Zu optimistisch?
The OECD Megascience Forum Subgroup on Biodiversity Informatics "recommends that OECD member countries ... invest in activities contributing data, information and capabilities to GBIF, such as ... contributing specimen data from biological collections". Die Einrichtung der "Global Biodiversity Information Facility" (GBIF) wurde von den OECD Forschungsministern am 22.-23. Juni 1999 befürwortet.