GBIF Position paper - Enhancing Fitness for Use Across the GBIF Network

GBIF Position Paper on Future Directions and Recommendations for Enhancing Fitness-for-Use Across the GBIF Network

Authored by Dr’s. A. W. Hill, J. Otegui, A. H. Arino and R. P. Guralnick

Primary biodiversity data can be used for multiple purposes by various user communities worldwide.  Assessing and enhancing fitness for use of data is therefore critical. With the aim of providing a long term vision to address this issue, the GBIF Position Paper on Future Directions and Recommendations for Enhancing Fitness-for-Use across the GBIF Network is now released for community uptake.

The Position Paper makes specific recommendations on: (a) encouraging geo-referencing practices, (b) improving data filters, (c) record level annotations, (e) use of cloud based infrastructures, and (f)collaborations with other players.

The Position Paper foresees that new analytical methods could greatly facilitate assessing and reporting a record’s fitness-for-use. The adoption of technologies such as cloud computing could speed up data cleaning operations. It further observes that increased publication of data from novel sources, such as field studies, will generate a need for technologies we have not yet considered. It calls upon the community uptake of recommendations in a prioritised and coordinated manner as soon as possible.

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Should you have any comments or questions to the document we kindly ask you to take direct contact to: Senior Program Officer for DIGIT Vishwas Chavan (vchavan@gbif.org) at the GBIF Secretariat.

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