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Netherlands

A GBIF Voting participant from Europe and Central Asia

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Mission

NLBIF's vision is the creation of a biodiversity data cloud from the Netherlands open to anybody.

The mission of NLBIF is to educate and discuss the virtues of open biodiversity data, to support data owners with the standardisation and online publication of their biodiversity data and to investigate and demonstrate the possibilities of the use of biodiversity data in an advanced e-science environment.

The NLBIF strategy is to build on the efforts of others and harvest and connect multi-disciplinary knowledge in a smart way. We invest in both existing and new biodiversity infrastructures with a focus on interoperability and synergy.

Funding

The Ministry for Education, Culture and Science (OCW), is NLBIF’s primary funding body. Within the Ministry it is the Department of Research and Science Policy (OWB) that takes care of both the support for NLBIF as well as the basic financial contribution to GBIF.

History

The Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) was established by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) and the Ministry for Education, Culture and Science (OCW). NLBIF is an independent foundation but physically hosted by Naturalis Biodiversity Center, in Leiden. The Ministry of OCW is currently the primary funding body, but both the UvA as well as NWO supported NLBIF financially in the early days.

NLBIF's statutory mission is: (1) to act as the national (data) node for GBIF; (2) to act as the national platform for the international exchange and sharing of biodiversity data, information and knowledge available in The Netherlands and elsewhere; and (3) to encourage development and application of information technology to support data management, exchange, analysis and electronic distribution of biodiversity information worldwide.

Structure

The governance structure of NLBIF is currently being revised.

Contacts

Martijn Poel
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
P.O. Box 16375 2500 BJ The Hague
Netherlands
Niels Raes
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
P.O. Box 9517 2300 RA Leiden
Netherlands
Peter Schalk
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Darwinweg 2 Leiden NL-2333 CR
Netherlands
Jennifa Dorleijn
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
P.O. Box 16375 2500 BJ The Hague
Netherlands
Eva van der Veer
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Darwinweg 2 Leiden NL-2333 CR
Netherlands
Jeroen Creuwels
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
P.O. Box 9517 2300 RA Leiden
Netherlands
Amy van Nobelen
Naturalis
Netherlands
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