GBIF hosted portals

Context

Participant nodes play an essential role in promoting the use of biodiversity data mobilized by the GBIF network. To further support their engagement across national, institutional, regional and thematic levels, the GBIF Secretariat has developed a fully hosted service that provides simple, customizable biodiversity data portals to GBIF Participant nodes and their partners. In addition to nodes using hosted portals as their own national or network portals, nodes can offer hosted portals as a service to data publishers in their networks.

Each hosted portal is a simple website hosted and maintained on the GBIF infrastructure. The programme complements other tools available through the network by lowering the technical threshold for maintaining a branded web presence displaying a targeted subset of the data and information already available through GBIF.org.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you should be able to perform the following:

  • Describe the hosted portal programme

  • Describe the technologies used in the hosted portal programme

  • Describe how hosted portals can be used as a tool to engage the community

  • Explore portal examples

  • Plan a hosted portal (group 1)

  • Create a hosted portal (group 2)

  • Add features to a hosted portal (group 3)

Trainers

The following trainers have developed the content for this topic:

Anabela Plos, Node Manager, Argentina

Carole Sinou, Node Manager, Canadensys

Secretariat consultants: Mélianie Raymond and Morten Høfft

Preparation

Complete the following activities to prepare for the onsite sessions:

  1. Explore the hosted portal programme page.

  2. Explore 2-3 portals. Choose amongst the full list of portals in production. Take note of features that you like.