Data Policy Recommendations for Biodiversity Data. EU BON Project Report

Willi Egloff,Puneet Kishor,Anke Hoffmann,Daniel Mietchen,Lyubomir Penev,Donat Agosti,David Patterson

doi:10.3897/rio.2.e8458

Abstract

There is a strong need for a comprehensive, coherent, and consistent data policy in ‐ Europe to increase interoperability of data and to make its reuse both easy and legal. Available single recommendations/guidelines on different topics need to be processed, structured, and unified. Within the context of the EU BON project, a team from the EU BON partners from Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Plazi, and Pensoft has prepared this report to be used as a part of the Data Publishing Guidelines and Recommendations in the EU BON Biodiversity Portal. The document deals with the issues: (i) Mobilizing biodiversity data, (ii) Removing legal obstacles, (iii) Changing attitudes, (iv) Data policy recommendations and is addressed to legislators, researchers, research institutions, data aggregators, funders, and publishers.

Highlights

The EU BON project will build a substantial part of the Group on Earth Observation’s Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) to ensure sustainable governance of our biological resources
Regarding the development of the EU BON Data Policy Recommendations (DPR), there is an overlap between tasks 8.4 and 9.7
The paper “Open exchange of scientific knowledge and European copyright: The case of biodiversity information” published in the open access journal ZooKeys (Egloff et al 2014) and covers copyright issues across EU countries relating to biodiversity data publishing

Summary

Introduction

The EU BON project will build a substantial part of the Group on Earth Observation’s Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) to ensure sustainable governance of our biological resources. Regarding the development of the EU BON Data Policy Recommendations (DPR) (milestone MS972), there is an overlap between tasks 8.4 and 9.7. In task 8.4, the milestone MS841 ‘Biodiversity data publishing legal framework report’ was submitted in May 2015 A summary of this survey, together with the data sharing agreement and the survey on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues on biodiversity data in the European Union

Background

Legislators

Researchers

Data aggregators

Funding Agencies

Publishers