The Platform aims at promoting biodiversity data exchange between scientists in Belgium and abroad as well as with field actors and decision makers.

Since digitisation is often the limiting step in the diffusion of biodiversity information, we are interested in supporting small projects of digitisation of biodiversity related collections/observational data.

The selected project serve as a showcase illustrating the cost-efficiency of digitisation processes and the usefulness of digitized data for scientific and/or practical applications. In addition to financial support, the Platform also provides IT support for the implementation of the project.

Platform publications:

• 2010 digitisation Call

See also GBIF publications (Initiating a Collection Digitisation Project, Principles of Data Quality, Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning ...).