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André Heughebaert

Belgian Biodiversity Platform

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Summary

Data

Participation

Staff

Mobilization

Tools

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Occurrences

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Data

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Datasets

4 Providers 33 datasets

Contribution by country >90% Belgium

>50% Dem. Rep. Congo

>45% Burundi

>37% Equatorial Guinea

>68% Rwanda

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Data

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Belgian Data Portal

• http://data.biodiversity.be

• Simple way to discover GBIF data pertaining to Belgium

• Layers:–Natura 2000–Corine Land Cover

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Data

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Events & Collaboration

Trainings Data Publication - June 2010 - Kinshasa

Data Cleaning - July 2010 - Brusselsby Dr Arthur Chapman (with NlBIF, GBIF-France)

Data Application & Use - Sept 2011 - Paris(with GBIF-France & Swiss BIF)

Mentoring 2010 (with Mauritanian BIF)

NPT Coordination and Advisory Group

Checklists Publication, DwCA Testing

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Participation

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Platform

The Belgian Biodiversity Platform is a distributed biodiversity information and communication initiative funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BelSPO). It serves as Belgian GBIF node, the European Platform on Biodiversity Science Policy (EPBRS), DIVERSITAS and is involved in the ERA-net BiodivERsA.

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Staff

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Future

Belgian political crisis (295 days) ‘Running affairs’ Government

Full empowered Governement required: Signing next MoU

2012 participication to GBIF

The Platform will continue to exist and help Belgian scientific community to publish their datasets

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Staff

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Barriers

Regional Administrations Region centric view

Federal Institutions Technical aspects, Security, IT expertise

Universities, NGOs Funding

Common concerns IPR, Data Quality, Data Sensitivity, Time

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Mobilization

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Future Directions

Biofresh: Fresh Water

Harmonia: Invasive Species

Human Health & Biodiversity: Conference

POCABI: Great Region Natura2000 species

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Mobilization

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Publication Software

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Tools

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Thank you for your attention

Aline Vanderwerf

André Heughebaert

Barbara Gonzalez

Dimitri Brosens

Estelle Balian

Hans Keune

Hendrik Segers

Julien Cigar

Nicolas Noé

Sonia Vanderhoeven

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