Euro GEOSS Implementing the GEOSS Data Sharing Action

Euro. GEOSS Implementing the GEOSS Data Sharing Action Plan: Biodiversity

Purpose • Euro. GEOSS addresses multidisciplinary interoperability across forestry, drought, and biodiversity thematic areas. • This short presentations demonstrates the process of committing data resources for Biodiversity to the GEOSS Data Sharing Implementation Plan

Biodiversity • JRC - Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA), WMS • UNEP-WCMC – World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), WFS • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) – Central African Plants, GBIF – African Biota, WMS – African Biota, WFS

Verify GEOSS Data Category • GEOSS Data-CORE = documented datasets, for full and open exchange (at no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution) AND unrestricted access (attribution is not a restriction) • GEOSS Non-Commercial = full and open exchange BUT access and use restricted to noncommercial purposes • GEOSS Other: all other categories including access fees greater than reproduction and distribution

User registration Yes Add “User registration” To “Condition for Access and Use” No Attribution Yes Add “Attribution” To “Condition for Access and Use” No Yes Free of charge No Charge > Reproduct. + Distrib. No Confirm GEOSS data CORE? Yes Add “geoss. Data. Core” To “Condition for Access and Use” Yes No No Any Other Conditions ? Yes Non commercial (ONLY) No Yes Add “geoss. Non. Commercial” to “Condition for Access and Use” Add “geoss. Other” To “Condition for Access and Use”

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Euro. GEOSS Federated Services

Querying the GEOSS Data CORE

Finding Data in the GEOSS Data CORE

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Search for GEOSS Non-Commercial

Finding GBIF data non-commercial use

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Conclusions • Europe is playing a key role in GEOSS • We need to lead by example, and support the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles • The process for doing so is not complex, and tools are available to help • Above all WE need to make the commitment to make data sharing a reality.

Thank you from the Euro. GEOSS Partners