GBIF works with many partners to mobilise data and put it to use, to improve search mechanisms, data and metadata standards, web services and other components of an Internet-based information infrastructure for biodiversity.
Organisations with whom GBIF has signed an Memorandum of Collaboration (MoC)
Organisation: | MoC focus: |
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) | Share biodiversity information in the ASEAN region, in part, through sharing funds, expert personnel and facilities, and ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity participation in GBIF capacity-building and mentoring initiatives. |
Project ALARM (Assessing LArge scale environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods) http://www.alarmproject.net/alarm/ | Collaborate in encouraging the development of a publicly accessible distributed interoperable knowledge base on Pollinators. |
BayScience Foundation, Inc ZipCodeZoo
| Framework for co-operative work between the ongoing ZCZ and GBIF programmes. |
Catalogue of Life Partnership (CoLp) | Establish a framework through which the taxanomic opinion data compiled and maintained by the partners of the CoLp can be increased and used in building up the GBIF biodiversity network. |
Convention on Biological Diversity
| Collaborate on approaches to access, share and disseminate biodiversity data via the Internet. |
Consortium and Secretariat for the Barcode of Life http://www.barcoding.si.edu/ | Contribute to: (i) the development of a compilation of DNA barcodes of known and newly discovered plant and animal species, (ii) the establishment of a public database of sequences linked to vouchered specimens and associated biological information; (iii) the development of technology for efficient methods for DNA barcode determinations; and (iv) the promotion of technical and intellectual development of DNA barcoding. |
Convention on Migratory Species | Develop and share biodiversity data on migratory species, facilitate access to the CMS Global Registry of Migratory Species (GROMS, www.groms.de) database by GBIF, and access to GBIF primary biodiversity data by CMS. Specifically, the MoC calls for integration of GROMS data and polgyons with GBIF data portal functionality, and access to GBIF-enabled biodiversity data and web services. |
Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo (CYTED) | Promote and engage in capacity-building activities in biodiversity informatics and the mobilisation of biodiversity data in Iberoamerican countries. |
Encyclopedia of Life | Develop and share a biodiversity informatics infrastructure. GBIF enables EOL to access GBIF-enabled data and provides EOL with the ability to incorporate GBIF web services in the EOL. EOL provides access to EOL resources, including species pages, scanned literature and informatics tools. In addition, EOL and GBlF will continue to collaborate on the development of shared software tools, procedures and protocols, including online registries of biodiversity resources, the Global Names Architecture and the Species Profile Model. |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) www.fao.org | Support the Global Pollination Project, coordinated by FAO (http://www.fao.org/biodiversity/ecosystems/bio-pollinators/en/). |
International Association for Impact Assessment http://www.iaia.org/ | Improve the use and application of impact assessment tools in sustainable development by: (i) Promoting the digital capture of biodiversity data during impact assessment practice in all countries to the GBIF globally-mediated standards and protocols; (ii) disseminating relevant concepts, knowledge, training materials and software as new and innovative impact assessment tools; and (iii) supporting relevant capacity-building efforts in mobilising biodiversity data and information generated during impact assessments. |
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature http://www.iczn.org/
| Promote standards, sense and stability for animal names in science. |
International Plant Names Index | Collaborate on the development of the International Plant names Index, a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. |
Thomson Reuters | Thomas Reuters provides GBIF with access to various content services, including from the Index of Organism Names (www.organismnames.com) and the Taxonomic Index to Animal Names. |
United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP WCMC) http://www.unep-wcmc.org/ | Collaborate to strengthen the biodiversity informatics, services, products and tools of each organization. Specifically, allow GBIF-enabled point data for species occurrence to be overlaid with polygon boundaries of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA, www.wdpa.org). Completed in 2009, a widget, installed on the WDPA website, displays (i) boundaries of protected areas included in the IUCN WDPA occurring within a selected country, overlaid with (ii) ISO code of the country, (iii) GBIF-enabled point occurrence data records, (iv) Panoramio and Flickr pictures, and (v) Wikipedia articles. |
Zookeys | Cooperate to facilitate the publication of primary biodiversity data of scholarly publications published in ZooKeys Open Access Journal. |
