GBIF Nodes Implementation Plan 2024

New scientific monitoring programmes have been set up, and we need to continue and also launch new participatory science programmes (collaboration with the Government of Andorra should facilitate this). There has also been a delay in integrating the data into the GBIF (see below).

To continue and expand the technical capacity building and data mobilization in Southeast Asia.

Continue data use to inform decision on biodiversity conservation

Future data deposits are anticipated in 2024, but are wholly dependant on staff capacity to do the data transformation work required.

Test the GBIF eDNA tool and publish eDNA data. Study in more detail the advantages and disadvantages of implementing DOIs at national level together with other research institutions. Create and follow discussion of research/working groups on FAIR and CARE principles at a national and international level. Automate publishing and updating of occurrence and ecological data in SiBBr and implement test with the new GBIF data model and Humboldt extension. In addition, work together with the group on vectors of human desases by organizing a symposium on vector data and seek for more funding to continue the development of the PREVIR application that allows the collection of virus data in different animals and automatic standardization for publication in the IPT.

Country Research Report of GBIF data usage in Asia based on literature data, from different scientific disciplines and thematic areas.

Establish alliances with representative NGOs that have projects in different areas of the country and in relevant topics (such as alien species, Human-wildlife conflict, biodiversity in human impacted areas, etc) whose biodiversity data is key to filling knowledge gaps in the country. Contact with researchers and projects related to DNA-derived data in the country in order to incorporate this information to GBIF.

Croatia in cooperation with the GBIF Belgium and the Habitat Foundation (within the CroMent project), will conduct workshops that will encourage the mobilization and use of data on biodiversity. Representatives of the scientific community will attend the workshops, which will certainly increase the mobilization of data in the territory of the Republic of Croatia. National biodiversity database, based on Atlas of Living Australia, is expected to be publicly available by September 2024

The development of the Arter.dk national species portal is continuing in 2024. DanBIF and Arter.dk is working towards supporting collecting and sharing aquatic occurance data including governmental nature monitoring data. Furthermore, we are working towards being able to support sound-based occurrence observations including automated species recognition. DanBIF also keeps the taxonbase in Arter.dk updated in collaboration with a newly established Danish taxon advisory board. DanBIF plans to implement the new data model specifically to mobilise a large camera trap dataset of small mammals. DanBIF have engaged with new categorise of data providers such as NGO’s and nature consultancy companies.

Continue to encourage and support the discovery of undigitized taxonomic information and its inclusion in the GBIF

We will focus on eDNA data mobilisation and publishing. Updated version of the UNITE SH DOIs will be released and made available for the GBIF taxonomic backbone. New digital tools for the eDNA research will be developed and implemented in the PlutoF platform which will make sharing and publishing eDNA data easier.

FinBIF and its partners plans to investigate how to mobilise eDNA based biodiversity including soil derived DNA data. A focus for 2024 will be on addressing knowledge gaps within FinBIF’s current biodiversity datasets. We plan to address how we make sensitive biodiversity data available to our data users, building on our past work in this area.

The GBIF node delegates, manager and staff will continue to attend relevant scientific conferences to promote GBIF through appropriate communication materials and presentations. They will also participate in GBIF meetings and conferences, e.g. the planned ECA meeting in Zagreb. In 2024, the organisations of the GBIF Germany node network intend to mobilise occurrence and checklist data via data pipelines of the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium. Thus, GBIF is becoming part of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

As part of the National Biodiversity Action Plan for Ireland (which will be launched in 2024) the National Biodiversity Data Centre is to: - update to the State of Knowledge and Key Knowledge Gaps in Ireland’s Biodiversity report as the basis for development of a national biodiversity monitoring framework by 2024. - produce and implement a Biodiversity Citizen Science Strategy to promote citizen engagement with both terrestrial and marine biodiversity and to develop greater awareness of the value of local biodiversity by 2024. - Ongoing activities to support science and research for different project areas including All Ireland Pollinator Plan; European Innovation Partnerships projects; Invasive Species, Farmland projects which will produce high quality data. - Attend relevant scientific conferences to promote GBIF through appropriate communication materials and presentations.

We are working on DOIS to our MCPD data.

In 2024 I’m going to submit new project to CESP.

Building on the experience of the live IPNI registration system: https://www.ipni.org/registration/. Kew and Natural History Museum staff will argue and support proposals for registration of plant names at the nomenclatural session of the International Botanical Congress July 2024 in Madrid.

Continue work from 2023, including:

Publishing DNA-derived data.

In 2024, Uzbekistan will host a GBIF workshop for the first time with the participation of scientists from Central Asia and other surrounding countries. More than 300,000 georeferenced points will be uploaded to GBIF.

Improving biodiversity evidence for scientific research and understanding is long overdue and it is the right action to be taken.

Mobilise data on bacteria and fungul communities in forest and cropland soils in addition to plants and arthropods.

Organized a Bioland Tool workshop for 3 ASEAN Countries with the support from CHM CBD secretariat.

ALA’s most relevant work, in addition to advocacy to Australian government regarding international policy commitments, will be to develop standardised data capture tools for data capture in the field. ALA’s collaborations with Indigenous Ranger groups is likely to be the catalyst for the development of new tools.

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Partnership was reinforced through training in the framework of workshop. Researchers, policy and decision makers were invited and attended the workshops.

New partnerships with Brazilian institutions, technical assistance in data mobilization by government agencies and promoting the use of creative commons licenses as well as dissemination of GBIF Brazil. Recently, in 2023 the Brazilian Institute of Economy and Statistics (IBGE) published the first report on “Quality assessment on Brazilian Biodiversity data” using data available on SiBBr’s (GBIF Brazil). More information: BGE assesses data records on Brazilian biodiversity ; Avaliação dos dados sobre a biodiversidade brasileira

Participation à l’atelier de lancement du projet Global Biodiversity Framework Early Action Support (Africa 4)

Incorporate GBIF in the process of implementing the Support implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in Chile.

From the business sector activities we acquired 13 publishers and reach near to 4 million records total, therefore consolidating the alliance with ANDI through the creation of the Colombian Biodiversity and Development GBIF network.

We are actively working on the implementation of Creative Commons licenses in our national plataform BiodataCR to facilitate correct citation of the databases and the corresponding credit. Also, we are participating in the CESP project called "Enhancing data publication, access and use capacities in theprivate sector" wich seeks to strengthen collection and publication of data by public and private business sector.

GBIF accepted the CroMent project that will help in realization of the priority area 2.

DanBIF is actively involved in increasing the awareness of the importance and strength in the use and provision of data to GBIF towards the industry and financial sector.

Assess the Red List of Threatened Endemic sprcies in East Asia to implement conservation Biodiversity according to the GBF.

Estonian GBFI node was involved in the creation of the Environmental commission of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

In collaboration with the Finnish Environment Institute we have implemented a web-based service for the automatic generation of biodiversity indicators. These indicators can be used to help Finland’s relevant bodies in reporting for targets under the Global Biodiversity Framework. FinBIF has frequently engaged directly with ministries and other Finnish government bodies throughout 2023 on nature conservation and environmental decision making. A new GIS data product has been released to aid Finland’s 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in decision making around land-use planning and its impact on threatened species. Biodiversity data search capabilities via our web portal have been enhanced to improve the usability for private sector environmental consultants and forest industry partners. In 2023 there were over 2000 data requests made by this data user type using FinBIF’s restricted data services. In 2023 private sector data mobilisation has increased with multiple environmental consultancies sharing occurrence records they have collected via our "Data Bank" service.

Technical Expert Group for the National Biodiversity Indicators held regular meetings to update suite of Biodiversity Indicators.

The synergy between the entities working on biodiversity (CHM Madagascar, IPBES…​) and MadBIF will be reinforced

Développer le partenariat avec des institutions publiques et privées. Prospect avenues for collaboration with GBIF nodes, in particular the Belgian node.

To develop partnerships that will benefit policy and society

We are working within the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Established communication with the General Directorate for Environmental Protection, responsible for harmonization of biodiversity monitoring data collected by the Ministry of Climate and Environment and its agencies.

South Africa has participated on IPBES Knowledge and Data Task Force.

As a follow-up of the 2023 LAC Nodes regional, we identified an emerging opportunity in the new Biological Diversity Framework approved in Montreal, which includes for the first time a ""Monitoring Framework"", which necessarily requires greater participation of science and data-based evidence. In coordination with the LifeWatch ERIC we organized and carried out an expert meeting for positioning GBIF in the new CBD framework, and to develop a training module for the nodes global community. This was held in Seville, funded by CSIC (through a EU project), and having among participants GBIF Node representatives from six countries and GBIF Secretariat https://www.gbif.es/experts-meeting-gbif-in-support-of-the-indicators-for-the-kunming-montreal-global-biodiversity-framework/.

Our linkages and collaborations with administrations and policy makers in Spain are strong. A reflection of this is the organization of the 2023 Conference on ""Biodiversity Information and Environmental Administrations"". This a highlight in our yearly agendas.

I met with young students which are interesting working with data and database.

National Biodiversity Network have started a trial with the Environment Agency whereby consultants contracted by the EA under their EcoServices Framework must share their species records directly with the NBN Atlas, and then on to GBIF.

Contributions to the organization and participation in Experts' Meeting: GBIF in support of the indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, México, Uruguay and Spain)

As part of the GBIF, Uzbekistan expanded international relations with partner countries, opened access to national biogeographic information, participated in a number of major international seminars and conferences on biodiversity conservation, invasive alien species, disclosure of business information and accessibility of data, information and knowledge, as well as expanded expanded regional mechanisms to support funding and capacity pipelines.

Again, WFCC congratulates GBIF for the progress made in 2023 and reports presented in Canberra

Supported national biodiversity commitments by participating in meetings of the National Biodiversity Forum (NBF).

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Academic capacity building of students in the master program of biodiversity informatics was successfully achieved along with professional capacity building to non academic partners.

BHL participates in node activities and has hired a Data Manager to represent as Node Manager in 2021 and Head of Delegation was appointed in 2022.

We have carried out a large number of virtual training courses and workshops, improved the templates and tutorial videos available on the SiBBr website, created a GitHub page to discuss good practices in the use of DarwinCore terms and metadata of collections and projects. We have developed support tools for structuring ecological data. Furthermore, all IPTs were migrated to the cloud and updated to the latest version. Furthermore, we have strengthened the partnership with GBIFPortugal and other Latin American countries after CESP projects as well as Brazil’s participation in meetings held in Canberra.

Over 2023, we promoted in the Chilean community - academics, managers, productive sector, the importance of GBIF and the role of the partners in the success of its implementation and the contribution of open data for science and policy. Multiple workshops and conferences were held to promote the use of standards and open access via the platform.

The Node participated in the "Reunión Regional de Nodos LAC GBIF", in wich some countries such as Panama participated as a observers and, hopefully as Voting Participants in the future.

In November 2022, Croatia became a voting member of GBIF network, with Institute for Environment and Nature of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development delegated as Croatian GBIF node. In 2023. first steps towards establishing functional node were made. In order to strengthen the capacity of Croatian GBIF node, CroMent project was submitted and accepted within GBIF CESP program, in cooperation with the GBIF Belgium and the Habitat Foundation.

DanBIF continues to provide support, tools and advice to digitisation projects from nature societies, researchers and museums. DanBIF has implemented a new wiki for all aspects of how to share data in GBIF and in the national species portal Arter.dk.

Encouraged EABCN members to think positively about and contribute to GBIF’s data listing.

FinBIF has now been recognised as a "public national authority for nature conservation" under Finland’s national Nature Conservation Act. A key indication that the significant effort to communicate the importance of biodiversity data for Finnish Society has been vindicated. In 2023 over 3.7 million new occurrence records were added to the FinBIF database. FinBIF has now published over 40 million records to GBIF. FinBIF mobilised 45 new datasets in 2023. We conducted many training sessions on multiple different topics in 2023. These included, training the use of our web portal, collection management system and data bank system. Training was offered to many stakeholder groups including the government, private and research sectors within Finland.

In 2024 the Ministry continues to set up a web-based platform for the Biodiversity Data and Biodiversity Monitoring System, including forest inventory and other data. This information is useful for the General Public to know the information about the state of environment.

National Biodiversity Data Centre continued to publish all open access data automatically to GBIF. The Data Centre published some datasets through the IPT to meet specific needs of dataset providers (i.e., different data and license types). Continued engagement with data providers (e.g., government bodies, agencies and museums) to strengthen and expand national data publication and use. Trinity College Dublin was endorsed as a data publisher and published the first Irish fossil dataset from an institution in Ireland.

Data providers will again be asked to publish. Capacity building training (data mobilization, data cleaning, data use and publication) will be organised with the support of a mentor based in Madagascar (Mr Tsiky Rabetrano). Collaboration with other nodes (in Africa, or France) is also envisaged.

The Polish National Node organized the Regional GBIF Nodes Meeting in May 2023. The guests represented 12 European country members, 3 observers (Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine), and 6 associated organizations.

Supporting the Spanish GBIF Community (data publisher as well as users), is the very core of the GBIF Spain action: Thus we maintain a help desk, a team supporting data publication, a yearly training program, a citizen science working area, and pay special attention to communication activities.

A highlight in 2023 was the organization of a "GBIF day" conceived as a forum for exchanging ideas, pointing areas of interest and future actions, and, of course, identifying and tackling issues.

We did more but it not enough for Tajikistan. I visited Universities several time to explain for them how is important to share data for future collaboration.

DiSSCo UK is developing a national data infrastructure that will integrate the UK’s natural science collections data and make this accessible to all. Part of this infrastructure will be completed in collaboration with GBIF, who are hosting the UK data portal for life science collections. This builds off of an existing GBIF infrastructure that is widely used by the scientific community, with data for millions of UK specimens already available via GBIF. The national portal will aggregate collections data uploaded to GBIF from UK institutions with a GRSciColl (The Global Registry of Scientific Collections) entry

Development of national workshops to present the initiative, the national portal, and promote the publication of data

In 2023, Uzbekistan became a leader in the GBIF regional network (Central Asia), thanks to intensified efforts to strengthen partnerships, expand the information base uploaded to GBIF and attract new, especially young scientists from both scientific institutes and regional universities

Again, WFCC congratulates GBIF for the progress made in 2023 and reports presented in Canberra

Encourage communities to publish and to use GBIF data.

Complete the migration to Google Cloud Platform, set up a new landing page.

A migration of the GBIF.ad portal to Google Cloud Platform has been initiated, as well as corrections to the portal so that it can be part of the ALA community. This part could not be completed due to a lack of available staff. Collaboration has been initiated with the government of Andorra and the creation of a common biodiversity database is underway."

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GBIF Benin is in progress towards more and more data publication on gbif site.

The Brazilian node uses the Living Atlas platform. In 2023, new modules were implemented. The entire SiBBr infrastructure uses cloud storage and operates in Kubernetes. The IPTs were migrated to the cloud and updated to the latest version also in Kubernetes. We had access to the GBIF Registry, managing to improve publisher registration and data sharing through GBIF. In addition, we updated the national taxonomic database and it was published in the Living Atlas and IPT.

Continued upgrading of Cameroon’s Biodiversity Information System.

IPT installation updated and running for publishing partners.

The Node has actively been working on the development and strengthening of the national biodiversity data platform BiodataCR that will greatly contribute to the growth in data publication and use. The Node of Costa Rica, from CONAGEBIO, is strengthening the publication of data coming from citizen science, specially trough the agreement CONAGEBIO-iNaturalist.

Development of national biodiversity database, based on Atlas of Living Australia, started in 2023.

DanBIF and DaSSCo has improved the content in GRSciColl regarding Danish natural history collection. DanBIF has implemented an additional IPT installation and a new media server. DanBIF has done initial preparations for implementing a hosted portal for DanBIF. DanBIF has been retiring old static museum datasets and replacing them dynamic datasets being synchronised with museum collection management systems. We are grateful for the speedy and useful help we have received from the GBIF office.

Support for GBIF data users in Estonia, training, e-mail help.

FinBIF has replaced Google analytics with the more privacy friendly Plausible analytics throughout our web services. In 2023 there were 6 releases of the FinBIF R package. In 2023 the 5th update of the Checklist of Finnish species, FinBIF’s taxonomic backbone was released. FinBIF has introduced a new mobile app for Android and iPhone that enhances the gathering of citizen science and other monitoring data. In 2023 the mobile application has been used extensively for the 4th Finnish Breeding Bird Atlas project. We have continued to update and maintain our web portal, API and related services including introducing a new FinBIF Dashboard service to get an overview of various aspects of FinBIF’s data and services. In 2023 efforts began to coordinate the organisation of data published to GBIF including improving metadata and moving more datasets from legacy IPTs to automated publishing from FinBIF via the GBIF registry API.

Forest Information and Monitoring System has been developed and serves as the main facility for the data flow in the Forest Sector for all forest management bodies.

Maintained and promoted use of of Ireland’s biodiversity mapping portal ‘Biodiversity Maps’.

Through the Secretariat, established a ipt.gbif.org.nz[hosted-IPT GBIF-NZ installation^] as the primary method to support NZ data holders to publish data to GBIF.

In 2023 we focused on building a data presentation and management platform for biodversity data mobilised in digization projects, including GBIF Taxonomical Backbone as a reference for taxonomical part of the local database.

SANBI-GBIF implements a hosted portal, and has supported the new data model through engaging in efforts to advance molecular data mobilisation.

Engage with national collection communities to improve content of the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl), and clean-up legacy datasets with erroneous publishers.

One thing I didn’t do in this year I wanna do it in 2024.

In Uzbekistan, a permanent GBIF group has been formed on the basis of the Institute of Botany of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, which is the basis of the national infrastructure and information products. In addition, the work activities of this group support and develop the established infrastructure for the promotion of knowledge related to the plant diversity of Uzbekistan.

Again, WFCC congratulates GBIF for the progress made in 2023 and reports presented in Canberra