GBIF France GBIF EU Nodes Meeting – Joensuu March 2013 Anne-Sophie Archambeau Marie-Elise Lecoq Pere Roca Ristol (Régine Vignes & Eric Chenin)
Focus on both observational and collection data 35 data publishers with 95 data sets (new ones and aggregator’s division) records (8.5M with coordinates) Metadata for 273 institutions and 1189 data sets Content
GBIF France portal development – (see Pere ROCA’s presentation) IPT2.0 and BioCase provider - DwC Technical support for data publisher (IPT) and data hosting for: - few French institutions - Benin, Cameroon, Guinea and Togo Metadata catalogue on line in EML format (on French institutions which have collection specimens, observational metadata are collected by the ministry of Environment) Development of tools: - “simple-harvest” tool for indexation (available in GBIFLab) - “SAGG” for Statistics and Analyses of Gaps on GBIF. This tool provides statistics and new data visualization to evaluate the biases in the results of the requests. Infrastructure
France cooperation with INPN (National Inventory of natural Heritage ) and MEDDTL (ministry of ecology) on metadata, architecture, standards to optimise data flow at national level e-Recolnat: national support for digitalisation and management of collection (16 millions for 5 years). The French GBIF node will be funded by this programme for the four next years. Trainings o Data quality and uses analyses workshop (3 days, 25 participants) o Workshop on persistent identifiers Digit call: 11 projects European project: OpenUp! Opening Up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana Participation
Official launch of the national GBIF user group. Success of our Digit Call SEPDD project approved (to continue SEP-CEPDEC efforts) Funding of the French GBIF node via e-Recolnat for the next 4 years Complexity and lack of governance for the national data flow Staff turn-over Future funding for the French subscription Highlights & Bottlenecks
National portal – new developments Efforts on persistent identifiers at national level Functioning GBIF user working group SEPDD to continue SEP-CEPDEC efforts Trainings (data papers, data quality…) Future developments