GBIF Science Committee Report GB21, Delhi, India

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• GBIF taxonomy is out of date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