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Title: Biodiversity Collections Index: few thoughts


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Biodiversity Collections Index few thoughts
  • Vishwas Chavan
  • Senior Program Officer, DIGIT
  • vchavan_at_gbif.org

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Biodiversity Collections Index Why?
  • Resource Discovery Data Discovery Challenge?
  • Opportunity for data mobilisation!
  • Estimate the Universe of Biological Collections
  • Identifying barriers to digitisation
    (completeness as well gaps)
  • Prioritisation of digitisation activities
  • Encourage non-participant communities (esp.
    Mega-biodiversity world) into digitisation
    activities
  • Tangible contributions to GTI, GSPC, and thus to
    CBD

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BCI few thoughts!
  • Step towards distributed and decentralised
    approach.....
  • How BCI should be developed and enriched?
  • Centralised Index v/s distributed registry
  • Synergy between NCD tool kit and BCI
  • Real world is Multilingual!
  • Collections community itself is very diverse
    (herbariums culture collections living
    collections literature collections)
  • Inclusive v/s exclusive leverage on existing
    investments!
  • Plans for sustainable existence beyond Phase
    I.......

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Thank You!
E-mail vchavan_at_gbif.org
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