Inventarisation of Dutch institutes and organisations

holding biodiversity information

Natural history collections, observation data:

Who is who? names, addresses, websites

Who has what? collections, observations

expertise

Metadatabase

Availability, location and digital status of biodiversity data

Will these data become published on-line?

Can NLBIF stimulate disclosure of these collections and observation data?

What are obstacles for digitisation or on-line publication?

Metadatabase

Biological Collection Access Service for Europe

GBIFBioCASE

2004: filling the Metadatabase with data

-> Nederlandse Museumvereniging, websites

-> Index herbariorum, IPGRI, CABRI, BioCISE

Questionnaire NLBIF

Printed version will be published at the end of 2004

Metadatabase under construction on website www.nlbif.nl

Questionnaire send to ca. 60 organisations in the Netherlands

• size and characteristics of collections and observation data • digitisation status and bottlenecks• operating systems, database management / standards• willingness to publish these databases on the Internet• willingness to make them available to GBIF (via NLBIF)• familiarity with GBIF and NLBIF?

16 returned (ca. 27%)

Specimen42%

Species19%

Living23%

Observation16%

Characteristics of collections and

observation data

                                                         

Qualities of collections / observation data

Other (management)

7%

Scientific53%

Economic10%

Socio-cultural17%

Environmental13%

                                            

         

Total # specimens(millions)

What types of natural history collections ?

Botanical collections National Herbarium of the Netherlands

Plants (dried collections)

4.44

0.330.55 0.47

0.25 0.14

0

1

2

3

4

5

Higher plants

Mosses FungiFerns OtherAlgae

Zoological collections in the Netherlands

Animals

0.230.45

0.14

0.62

0.10 0.09

1.11

17.073.60

0

1

2

3

Specimens (millions)

mostly ZMA and Naturalis

                              

Total # specimens

Botanical gardens, Zoos, Fungal Biodiversity Centre

Living collections

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

plants animals fungi bacteria

                                 

All collections/observations/information digitised

Alterra Centrum Ecosystemen, WageningenCenter for Genetic Resources, WageningenHortus LeidenHubrecht Laboratorium, UtrechtNIOO YersekeRAVON NijmegenRIVM BilthovenRIVO IJmuidenCBS Utrecht (nearly all digitised)

Digitisation status

ZMA 11.9 million specimens: 2.8 % digitised

Naturalis 8.5 million specimens: 13.3 % digitised

NHN 6.1 million specimens: 11 % digitised

Digitisation status: lots of work to do!

• 50 % of respondents has web-based databases for (parts of) data• 30% is planning develop them in near future• 20% has no intention to publish their data on the web

-> never thought about it-> commercial interest individual researchers-> not allowed by funding agencies-> no money / people / computers to do this-> we are still discussing if we are going to do it-> we first want to make data available within institute

Have you published your data on the Internet?

Are you planning to do so?

Is your database connected to other (worldwide) services on the web?

Centre for Genetic Resources Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS)ZMA (connected to GBIF)Dutch Ass. of Zoos

yes

Planning to connect in the future: 4 institutes

no commercial interest individual researchersnot allowed by funding agencieswhat is the use? need more information!still discussing if we are going to do itno agreements on Intellectual Property Rights

and Data Use

Database management systems:

MS Access (12%)MS SQL (4%)Oracle (19%)FileMaker Pro (32%)other (42%) — TINnhm, ADLIB, Interbase, BRAHMS, Dbase,

in-house developed systems Standards? Darwin Core, ABCD

Operating systems: Most people use Windows

Are you familiar with NLBIF and GBIF?

yes: 40%vague: 60%never heard about....0%

Are you planning to come to this meeting?........14 people

Number of participants to NLBIF-meeting 14 January 2004

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