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Type of site | Biodiversity,natural history |
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| Area served | Worldwide |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2001; 24 years ago (2001) |
| Current status | Active |
TheGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is aninternational organisation that focuses on making scientific data onbiodiversity available via theInternet usingweb services.[1] The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data.
The mission of the GBIF is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpinsustainable development.[1] Priorities, with an emphasis on promoting participation and working through partners, include mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building aninformatics architecture to allow the interlinking of diverse data types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and catalysing development of analytical tools for improved decision-making.[1][2]
GBIF strives to form informatics linkages among digital data resources from across the spectrum of biological organisation, from genes toecosystems, and to connect these to issues important to science, society and sustainability by using georeferencing andGIS tools. It works in partnership with other international organisations such as theCatalogue of Life partnership,Biodiversity Information Standards, theConsortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), theEncyclopedia of Life (EOL), andGEOSS. The biodiversity data available through the GBIF has increased by more than 1,150% in the past decade, partially due to the participation ofcitizen scientists.[3][4]
From 2002 to 2014, GBIF awarded a prestigious annual global award in the area ofbiodiversity informatics, theEbbe Nielsen Prize, valued at €30,000. As of 2018[update], the GBIF Secretariat presents two annual prizes: the GBIFEbbe Nielsen Challenge and the Young Researchers Award.[5]
GBIF taxon ID (P846) (seeuses)
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