work.

Netherlands: Standardize the R-script to generate the download KPI’s for general use by data publishers.

South Africa: The efforts to reinforce the data-science-policy value chain through initiatives like the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme of SANBI, will continue into 2022.

Spain: To continue and conclude plans started in 2021.

Sweden: 2022: This year represents a continuation of previous year’s monitoring procedures, and to some extent an even more detailed account of research interest´s infrastructure use. On the other hand use by other categories would be valuable and time and effort permitting we will set out to find out more about public management and private enterprise usage of SBDI.

Taxonomic Databases Working Group: TDWG conducts yearly surveys post-conference, and otherwise as needed to track progress and note needs. We will continue to do so of course, and the challenge of continuing to do all things virtually, adds to our need to listen, and improve how we do our work.

Uganda: Increase data use in decision making and encourage from the Lab to the world concept of availing data and information.