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Building a New Foundation for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
BHL has survived losing its Smithsonian home by becoming an independent, globally governed consortium, but its future is still not secure and it needs community support.
Nicole Kearney ↗
Capitalizing the Invisible Ledger: A Cost-of-Production and Shadow Pricing Methodology for Valuing Open-Source Biodiversity Assets in India
Open access removes the price of biodiversity data, not its production cost; citizen science is under-recognised national data infrastructure.
Ashwin A ↗
Data Quality in Focus: Bridging the Biodiversity Data Gap for Sustainable Finance
Biodiversity assessments for finance need local data; a tiered data-quality hierarchy like carbon accounting could make them credible.
Emma Granqvist ↗
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 ↗
National Biodiversity Information Action Campaign production process: a case study of Taiwan
Taiwan's second national plan reframes biodiversity information infrastructure around resilience, with shared taxonomic references as a cornerstone of interoperability.
Chun-I Chang, Jerome ↗
SYM18 discussion: who sustains biodiversity data infrastructures?
Volunteer and single-developer infrastructures deliver proven value, but the community lacks mechanisms and funding to protect them.
Eva Alonso, Giuditta Parolini, Mareike Petersen ↗
Architecting the National Biodiversity Information System: Standards-Driven Workflows for South Africa’s Botanical and Zoological Data
SANBI sustains NBIS through a statutory mandate plus a roadmap of diversified funding, partnerships and demonstrated return on investment.
Fhatani Ranwashe ↗
From preservation to perseverance: bridging disciplines for data resilience
Data resilience in a crisis is about prioritisation and mutual aid rather than perfection, and infrastructures need to be kept appropriately visible to be funded.
Andrea Thomer ↗
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 ↗
Requirements of Sustainability Models for Geo-Biodiversity Data Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure sustainability and ecosystem sustainability go hand in hand, so infrastructure must be designed from the start to track use and support economic orchestration.
José Fortes ↗
Sustainability and collaboration in a time of uncertainty
Sustaining biodiversity data infrastructure requires treating technology, people and a diversified funding portfolio as one interconnected system.
Libby Ellwood ↗
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 ↗
A Network That Is Social: A Community-Based Model and Plan for Sustaining MorphoSource, a Scholarly 3D Data Repository
MorphoSource will sustain open access to 3D data by charging museums, journals, societies and depositors, never downloaders, as NSF funding ends.
Julie Winchester ↗
Approaches to the Automated Tracking of Taxonomic Research Activities
TETTRIX aims to build a machine-run, regularly updated picture of who is doing taxonomy on what and where, and is asking the community which sources it is missing.
David Fichtmueller ↗
Hit or miss? Creative promotion of biodiversity data and standards for success and recognition
The community should broaden what it counts and publishes as outputs, and deliberately reach new audiences with creative, citable formats.
Shelley James, Deborah Paul ↗
TDWG Treasurer's Report: financial policies and investment proposals
TDWG is financially stable but not growing its membership; the treasurer proposes codified policies, an endowment and investments to fund outreach and sustainability.
Chandra Earl ↗
The Planetary Knowledge Base: an infinite solutions engine converting data into action for nature
The NHM is building the Planetary Knowledge Base in phases, with provenance, attribution and benefit-sharing designed in, to move biodiversity data to evidence to action at scale.
Vincent Smith ↗