The Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management will be launched in two days. This declaration aims at providing open access to research data, make use of persistent identifiers and services to biodiversity data. 

See the provisional website of the declaration, also including background information. 

The declaration will be launched during the final conference of the pro-iBiosphere project (June 12, 2014, at the at the Bouchout Castle in the Botanical Garden Meise, in Belgium).