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