Project initiation meeting of Indo-Norwegian Pilot Project on Capacity Building in Biodiversity Informatics towards IPBES Role of Biodiversity Information Facilities in sharing and use of biodiversity information Vishwas Chavan, and Olaf Banki Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Email: [email protected]28 October 2011
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Project initiation meeting of Indo-Norwegian Pilot Project on Capacity Building in Biodiversity Informatics towards IPBES
Role of Biodiversity Information Facilities in sharing and use of biodiversity information
Vishwas Chavan, and Olaf BankiGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)Email: [email protected]
28 October 2011
World governments fail to halt biodiversity lossReuters UK
GLOBAL: World fails to meet biodiversity targetUniversity World News
Biodiversité: objectifs non atteints selon l'ONUAFP
Third of all plants and animals 'at risk of extinction‘Times Online
Biodiversité : les solutions de l'ONU pour éviter la catastropheLe Figaro
UN fears 'irreversible' damage to natural environmentAFP
International call for 'bailout' plan to safeguard biodiversityNY Times
World risks irreversible biodiversity lossThe Hindu
Biodiversity: In News
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2010) Rethinking Global Biodiversity Strategies: Exploring structural changes in production and consumption to reduce biodiversity Loss. http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/500197001.pdf
MSA: Mean Species Abundance. MSA is an indicator of naturalness or biodiversity intactness
Biodiversity: A Global Context
“If the world made equivalent losses in share prices, there would be a rapid response andwidespread panic.“
Biodiversity: A Global Context
“a wake-up call for humanity”
“a wake-up call for humanity”
A simplistic view: one of many scenarios!
ContentContent
Environmental and human well-being
Environmental and human well-being
PublishersPublishers
ScienceScience
PolicyPolicy
Significance of biodiversity data
GBIF, Global infrastructure for biodiversity data
Vision: A world in which biodiversity information is freely and universally available for science, society, and a sustainable future
Vision: A world in which biodiversity information is freely and universally available for science, society, and a sustainable future
OECD Global Science Forum recommendation in 2000: establish a global initiative to facilitate free and open access to worlds’ biodiversity data
OECD Global Science Forum recommendation in 2000: establish a global initiative to facilitate free and open access to worlds’ biodiversity data
GBIF, Global infrastructure for biodiversity data
“This facility will enable users to navigate and put to use vast quantities of biodiversity information, thereby:
• advancing scientific research…• serving the economic…• providing a basis from which our knowledge of the natural world can grow rapidly..”
“This facility will enable users to navigate and put to use vast quantities of biodiversity information, thereby:
• advancing scientific research…• serving the economic…• providing a basis from which our knowledge of the natural world can grow rapidly..”
GBIF, Global infrastructure for biodiversity data
Responsive to government needs/demands in biodiversity management – government-initiated, and government funded
Responsive to government needs/demands in biodiversity management – government-initiated, and government funded
Developing an advanced informatics infrastructure for the (global) scientific research community for accessing and sharing data and thereby making better use of the huge investments (by national institutions and others) in data collection, storage, management and updating of biodiversity information in countries
Developing an advanced informatics infrastructure for the (global) scientific research community for accessing and sharing data and thereby making better use of the huge investments (by national institutions and others) in data collection, storage, management and updating of biodiversity information in countries
Started in 2001Started in 2001
56 Countries; 47 International Organisations
1000’s of individuals and datasets.....
GBIF, current Participants
October 2011: >312 million occurrence records from >18,000 + datasets from >342 publishers and spanning a wide range of geospatial, temporal and taxonomic coverages, being shared through distributed network
GBIF, data coverage
GBIF, universal access to data
Conservation and
sustainable use of
biodiversity
Policy development and decision
making (at local, national,
regional, and global levels)
Monitoring of status and trends of
biodiversity(sound science)
GBIF-enabled data and analyses
GBIF, Improving the Science-Policy interface
Data intensive science
Data helps in addressing micro to macro level scientific, social, and economic challenges
Data helps in addressing micro to macro level scientific, social, and economic challenges
21st century India: challenges
Exploding populationExploding population
Natural resources based economy
Natural resources based economy
Need for biodiversity information
Need for biodiversity information
It is essential for countries to have a biodiversity data discovery and
mobilization strategy in alignment with their overall national biodiversity strategy & action plan (NBSAP)
It is essential for countries to have a biodiversity data discovery and
mobilization strategy in alignment with their overall national biodiversity strategy & action plan (NBSAP)
“However, we currently lack best practice guidelines on how to develop demand-driven strategies and action plans”
Berents et.al., 2010
“However, we currently lack best practice guidelines on how to develop demand-driven strategies and action plans”
Berents et.al., 2010
Source: Berents, Hamer and Chavan (2011). Towards demand-driven publishing: Approaches to the prioritisation of digitization of natural history collections data. Biodiversity Informatics, 7(2): 113-119.
Importance of strategic planning
Participant BIFs: catalysing data intensive biodiversity science
• Promoting• Policies on open access to biodiversity data• Sharing and use of biodiversity (demonstrating benefits and applications)
• Coordinating• Data sharing activities, including digitization plans• Interactions amongst the network partners, at levels including national, regional, international
• Facilitating• Tools, documentation, best practices for data sharing• Information infrastructure for inventory, discovery, and access to biodiversity data
• Promoting• Policies on open access to biodiversity data• Sharing and use of biodiversity (demonstrating benefits and applications)
• Coordinating• Data sharing activities, including digitization plans• Interactions amongst the network partners, at levels including national, regional, international
• Facilitating• Tools, documentation, best practices for data sharing• Information infrastructure for inventory, discovery, and access to biodiversity data