Networks offer opportunities to leverage resources and multiply our collective impact. The GBIF networks and interest groups create common ground for collaboration within GBIF to enable the exchange of expertise and information on topics of interest to the GBIF Community.

These groups are hosted in the GBIF Community Site. Please visit the site to have access to their public resources or create your own account to get actively involved.

GBIF promotes the creation of expert networks and interest groups to facilitate the exchange of best practices, promote collaboration, support GBIF's distributed helpdesk system and also function as a marketplace for potential trainers. If you have interest and/or expertise in any of field within biodiversity informatics, we encourage you to consider joining one of the networks!

This is the list of the current networks/groups:

1. 'The biodiversity data publishing interest group'
2. 'The bodiversity data quality interest group'
3. 'The GBIF IPT helpdesk and training experts'
4. The biodiversity informatics training interest group
5. 'The persistent identifiers interest group'

As a global initiative GBIF seeks to be universally accessible for all kinds of audiences around the world. This is particularly relevant for the training area. Making materials available in different languages is a priority.

To turn this into a reality, the participation of the whole GBIF Community - and of the GBIF Participant Nodes in particular - is key. The GBIF language networks provide a platform to facilitate collaborative work for the customisation and translation of training (and other) resources.

Two language groups have been started since 2010:

1. Spanish: Red de idiomas - Español.
2. French: Réseau de Lange - Français.

Please consider joining these networks and collaborate with others to make valuable resources available in your own language! You can also visit the groups to check which resources are already available in those languages!