How we plan to publish 1,000 bio-logging datasets to GBIF and OBIS

Beschrijving

Bio-logging data are data collected by animal-borne sensors, recording their movements, behaviour, physiology and/or environments. These data are used for movement ecology studies, wildlife management and conservation, but are underutilized as species occurrence data. Three platforms of bio-logging data—Movebank, the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) and the European Tracking Network (ETN)—have collaborated to establish best practices and software for transforming and publishing these data as Darwin Core Archives to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). In this talk we will cover:

- Our best practices for transforming bio-logging data, including which Darwin Core terms to include, how to acknowledge the source dataset and platform, why we downsample recorded positions, and how to include biometrics collected during capture and release.
- The open source software tools we developed for transforming data.
- How this approach works across different bio-logging techniques (GPS, acoustic telemetry) and realms (aerial, freshwater, aquatic).
- How the bio-logging data published on GBIF and OBIS can be used to create visualizations (from B-Cubed species occurrence cubes) or monitor marine species (by comparing with non-bio-logging species occurrence data, as is done in MBON’s A-BioTrack project).

We believe that these best practices and prototypes can now be extended to more use cases and leveraged to scale the mobilization of bio-logging data. Want to join our collaborative goal of publishing 1,000 bio-logging datasets to GBIF and/or OBIS?

Periode	23-okt.-2025
Titel evenement	Living Data 2025: Joint TDWG, GBIF, GEO BON and OBIS conference
Soort evenement	Congres
Locatie	Bogota, ColombiaTonen op kaart
Mate van erkenning	Internationaal