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MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak knyttet for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

Norwegian GBIF Participant Node, 2017-2020

Alternative title: Norsk deltagernode i GBIF, 2017-2019

Awarded: NOK 11.6 mill.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data research infrastructure, funded by governments. It allows anyone, anywhere to access primary data about all types of life on Earth, shared via the global portal www.gbif.org and through national and thematic portals. GBIF operates through a network of Participant Nodes which coordinates the biodiversity information facilitation of participant countries and organizations. The data are published by many institutions from around the world with full support for the FAIR open data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). By encouraging and helping institutions to publish data according to common standards, GBIF enables research that could previously not be performed and informs better decisions to conserve and sustainably use the biological resources of the planet. GBIF was established in March 2001, following a recommendation from the OECD Mega-science Forum in 1999. Norway became a voting member in April 2004. The Norwegian participant node, GBIF Norway (www.gbif.no), established in 2005, is hosted by the Natural History Museum in close cooperation and coordination with the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken.no). The mission of GBIF Norway is to make information from Norwegian collections and other sources available to the international GBIF network and to coordinate GBIF-related activities in Norway. GBIF Norway contributes to the teaching at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo with a focus on accessing and using species occurrence data. We actively work on improving the quality of the data sets published in GBIF from Norway. GBIF Norway provides a platform for implementing persistent and resolvable identifiers for Norwegian datasets. In total, GBIF Norway facilitates (in February 2021) the publication of 41,7 million records from 305 datasets at more than 40 Norwegian institutions to the GBIF network. The global GBIF portal includes (in February 2021) 1,65 billion data records from 56 719 datasets at more than 1651 data publishing institutions worldwide.

The GBIF Norway node for the period 2017 to 2020 has been delivered according to the project contract with the Research Council and the annual work plans and status reports approved by the node steering group each year. GBIF Norway has delivered on national membership requirements as a national participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Support and helpdesk for open biodiversity research data were operative during the project period and provided support to all requests received.

The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (UiO NHM) is the host for the Norwegian participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This project proposal concerns a four-year extension Norwegian GBIF Node (project number 168002) for the project period 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2020. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments. It allows anyone, anywhere to access primary data about all types of life on Earth, shared via the global platform www.gbif.org and through national and thematic portals. GBIF operates through a network of Participant Nodes which coordinates the biodiversity information facilitation of participant countries and organizations, collaborating with each other and the Secretariat to share skills, experiences and technical capacity. The data are published by many institutions from around the world and include primary distribution and monitoring data on plants, animals, fungi and microbes, and scientific names data. By encouraging and helping institutions to publish data according to common standards, GBIF enables research that could previously not be performed, and informs better decisions to conserve and sustainably use the biological resources of the planet.

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MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak knyttet for miljø- og utviklingsforskning