The 9th National IPBES Forum Germany - Poster - IPBES technical support unit for DATA hosted at Senckenberg
Creators: name: Niamir, Aidin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: IPBES, Senckenberg, Data Management, Policy, FAIR

description: <strong>This poster is presented at the 9th National IPBES Forum Germany</strong><br> https://www.de-ipbes.de/de/9-Nationales-IPBES-Forum-1-2-Juni-2022-Bonn-2153.html<br> <br> https://www.de-ipbes.de/de/Postersession-IPBES-relevante-Aktivitaten-2155.html<br> <br> <br> <br> The IPBES Plenary adopted the rolling work programme of the Platform for the period up to 2030 at its seventh session, which included among its six objectives, advanced work on knowledge and data. The objective focuses on identifying, mobilizing and facilitating access to knowledge and data to support open data sharing and information management. Plenary recalled the establishment of the task force on knowledge and data and extended its mandate to implement the objective. Since December 2019, the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research has hosted a technical support unit for data, which supports the task force on knowledge and data with matters relevant to data management at IPBES. Below is a brief summary of achievements and activities implemented by the task force and its dedicated technical support unit at Senckenberg: The <em>IPBES data and knowledge management policy </em>was written and approved<em>. </em>The policy is grounded in the principles of open science, accessibility, and building knowledge through partnerships. The purpose of the policy is to provide overarching guidance on the management of data and knowledge to current assessments and the work of task forces regarding IPBES products. More … The <em>IPBES long-term vision on data and knowledge management </em>was developed, which describes an overarching vision supported by essential tracks for knowledge and data management outlining possible paths to reaching the vision. The vision sets the basis for the development of revised terms of reference for the task force for the period up to 2030. More … <em>A series of technical guidelines</em> were published to assist IPBES experts with implementing specific recommendations within the data and knowledge management policy. More … The <em>Valuation Atlas</em> of the Values Assessment is developed as a semi-interactive and reproducible product. It showcases a series of maps based on a corpus of literature derived from a systematic literature review describing the geographic distribution of study locations and organizations. More … The authors of the value assessment were supported with various <em>applications of Natural Language Processing</em>, which required processing and analysing of large amounts of textual data. An <em>ontology for IPBES assessments </em>was developed. The IPBES Global Assessment was converted into a linked-open-data format using the developed ontology and presented to the task force of knowledge and data at their fourth meeting. The technical support unit engaged with <em>external initiatives and service providers on data,</em> including several meetings with geospatial and earth observation, and web systems and services namely with the GEOBON, GBIF, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. From the very beginning, Senckenberg has supported IPBES in different capacities including providing high-performance computational infrastructure, and scientific contributions to most of the assessments and reports. Senckenberg hosted the third meeting of the Global Assessment authors in August 2018 and will host the first authors meeting of the Nexus Assessment in May 2022. For further enquiries on Senckenberg’s contributions to IPBES, please contact Dr Aidin Niamir (aniamir@senckenberg.de).