GBIF Info Session Brussels, 22 October 2010 BBPF

GBIF Info Session Brussels, 22 October 2010 1

Agenda Part I Digitization Projects Saproxylic Beetles - Patrick Grootaert IFBL Plants (1939-1971) - Leo VanHecke Aves Birds Observations - Jean-Yves Paquet DIPOL2 - Pierre Rasmont 2

Agenda Part II Looking Forward GBIF Governing Board 17 Other Int l Initiatives BBPF data 5th Digitization Call Demos 3

GBIF 17th Governing Board Meeting 4

GBIF Tools IPT Integrated Publishing Tool (Data Publishers) V1.0 was over-specified for most users, too slow, and not sufficiently robust a refactored Lite version of the IPT will be released by end of this year Authoring of metadata according to the GBIF metadata profile Import and mapping of checklist and occurrence data either from file upload or by connection of a database Registration to and publication onto the GBIF network Importing and mapping of data to the DarwinCore, and DarwinCore extensions Output formats of EML (2.1.0) metadata and DarwinCore Archive Improved customisation options for the "About this IPT" Improved GBIF Registry integration Improved DarwinCore extension and vocabulary organization Improved management of the organisations to which the IPT and resources are related, to enable co-hosting capabilities Enhanced dataset metadata authoring HIT Harvesting Indexing Tool (Country/Thematic participant nodes) 5

Other Int l Initiatives Lifewatch OpenUp! EPBRS This is a collaborative effort 6

Lifewatch Lifewatch is e-science and technology intrastructure for biodiversity and observatories First Stakeholders Board (7-8 September 2010) Finland, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden Lifewatch moves towards Construction! Memorandum of Cooperation with GBIF (14 june 2010) Belgium participation under evaluation (federal and federated entities) 7

Lifewatch http://www.lifewatch.eu/ 8

OpenUp! Europeana-GBIF collaboration Large consortium European participants(23) Natural Science Museums Botanical Gardens GBIF nodes Objectives: 800.000 Multimedia objects (images, sounds,...) mapping between Europeana and GBIF Metadata Budget: above 4Mio Belgian partners: NBGB, RBINS, RMCA Negociation phase ends next week! 9

EPBRS Meeting-Positive Vision Phase I Developing the vision (16-17 November 2010) During the first two days, a large participatory meeting of 250 delegates will develop inspirational, achievable and shared visions for our future and the Nature we want. Phase II Building long term policy (18-19 November 2010) The final two days of the summit will build on the vision developed at the participatory meeting. Results will be debated by a group of about 120 EPBRS delegates and invited experts to suggest the long-term science policy that will enable society to move towards these positive visions, as well as outline options for other policies. 10

EPBRS Positive Vision Meeting http://www.biodiversity.be/epbrs2010 11

BBPF Two new colleagues Sonia Vanderhoeven (Invasive Species) Hans Keune (Ecosystem Services) 12

Belgian Occurrences 861.545 records 32 datasets from 9 institutions NBGB, RBINS, MRAC BCCM FUNDP, UA, UGENT, ULB, ULg, UMONS Target 1Mio records by the end of this year 13

Belgian Datasets 14

ongoing projects Other Platform projects Harmonia species list BioBEL Forums Spin-off projects Anta-BIF (Bruno Danis, Nabil Youdjou) BioFresh (Aaike De Wever, Bos Debusscher Michel Kapel) 15

5th Digitization Call How to improve the Call? Selection critieria cost/time efficiency best practices usefulness of digitized data collaboration between institutions Small projects (10.000 ) Timing Scope? (geo, taxo, time period...) 16

Demos Belgian Data Portal http://data.biodiversity.be EOL http://www.eol.org Congo River Expedition Species Maps Beetles IFBL plants 17

Thank you for your attention 18

Thank you for your attention Aline Vanderwerf André Heughebaert Barbara Gonzalez Dimitri Brosens Estelle Balian Hans Keune Hendrik Segers Julien Cigar Nicolas Noé Sonia Vanderhoeven 18

Thank you for your attention 18