The document summarizes the state of data publishing through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) network. It finds that while data records are increasing, the rate of increase is declining. Developing regions contribute the most data, with the Avian Knowledge Network as the single largest data publisher. Over 2.4 billion records have been identified by GBIF participants but only around 800 million are accessible digitally and participants have committed to publishing less than 25% of available records by 2010. There remains a need for more strategic and planned approaches to data discovery and publishing with an emphasis on both local and global efforts.

1. 2010: Simplified Data Publishing Solutions Darwin Core Archives for taxonomic and primary biodiversity data 17 th Meeting of the GBIF Governing Board, Suwon, Republic of Korea Discovery and Publishing of Data through the GBIF Network: The State-of-the-Network & Potentials Vishwas Chavan Senior Programme Officer for DIGIT [email_address] October 2010

4. Status of Data Publishing % of increase in Data Records, Data Publishers, and Data Records are on decline

5. Status of Data Publishing Developing regions are the largest data contributor The Avian Knowledge Network is the largest single Data Publisher Over 2700 data resources to be indexed The DiGIR protocol is used by over 60% of Data Publishers Data resources published by USA-based publishers receive the maximum number of search hits and return maximum data records, download events, and downloaded records

6. Geographical bias Content Assessment Regional distribution of records in the GBIF Index.

7. Content Assessment Taxonomical bias

8. Content Assessment Observation vs. Specimen Temporal bias - Data deluge

11. Potential of the GBIF Network (2009) 27 Participant NODES reported availability of 2.453 billion data records

12. Need for Local to Global Scale efforts