The goal of DADI programme

The goals of DADI are:

• To facilitate free global access to biodiversity information
• To establish data standards for biodiversity content and its exchange
• To develop a broad range of well-defined biodiversity data services
• To create linkages between biological and non-biological information
• To enable a global network to accelerate scientific investigation of global biodiversity

Key action areas for DADI in the short to medium term are as follows:

• Establish the data standards and interchange mechanisms required to integrate species-level and specimen-level data within the GBIF network
• Identify the absolute core components required to establish the foundations of the network as early as possible
• Ensure that any components delivered now provide a clear evolutionary path to any future complete solutions we wish to deliver
• Provide tool kits to assist node managers to bring their databases online as rapidly as possible
• (Wherever possible) Promote an open-source development model for GBIF components and establish the widest feasible community involvement in their development

Link to work programme details for DADI.