Providing and Using (Open) Biodiversity Data through the Infrastructure of the Global Diversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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URL - the landing page for the learning resource: 
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/providing-and-using-open-biodiversity-d…
Description - a brief synopsis, abstract or summary of what the learning resource is about: 

Introduction to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), including lessons and achievements from the first ten years of using GBIF. This presentation was part of the Conference Connecting Data for Research held at VU University in Amsterdam. Topics include:

  • What is biodiversity?
  • Biodiversity data
  • History of GBIF
  • GBIF usage trends
  • Primary GBIF data
  • Using GBIF
  • Darwin Core
  • Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)
Authoring Person(s) Name: 
Cees H. J. Hof
Authoring Organization(s) Name: 
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF)
License - link to legal statement specifying the copyright status of the learning resource: 
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License - CC BY-SA 4.0
Access Cost: 
No fee
Primary language(s) in which the learning resource was originally published or made available: 
English
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Keywords - short phrases describing what the learning resource is about: 
Biodiversity data
Cyberinfrastructure to enable FAIR data principles
Data access
Data portals
Data preservation
Data publication
Data reuse - Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements
Data sharing
Data storage
Discovery metadata
Findable data - FAIR Data Principle
Metadata
Open access
Open data
Organizing data
Subject Discipline - subject domain(s) toward which the learning resource is targeted: 
Physical Sciences and Mathematics: Environmental Sciences
Published / Broadcast: 
Monday, October 19, 2015
Publisher - organization credited with publishing or broadcasting the learning resource: 
Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research (FOSTER)
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Presentation - representation of the particular way in which an author shows, describes or explains one or more concepts, e.g., a set of Powerpoint slides.
Contributor Organization(s): 
Name: 
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Educational Info
Purpose - primary educational reason for which the learning resource was created: 
Professional Development - increasing knowledge and capabilities related to managing the data produced, used or re-used, curated and/or archived.
Learning Resource Type - category of the learning resource from the point of view of a professional educator: 
Lesson - detailed description of an element of instruction in a course, [could be] contained in a unit of one or more lessons, and used by a teacher to guide class instruction. Example: presentation slides on a topic.
Target Audience - intended audience for which the learning resource was created: 
Research scientist
Mid-career research scientist
Early-career research scientist
Research faculty
Graduate student
Undergraduate student
Repository manager
Librarian
Intended time to complete - approximate amount of time the average student will take to complete the learning resource: 
Up to 1 hour
Framework - A community-based organization plan or set of steps for education or training: 
ICSU - World Data System Training Resources Guide