Biodiversity Data Use

Quick guide to publishing data through GBIF

How to publish biodiversity data through GBIF.org

Become a data publisher with GBIF

Best Practices for Publishing Biodiversity Data from Environmental Impact Assessments
GBIF Secretariat & IAIA: International Association for Impact Assessment (2020).

Guidance for private companies to become data publishers through GBIF: Template document to support the internal authorization process to become a GBIF publisher
Rui Figueira, Pedro Beja, Cristina Villaverde, Miguel Vega, Katia Cezón, Tainan Messina, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Rukaya Johaadien, Dag Endresen & Dairo Escobar (2020).

Publishing DNA-derived data through biodiversity data platforms
Anders F. Andersson, Andrew Bissett, Anders G. Finstad, Frode Fossøy, Marie Grosjean, Michael Hope, Thomas S. Jeppesen, Urmas Kõljalg, Daniel Lundin, R. Henrik Nilsson, Maria Prager, Cecilie Svenningsen & Dmitry Schigel (2020).

Classes of datasets supported by GBIF

GBIF data quality requirements for publishing

GBIF data licenses

Checklist core templates

Occurrence core templates

Sampling event core templates

Sampling event data best practices

Sharing images, sounds and videos on GBIF

Data papers

Published data papers