Use of data
Before using data from the GBIF network, please read the GBIF Data Use Agreement and indicate below that you accept these terms.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Data Use Agreement
Background
The goals and principles of making biodiversity data openly and
universally available have been defined in the Memorandum of
Understanding on GBIF (MoU; see the relevant excerpts in Annex).
The Participants who have signed the MoU have expressed their
willingness to make biodiversity data available through their nodes to
foster scientific research development internationally and to support
the public use of these data.
GBIF data sharing should take place within a framework of due
attribution.
Therefore, using data available through the GBIF network requires
agreeing with the following:
1. Data Use Agreements
- The quality and completeness of data cannot be
guaranteed. Users employ these data at their own risk.
- Users shall respect restrictions of access to
sensitive data.
- In order to make attribution of use for owners
of the data possible, the identifier
of ownership of data must be
retained with every data record.
- Users must publicly acknowledge, in conjunction
with the use of the data, the data providers whose biodiversity data
they have used. Data providers may require additional attribution
of specific collections within their institution.
- Users must comply with additional terms and
conditions of use set by the data provider. Where these exist they will
be available through the metadata associated with the data.
2. Citing Data
- Use the following format to cite data retrieved from the GBIF network:
Biodiversity occurrence data provided by: (Accessed through GBIF Data Portal, www.gbif.net, YYYY-MM-DD)
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For example:
Biodiversity occurrence data provided by: Field Museum of Natural History, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Washington Burke Museum, and University of Turku (Accessed through GBIF Data Portal, www.gbif.net, 2007-02-22)
3. Definitions
- GBIF Participant: Signatory of the GBIF-establishing Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU).
- GBIF Secretariat: Legal entity empowered by the GBIF Participants
to enter into contracts, execute the Work Programme, and maintain the
central services for the GBIF network.
- GBIF network: The infrastructure consisting of the central
services of the GBIF Secretariat, Participant Nodes and data providers.
Making data available through GBIF network means registering and
advertising the pertinent services via the GBIF central services..
- Node: A data provider designated by a GBIF Participant that
maintains a stable computer gateway that makes data available through
the GBIF network.
- Participant node: An organisational unit designated by the GBIF
Participant to coordinate activities in its domain. It may also provide
data.
- Biodiversity data: Primary data on specimens, observations,
names, taxonomic concepts, and sites, and other related data on
biological diversity.
- Metadata: Data describing the attributes and combinations of
biodiversity data.
- Data: Biodiversity data and metadata.
- Data provider: A custodian of data making it technically
available. This may or may not be the data owner. If not they will have
declared to GBIF that they have permission to make the data available.
- Data sharing: The process of and agreements for making data
freely and universally available on the Internet.
- User: Anyone who uses the Internet to access
data through the GBIF network.
- Owner of data: The legal entity possessing the right resulting
from the act of creating a digital record. The record may be a product
derived from another, possibly non-digital product, which may affect
the right.
- Sensitive data: Any data that the Node does not want to make
available, e.g. precise localities of endangered species.
Also see the
GBIF Data Sharing Agreement
for the data providers.
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