2010: Simplified Data Publishing Solutions

Darwin Core Archives for taxonomic and primary biodiversity data

17th Meeting of the GBIF Governing Board, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Discovery and Publishing of Data through the GBIF Network: The State-of-the-Network & Potentials

Vishwas ChavanSenior Programme Officer for DIGIT

vchavan@gbif.org

October 2010

Content for Science and Society

More content

Better Science

Informed decisions

Objective

• Status of the Publishing• Content assessment• Preparedness of the Network• Potential of the Network• Lessons learnt & future plans

Status of Data Publishing

% of increase in Data Records, Data Publishers, and Data Records are on decline

Status of Data Publishing

Developing regions are the largest data contributor

The Avian Knowledge Network is the largest single Data Publisher

Over 2700 data resources to be indexed

The DiGIR protocol is used by over 60% of Data Publishers

Data resources published by USA-based publishers receive the maximum number of search hits and return maximum data records, download events, and downloaded records

Geographical bias

Content Assessment

Regional distribution of recordsin the GBIF Index.

Content Assessment

Taxonomical bias

Content Assessment

Observation vs. Specimen

Temporal bias - Data deluge

Preparedness of the Network•Data discovery in nascent stage

•Lack of metadata catalogues

•Opportunistic nature of data publishing

•Lack of Content Needs Assessment •Unplanned data discovery and publishing activities

Preparedness of the Network•Lack of Strategy & Action Plans

•2.453 billion records identified by 27 Participants

•818 million are digital data records

•Participants committed to publish only 23% (195+ million) records by the end of 2010.

Potential of the GBIF Network (2009)

27 Participant NODES reported availability of 2.453 billion data records

Need for Local to Global Scale efforts

Need for Local to Global Scale efforts