Nodes development

- Details
- Navigating the course
- Files for download
- Node administration
  - Building a case for engagement in GBIF
  - Engaging stakeholders towards establishing a node
  - Developing communications plans for your nodes
    - Community norms and values
  - Node models and mandates
    - Governance structures for your node
    - Staffing models
    - Examples of mandates
  - Developing strategic and work plans for your node and network
    - Needs assessments
    - Alignment with GBIF plans
    - Monitoring progress at the node level
  - Resourcing node activities
    - Examples of nodes budgets
    - Institutional support
    - Project support
    - Volunteer contributions
    - Collaborative projects
  - Identifying and assessing sources of biodiversity data
    - Surveys
    - GRSciColl
  - Developing and implementing data mobilization strategies
    - Data gap analyses
    - Supporting digitization
    - Promoting incentives for data publishing
- Support for science and research
  - Thematic community development
    - Understanding the endorsement process
    - Research communities
      - DNA
      - Survey and monitoring
      - Disease vectors/human health
    - Business sector
    - Collections communities
    - Citizen science
  - Data papers
  - Promoting data use
    - GBIF Data use club
- Support for policy and decisions
  - Assessing biodiversity information users’ needs
    - Tracking data use examples
    - Data gap analyses
  - National and thematic checklists
  - Coordinating data flows into national policy and decision making processes
    - Supporting national biodiversity commitments and the science-policy interface
    - Links with clearing house mechanism
- Engaging and enabling the community
  - Identifying and engaging stakeholders
    - Engaging stakeholders
    - Targeting stakeholders' interests
  - Organizing training workshops
    - Data mobilization
    - Data use
  - Organizing stakeholder events
  - Community of practice
    - Engaging volunteers
  - Regional level engagement
- Technical services for biodiversity data management
  - Supporting data publishing
    - Hosting an IPT or requesting support from the Secretariat
    - Providing helpdesk support for data publishing
  - Maintaining websites to promote data access and use
    - Hosted portals for nodes, networks and institutions
    - Living Atlases community
  - Data quality workflows at the node level
  - Contributing to work on biodiversity information standards

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