GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

GLOBALBIODIVERSITY

INFORMATIONFACILITY

WWW.GBIF.ORG

Georeferencing Georeferencing WorkshopWorkshop

Dec. 5-7, 2006

Larry Speers


“Taken collectively, the plant and animal specimens in the world’s museum collections combined with recent observational and monitoring data provide our most complete picture of the biological diversity of the planet.”


History of Collections Development

• Collection growth has not been strategic but has been dependent on the:

• Taxonomic interests of individual staff members present at any particular time

• Changing emphasis and interests of funding agencies

• Opportunities for staff to participate in various collecting activities/expeditions

• National interests - changing political situations • Personal networks of individual staff members

for the exchange of material


Impact of Historic Development Impact of Historic Development

Critical material is often not located in local collections

It is impossible to predict the holdings of any collection either taxonomically, temporally or geographically.

Each collection only has a small portion of the relevant material that is needed to address most scientific questions.


Why was GBIF established ?Why was GBIF established ? To make primary scientific data about

biodiversity openly and freely accessible to everyone, no matter where in the world they live. Calls from governments, industry and the

public for scientific biodiversity information are increasing steadily.

Basic biodiversity information is needed for environmental decision-making, scientific inquiry, and economic development.


GBIF Voting Participants: GBIF Voting Participants: 26 26 Australia Belgium Canada Costa Rica Denmark Equatorial

Guinea Estonia

Finland France Germany Iceland Japan Rep. of

Korea Mexico Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua Peru Portugal Slovenia South Africa Spain Sweden UK USA

as of 30 Sep 2005


GBIF Associate Participants: 20 countries GBIF Associate Participants: 20 countries

Argentina

Austria

Benin

Bulgaria

Cameroon

Colombia

Czech Rep.

Ghana

Guinea

India

Indonesia

Madagascar

Morocco

Pakistan Papua New

Guinea Philippines Poland Slovakia Switzerland Tanzania

as of 30 Sep 2005


GBIF Associate Participants: 32 International Organisations / Economies

GBIF Associate Participants: 32 International Organisations / Economies

ARCBC ASEANET BGBC BioNET BIOSIS CABI Bioscience CBOL EASIANET European

Commission ETI Finding Species FreshwaterLife IABIN ICIPE ICZN ITIS

IUCN NatureServe NGB NSCA OBIS PBIF SAFRINET SBSV Species 2000 Taiwan TDWG UNESCO MAB UNEP WDCBE WFCC Wildscreen Trust

as of 30 Sep 2005

Growth of GBIF data

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World data (80 million records)

Taxonomy

Geography

Datasets

Animalia Fungi Plantae

Annelida Arthropoda Ascomycota Basidiomycota Coniferophyta Equisetophyta

India

NCL

NBN

INBio

BeBIF

GA000028

GA000027

CCWJMP03

BSBIDEMO

BRCCRAY0

Atta

IHEM

LMG

MUCL

Xylarium

Exploring biodiversity data

Asia

Africa

Europe

China

Benin

Belgium

Bangladesh

Angola

Congo

Andorra

Italy

India

ChordataChordata

IndOBISIndOBIS

Organisation of biodiversity data:

1. By taxonomy(taxonomists, naturalists, public, etc.)

2. By geography(GBIF participants, public, etc.)

3. By data resources(GBIF participants, data providers, etc.)

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