Upcoming events

The Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting is being held July 26-31, 2026 in Salt Lake City, UT. more information

In collaboration with the GBIF Secretariat, DanBIF is hosting a one-and-a-half-day workshop in Copenhagen, where participants can learn how to increase the visibility and reuse of their biodiversity data by publishing it through GBIF using the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit (MDT). When datasets are published through GBIF, each published [...]

Symposia event as part of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) 206 conference. Session lead: Alina Freire-Fierro (Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam) Co-organisers: Elizabeth Ellwood; Mike Rutherford Symposium format: Mixed format Knowledge about our biodiversity, obtained from species preserved in-situ in protected areas and ex-situ at natural [...]

The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to modern methods for publishing and analyzing vegetation-plot data, using open-source data and software. Course overview * Introduction to the Czech Vegetation Database , an example of a fully open vegetation database (M. Chytrý) * Vegetation data manipulation and processing [...]

Session 1 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. What GBIF is and why open biodiversity data matters — DOIs, versioning and the data lifecycle, a first look at FAIR, and everyone pulls a first download.

About Data Fika is a GBIF Sweden online webinar series for the Swedish biodiversity data community running from September 2026 to June 2027. Across ten sessions the series follows the biodiversity data journey from finding and reusing GBIF-mediated data to data quality standards metadata FAIR and CARE principles and publishing [...]

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2026 conference takes place in Oslo, Norway in September. This year, the conference is hosted byGBIF Norway , the University of Oslo Natural History Museum and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre . TDWG's annual conferences provide a forum for developing, refining and extending [...]

The first European Specify Summit aims to establish a European Specify community. The program will include talks and discussions on the community's aims, governance, working group topics etc. We will also focus on identifying benefits of being part of a European community, as well as shared challenges and priorities. Registration [...]

The 33rd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events takes place in Oslo, Norway. * 28 September 2026 Monday: Committees and Icebreaker * 29 September 2026 Tuesday: GB33 Day 1 * 30 September Wednesday: GB33 Day 2 - Hosted dinner * 01 October Thursday: GB33 Day 3 * [...]

This international theoretical and practical training course is part of the GBIF thematic inter-institutional network and the project "Geographic distribution of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of public health and veterinary importance for Latin America and the Caribbean <>". The course will strengthen taxonomic capacity for the morphological identification of hard ticks [...]

Session 2 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. Website downloads, rgbif, pygbif and the API — reproducible downloads and their DOIs, cubes, Darwin Core Archives, and when to use SBDI vs GBIF.org.

The GBIF Regional Support Team for Europe and Central Asia is organizing a virtual training workshop on biodiversity data mobilization and publication to strengthen the capacity of institutions in SE Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia to mobilize, manage and publish biodiversity data through GBIF. The workshop is based on [...]

About Data Fika is a GBIF Sweden online webinar series for the Swedish biodiversity data community running from September 2026 to June 2027. Across ten sessions the series follows the biodiversity data journey from finding and reusing GBIF-mediated data to data quality standards metadata FAIR and CARE principles and [...]

From 19 to 30 October 2026, the Republic of Armenia will host the Seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), bringing together in Yerevan representatives of governments from around the world, international organizations, the scientific community, civil society, Indigenous [...]

Are you a professional working with object-related data from scientific collections, looking to interact with fellow data enthusiasts and share project insights? Consider registering for the upcoming conference “Beyond drawers and spreadsheets: the journey of object-related data,” organized by theWiNoDa Knowledge Lab and taking place 21 October 2026, in [...]

This kick-off meeting for the CESP project <> DwC-DACK brings CMS developers, DiSSCo, GBIF Nodes and partners together to refine our technical roadmap, select target CMS instances and establish our path toward the March 2027 Leiden Hackathon. Meeting details: Project ID: CESP2026-014 Date: Sunday, 27 September 2026 Time: 12:00 – [...]

Hosted in partnership with the MTS eDNA Committee and the University of Washington’s eDNA Collaborative , the conference will convene a global community of eDNA enthusiasts from across economic sectors to build connections, learn from one another, and further advance eDNA science. The global conference will feature three days [...]

Planetary change is transforming ecosystems, oceans and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet the biological responses to environmental stress begin at a much smaller scale: the cell. Cells are the first responders to environmental change, regulating how organisms adapt, interact with symbiotic partners, and survive shifting conditions. Understanding these mechanisms is essential [...]

The 10th International Barcode of Life Conference will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. This in-person conference provides a unique opportunity to exchange and disseminate cutting-edge scientific knowledge about the latest DNA barcoding and metabarcoding advancements for species identification. Monday 2 November GBIF facilitates a hands-on workshop on how to [...]

The GBIF Secretariat is organizing a capacity enhancement workshop on biodiversity data mobilization as part of theBID programme for representatives of projects selected under the BID Africa call for proposals and relevant regional partners. The workshop is hosted bySANBI in Cape Town, South Africa on 5-7 November 2026. [...]

The GBIF Regional Support Team for Europe and Central Asia is organizing a virtual training workshop on biodiversity data mobilization and publication to strengthen the capacity of institutions in SE Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia to mobilize, manage and publish biodiversity data through GBIF. The workshop is based on [...]

Meeting goals * Support regional coordination, led by the regional representatives * Facilitate regional collaboration by allowing nodes to share updates on their activities, receive peer feedback, and discuss joint project proposals throughCESP and other programmes * Provide feedback to the Secretariat and NSG on regional issues and priorities [...]

Session 3 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. What the Darwin Core columns in your download mean — TDWG standards, persistent identifiers (UUIDs, RORs, ORCIDs, DOIs), metadata and ISO formats.

Session 4 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. How GBIF represents occurrences, events and measurements — sample vs presence-only data, long vs wide format, SQL for cubes, and data management basics.

Session 5 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. Coordinate validation with CoordinateCleaner, taxonomic name resolution (Dyntaxa vs the GBIF backbone), date parsing, duplicates and encoding issues.

Session 6 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. Cleaned ≠ fit for your question — spatial, temporal and taxonomic bias, presence-only pitfalls, basisOfRecord filtering and coordinate uncertainty.

Session 7 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. The Creative Commons family and GBIF's three licences — plus Artportalen's protected-species generalisation, GDPR and data agreements.

Session 8 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. FAIR as practical implementation, and CARE as a governance framework — grounded in Swedish collections' holdings and Sámi data governance.

Session 9 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. How collection data becomes a published GBIF dataset — Darwin Core mapping, extensions, metadata and licensing, with a look at the IPT.

Session 10 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. A capstone tying the series together: download, clean, check fitness, integrate, produce a figure and document it reproducibly — and cite everything.