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GLOBAL FOREST INFORMATION SERVICE
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Identifying the Need
Earth Summit 1992 (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), Rio
Agenda 21, Chapter 40: Existing national and international
mechanisms of information processing and exchange, and of related technical assistance, should be strengthened to ensure effective and equitable availability of information generated at the local, provincial, national and international levels
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Finding a Forum
The Intergovernmental Forum on Forests urged international organizations, donor countries and financial institutions to enhance access to forest-related information and
...to work with IUFRO in exploring possibilities for a
global forest information service.
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Why IUFRO?
Independent Research-oriented World-wide membership Long involvement with information
issues
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Planning a Solution
World Forestry Congress 1997 Rovaniemi 1998 ICRIS 1998
International Consultation on Research and Information Systems in Forestry
IUFRO Task Force 1999 Six meetings to date
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The Harry Potter Phenomenon Get people
talking Get them
wanting more Sell on content Repackage for
specific audiences
Translate widely
Seeking
Examples
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Send for Harry…
Challenge the nightmare
Power of the individual
With a little help from our friends
Separate good and bad
Get info from library
and the Forest and the Forest
of Informationof Information
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Core Group
20 institutions Working as volunteers Wide-ranging skills Growing appreciation of library &
information world methodologies – cataloguing and classification
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What is GFIS?
A network of forest-related databases Spatial Statistical Bibliographic
A network of people Producers Users Intermediaries
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What kind of information?
Quality information Not censorship, but the means to
decide Accessible by anyone anywhere Web-based but with support for
non-electronic sources and users Cross-searchable metadata (Cross-)searching within databases
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GFIS – the theory
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GFIS – the reality
Two tin cans and a piece of string Needs someone to talk and
someone to listen And vice versa
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Building GFIS
IUFRO Secretariat Vienna FAO Rome GFIS-Africa
EU funding 5 nodes
Prospects for Latin America, SE Asia, Europe
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Timescale
Proof of Concept IUFRO Congress 2000 (Malaysia)
Working Prototype World Forestry Congress 2002 (Quebec)
Production service IUFRO Congress 2005 (Brisbane)
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Related activities
Thesauri FAO, CABI, IUFRO
Subject gateways: BIOME, NovaGate, AgNIC, Agrigate
Virtual Library METLA
Digitisation of non-electronic sources Oxford Digital Library
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What next?
6th Meeting of GFIS Task Force Portland, Oregon, 12-16 August
2001
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Activities 2001-2
1 Sept 2001: GFIS Special Programme Paid full-time co-ordinator
New GFIS Projects
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GFIS-Africa
Mobilizing scientific information on forests to promote their sustainable management in ACP countries
Establishment of 5 GFIS nodes in Western Africa (Ghana and Senegal), Eastern Africa (Kenya), Southern Africa (Zimbabwe) and Gabon.
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GFIS-Latin America
A proposal to the World Bank Information for Development Program
Enhancing access to scientific information to promote sustainable forestry in Latin America within the framework of GFIS
27 November 2000
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GFIS-North America
US Adaptive Management Area Information Portal
Information gateway for forest research sites in US Pacific Northwest
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GFIS-Europe
EFIS: European Forest Information System
EC-JRC funding c. €250000 Jan 2001-Mar 2002 EFI, GMD, Tharandt, WCMC
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Activities for 2001-2
Data Provision: encourage providers to register
‘Housekeeping’ by IUFRO Secretariat
Technical development proposal from consultant group by end of year
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Activities for 2001-2
Business Plan to IUFRO Management Committee Autumn 2001
GFIS Charter and Strategic Plan developed by Spring 2002
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Activities for 2001-2
Support for joint forestry thesaurus project
Task Force to be extended to Corresponding Members
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GLOBAL FOREST INFORMATION SERVICE