Symposium on Key Innovations in Biodiversity Informatics

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Symposium on Key Innovations in Biodiversity
Informatics

• GBIF Work Program Outreach and Capacity Building
• Beatriz Torres
• btorres_at_gbif.org
• 20-21October 2002, Indaiatuba, Brazil

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Outreach (users and providers)

• Scientific community
• Conservation organizations
• General public
• Policy and decision makers

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Outreach Main components

• Open invitation to participate
• Contributing to key thematic and highly visible
  events, i.e. Scientific meetings, Convention on
  Biological Diversity, IUCN Protected Areas
  Congress, etc.)

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Capacity Building

• Institutional Capacity Building
• Working with nodes to provide connectivity,
  sharing technologies, new developments, ...
• Leverage (identification of other efforts) and
  forging of synergies.

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Human Capacity Building

• Support to National Nodes
• Define best practices
• Identify institutional and human capacity
  building gaps
• Develop training courses for node development
  covering on i.e (a) software packages, (b)
  standards and protocols (c) information
  management and networking

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ECAT

• Support the production of regional checklists
• Assist ECAT efforts to populate databases (i.e.
  dissemination of standards and formats)

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DIGITISATION

• Support elaboration of best practices handbook
• Assessment of training needs (2002)
• 2 pilot projects
• 2 training modules (staff and scientists)
• Training of trainers (2004)

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DADI

• Develop proof of concept products (i.e. very
  useful, demonstrative, and scalable pilots)
• Implement products
• Monitor usage and evaluate impact

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Other key issues
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Repatriation of data and information

• International community assigns great importance
  to this topic.
• Role to be played by GBIF
• Contribution to the implementation of CBD (Art.
  17.2 on Exchange of information)

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Repatriation

• Within a framework of training and scientific and
  technical cooperation
• Facilitate scientific exchanges (i.e. between
  biodiversity-rich countries and large
  collection-based facilities).
• Development of agreements/MoUs
• Pilots to provide hands-on training and
  experience on digitization of collections and how
  to use the recently acquired data
• Analyze existing experiences and approaches
  (white paper)
• Small experts Workshop (Dec 2003)

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Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)

• GBIF will not assert any IPRs in the data of
  affiliated data providers
• Data ownership remains with data providers
• Data sources are acknowledged

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Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)

• White paper(s) on i.e IPRs vis a vis data
  ownership, will explore existing experiences and
  approaches,
• Expertsworkshop (Dec. 2003)
• Contact us gbif_at_gbif.org