About DanBIF

The international megascience initiative Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, www.gbif.org) aims to make all the world’s information on biodiversity freely and universally available for query and analysis via the Internet. This will be accomplished through the concerted efforts of the GBIF members, which include countries, economies and organisations. These members are each required to establish and run a participants node, with the purpose of making their resources of biodiversity data available for search through the GBIF portal. The Danish national participant node of GBIF is Danish Biodiversity Information Facility (DanBIF, www.danbif.dk).

DanBIF will carry out the work on making accessible the Danish resources of biodiversity data.

DanBIF consists of a board, a secretariat, and a network of members from Danish research institutions. The work of the DanBIF board and network is coordinated and maintained by the secretariat, hosted by the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen.

DanBIF is funded by the The Danish Natural Science Research Council of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and The Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

The DanBIF board include the following members:

• Chair of DanBIF - Professor Henrik Balslev
• Director of DanBIF (appointed by the Dean of FS.UC.) - Professor Henrik Enghoff
• Subject Biology at University of Copenhagen - Professor Gitte Petersen
• Subject Biology at University of Southern Denmark - Professor Donald E. Canfield
• Subject Biology at University of Aarhus - Professor Kai Finster