1. Inventarisation of Dutch institutes and organisations holding biodiversity information Natural history collections, observation data: Who is who?  names, addresses, websites Who has what?  collections, observations expertise Metadatabase

2. Availability, location and digital status of biodiversity data Will these data become published on-line? Can NLBIF stimulate disclosure of these collections and observation data? What are obstacles for digitisation or on-line publication? Metadatabase Biological Collection Access Service for Europe GBIFBioCASE

3. 2004: filling the Metadatabase with data -> Nederlandse Museumvereniging, websites -> Index herbariorum, IPGRI, CABRI, BioCISE Questionnaire NLBIF Printed version will be published at the end of 2004 Metadatabase under construction on website www.nlbif.nlwww.nlbif.nl

4. Questionnaire send to ca. 60 organisations in the Netherlands size and characteristics of collections and observation data digitisation status and bottlenecks operating systems, database management / standards willingness to publish these databases on the Internet willingness to make them available to GBIF (via NLBIF) familiarity with GBIF and NLBIF? 16 returned (ca. 27%)

5. Characteristics of collections and observation data

6. Qualities of collections / observation data

7. Total # specimens (millions) What types of natural history collections ? Botanical collections National Herbarium of the Netherlands Higher plants MossesFungiFernsOtherAlgae

8. Zoological collections in the Netherlands Specimens (millions) mostly ZMA and Naturalis

9. Total # specimens Botanical gardens, Zoos, Fungal Biodiversity Centre plantsanimalsfungibacteria

10. All collections/observations/information digitised Alterra Centrum Ecosystemen, Wageningen Center for Genetic Resources, Wageningen Hortus Leiden Hubrecht Laboratorium, Utrecht NIOO Yerseke RAVON Nijmegen RIVM Bilthoven RIVO IJmuiden CBS Utrecht (nearly all digitised) Digitisation status

11. ZMA11.9 million specimens: 2.8 % digitised Naturalis8.5 million specimens: 13.3 % digitised NHN6.1 million specimens: 11 % digitised Digitisation status: lots of work to do!

12. 50 % of respondents has web-based databases for (parts of) data 30% is planning develop them in near future 20% has no intention to publish their data on the web -> never thought about it -> commercial interest individual researchers -> not allowed by funding agencies -> no money / people / computers to do this -> we are still discussing if we are going to do it -> we first want to make data available within institute Have you published your data on the Internet? Are you planning to do so?

13. Is your database connected to other (worldwide) services on the web? Centre for Genetic Resources Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS) ZMA (connected to GBIF) Dutch Ass. of Zoos yes Planning to connect in the future: 4 institutes nocommercial interest individual researchers not allowed by funding agencies what is the use? need more information! still discussing if we are going to do it no agreements on Intellectual Property Rights and Data Use

14. Database management systems: MS Access (12%) MS SQL (4%) Oracle (19%) FileMaker Pro (32%) other (42%) — TINnhm, ADLIB, Interbase, BRAHMS, Dbase, in-house developed systems Standards? Darwin Core, ABCD Operating systems: Most people use Windows

15. Are you familiar with NLBIF and GBIF? yes: 40% vague: 60% never heard about....0% Are you planning to come to this meeting?........14 people

16. Number of participants to NLBIF-meeting 14 January 2004