FAIRsharing record for: GBIF.org

This FAIRsharing record describes: GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

Strictly speaking, GBIF is not a data repository. Rather, GBIF indexes thousands of datasets through a distributed infrastructure involving more than 100 formal participants that supports hundreds of data-publishing institutions worldwide. GBIF.org makes the FAIR and open data discoverable and citable, assigning each download a DOI and storing it for an extended period of time. More than three peer-reviewed research articles make use of data from the GBIF network every day, in studies spanning the impacts of climate change, the spread of pests and diseases, priority areas for conservation and food security.

To share data with GBIF, follow this quick guide: http://www.gbif.org/publishing-data/quick-guide. To deposit or host data, we suggest using one of the trusted data hosting centres (DHC) listed in FAIRsharing.org that uses GBIF's IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit) software. The DHC provides data publishers with a hosted IPT account enabling them to manage and publish datasets through GBIF.org.