A timeline of key events in the history of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. (IMAGE)

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A timeline of key events in the history of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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A timeline of key events in the history of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. GBIF’s history began in 1999 with its proposal by the Biodiversity Informatics Subgroup of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Megascience Forum, and GBIF was officially established in 2001. The lower section of the figure illustrates key milestones in GBIF’s history. Along the main axis, bars indicate the emergence and integration of key data originator communities that had a substantial impact on the GBIF network and infrastructure. The upper section of the figure illustrates the cumulative total number of occurrence data records made available by GBIF. At right, the y-axis indicates the annual citations of GBIF-mediated data. Acronyms in the figure are: Natural History Collections (NHCs); Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT); Darwin Core (DwC); Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs); Biodiversity Information for Development (BID); Metabarcoding Data Programme (MDP); Metabarcoding Data Toolkit (MDT); Darwin Core Data Package (DwC DP); Catalogue of Life (COL).

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Miller et al., 2026

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