GBIF Secretariat

17 June 2025

The guide for publishing biodiversity survey and monitoring data is open for community review

Deadline for community contributions: 20 July 2025

Guide for publishing biological survey data to GBIF

GBIF has published the Guide for Publishing Biological Survey Data to GBIF, a resource intended to help data holders structure and make their biological survey data openly available.

This guide is aimed at researchers and other professionals in ecology, biological monitoring, environmental assessment and data management who seek to standardize and share quantitative biodiversity survey data collected systematically and intended for publication through GBIF.

How to take part in the peer review (deadline: 20 July)

Community members who would like to contribute to the peer-review process are encouraged to consult the overview of the digital documentation programme, as well as the specific instructions and expectations for providing suggestions and improvements.

To provide suggestions as a reviewer, community members are asked to:

Please remember that all interactions in this process must follow the GBIF code of conduct, which aims to foster a safe, welcoming and productive, professional, respectful and harassment-free environment for all participants.