Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) User Needs Survey

Founded in 2011, The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) is a networked community of biorepsositories that provides value to its users by making genomic collections discoverable for research.

GGBN seeks to offer the following:

1. Provide biorepositories with standardized methods for making genomic collections discoverable;

2. Provide biorepositories and contributors with community standards and best practices for the collection and data management of genomic samples;

3. Provide contributors with access to a community that provides storage facilities for and access to information on their genomic collections.

4. Provide trusted and transparent access to genomic samples for users and contributors through an ABS framework—supporting the trust from biodiversity-rich countries and organizations.

5. Provide underlying voucher specimen data to GBIF to enable standardized access.

The purpose of this survey is to better understand the needs of our audiences. If you know someone who may have an interest in GGBN, please send them the link to this survey.

The survey will be open through May 6, 2013.

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* 1. What best describes your organization's work?

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* 2. What best describes your work ?

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* 3. Where is your organization based, and where do you do the majority of your work for this organization?

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* 4. It is important for my organization to increase the accessibility and use of its collections.

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* 5. It is important for my organization to make its collections discoverable for research.

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* 6. My organization provides specimen data to GBIF.

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* 7. Access to a trusted facility to store collections is important to your organization.

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* 8. For collections stored at another facility, it is important for my institution to have access to the *data* on its collections, not just specimens.

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* 9. Shared data standards across biorepositories are important to you and your organization.

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* 10. Trusted information on sample quality for DNA analysis is important to you and your organization.

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* 11. Tracking samples, and related information, back to the voucher is important to you and your organization.

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* 12. Shared data standards across the entire research community are important to you and your organization.

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* 13. My organization uses ______ for management of our DNA and tissue collection.

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* 14. Having a standardized method for making samples in biorepositories discoverable is important to you and your organization.

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* 15. Shared best practices across biorepositories are important to you and your organization.

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* 16. Access to best practices for collection management is important to you and your organization.

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* 17. Access to best practices on data management is important to you and your organization.

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* 18. Shared best practices across the entire research community are important to you and your organization.

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* 19. Access to an Access and Benefit Sharing framework shared across the research community is important for trusted specimen exchange.

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* 20. Access to an ABS framework shared across biorepositories is important for trusted specimen and sample exchange.

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* 21. Access to alerts to new obstacles on specimen and sample exchange is important to you and your organization.

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* 22. Access to example use case documents is important (Material Transfer Agreements, ABS agreements) to you and your organization.

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* 23. Access to an ABS framework shared across the entire research community is important to you and your organization.

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* 24. Trusted (Access and Benefit Sharing) access to genomic samples for research is important to you and your organization.

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* 25. Greater access to permits for specimen and sample exchange is important to you and your organization.

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* 26. Access to standardized work flows on collecting and transporting specimens and samples to storage facilities is important to you and your organization.

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* 27. Access to information on taxonomic holdings in storage facilities is important to you and your organization.

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* 28. A coordinating mechanism for collection data and data use reports is important to you and your organization.

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* 29. Recognition and credit for use of my institution’s collections is important to your organization.

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* 30. An easy-to-use web user interface to genetic sample information is important to you.

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* 31. Access to information on sample location is important to you.

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* 32. Access to information on a sample’s availability for use is important to you.

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* 33. Trusted information on sample quality for DNA analysis is important to you.

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* 34. Open Access to data generated from samples is important to you.

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* 35. One stop shopping for samples and all related information (sequences in GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ, occurrence records in GBIF, publications, and media) is important to you.

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* 36. Recognition and credit for contributed data/research is important to you.

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