Expert Workshop on GBIF Data Publication in Africa at ITCER, Kenya
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arranged by GBIF Germany and SNSB IT Center (in presence: Ng’iya, Siaya County)
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is by far the largest international platform for biodiversity data. It is an intergovernmental initiative whose formal members – known as 'Participants' – consist of countries, economies and international organizations (see here). Based on this, the Expert Workshop at ITCER, Kenya is addressing various szenarios and existing IT developments for GBIF data publication in Africa. The role of GBIF nodes, GBIF data publishers and data licensing is highlighted. Technical solutions to overcome local constraints for the maintenance of domain-specific data repositories in Africa are discussed. The topic of data exchange and standards is addressed with the exemplary ITCER photomonitoring dataset with images organised in WordPress photo galleries. The topic of indigenous data governance together with envisaged data visibility in international networks is treated as well. The discussion also includes aspects of housing physical specimens in-country and of the colonial legacy as well. One of the goals is to start new scientific and technical collaborations between GBIF international organizations in Africa and GBIF related organizations in Germany and Europe. Future projects and approaches might improve technical interoperability among biodiversity data repositories in Tropical and Equatorial Africa and between them and GBIF.
Contact persons for technical and local event organisation
- Josphat Matasyoh, Egerton University, ITCER Kenya
- Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, ITCER e.V., ITCER Kenya
Contact persons for other issues
- Dagmar Triebel, Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center
- Tanja Weibulat, Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center
Invitees and participants#
- Kennedy Senagi, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Kenya and GBIF icipe node manager
- George Omondi, County Government of Siaya, Kenya
- Brenda Nyaboke, National Museums of Kenya, Kenya and GBIF Kenya node staff
- Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, ITCER Kenya
- Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon
- Dagmar Triebel, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany and GBIF Germany node manager
- Tanja Weibulat, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany and GBIF Germany node staff
Agenda#
October, 11th 2023
- 10.00 EAT Welcoming remarks and greetings
- 10.15 EAT Introduction to ITCER and location
(Gerhard Rambold)
- 11.00 EAT Self introduction of participants and participating organisations (Participants; see also SNSB as participating NHC organisation)
- 11.30 EAT Challenges of harmonization of needs in agriculture, land settlement and biodiversity promotion: How can biodiversity monitoring be helpful? (George Omondi)
- 12.00 EAT GBIF overview (Dagmar Triebel) (GBIF slides, July 2023)
- 12.10 EAT Three GBIF data publishers to guide ITCER (Dagmar Triebel)
- 12.15 EAT GBIF publication of biodiversity monitoring data in Germany with two example datasets from SNSB (Tanja Weibulat)
- 12.30 EAT Lunch Break
- 14.00 EAT GBIF biodiversity occurrence data publication in Africa with examples from ICIPE (Kennedy Senagi)
- 14.30 EAT Diversity Workbench data management system (Tanja Weibulat)
- 15.30 EAT End of day 1
October, 12th 2023
- 9.30 EAT Excursion on ITCER site (Participants)
- 10.30 EAT ITCER research data and ITCER photomonitoring dataset with images (Gerhard Rambold)
- 11.30 EAT GBIF occurrence data publication of National Museums of Kenya collections and GBIF Activity Report Kenya, January 2023 (Brenda Nyaboke)
- 11.45 EA NHC organisations - Pre-digitization and specimens under Nagoya rules (Brenda Nyaboke)
- 12.00 EAT Considering indigenous tree species in ongoing tree planting campaigns in Siaya County: How can biodiversity monitoring be helpful? (George Omondi)
- 12.30 EAT Lunch break
- 14.00 EAT The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (Dagmar Triebel)
- 14.15 EAT GBIF Africa: participant organizations, country nodes, networks and installations (Dagmar Triebel)
- 14.30 EAT GBIF licenses for data and multimedia objects (Kennedy Senagi)
- 14.40 EAT GBIF data integrated in regional and domain-specific portals and GBIF hosted portals (Tanja Weibulat)
- 15.00 EAT Conclusion and closing remarks (Gerhard Rambold)
- 16.00 EAT End of day 2
- 18.30 EAT Dinner
References and Resources#
- Carroll, S.R., Garba, I., Figueroa-Rodríguez, O.L., Holbrook, J., Lovett, R., Materechera, S., Parsons, M., Raseroka, K., Rodriguez-Lonebear, D., Rowe, R., Sara, R., Walker, J.D., Anderson, J. and Hudson, M., 2020. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Data Science Journal, 19(1), p.43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-043
- Jacobsen, A., de Miranda Azevedo, R., Juty, N. et al. (2020). FAIR Principles: Interpretations and Implementation Considerations. Data Intelligence (2 (1-2): 10–29. https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_r_00024
- Jennings, L., Anderson, T., Martinez, A. et al. Applying the ‘CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance’ to ecology and biodiversity research. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1547–1551 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02161-2
- Park, D.S., Feng, X., Akiyama, S. et al. The colonial legacy of herbaria. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1059–1068 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01616-7
- Knapp, S. The past is a foreign country. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1042–1043 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01622-9 (view on Park et al. 2023)
- RfII – Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen: Datentreuhänder (2023). Potenziale für wissenschaftskonformes Datenteilen – Herausforderungen für die institutionelle Ausgestaltung, RfII Berichte No. 5, Göttingen, 87 S. https://d-nb.info/1294905171/34
- DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note (2021). Preserving GIS Data Types Series. Artefactual Systems and the Digital Preservation Coalition. https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/2481-preserving-gis/file
- see also Agenda and Information from the ITCER Expert Workshop on GBIF Data in 2022 here
