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Description
Biodiversity data can be messy, scattered and hard to come by - especially in Germany. As the national research data infrastructure for biodiversity (NFDI4Biodiversity) we set out to make biodiversity data FAIR and open. One of our products is the "Lebendiger Atlas der Natur Deutschlands (LAND)", a national biodiversity portal that provides species occurrence data in Germany to researchers, conservation authorities and the general public. To do so, we joined forces with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as well as the national node GBIF.de and created the LAND-portal as a GBIF hosted portal (https://land.gbif.de/).
The portal integrates species occurrence data from different sources, including monitoring schemes, citizen science, natural history societies, museums and universities. To start with, we mostly stocked the portal with existing datasets from GBIF. Now we focus on mobilizing new datasets. To continue improve the service and mobilize new datasets to GBIF and LAND, we organize annual community workshops with 50-80 stakeholders from different institutions. In this talk, we present the current state of the portal and its functionalities and discuss opportunities for data holders and researchers to get involved.
| Status Group | Postdoctoral Researcher |
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