Webcast - DiSSCo and GBIF seminar

Agenda - times reported as CET

10:00 Welcome to the seminar (Hugo de Boer and Dag Endresen)

10:10 Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF, and governance models for national biodiversity information facilities (BIFs) (Mélianie Raymond, GBIF Secretariat) (slides)

10:40 Distributed System of Scientific Collections - DiSSCo and governance models for national DiSSCo Nodes (Dimitris Koureas, DiSSCo Coordination Office) (slides)

11:10 Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) as DiSSCo- and GBIF-node (Niels Raes, Naturalis) (slides)

11:40 Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI), GBIF-Sweden, BioAtlas.se, Swedish LifeWatch (Anders Telenius, Swedish Museum of Natural History) (slides 1, slides 2, slides 3)

12:10 Questions and discussion

12:30 Lunch (wraps, served at Tøyen Manor)

13:30 Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre - NBIC (Knut Anders Hovstad, Artsdatabanken) (slides)

13:50 Using open ecology data in research and education (John Arvid Grytnes, EECRG, University in Bergen, Living Norway) (slides)

14:10 Living Norway Ecological Data Network (Erlend Nilsen, NINA, Living Norway) (slides)

14:30 Coffee break (with Danish pastry)

15:00 Discussion on common governance models for DiSSCo, GBIF. Do we want to build a distributed “Norwegian Biodiversity Information Facility”? Based on the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC), GBIF-Norway, Living Norway Ecological Data Network, Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL), etc?

16:00 Closing of the seminar

Video recordings will be available here.