1. GBIF and the Biodiversity Informatics Landscape Donald Hobern GBIF Director Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) London, 24 July 2013

2. Vision - a world in which: Biodiversity information is freely and universally available for science, society and a sustainable future Origins and principles Established in 2001 Response to OECD recommendation Open to all countries Voluntary memorandum of understanding (MoU)

3. GBIF Participation Last updated: 2013-01-03 58 countries (38 voting and 20 associate) 46 international organisations

4. 12 years – 405 million records

5. New portal – October 2013

6. Weaknesses with distributed data Id: CURC-00015436 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 Longitude: 52.52 Id: CURC-00015436 Species: Acalles dubius Species: Acalles camelus Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 Longitude: 52.52 Curator Taxonomist Reidentifies Digitises Id: CURC-00015436 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 Longitude: 52.52 Distribution Modeller Uses Id: CURC-00015436 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 Longitude: 52.52 Environment Agency Rejects x Id: CURC-00015436 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 52.52 Longitude: 52.52 13.41 Climate Change Researcher Corrects

7. Toward a shared knowledgebase Curator Taxonomist Reidentifies Digitises Distribution Modeller Uses Environment Agency Flags issue Climate Change Researcher Corrects Id: CURC-00015436 Version: 1 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 Longitude: 52.52 Global Biodiversity Knowledgebase Id: CURC-00015436 Version: 2 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 13.41 Longitude: 52.52 Issue detected: Locality Id: CURC-00015436 Version: 3 Species: Acalles dubius Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 52.52 Longitude: 13.41 Id: CURC-00015436 Version: 4 Species: Acalles camelus Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 52.52 Longitude: 13.41 Technician Photographer Id: CURC-00015436 Version: 6 Species: Acalles camelus Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 52.52 Longitude: 13.41 Sequence: ATTGCA... Image: 15436.jpg Images Sequences Distribution model Acalles camelus Id: CURC-00015436 Version: 6 Species: Acalles camelus Location: Berlin, Germany Latitude: 52.52 Longitude: 13.41 Sequence: ATTGCA... Image: 15436.jpg Uses Publishes model

8. So what is needed? Data standards Persistent storage Culture of open reuse Collaborative curation Mobilising all primary data Interpretation of primary data

9. Persistent storage Long-term data management Stable data identifiers and citation Data replication

10. Culture of open reuse

11. Collaborative curation

13. Building the knowledgebase e-Infrastructure (services and culture to support data reuse) Organised Data (specific views and indexes of data) Models (best estimates of reality) Primary Data (all streams of biodiversity data) Assessments and Indicators Environmental, Climatic and Sociological Data

14. Thank you Donald Hobern, dhobern@gbif.org GBIF Director Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) London, 24 July 2013

15. Parallels with climate data https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vast-machine

16. Knowledge today is easily lost Hexadactilia trilobata, Sulawesi Image copyright Richard Seaman Second known individual Only live photo for genus Ochyrotica taiwanica, Taipei City, 30 Jan 2011. Image copyright http://www.flickr.com/people/cchsieh/ How do we connect experts with such observations?