Global biodiversity data is critical for conservation, policymaking, and scientific research. However, most data is held by small, isolated publishers and is difficult to access. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) aims to mobilize this "small data" by creating common data standards and tools to publish data through its Integrated Publishing Toolkit. This allows data to be discovered through GBIF's portal and used for applications like predicting climate change impacts and invasive species spread. GBIF calls on all data holders to publish their data openly through its framework to build a comprehensive global resource for biodiversity data.

1. GLOBALBIODIVERSITY Helsinki, 13 August 2009 INFORMATIONFACILITY Discovery and Mobilisation of Primary Biodiversity Data: Challenges and Potentials Vishwas Chavan GBIF Secretariat WWW.GBIF.ORG Building the Biodiversity Informatics Commons

2. Primary Biodiversity Data: Definition Primary Biodiversity Data are the digital text or multimedia data records that detail the instance of an organism – the ‘what, where, when, how and by whom’ of the organism’s occurrence and recording

3. Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity Policy development and decision making (at local, national, regional, and global levels) Biodiversity Data Monitoring of status and trends of biodiversity (sound science) Significance of Biodiversity Data

5. Analyse and predict spread of pests and diseases of humans, crops, livestock, wildlife, etc.

6. Predict best places to set up new protected areas

7. Analyse invasive species and predict invasion pathways

8. Provide policymaker-relevant data of all kinds

10. It is all about…… Data Data Data Data Data Data Content Data Data Data Data Data Content Content Content Content Data Data Content Data Data Data Content Data Content Content Data Content Content Data Data Content Content Data Data Data Data Content Data Data Content Data Content Data Data Data Data Data Content Data Data Data

12. Data exchange / sharing

13. Digital Data Publishing

14. Free and Open Access

16. Few more facts….. Investment in biodiversity information management is towards large projects Research in biodiversity informatics is focused towards large data publishers Small Data Publishers – A neglected mass!

18. Most of existing and future data would be hold by Small Data Publishers

19. 80% of current investment is towards Small Data Publishers

20. Total Awards: 9347

21. Big Awards: 1869

22. SMALL Awards: 7478

24. Distributed and isolated

25. Manually generated

26. Individual creation

27. Not maintained for reuse by others

28. Obscured or protected

29. Uneven distribution as well unequal access

31. developing an advanced informatics infrastructure for the global scientific (+ national research institutions) community for accessing and sharing data and thereby making better use of the huge investments in data collection, storage, management and updating of biodiversity information in countries.

33. GBIF’s multilateral mandate Catalyse building a global informatics research infrastructure by: - promoting global participation, working through and linking up a global network of partners - Enabling publishing of biodiversity data - promoting development of data exchange standards - building an informatics architecture - capacity building - catalysing development of analytical tools data provider / aggregator

35. Searches

36. Taxonomic

37. Geographic, by

38. country,

39. region, or

40. bounding-box

41. By dataset

42. or a combination of these

43. Taxonomic browse navigation using choice of classification

44. Web serviceshttp://data.gbif.org/

45. Georef’d data via GBIF portal (>181m records mapped to a 1 X 1 degree grid)

46. In summary…GBIF’s Informatics Improved access to Names, Metadata and Primary Biodiversity Data Distributed GBIF informatics architecture Faster and easier publishing of data

47. At the core, a Discovery System DiscoverySystem ServicePublishers Others… Registering Discovering DataPublishers Consumers Searching Retrieving

48. That links to resources… Who? Institutions, Collections … What? Data, Services, GUID/LSID… Where? Location, Access points… When? Temporal Scope… How Formats, protocols, qualities …./ A distributed service ………….. which resolves to information resources

49. GBRDS: empowering discovery

50. Key Components: the IPT Registration (GBRDS) + Publishing of Names, Metadata, Primary biodiversity data etc… IPT Data Publisher The Integrated Publishing Toolkit isa state-of-the-art tool to simplify the mobilization of biodiversity information resources such as Names, Metadata andprimary biodiversity data

51. Simple process! The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) is designed to simplify the mapping, indexing and harvesting of Names, Metadata and Primary Biodiversity Data!

52. Building a comprehensive global architecture for nomenclature

53. Examples of resources provided by GBIF all are free

54. Data mobilised by the USA, including other countries of origin

55. GBIF Data portal and data access/sharing/ repatriation

56. Users of GBIF data Scientists, experts Government officials at all levels Education at all levels NGOs and the general public These needs are highly varied, but can be met by open access to the same datasets The same data can be analysed differently for different uses

57. Integrating Biodiversity Data… World Database on Protected Areas Primary Biodiversity Data >60,000 protected areas >181 M specimenand observation data Species geo-referenced data. taxonomic resolution (intelligence) Spain Madagascar Visualisation on WDPA site Each Protected Area polygon processed…. Data processing from the two databases

64. Moving towards… global integration ? Migratory Spp. ThreatenedSpp.; Red List Spp. Invasives, crop wild relatives, medicinals, etc.

66. Invader - fastest spreading mosquito in the world

67. Aggressive daytime biter and pest

69. Aedes albopictus:potential USA invasion Projected Asian niche onto present USA to create invasion risk-map.

70. Aedesalbopictus: actual USA invasion (by county)

71. Aedes albopictus: world risk-map (present)

72. Using GBIF data in CC models Sterculiaceae (Meliaceae, Dipterocapaceae)

74. Some do gain habitat potential, but this requires migration and suitable habitat (for forests) at destination;

78. Addresses social, technical, and policy concerns

80. Data Publishing = Scholarly Publishing ?

81. Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity Policy development and decision making (at local, national, regional, and global levels) Primary Biodiversity Data Monitoring of status and trends of biodiversity (sound science)

82. www.gbif.org Thank you! Vishwas Chavan: vchavan@gbif.org

83. How to contact GBIF: Web site:www.gbif.org Data portal:data.gbif.org GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 152100 CopenhagenDenmark E-mail:info@gbif.org Phone: +45 3532 1470 Fax: +45 3532 1480 GBIF Secretariat building, supported by a grant from the Aage V. Jensens Fonde