Sabine von Mering & Walter G. Berendsohn Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität Berlin GBIF Germany – an overview –

Sabine von Mering & Walter G. BerendsohnBotanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Freie Universität Berlin

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Node structure of GBIF-D

• Botanic Garden and Botanical MuseumBerlin-Dahlem (BGBM), Freie Universität Berlin:Project coordination, Plants & Protists

• Bavarian Natural History Collections Munich (SNSB): Fungi & Lichens, Evertebrata II

• German Collection of Microoranisms andCell Cultures Braunschweig (DSMZ): Bacteria & Archaea

• Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN): Insects (Evertebrata I), Fossils

• Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt (FIS): Evertebrata III (marine collection data)

• Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig Bonn (ZFMK): Vertebrates

Georeferenced specimenshosted by Germany

Georeferenced recordshosted by Germany

German contribution to GBIFand future data mobilisation

Outlook 2011-2013

•Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)

supports GBIF-D with 4.2 million € (2011-2013)

•Massive investment in technical infrastructure (end of 2010)

•Project partners: 6 German research institutions (8 nodes)

•DFG (German Research Foundation):

2 calls for proposals on digitisation of collections and

mobilisation of primary biodiversity data (decision pending)

Some key issues of the work programme

•Extending the German GBIF community,

e.g. palaeontology, algae & protists, Citizen Science, DNA bank network

•Digitisation and mobilisation of data from Natural history collections

•Extension of services offered to the community:

•Data hosting

•Joint image management (image server): German Virtual Herbarium

•Taxonomic information system

Associated partners Co-operation partnersEdaphobase

Literature and collection data

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Associated data from “grey literature“ (expertise, monitoring reports, etc.)

BioCASE/ABCD BioCASE/ABCD

Edaphobase –Soil-zoological information system

Specimen data DNA sample data

DNA Bank Network

Funded by Initiated by

www.dnabank-network.org

ABCDDNAABCD

Partners

Web portal

The GBIF-D project, „Kompetenzzentren

innovativer Datenmobilisierung“ is funded by

the Federal Ministry of Education and

Research, BMBF (grant 01 LI 1001 A).