GBIF Sweden is the Swedish participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF. Our main task is to make primary data on biological diversity from Swedish collections and observation databases freely available and to coordinate and support GBIF-related activities and data use in Sweden.
GBIF Sweden recently contributed to a regional capacity-building workshop in Lithuania, bringing together researchers, data managers and institutions working to mobilize biodiversity data for research and policy.The workshop was organized within the framework of GBIF’s Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP), which supports the development of skills, networks and infrastructure for [...]
A new national initiative, the Swedish Metabarcoding Network (SMN), has been launched to bring together researchers and data producers working with eDNA and metabarcoding across Sweden. The network aims to improve the accessibility and reuse of metabarcoding data by supporting publication of processed biodiversity data in FAIR formats.
The Swedish Museum of Natural History is recruiting a new Director for the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI).
