Webpages tagged with «gbif» - Page 4

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody publish the event in GBIF, did it really happen? Global Biodiversity Information Facility, free and open access to biodiversity data.

The ECPGR working groups on forage crops and on barley invited GBIF-Norway to the joint workshop in Malmö to present the GBIF data portal.

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2017 annual conference in Ottawa, Canada 1-6 October.

Large number of specimens in the Natural History Museums remain un-digitized and are not yet available in electronic form. The Volunteer Portal is a citizen science project where amateur naturalists are invited to contribute to the electronic registration of herbarium collections. Telemark Botanical Society will help us to test and explore the Volunteer Portal.

The European GBIF Nodes will meet in Stockholm in May.

The GBIF node and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Center (NBIC, Artsdatabanken) will organize a biodiversity informatics seminar at the University of Bergen about data publication and use on 14th December 2016.

Downloading species occurrence data using the GBIF web-service API. (Tilgang og nedlasting av stedfestede artsdata fra GBIF med webtjenester).

GBIF BIFA mentoring: Orientation Workshop on Mobilizing Biodiversity Data from ASEAN Protected Areas

GBIF Norway (GBIF.no) and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken.no) organize a seminar on data publishing in Tromsø on 7th and 8th of September 2016.

Learn more about Darwin Core! GBIF.no recommends our data nodes in Norway to follow the new and informative series of webinars on Darwin Core from the US-based iDigBio.

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) organizes a workshop on 1st November 2016 to collect experiences on research data archiving and open access data publishing. The Norwegian GBIF-node will present the GBIF framework including dataset DOIs and download DOIs.

Start-up meeting for the Cultural Heritage Mediascapes research project on participatory citizen science in museums and archives.

Meeting 23rd August 2016, between GBIF.no and Artsdatabanken, and NIBIO (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research) to discuss support for data publishing

A total of 9 project applications receive co-funding from the GBIF node for data publishing based on the April 2016 project call.

GBIF Norway invites project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your Norwegian species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline 29 April 2016.

A call for small biodiversity data publication co-funding grants was announced at the GBIF Norway home page with deadline September 2015. These grants are given to support the enhancement of data quality and mobilization of primary biodiversity data from Norway for publication to GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). We received a total of 7 co-funding grant applications in addition to the 3 project applications received earlier in 2015 - before the public call was announced. Here is also described the results received in 2015 from 2 data mobilization grants with project start in 2014.

University training course BIO4115/BIO9115 (Master and PhD) on species distribution modelling using GBIF data and Maxent. The Norwegian GBIF node contributed to the lectures on accessing and using GBIF data.

GBIF Norway and the UiO Natural History Museum organized in October 2014 a training course for the ForBio Research School in Biosystematics: Introduction to GPS and GIS.

In April 2015, the GBIF Secretariat and Bioversity International created a ‘Task Group on Data Fitness for Use in Agrobiodiversity’ to improve the quality and quantity of data on the GBIF portal that are important to agricultural biodiversity research and policy communities. These include data on agricultural biodiversity monitoring, gaps in conservation, crop wild relatives, collections and genebank inventories, crop suitability index and more. The Norwegian GBIF node was invited and accepted to be a member of this task group.

NINA, NTNU University Museum, GBIF Norway and the NBIC (Artsdatabanken) organize a workshop on publication of biodiversity occurrence data to GBIF and the Norwegian Map Service (Artskart) at NINA in Trondheim in October 2015. Please let us know if you want to join the workshop! gbif-drift@nhm.uio.no

Introduction to writing good data set metadata and to the procedure for writing and submitting data paper manuscripts to the PENSOFT Biodiversity Data Journal. Participants bring their own data set(s) and we aim at least a good start on the writing for a complete data paper manuscript by the end of day 2.

The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge 2015 is launched.

Update: The winners were announced at the GBIF governing board (GB22), October 2015.

Norway joined the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) in 2004. The UiO Natural History Museum in Oslo has hosted the Norwegian participant node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) since the Norwegian GBIF node was established in 2005.