Bouchout Declaration for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management. Lecture presented at the TDWG 2014

1. Bouchout Declaration
for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
Donat Agosti
Plazi
TDWG 2014, Jönköping, Sweden
October 27, 2014

2. Why another declaration?
“free of charge online access to EU-funded research
…
essential for Europe's ability to enhance its economic
performance and improve the capacity to compete
through knowledge”

3. Why another declaration?
“Access to digital data sets resulting from federally
funded research
….
will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and
innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and
enhance economic growth and job creation.”

4. Why another declaration?

5. Why another declaration?
EU BON - Building the European Biodiversity
Observation Network, as the European contribtion to
the Global Earth Observation Biodiversity
Observation Network (GEO BON)

6. Why another declaration?
What is the future of the biological world?
Imagine if we could:
…Predict community level dynamics of ecosystems at
scales from local to global, based on the ecology and
biology of all individual organisms
Harfoot, BIH2013, Rome, 2013
Hardisty, Nature 502, 171 2013

7. Origin
(pro-)iBiosphere
Coordination and Policy Development in Preparation for a
European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System
2012-2014
Supported by the European Commission through its FP7 research funding programme

8. Why another declaration?

9. Why another declaration?
The Bouchout Declaration is a response of our
community to new opportunities and challenges to
shape the future of our research and its discoveries in
a rapidly changing environment.

10. Why another declaration?
The Bouchout Declaration provides additional
messages to existing declarations:
• Direct access to digital content
• Inclusion of processes to implement access
• Catalyst for discussions

11. Bouchout Declaration
http://bouchoutdeclaration.org

12. Bouchout Declaration Website

13. Bouchout Declaration Launch
June 12, 2014
Bouchout Castle, Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium

14. Bouchout Declaration

15. Bouchout Declaration

16. Bouchout Declaration
GOAL: Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management
As signatories, we encourage an overarching
approach to Open Biodiversity Knowledge
Management which is based on the following
fundamental principles:

17. Bouchout Declaration
Open Access
The free and open use of digital resources about
biodiversity and associated access services

18. Bouchout Declaration
Licenses
Licenses or waivers that grant or allow all users a
free, irrevocable, world-wide, right to copy, use,
distribute, transmit and display the work publicly
as well as to build on the work and to make
derivative works, subject to proper attribution
consistent with community practices, while
recognizing that providers may develop
commercial products with more restrictive
licensing.

19. Bouchout Declaration
Licenses ctd.
Data and research results are not copyrighted.
Therefore no license should be added (see Blue
List: http://plazi.org/?q=blue_list)
If possible, publications should be created as
Open Access works

20. Bouchout Declaration
Policy
Policy developments that will foster free and open
access to biodiversity data

21. Bouchout Declaration
Attribution
Tracking the use of identifiers in links and
citations to ensure that sources and suppliers of
data are assigned credit for their contributions

22. Bouchout Declaration
Infrastructure
An agreed infrastructure, standards and protocols
to improve access to and use of open data

23. Bouchout Declaration
Registers
Registers for content and services to allow
discovery, access and use of open data

24. Bouchout Declaration
Persistent Identifiers
Persistent identifiers for data objects and physical
objects such as specimens, images and taxonomic
treatments with standard mechanisms to take
users directly to content and data

25. Bouchout Declaration: Persistent Identifiers
TDWG GUID meeting Stockholm, 25-26 Oct, 2014

26. Bouchout Declaration: Persistent Identifiers Implementation

27. Bouchout Declaration
Linked Open Data
Linking data using agreed vocabularies, both
within and beyond biodiversity, that enable
participation in the Linked Open Data Cloud
http://lod-cloud.net/

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Development
Dialogue to refine the concept, priorities and
technical requirements of Open Biodiversity
Knowledge Management

29. Bouchout Declaration
Business
A sustainable Open Biodiversity Knowledge
Management that is attentive to scientific,
sociological, legal, and financial aspects

30. Bouchout Declaration
When do you sign?
bouchout@plazi.org
bouchoutdeclaration.org