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NLBIF
The Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Established as a foundation in September 2002
NLBIF key characteristics
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Mission:
- Mobilise data for GBIF
- Information platform NL world
- Stimulate biodiversity ICT
Core funding: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Hosted by University of Amsterdam
Ca. 11.000.000 records
40 datasets
11 data providers of which 3 independant providers
Metadata for 120 organisations
10.000 multi media objects
NLBIF Informatics
Virtual servers in Dynamic Resource Pool
Modular construction, selective outsourcing
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
WIKI
Multimedia DB Metadata DB
Portal Website
Data workbench
Data
publishing
(IPT e.a.)
Advanced data viewer
NLBIF ICT
GBIF
Dutch
data providers &
data users
Data + Info
Data + Info
Recent developments:
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Metadatabase based on GBIF
Extended Metadata Profile
Multimedia database
Data standard WIKI
Investing in data infrastructure dataproviders
TurboVeg DwC-A export:
NLBIF content
On the shoulders of giants…..
National Authority for Data concerning
Nature
GBIF records in 2011: > 20.000.000 (5 x 5 km)
40 milj. specimens
30 milj. € for digitisation…..
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Pilots societal use of GBIF mediated data
NLBIF future development
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Serving scientific community:
• Data archiving
• Data storage and management
• Data retrieval
Exploiting High Performance Computing facilities (e-science)
• Data analysis
• Data visualisation
NLBIF thematic thoughts
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Freshwater data
North sea data
Urban ecology
Guiana’s data (France, UK, Netherlands)
Questions.........
WWW.NLBIF.NL
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF Informatics
Portal:
- (NL)GBIF data
- Names
- Metadata
- Secundairy sources
- Species banks
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF Informatics
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF Informatics
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF metadatabase
Ca. 200 institutes
700 databases
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF Informatics
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF participation
Professional approach
communication
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
NLBIF content
Current situation in the Netherlands
Estimated minimum of 350 milj. primary biodiversity records available
Source GBIF Current problem
50 milj. NH collections 2 milj. Digitization
200 milj. observational
private data
80.000 GBIF infrastrucure not adequate / IPR
100 milj. governemental monitoring data 4 milj. Customised databases
Data from research projects (?) - NLBIF outreach not sufficient
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011
Strong: -
Flexible
- Communicative
- Clear mandate
- Open access lobby
- Distributed
- Budget o.k.
- Building on others
Weak:
- No internal expertise
- Small organisation in difficult field
- Too much collection based
- Under staffed
- Complex history
NLBIF strong vs. weak
Cees Hof
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) GBIF EU, Paris, April 2011