Glossary

The GBIF portal is the place to find biodiversity data

The GBIF Participants

The GBIF Nodes network

The GBIF Governance

Citizen Science & Biodiversity Data

What data is already available from iNaturalist

The GBIF portal is the place to find biodiversity data

Main concepts of a living Atlas project

GBIF data reuse by scientists

GBIF Science review

GBIF interaction with CBD

Delivering relevant data

Science Policy Interface

How GBIF works

Open Science & FAIR data

Best data management practices

Organize your Data and Metadata

Openrefine saves time

Openrefine saves time

SQL can be very useful to clean your data

Views are great to filter the records and fields you want to keep without changing your original data

Store your SQL statements under Git

SQL statements are easy to understand, sustainable and reusable

Open Science & FAIR data

Darwin Core isn’t difficult to apply, it just takes a little bit of time.

Using Darwin Core allows datasets from across projects, organizations, and countries to be integrated together.

Applying certain general principles to the data will make it easier to map to Darwin Core.

Implementing Darwin Core makes data FAIR-er and means becoming part of a community of people working together to understand species no matter where they work or are based.

When doing conversions it’s best to break out your data into it’s component pieces.

Dates are messy to deal with. Some packages have easy solutions, otherwise use regular expressions to align date strings to ISO 8601.

Latitude and longitudes are like dates, they can be messy to deal with. Take a similar approach.

You are not alone in this world

Darwin Core star schema with core and extensions to model the multitude of biological observation data.

Identifiers fields are important keys in your data and we recommend building them from the information in your data.

Minimum Data fields Requirements for each class.

Linking Core entities with the extensions.

The IPT is a well-documented and flexible system for publishing data to GBIF (and OBIS)

Some Darwin Core and Ecological Metadata Language fields are required for publishing to GBIF (and OBIS).

Strive to write more than the minimal metadata

Use at least the GBIF data validator before you publish data on the network

IPT is the main tool to publish your data to GBIF

Use the DOI

The GBIF portal is the place to find biodiversity data

GBIF Registry

Pygbif & Rgbif

Webservices API

GRSciColl a central registry maintained by GBIF

GRSciColl a community effort

A GBIF hosted portal is a nice way to showcase your data

How GBIF works

The Living Atlases community builds on the open-source Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) platform.

GBIF nodes can use Living Atlas modules to build national biodiversity data portals.

The community organizes workshops and provides support for new implementations.

TDWG community

TDWG standards

TDWG conferences

CESP supports collaborative capacity-enhancement projects between GBIF nodes.

Mentoring is one of the CESP activity types available to nodes.

BID supports biodiversity data mobilization in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific, and the Caribbean.

BID grants fund national, regional, and small projects.

The GBIF portal is the place to find biodiversity data

A data mobilization strategy helps you in organizing your data mobilization

Node success depends on interaction with your stakeholders.

Some stakeholders (with high influence & interest) are key.

Continue practicing with your own datasets after the workshop.

The GBIF community and national nodes are available to support you.