gbif science committee report gb21, delhi, india
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GBIF Science Committee
Elizabeth Arnaud Guy Cochrane Mark Costello Jean Ganglo
Arturo Ariño Plana Kathy WillisRod Page ex officio
Summary of activities
• Meeting at Glasgow
• Awarding prizes
• Developing the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
• Collaboration with GBIF Secretariat– Recruitment of Programme Officers– Science Symposium
Science Symposium
Kyle Copas
Tim Hirsch
CSIRO’s Tony Rees named 2014 EbbeNielsen Prize winner
Young Researcher Awards
Vijay Barve (India)Social networks as data sources
Caoimhe Marshall (Ireland)Measuring sampling effort
GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
• Challenge to foster innovation in biodiversity informatics
• Must use GBIF-mediated data
• Submission must be open source (or at least openly accessible)
• Judged by science committee
Prize Grant
Money
Output
Challenge
Prizes!
• Round 1 (five semifinalists) (SC meeting)– €1,000
• Round 2 (GB22)– €20,000 first prize
– €5,000 second prize
Challenges of a different sort…
Data types
DNA sequences from EMBL
Betula nana L.
GBIF has 597,148 occurrences of this species…
…but 551,919 occurrences from shotgun genome sequencing a single plant in Scotland.
Data sources
Biodiversity literature
http://www.journalmap.org
Data quality(fitness for use)
doi:10.1017/S0030605313001427
Wikipedia CC BY-SA
Chameleons in Africa(usability for Red List-style assessment)
7%
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/guest-post-response-to-discussion-on.html
(22 comments)
What happened?
• Some major GBIF providers don’t release georeferenced records
• Some museum collections used by expert are not contributing to GBIF
• GBIF taxonomy is out of date
• Expert-curated data not available to GBIF - why?
The year ahead…
• Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
• Working with the new Programme Officers
• Issues of data type, scope, coverage, quality, and annotation