Biodiversity Data Mobilization, Advanced Badge

Badge awarded to

Ashok Sengupta

This badge certifies that the wearer has sufficient understanding of the process of producing digital biodiversity datasets and publishing them on the internet following internationally accepted standards, in particular those accepted by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The wearer has successfully completed a workshop on this topic, which included the development of data mobilization strategies and the production, curation and publishing of datasets via the GBIF network.

Issued on 12 Jul 2026 by

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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ISSUER

This badge is issued by the Secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Any questions in connection with this badge can be addressed to training@gbif.org or info@gbif.org.

CRITERIA

The criteria used to issue this badge are:

Having completed the 24 hours of content that comprise the Biodiversity Data Mobilization Course and having completed all the training exercises.
Having completed and submitted the final assignments before the established deadline.
Having obtained a minimum score of 3 out of 4 points in the assignments submitted, which were evaluated by the trainers. This evaluation is based on public course evaluation rubrics.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

This badge certifies that the wearer can successfully complete the following tasks:

Develop and assess biodiversity data mobilization plans adapted to the context of specific projects, with a focus on the management of human and financial resources.
For any given biodiversity data source, recognize whether it can be digitized into any of the classes of datasets that can be published through GBIF, including metadata-only datasets, occurrence datasets, checklist datasets, and sampling-event datasets.
Apply best practices and international standards to produce a digital dataset based on the information contained in biodiversity-related objects.
Transform digital biodiversity data to comply with international standard formats for data publishing and provide data of the highest quality possible.
Apply the different data publishing mechanisms supported by GBIF. In particular using the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and the Darwin Core Archive star schema to publish biodiversity data via GBIF through the use of standard core and extensions.

VERIFYING EVIDENCE

This earner was awarded this badge after having successfully completing the 2025 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Asia (24 Nov 2025 - 2 Jan 2026).

This course contributes to enhancing the capacity to plan and implement biodiversity data publishing efforts effectively and according to GBIF standards.