GBIF Norway contributed to a symposium organized jointly by Biodiversa+ and GBIF, to discuss the requirements for national biodiversity monitoring hubs in the context of proposals for a European Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre.

1. Voting Participants
Associate Participants
Monitoring data via GBIF
Dag Endresen – GBIF Norway
Niels Raes – GBIF Netherlands | NLBIF
Biodiversa+ monitoring hubs, Helsinki | 16th April 2024
Illustration: GBIF nodes in Europe and Central Asia

2. GBIF NODES IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
https://www.gbif.org/the-gbif-network/europe
Voting Participants
Associate Participants

3. nodes support
data publishing
and data use

4. GBIF NODES CAN SUPPORT A NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY MONITORING HUB
• GBIF nodes have the expertise and mandates
to support national data publication and
implement data flow solutions.
• Including biodiversity monitoring data relevant
for Biodiversa+
• National biodiversity monitoring hubs could
delegate (technical) data solutions to GBIF
nodes (and focus on network coordination).
• Bonus: GBIF nodes will connect data streams
and facilitate (FAIR) reuse for multiple
purposes.

5. CESP BIREME – EU NODES IN BIODIVERSITY REPORTING MECHANISMS
• The GBIF nodes of Belgium, France, Ireland, Norway, and
Portugal initiated in 2017 and 2018 the GBIF CESP BiReMe
project to describe and understand nature-related reporting
processes and how GBIF can facilitate data flow.
• We looked together with the European Environment Agency
(EEA) at the Habitats Directive, Birds Directive, Water
Framework Directive, Marine Strategy Framework Directive,
and the Invasive Species Regulation.
• The final report suggests how improvements to the GBIF
infrastructure and tools can contribute to improved EU
reporting.
• National data reporting via GBIF nodes will also make these
data available for other purposes (in line with the FAIR data
principles).
https://www.gbif.org/project/83336/european-bireme-eu-nodes-in-biodiversity-reporting-mechanisms

6. CESP OPENPSD – PRIVATE SECTOR SPECIES DATA ON GBIF
• A significant number of biodiversity data is
recorded each year by private companies.
• Collected through consultancy contracts for
environmental impact assessments and
national monitoring programmes.
• This data often remains locked in reports
unavailable to the wider scientific community
and society as a whole.
• The GBIF nodes of Spain, Norway, Colombia,
Portugal, and France initiated in 2019 to 2021
a GBIF CESP project together with national
private sector partners a project to collect
experiences and develop guidelines to open up
monitoring data from the private sector
through GBIF.
https://www.gbif.org/project/2Zik1tfJoh3C92ZslvhDIr/openpsd-promoting-publication-and-use-of-private-sector-data-on-biodiversity

7. PUBLISH YOUR DATASETS WITH GBIF
1. Register your data publisher (institution)
2. Digitize your species biodiversity data
3. Convert dataset to Darwin Core format
4. Your national GBIF node can support
publishing your dataset
https://www.gbif.org/publishing-data/ | https://manual.obis.org/index.html#guidelines-on-the-sharing-and-use-of-data-in-obis

8. biodiversity
data types

9. A WINDOW ON EVIDENCE ABOUT WHERE SPECIES HAVE LIVED, AND WHEN
Digitized
specimens
Observations
Literature
Remote-sensing
Sensor data Environmental DNA
Common
standards
(DwC)
Data publishing
and indexing
Data discovery and use

10. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS USING GBIF-MEDIATED DATA
https://www.gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=literature&literatureType=journal&relevance=GBIF_USED&peerReview=true
More than 3 papers each day
#CiteTheDOI

11. EXAMPLE: GBIF NORWAY
https://www.gbif.no/

12. BIODIVERSITY DATA FOR POLICY DECISIONS IN
NORWAY – VIA GBIF
• The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC,
Artsdatabanken) requires all species observations
(occurrences) used for creating the national lists of threatened
species (red list), invasive species (black list), etc. to be
available via GBIF.
• The national checklist of species names for species occuring
in Norway is published and made available via GBIF.
Artskart https://www.artsdatabanken.no/

13. BIODIVERSITY DATA FOR POLICY DECISIONS IN
NORWAY – VIA GBIF
• The Nordic Crop Wild Relative (CWR) species checklist is
published in GBIF.
• National CWR populations conserved in situ are reported
and published in GBIF directly from distributed data
sources.
• Assessment of CWR populations and in situ conservation
status is calculated from the CWR data available in GBIF.
Nordic CWR checklist https://doi.org/10.15468/itkype

14. LIVING NORWAY ECOLOGICAL DATA NETWORK
• Datasets using the GBIF sampling event format is aggregated and presented
through the GBIF hosted portal (developed and hosted by GBIF).
• GBIF Hosted Portal - https://data.livingnorway.no/ (114 datasets)
• The Living Norway Ecological Data Network is a collaborative joint effort to
coordinate and mobilise survey and monitoring ecological data in Norway.
• Funded by the participating institutions (need stable permanent funding).
https://livingnorway.no/ | https://data.livingnorway.no/

15. THANK YOU
www.gbif.org
GBIF Norway | Dag Endresen
GBIF Netherlands (NLBIF) | Niels Raes