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. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The workshop will demonstrate how you can access different types of biodiversity data published through the GBIF platform. And we will also have a brief "bring-your-own-data" workshop to demonstrate how you can publish your own research data to the GBIF platform and get a dataset DOI with data citation tracking services to follow what your dataset is reused for and by whom.
