CETAF Strategy & Strategic Development Plan 2015 - 2025

Focus Area #4 - Biodiversity informatics and information technologies

Action	Interpretation	Planned activities	Products
Moving taxonomy into the digital world
i. Supporting shared database infrastructure and open access policies	xx	xx	xx	xx
ii. Making taxonomy data digitally interpretable and retrievable	xx	xx	xx	xx
iii. Increasing the use of collection data	xx	xx	xx	xx
Ensuring retrievable, connected and interoperable biodiversity data
i. Using commonly agreed ‘stable identifiers’ for the natural history collections	xx	xx	xx	xx
ii. Implementing recognised collection metadata descriptions	xx	xx	xx	xx
iii. Linking European, national and regional collections of specimens and data (checklists or databases)	xx	xx	xx	xx
Disseminating data and data processing standards, thesauri and controlled vocabularies
i. Continuing the development of compatible data standards	xx	xx	xx	xx
ii. Adopting and implementing guidelines on standards	xx	xx	xx	xx
iii. Collating and distributing interoperable standards for biodiversity data and natural history specimen databasing	xx	xx	xx	xx
iv. Establishing and promoting specimen data and database citation standards (source recognition)	xx	xx	xx	xx
Safeguarding long-term data storage, curation and longevity
i. Organising the maintenance of a supported system for data storage	xx	xx	xx	xx
ii. Adopting processes for orphan databases or digital information	xx	xx	xx	xx

Target	Interpretation	State
CETAF interoperable standards for biodiversity data and natural history specimen databasing are adopted in 80% of CETAF institutions	xx	xx
CETAF standard identifiers are adopted in 80% of CETAF institutions	xx	xx
Digital data curation guidelines are produced and adopted	xx	xx
Digital storage capacity infrastructure is established within the consortium	xx	xx