This century is distinguished by the importance of sharing data and development of the scientific and technological advancements that make it possible. For biodiversity studies, a key step has been development of protocols for sharing data about occurrences - records of what was seen where when and by whom - with diverse groups through use of standardized fields. For example, using internationally recognized (aka, scientific) names to learn about species' distributions, of species, reporting dates in a standard format enables findng finding the organisms likely to be found at a given time, and using standard codes for countries and their administrative regions makes it possible to create lists of the species known from such regions.
The Foundation promotes sharing of Somaliland's biodiversity data (with some restrictions for rare species) via OpenHerbarium (for plant, fungi, and algae) and OpenZooMuseum for animals. These allow sharing data with GBIF, the global aggregator of biosidiversity data which makes it freely available to anyone in the world.
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