A conference on “Biodiversity Data Integration, Publication and Application Practice” was held online on Aug 22. The event was co-organized by Beijing Biodiversity Science Research Association and the Special Project on Literature and Information Capacity Building of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Xu Zheping, associate research librarian of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, served as a moderator and delivered a report. Chen Xuejuan, librarian of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Hu Huali, a graduate student of Nanjing Forestry University, were invited to give a report. More than 80 people attended the event.
As the head of GBIF Asia and the data node administrator of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xu’s talk focused on GBIF data integration and application service practices. GBIF refers to Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which is an international organization focusing on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the internet using web services.
Chen talked about the design and deployment practice of the Hosted Portal of GBIF, taking Mapping Asia Plants as an example to introduce the design and deployment process and technical issues of the Hosted Portal and discuss the service promotion mode of the platform.
Hu focused on biodiversity data paper submission and data release, introducing the process of biodiversity data collation and publication, paper submission and possible problems.
