General strategy. Introduction Global “financial crisis” Beginning to cascade into GBIF Now thinking about the forward strategy and next work programme

General strategy

Introduction

• Global “financial crisis”• Beginning to cascade into GBIF• Now thinking about the forward strategy and

next work programme• Nodes are likely to be more important in this

than ever; nodes and GBIFS need to work together

Process so far

• Initial think piece from GBIFS; increased focus on “services” and a set of potential applications

• Reviewed by HoD• Meeting with GBIFS, Nodes Chairs and Science

Chairs• Revising all of this into a work plan

Current strands of work plan

• Governance• Publishing facility (tools)• Network of BIFs• Knowledge network• Biodiversity information (content)• Discovery and access (portal)• Science and policy relevance (users)



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be very importa

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across all o

f these

Nodes current approach

• Currently finalising a participant strategy up to GB20

• Aims to:– Identify key priorities with sharp deliverables– Coordinate efforts– Ensure participants and GBIFS work more closely

together• Generally testing whether we can deliver and

how

Participant strategy

• Broad areas are:– Identifying key uses (at regional level) and gaps to

delivery of these– Development of Nodes Portal Toolkit– Tools to improve data quality– Developing a library of existing tools and

developments– General capacity building

Working with GBIFS

• In the past have struggled to get the right join up and engagement

• Now trialling small focus groups which include nodes and GBIFS (like country pages group)

• These help ensure:– Genuine users (through requiring commitment)– Join up between GBIFS and nodes– Broader coordination– Strategy for communication / liaison



Radical prioritisation – this year


Governance

• Regionally how good is co-ordination / how can we improve it?

• How does it fit with the GBIFS roles?• Thinking about engaging with HoD at GB20

(and more generally)

Publishing facility (tools)

• Engagement in the three groups:– Data quality– Nodes Portal Toolkit– Library of developments

• More generally, beyond these, do we have the tools we need?

Biodiversity information (content)

• We have tried to mobilise around a specific theme:– What are the lessons learned?– How could we improve this area?

Science and policy relevance (users)

• What are the priority uses / users?• How closely aligned to the focal themes:– Large-scale data– Vegetation data– Invasive alien species– Support for taxonomy– Collaboration with other biodiversity informatics activities

• Are we close enough to our users or how do we engage?

• What about ideas like Africa’s Science Committee?

Summary

• Through this phase of GBIF Nodes are likely to become increasingly important

• Think hard about what is most critical for the GBIFS to delivery (enablers)

• Begin to organise ourselves to demonstrate and test the capability of the nodes

• Start with the strategy for this year

Documents

General strategy. Introduction Global “financial crisis” Beginning to cascade into GBIF Now thinking about the forward strategy and next work programme