GBIF creates national portal

The Portuguese node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has launched its portal at www.gbif.pt. This platform for publicizing the activities of the national node and other network partners aims to promote the participation of national institutions and bodies in GBIF, through access to computer tools and documentation for users and providers of biodiversity data.

Upcoming actions by GBIF's national node include a training session on Publishing data in GBIF with the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), on July 11, and the launch of a survey to update national information on natural history collections.

Created in December 2012 at the Institute for Scientific and Tropical Research (IICT), the GBIF national node is coordinated at national level by researcher Rui Figueira and is supported by the FCT.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, created in 2001, seeks to encourage free and open access to biodiversity data via the Internet, through a global network of countries and organizations.