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Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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UK JOINS GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY NETWORK

In 2001 the UK became a full voting member of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The goal of this international science facility is to provide world wide access, via the Internet, to geographical, ecological, genetic, and taxonomic information about the world’s biological resources.

GBIF will be a network of biodiversity databases and information technology tools that will enable users to navigate the world’s vast quantities of biodiversity information. The data will produce national economic, environmental and social benefits by advancing education and scientific research in areas such as conservation, biology, agriculture, and biomedicine.

Access to information on biodiversity will be made much easier – especially for developing countries, from which the majority of the data originates.

So far over 20 countries have joined and pledged financial support for GBIF’s first three years of operation. A number of other countries and international organisations have become associate (non-voting) participants. The UK attended the fourth meeting of the GBIF Governing Board in Canberra, Australia in March.

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1. The purpose of establishing GBIF is to design, implement, co-ordinate, and promote the compilation, linking, standardisation, digitisation and global dissemination of the world’s biodiversity data, within an appropriate framework for property rights and due attribution.

2. GBIF will avoid duplication of effort and expenditure by working in close co-operation with established programmes and organisations that compile, maintain and use biological information resources – including the Convention on Biodiversity.

3. The participants, working through GBIF, will establish and support a distributed information system that will enable users to access and utilise vast quantities of new and existing biodiversity information to generate new knowledge, wealth and ecological sustainability.

4. GBIF will:

be a distributed facility, while encouraging co-operation and coherence;
be global in scale, though implemented nationally and regionally;
be open to participation by individuals from all countries, and offering potential benefits to all countries, while being funded primarily by those countries that have the greatest financial capabilities;
help bridge human language barriers by promoting standards and software tools designed to facilitate their adaptation into multiple languages, character sets and computer encodings;
serve to disseminate technological capacity by drawing on and making widely available scientific and technical information; and
while aiming to make biodiversity information universally available, will facilitate respect for the contribution made by those gathering and furnishing this information.

5. GBIF will focus on seven areas of work: data access and database interoperability; electronic catalogue of names; digitisation of natural history collection data; species bank; digital biodiversity literature resources; training; and outreach.

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