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17th Meeting of the GBIF Governing Board, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Global Strategy and Action Plan for Mobilisation of Natural History Collections Data
Vishwas ChavanSenior Communications Officer DIGITGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
October 2010
GBIF GSAP-NHC Task GroupGBIF GSAP-NHC Task GroupGBIF GSAP-NHC Task GroupGBIF GSAP-NHC Task Group
1. TG commissioned in 2008 Q32. Survey on challenges & concerns to
digitisation3. Report endorsed by GBIF Science
Committee (October 2010)i. Summary of recommendations
ii. The size of universe of collections data: elements for preliminary approach
iii. Results of survey on challenges & concernsiv. Approaches to the prioritisation of digitisationv. Geographical & taxonomic metadata to set priorities in
specimen digitisation
GSAP-NHC: 3 recommendationsGSAP-NHC: 3 recommendationsGSAP-NHC: 3 recommendationsGSAP-NHC: 3 recommendations
1. Discovery: facilitate access to information about non-digital collection resources
2. Digitisation: increase the efficiency of data capture and to enhance data quality
3. Publication: improve & promote global infrastructure to mobilise digitised collections data
GSAP-NHC Recommendation 1: DiscoveryGSAP-NHC Recommendation 1: Discovery
GBIF must facilitate access to information about non-digital collection resources
1. Publicise research potential of collections through metadata• Author & publish metadata• Strengthen metadata publishing infrastructure
2. Assessing the number of un-digitised specimens• determine the size of the holdings of un-
digitised specimens world-wide
GSAP-NHC Recommendation 2: DigitisationGSAP-NHC Recommendation 2: Digitisation
GBIF must work with collections to continue to increase the efficiency of specimen data capture and to enhance data quality
1. Technical measures: • industrialise, technological innovations, QA/QC,
fitness-for-use, data dictionaries
2. Attribution, professional credit, institutional priorities• Data publishing framework, metadata as data
paper, institutional recognitions
3. Funding
GSAP-NHC Recommendation 3: PublicationGSAP-NHC Recommendation 3: Publication
GBIF must continue to improve and promote the global infrastructure used to mobilise digitised collections data
1. Technical measures: hosting environment, persistent identifiers
2. Outreach activities: southern hemisphere collections, small & medium sized collections
3. Political measures: national & thematic demand-driven digitisation strategies