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

Understanding GBIF’s relevance

The starting point for building a case for a country or international organization to formally participate in GBIF is to understand how GBIF is relevant. In this section, we explore GBIF’s relevance through videos guiding you to consider how best to communicate the benefits GBIF brings to its participants.

GBIF’s relevance to policy frameworks

In this video (14:53), GBIF Deputy Director, Tim Hirsch, explains GBIF’s relevance for science and policy. If you are unable to watch the embedded Vimeo video, you can download it locally from the Files for download page.

GBIF’s relevance in thematic areas

In these six videos (<15:00) you will learn about the value of GBIF to different thematic areas. If you are unable to watch via the embedded Vimeo showcase, you can download the videos locally from the Files for download page.

Consider your own country or organization

After watching the videos in this section, use your notes sheet to list at least five rationale statements for why GBIF is of relevance to its Participants.