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Danish Biodiversity Information Facility Status and Future Danish Biodiversity Information Facility Status and Future “GBIF will do for biodiversity information what the printing press did for the sharing of recorded information during the Renaissance - it will make recorded knowledge the common property of everyone, not just the elect few. Even better, GBIF will do it electronically, so the resource will be dynamic, interactive, and ever-evolving” - GBIF Strategic Plan 2007-2011 Introduction This document outlines the rationale for building a mechanism to provide global and unified internet access to the world's supply of primary scientific data on biodiversity. The document further describes what has been done to engage in such a huge endeavour and in particular Denmark’s current and future role in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF1). GBIF carries out its work through a coordinating secretariat and through the concerted efforts of its participants. GBIF participants sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), and Denmark was among the first to sign in 2001. GBIF participants include over 70 countries and international organisations – among the latter the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, the Catalogue of Life partnership, the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), and the Nordic Gene Bank may be mentioned. The GBIF secretariat is hosted by the University of Copenhagen. The Danish Natural Science Research Council (DNSRC) pays Denmark’s annual contribution to GBIF. Each GBIF participant contributes to the work through a node. DanBIF (Danish Biodiversity Information Facility2) was founded in 2001 as Denmark’s GBIF node. The DanBIF secretariat is housed at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. DanBIF is co-financed by the DNSRC and the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. The current funding period for DanBIF terminates June 30, 2008. The purpose of this document is hence to provide information for DNSRC on the status and future plans of DanBIF. Rationale Why a Global Biodiversity Information Facility? Global biodiversity is a handy phrase describing the genetic variety and ecological associations for all the species on the Earth. Biodiversity research is, more than most other types of research, dependant on huge amounts of primary data. The simplest primary data needed are of the form “species X was collected or observed on location Y at time Z”. Other types of primary data include genetic data such as DNA sequences and ecological data such as population sizes. The amount of species-level primary data alone is astronomical, countable in the billions. These data are scattered among numerous private and public collections, libraries, research and museum databases, etc., all over the World. The majority of these data are not at present easily accessible. But, as within other fields of science, a digital revolution is taking place through greatly enhanced tools and media for electronic capture, storage and processing of biodiversity data. In parallel, and by the systematic use of databases, the Internet is evolving into a research tool whereby the species-level data may be combined in analyses with data from multiple levels of biological organisation, e.g. molecular or ecological sensor-web data, and with geospatial and climate data. Such an integrated research methodology is needed to solve the increasingly complex research questions taking, for 1 www.gbif.org 2 www.danbif.dk 1 example, a systems-level approach to changes in biodiversity. Finding the right data in the exponentially growing multitude of data (data-mining) is a huge and continuously growing challenge for biodiversity researchers. It is the mission of GBIF to facilitate unified digital access to and global dissemination of primary biodiversity data, so that people from all countries can benefit from the use of the information. At the time of writing (November 20, 2007) 140 million primary biodiversity data are available through the newly launched 2nd version of the GBIF data portal3. GBIFs ambition is to reach the first 1 billion records of primary data by the end of the year 20084. To reach this goal, and thereby becoming the necessary tool for basic and applied biodiversity research, GBIF is strongly dependant on contributions from its participants (Appendix 1). The GBIF secretariat in Copenhagen can do little more than coordinate the efforts of its participants. Each participant of GBIF is obliged to set up a participant node which helps to make biodiversity data from distributed providers available for search and query through the GBIF data portal and to develop tools for analysing these data. Why a Danish Biodiversity Information Facility? Denmark has a strong biodiversity research tradition, and as a result, a very large body of primary data is available in Danish collections, archives and databases. These include “national data”, i.e., data on organisms living in Denmark, but also “global data” concerning the rest of the World, collected by Danish researchers. The national data are, in addition to being useful for basic research, also needed for managers of natural resources and policy- makers if they want their decisions to be based on results from the most accurate scientific analyses. The global data are similarly useful both for basic and applied research not only in Denmark, but all over the World. The basic goal of DanBIF is to actively contribute to GBIF through the development of easy and unified access to Danish national and global biodiversity data. However, DanBIF has a broader scope. It also provides a forum for Danish biodiversity researchers to meet and inspire one another through international conferences, sponsored by DanBIF, on topical biodiversity themes. The overall functions of DanBIF include: 1) Contributing to the development and operation of GBIF and its IT-infrastructure. 2) Guiding Danish users of biodiversity resources to access and utilise the global network of knowledge and data. 3) Making Danish biodiversity data available for search through the GBIF portal. 4) Organising activities within the Danish research network to facilitate cross-cutting research projects within biodiversity. Function 1. Contributing to the development and operation of GBIF and its IT infrastructure Being part of the GBIF network of members GBIF functions through the data provided by members to the GBIF portal, and through their ideas and the recommendations they contribute, including tools for reliable and reproducible data analyses. With its active participation in the GBIF Governing Board and NODES Committee activities, DanBIF plays an important direct role in the operation and development of GBIF. 3 http://data.gbif.org 4 Inaugural speech of the newly appointed director of the GBIF secretariat, Dr. Nicolas King, http://www.gbif.org/Stories/STORY1194436774 2 DanBIF is the mechanism by which Denmark coordinates and sustains its global data- sharing activities. The DanBIF secretariat encourages, supports and coordinates the contribution of data by Danish providers, and maintains the required information technology (IT) infrastructure and expertise for this purpose. The secretariat acts as the information gateway between the GBIF network and the Danish biodiversity science community. During the prototype phase of GBIF (2001 through 2006), DanBIF significantly contributed (Appendix 2) to the primary objective of GBIF in building a critical mass of biodiversity data. In doing this, a proof of concept was established for the GBIF data portal. Moving beyond this largely technical vision, the operational phase of GBIF now takes a much more user- focused approach, implementing an enhanced phase, in which GBIF will embody a dynamic worldwide community, able to respond to the needs of both scientific and applied users of biodiversity information. As outlined in the GBIF strategic and operational plans for 2007- 20115, GBIF works to accomplish its goals through three main themes: Content, Informatics and Participation. These themes are reflected in the functions, achievements and future plans of DanBIF. To reach the targets for content, regarding both quantity of records and usefulness through adequate taxonomic, temporal and spatial coverage of data, a new decentralised implementation of GBIF is taking place. Implicit in this decentralised model is a more prominent role for GBIF Nodes, particularly as regards expediting the establishment and consolidation of national, regional, and thematic “BIFs” (biodiversity information facilities) to mirror GBIF activities at more local levels (Appendix 1). This approach will also aid to obtain greater tangible benefits of GBIF at the national and local levels. Future plans for DanBIF include engaging in this decentralisation by: • Mediating the benefits of GBIF by actively promoting and advancing the national scientific and applied use of the GBIF data portal. • Collecting and conveying feedback from stakeholders regarding the portal’s ongoing development of web-services and functionality. • Targeting national data sharing and digitisation efforts to aid in solving specific research questions. DanBIF engages in partnerships with other existing GBIF nodes to exchange knowledge and IT tools6, or to provide GBIF-funded mentoring services7 for the development of new GBIF nodes. A previous mentoring effort concerned Ghana and future plans include Tanzania through the GBIF Capacity Enhancement Programme for Developing Countries8. Future plans for DanBIF include: building a regional "BIF"
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