Science Committee, GBIF Science Committee
A formal Standing Committee of the GBIF Governing Board, comprising elected representatives from Participants and with a mandate to oversee the scientific basis for all GBIF activities.
SPM
The Species Profile Model (SPM) is a standard under development by BIS/TDWG as part of their LSID vocabularies. It is designed to allow a user to publish facts/statements about a particular taxon in a way that facilitates discovery, access and reuse, and is based on a simple model featuring a subject (taxon) having properties whose content can be free text or terms from a controlled vocabulary - wiki.tdwg.org/SPM.
Standard, Data Standard, Metadata Standard
Technical standards define a set of properties that a product or service should have. Standards are laid down by an organisation, such as OGC, ISO, BIS/TDWG and GBIF, that brings together representatives of producers and users of the type of product or service to establish the standard(s) in question.
Supplementary Funds
Additional financial contributions made by Voting Participants, Associate Participants or other funding agencies to fund specific parts of the GBIF Work Programme, or for other special purposes agreed by the Governing Board. These contributions are held by the GBIF Secretariat, kept separate from other contributions, and used only for the purposes specified by the Participants making them.
