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Using automation to consolidate biodiversity occurrence data in South African National Parks
Automating the harvest, integration and summary of biodiversity data lets park staff get evidence-based species lists and dashboards without laborious manual compilation.
Judith Botha ↗
From citizen observations to long-term ecological knowledge: integrating iNaturalist records into LTER framework through automated enrichment
Rather than forcing citizens to produce structured data, automated enrichment elevates iNaturalist records into research-ready data for eLTER sites.
Alessandro Oggioni ↗
Governance as a Foundation for Resilient Biodiversity Data Infrastructures: Lessons from DiSSCo
Inclusive, funder-connected governance designed into a research infrastructure from day one is a core ingredient of its resilience.
Eva Alonso ↗
Modernizing Brazil's taxonomic backbone: how ChecklistBank supports biodiversity and genetic heritage systems
ChecklistBank lets a small national node assemble one consistent taxonomic backbone for legal, portal and permitting systems.
Clara Baringo Fonseca ↗
Using wildlife trade data to support proactive RASD decision-making
Wildlife trade data can act as an early warning system to protect species' locality data before formal conservation assessments catch up.
Charlotte Lassaline ↗
From NetCDF to Web Maps: Building an Open-Source Web GIS for Biodiversity Data Cubes
A simple open-source stack of NetCDF, THREDDS/ncWMS and vanilla JavaScript makes multidimensional biodiversity data cubes browsable and analysable in the browser.
Christian Langer ↗
GBIF after 25 years
GBIF sustains itself by leveraging stable national contributions into additional funding and by embedding itself in the biodiversity policy and funding architecture.
Joe Miller ↗
Literature usage in IPBES - Past, Present and Future with Libroscope
Open, scripted literature search via OpenAlex transformed IPBES practice, and the Libroscope could close remaining gaps by making paper contents and grey literature searchable.
Rainer M Krug ↗
Symposium discussion: funding models, open data and sustaining biodiversity infrastructure
The community broadly agreed that core data should stay open, but that products, services, credits, regulation and partnerships must become part of sustaining the infrastructure.
Libby Ellwood, James Macklin, André Zerger ↗
The BMD Cubing Engine: Harmonizing Biodiversity and Earth Observation Data
BMD's cubing engine turns a declarative YAML recipe into reproducible, provenance-documented data cubes that harmonise GBIF occurrences with climate and Earth observation data on one grid.
Mathias Dillen ↗
ASEAN Biodiversity Dashboard as a data sharing platform to monitor biodiversity trends and species occurrences in the ASEAN Region
Interoperable, GBIF-hosted regional infrastructure lets ACB turn occurrence data into indicators and dashboards for ASEAN policy reporting.
Christian Elloran ↗