Science-Policy Resources

• G20 Research and Innovation Working Group, Mpumalanga report: Global collaboration supporting museums and natural history collections.
• G20 Research and Innovation Working Group, Mpumalanga Roadmap: Considerations (or Principles) for Global Natural History Collections Roadmap

Strategy Documents

• GBIF Strategic Plan 2017-2021
• SANBI Annual Reports
• Twenty Year Review of GBIF (CODATA,Paris 2020)
• A World That Counts: Mobilising the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development

Technical Documents

• Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook
• White Paper on Science, Technology and Innovation
• GBIF Science Review 2020
• Georeferencing Best Practices 2020
• Current Best Practices for Generalizing Sensitive Species Occurence Data 2020
• New guide released to support freshwater data publishing

Task Group Recommendations

• Publishing DNA-derived Data Through Biodiversity Data Platforms
• Final Report of the Task Group on GBIF Data Fitness for Use in Distribution Modelling 2016
• Final Report of the Task Group on GBIF Data Fitness for Use in Research on Alien and Invasive Species 2016
• Final Report of the Task Group on GBIF Data Fitness for Use in Agrobiodiversity

Useful Websites

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
• The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON)
• Data Carpentries - Data Carpentry for Biologists
• Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum
• iNaturalist
• Atlas of Living Australia