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Coordination Office of GBIF Germany

The Coordination Office of GBIF Germany (GBIF-D) serves as contact for the joint research project and the research community as well as for the media and the public. The office staff is responsible for the internal project communication as well as the information flow between the international GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen [2] and the German nodes. Further tasks are the coordination of cooperations with biodiversity research initiatives in Germany and maintain public relations including the website of GBIF-D. 

Responsible Institute:
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin [3]

Contact

Prof. Dr. Walter G. Berendsohn
Speaker of GBIF-D
w.berendsohn[at]bgbm.org
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8
14195 Berlin, Germany

Wolf-Henning Kusber
GBIF-D Coordination Team, Project Communication
December 2010 - April 2011, December 2013 - April 2014
w.h.kusber[at]bgbm.org
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8
14195 Berlin, Germany

Structure and Coordination of GBIF-D
Eight nodes form GBIF-Germany, seven of them responsible for a range of taxonomic groups. The nodes's main task is to collect existing biodiversity information scattered in databases all over Germany, to digitalize and combine it virtually to allow free and open access for everyone according to GBI's the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU [4]).

The German governing board consists of the eight node coordinators, the speaker of the node coordinator's group, and the speaker of the GBIF-D IT Commission.

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grant 01 LI 1001 A: Joint research project "GBIF-D: Kompetenzzentren innovativer Datenmobilisierung" (2010-2014)

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