Past events

The 17th meeting of the nodes of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia region <> will take place inIreland <> from 20 to 23 May 2025. This in-person meeting is open to node managers from the region's participant nodes.
The meeting will take place on the West Campus of the [...]

This regional training, organized by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), is designed to strengthen the capability of key institutions working for biodiversity management in its Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to manage, standardise and publish biodiversity data; in effect, building a community of data-publishing institutions that can leverage and [...]

This session brings together key partners from GBIF, eLTER, DiSSCo, and LifeWatch ERIC, who share what they achieve through their collaboration with BioDT. They explain how their data, expertise, and technologies contribute to the development of the BioDT prototype Digital Twins - and how the project supports their own missions.

GBIF has recently enabled a simple, easy-to-use service for creating and downloading species occurrence cubes based on GBIF-mediated data. The service enables users to select their geographic, temporal and taxonomic dimensions of interest to generate customized reports summarizing occurrences in a format suitable for use in biodiversity models and indicators. [...]

The GBIF Secretariat will hold an open question-and-answer session in English, for individuals interested in participating in the 2025 BID call for proposals forLatin America & the Caribbean andthe Pacific .
The aim of this session is to provide an opportunity to raise any questions about the call’s scope [...]

In the following technical support hour for GBIF nodes on May 7th at 4:00 pm CEST, we will introduce the first ‘Deep Dive’ session on handlingissues and flags , and we will focus onDate issues for this particular session.Several date flags and issues can be associated with records when [...]

Access to FAIR and open primary biodiversity data is crucial for understanding and conserving the natural world.
In this presentation, Kate Ingenloff gives an overview of GBIF and introduces the current data model and its potential applications. The presentation is a part of a series of lectures of theGerman [...]

Join GBIF Sweden on May 6 for an engaging half-day workshop designed to introduce museum professionals and researchers to biodiversity data standards. This beginner-friendly session will cover essential topics, including TDWG, Darwin Core (DwC), metadata, FAIR & CARE principles, controlled vocabularies, and data interoperability.
Through expert presentations, participants will gain [...]

The inaugural GEO Global Forum in 2025 will be a premier global event to inspire all elements of our society – from Ministers and global leaders to citizens – to harness Earth Intelligence to empower informed and ambitious actions to ensure food security, restore ecosystems, prevent disasters, and confront the [...]

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The GBIF 2025 Work Programme identifies agrobiodiversity as a thematic priority in need of wider consultation, building on initial discussions with domain experts in 2024.
During this 90-minute webinar, we hope to capture feedback and suggestions on a road map for engaging this thematic [...]

This meeting is for participants of the Global Registry of Scientific Collections online course who have already attended the kick-off meeting and gone through the online material.
This course aims to support the community maintaining collection data in GRSciColl. It gives an overview of the GRSciColl data structure and [...]

GBIF Sweden will participate in the upcoming SciLifeLab course “Best Practices for Reference Genome Generation”.
The course covers essential topics from project planning and sample collection to sequencing, data processing, data mobilization and deposition in open repositories.
The course is designed for junior and senior researchers utilizing reference genomes for [...]

GBIF Sweden will participate in the upcoming SciLifeLab course “Best Practices for Reference Genome Generation”

This webinar, held within the scope of the CESP project "Developing a Data Extension for Documenting Socio-Biodiversity Information" lead by SiBBr - Brazil in partnership with Argentina and Colombian nodes will present SiB Colombia’s experiences in publishing biodiversity data from indigenous communities, highlighting lessons learned, challenges faced, and key [...]

If you are already an editor for the Global Registry of Scientific Collections or if you wish to become one, you are welcome to join our online course.
This course aims to support the community maintaining collection data in GRSciColl. It gives an overview of the GRSciColl data structure [...]

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases hosted at the World Health Organization (WHO), GBIF and GigaScience Press have just extended their third call for authors to submit data release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal. [...]

This workshop is for Colombian and Ecuadorian researchers, scientists, and students. The aim is to bring together ecologists working with machine learning data for biodiversity science, as well as computer scientists interested in contributing to biodiversity conservation.
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Join us for the next technical support hour for GBIF nodes on April 2nd at 4 pm CEST, where the topic is Community Metrics.
Community Metrics is a new initiative to develop new metrics, indicators and time series data products from GBIF-mediated data that can better support decision-making. The aim [...]

The final event is divided into an internal (Day 1) and a public part (Day 2), with both parts meant for BioDT consortium members.
The first day of the event will be an internal consortium meeting intended for BioDT active project members only. During this day we will review the [...]

This workshop aims to strengthen collaboration and efficiency in Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) related developments, specifically targeting developers and managers within the Living Atlases (LAs) community. It is not an introductory or training workshop; rather, it is designed specifically for developers and teams actively maintaining and adapting biodiversity data [...]

The XIII Congreso Latinamericano de Botánica will have its next edition in Havana, Cuba. Bringing together Latin American colleagues, it is expected that this meeting will increase relations between professionals in the region, both in terms of collections, morphoanatomical and genetic studies, as well as collection management systems and publication [...]

This workshop is a part of the GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme titledBuilding capacity within biodiversity data between Ethiopia and GBIF nodes in Sweden and Finland
This three-day workshop aims to provide an understanding of GBIF, data management, data standards, and data mobilization. The sessions will include presentations, [...]

Join us for the BioDT School and Hackathon and become the pioneer of the Digital Twins Research!
We are excited to invite you to the BioDT School and Hackathon, which will take place from March 3-7, 2025, at the heel of Italian Peninsula – in the city of Lecce, Italy.

The next Africa region webinar will take place February 28 3:00-4:00 PM Central Africa Time / 4:00-5:00 PM East Africa Time.
This webinar will introduce DNA data publishing, focusing on key concepts, relevant Darwin Core terms, and best practices. We’ll explore how to format and share DNA-derived biodiversity data on [...]

GBIF nodes participating in the Metabarcoding Data Programme are invited to the first MDT community call of 2025 to learn about latest developments and functionalities of theMetabarcoding Data Toolkit (MDT) , and discuss issues on the usage of the MDT, engagement with data holders, and other relevant aspects. Attendees will [...]

A community call with network members who are currently running GBIF's hosted portal service <>.
The meeting will provide updates on progress aligning GBIF.org and Hosted Portals, as well as address community feedback received prior to the meeting.
Anyone not currently involved in a hosted portal who wants to learn [...]

In partnership with Knowit, GBIF Sweden is participating in a Hyper Island project where four students are exploring the question:
How can a partnership between Knowit and GBIF Sweden empower Nordic companies to make biodiversity data actionable and drive sustainable decision-making?
Running from January 9 to February 14, the project [...]

How can a partnership between Knowit and GBIF Sweden empower Nordic companies to make biodiversity data actionable and drive sustainable decision-making?

The data available on GBIF comes from many different data providers: citizen science initiatives, museums, research teams, etc. The data are then processed and aggregated to enable anyone to access them seamlessly via the GBIF website and API.
This Data Use Club session aims to give users the tools to [...]

BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) across the various dimensions of biodiversity, and addressing the use of Earth Observations in all realms, from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal to marine ecosystems.
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The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is hosting a data mobilization workshop to address capacity needs and to promote data publication across the region.
The virtual workshop will be conducted in February 2025, and will be based on theGBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum .
The aim of the workshop is [...]

The next technical support hour for GBIF nodes will be on February 5th, 2025, at 4 pm CET, and the topic isinvestigating taxonomic issues on GBIF.org .
The taxonomy of the records published to GBIF is matched to GBIF’s taxonomic backbone to normalize the data and make records easier to [...]

This will be the 42nd conference of the Swedish Oikos Society, and the sixth time it is hosted in Stockholm.
The conference will gather researchers and students from across Sweden to share ideas and discoveries in ecological research, and solutions for our changing world. We will cover a diverse range [...]

This event emphasizes the utilization and dissemination of biodiversity data through the GBIF portal, showcasing practical experiences and methodologies in data digitization and publication.
It also highlights collaborative efforts in integrating digital biodiversity data into educational curricula and research initiatives, aligning with GBIF's mission to promote open access to biodiversity [...]

The workshop is primarily addressed to partners from WP3 and WP4 of DTP, members of theDiSSCo community , data custodians, and practitioners from the broader scientific community who may be interested in the topic.
Please, be aware that registration is compulsory. You can register here until January 16th, 2025.
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Expected audience: Node managers, Node staff and potential project partners
The GBIF Secretariat will be holding an open question and answer session in English, for persons interested in knowing more about the2025 CESP call for proposals .
The aim is to provide an opportunity to raise any questions about the [...]

The LAND (Lebendiger Atlas der Natur Deutschlands) Community Workshop 2025 brings together users of theLAND portal , data curators, potential future data providers, the LAND team and other stakeholders of the biodiversity data community in Germany. Note registrations have now closed for this event.
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The next Africa region webinar will take place December 13 3:00-4:00 PM Central Africa Time / 4:00-5:00 PM East Africa Time.
This webinar will explore key initiatives aimed at strengthening skills and knowledge in biodiversity data management and use. Participants will discover opportunities such as the GBIF Data Use Club, [...]

The Biodiversity Information for Development <> programme (BID) is entering a new phase (August 2024–July 2029) that will include actions in the Latin America and Caribbean region, such as capacity development workshops and calls for project proposals, aimed at standardizing and publishing biodiversity data via GBIF. The programme seeks to [...]

Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl).
In this community call, we will discuss our road map for 2025 which will focus on improving the GRSciColl content and build a stronger community. Come and listen to our ideas and give us your feedback. [...]

IPBES 11 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 9 December 2024. Further information on these events will follow in due course.
At IPBES 11, the Plenary will consider, among other items, the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment), [...]

Join us for the December Data Use Club <> to hear about the research of the two 2024GBIF Graduate Researchers Award <> winners. The Graduate Researchers Award (formerly Young Researchers Award) is an annual scholarship programme that promotes and encourages innovation in biodiversity-related research using data shared through the GBIF [...]

Join us for an end-of-year special technical support hour for GBIF nodes on December 4th, 2024, at 4 pm CET, where we will cover some of the more curious cases and questions we have received in helpdesk, during the last year. We will show examples and provide tips and tricks [...]

The International Conference on Research Infrastructures is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operators, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.
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Meeting goals
The Africa nodes meeting aims to:
* Strengthen the GBIF Africa community * Provide a forum for GBIF nodes in Africa and the GBIF Secretariat to share latest updates and best practices * Showcase the relevance of GBIF data across a broad range of use cases * [...]

The event is aimed at the current and aspiring coordinators of biodiversity data activities at the national and institutional levels, community managers in need of data and GBIF skills, and at the advanced students, researchers and practitioners whose studies and work involve generation and use of open biodiversity data.
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This two-day symposium is jointly organized by GBIF and by theInstitute of Zoology of Republic of Kazakhstan with the support from the Scientific Society Tethys and Kazakhstan Programme Committee for the UNESCO Program "Man and the Biosphere " (MAB).
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The objective of the workshop is to strengthen the capacities of biological collection teams and national organizations interested in sharing national data on biodiversity through the GBIF national node, the Uruguayan Biodiversity Information System (SIBUy).

This workshop focuses on the most critical aspects of moving from standalone functions to an R package. It prioritizes hands-on experience while providing essential theoretical knowledge.
The workshop allows participants to:
* Understand the basics of R packages * Learn the practical steps of creating a package * [...]

Join us for the next session of the technical support hour for GBIF nodes on November 6th, 2024, at 4 pm CET (please note we are switching back to standard time), where the topic is “switching GBIF’s taxonomic backbone to the extended Catalogue of Life (xCOL)”.
Catalogue of Life is [...]

GBIF nodes participating in the Metabarcoding Data Programme are invited to this initial community call to learn about functionalities of theMetabarcoding Data Toolkit (MDT) and discuss effective engagement with data holders. Attendees will share strategies, early feedback on MDT use, and ideas for community-building activities to enhance collaboration and [...]

On November 6-8, 2024, the Datathon Africa Consortium will organize the 2024 Datathon . The Datathon brings researchers in microbial ecology together to archive and reuse local metabarcoding sequences, enhancing discoverability and reusability of regional microbial data. It gives data producers academic credit for their work and creates a [...]

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this?
This course is organised by Living Norway in collaboration with the University of [...]

The next Africa region webinar will take place October 30 3:00-4:00 PM (Central Africa Time) / 4:00-5:00 PM (East Africa Time) / 2:00-3:00 PM (West Africa Time).
This webinar will introduce GBIF Hosted Portals which are simple and customizable portals for displaying GBIF-mediated data. The hosted Portals are designed [...]

Insect diversity science is undergoing transformative changes thanks to the introduction of cheap and effective DNA-based methods (so-called DNA metabarcoding) for species identification. This symposium highlights the new insights into the structure of insect communities generated by these methods and the new opportunities for biodiversity monitoring that they open up! [...]

This GBIF-hosted side event will explore regional differences to data access and utilization under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and explore how the regional networks ofGBIF can enable centres to meet their needs and objectives against new reporting requirements that demand improved systems for gathering and repackaging [...]

Applications are now open to participate in the 2024 Nordic Symposium for Biodiversity Across the Natural and Social Sciences, to be held on 22-23 October 2024 in Trondheim, Norway.
Through two days of collaborative discussion, workshops, and writing, participants will together explore one big question: How can the revolution in [...]

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All events are Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5)
Mon, 21 October
* Updates on the indicator for Target 21.1 on biodiversity information and knowledge GEO Pavilion #23, Plaza Three, Blue Zone 13:15 Tue, [...]

Join us for the next session of the technical support hour for GBIF nodes on October 2nd, 2024, at 4 pm CEST (UTC+2), where the topic is GBIF’s vocabulary server.
The GBIF Secretariat is transitioning its interpretation pipeline for controlled occurrence core fields fromJava enums to a more dynamicvocabulary [...]

The 31st meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events will take place in Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal, on 30 September - 4 October 2024.
30 September - GBIF committee meetings 01 October - Governing Board meeting Day 1 02 October - Symposium 03 October [...]

Utilizing cloud computing services can enable big data queries that are slow or impractical on a local machine. Public datasets containingsnapshots of all GBIF-mediated occurrence data are shared each month on the Microsoft Planetary Computer (Azure), as an Amazon AWS Open Dataset, and on a public Google GCS [...]

The 21st International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM) is one of the largest tropical medicine conferences in the world, bringing together thousands of researchers, experts, policy-makers, stakeholders and international authorities in the field of tropical medicine and malaria.
GBIF will participate in the Congress as an exhibitor and [...]

The next Africa region webinar will take place September 13 3:00-4:00 PM Central Africa Time / 4:00-5:00 PM East Africa Time.
GBIF identifies common data quality problems and labels them issues and flags to records with common data quality problems. Prior knowledge of these issues and flags is important to [...]

The Biodiversity Information for Development <> (BID) programme is entering a new phase (August 2024 to July, 2029) that will include actions in the Pacific region, such as capacity development workshops and calls for project proposals, aimed at standardizing and publishing biodiversity data via GBIF. The programme seeks to support [...]

The RCF aims to provide IUCN Members (governments, NGOs, indigenous peoples’ organizations) with a platform to engage with each other, discuss and debate key conservation issues, and prepare for effective program planning and membership business. It also serves as an opportunity to initiate discussions on regional participation in the next [...]

GBIF and the new data model serve for barcoding/metabarcoding data storage and use
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Join GBIF Secretariat at the following sessions during the 9th International Barcode of Life Conference —or seek us out elsewhere during the conference.
Monday, 2 September 2024: 14:00-15:30 Maximize your impact by getting your metabarcoding data on GBIF.org ITV - Instituto Tecnológico Vale - Venue 2
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The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections SPNHC is an international organization devoted to the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections.
Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG develops and maintains data standards that support the integration of primary biodiversity information across disciplines, organizations, and nations. Its [...]

The Asia nodes meeting will aim to:
* Strengthen the Asia GBIF community * Provide a forum for GBIF nodes in Asia and the GBIF Secretariat to share latest updates and best practices * Explore opportunities for synergies between existing and/or upcoming related regional initiatives and the GBIF network, [...]

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Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl).
In this community call, we will discuss the progress of the GRSciColl roadmap implementation and gather input on integrating institutional survey outputs into GRSciColl.
Agenda:
* Update on the latest GRSciColl developments * Discuss [...]

Organized every two years, the ISME symposia are the largest not-for-profit international meetings addressing the wide range of topics in Microbial Ecology. With an average delegate number of 2200 people representing over 50 countries worldwide we are truly international.
The next meeting, ISME19, will be held in Cape Town, South [...]

The main aims of the International Mycological Congress are to:
* Engage the youth
* Facilitate face-to-face meetings
* Organize hands-on workshops in mycology
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This August session of the Technical Support Hour for Nodes, we will show you how to publish data on GBIF via theregistry API . This is particularly relevant for data providers who wish to automate the publishing process. The Data Product team will go through everything you need to know [...]

This year’s meeting will emphasize the society’s mission of supporting ecologists throughout their careers. The emphasis recognizes the need for us to continually invest in all the people who advance the science and practice of ecology. Among many aspects of professional development, we are planning programming and invite contributions that [...]

The theme of ICOM12 is “Bridging gaps in form, function and diversity”.
Alongside showcasing some of the most exciting and cutting-edge mycorrhizal research, the conference will address this theme through conversation, culture, gastronomy, and fun.
The plenary themes are supported by parallel sessions that will cover topics such as: Mycorrhizas [...]

The GBIF Africa Regional Support Team invites you to participate in the third webinar for the region. This session aims to enlighten participants across Africa on the best practices for mobilizing and publishing data on GBIF, focusing on key aspects such as data quality, metadata, licensing, standardization, and the use [...]

The Congress merges the traditions of the participating societies: the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB); the American Society of Naturalists (ASN); the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB); and the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). The sextennial Congress takes the place of the ESEB and Evolution Meetings [...]

The IBC 2024 XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid will address the following main topics:
* Systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography and evolution * Ecology, environment and global change, including invasive species and plant-animal interactions * Biodiversity and conservation * Structure, physiology and development, including Evo-Devo * Genetics, genomics and [...]

As part of our continuous mission to capacity development in the region, GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is organising a virtual data use workshop to share knowledge of using GBIF data infrastructure. This course is designed for individuals who work as researchers or technicians in biodiversity research or policy institutions. [...]

Join us for the next session of the technical support hour for GBIF nodes on July 3rd, 2024, where the topic is API SQL downloads.
Would you like to be able to generate custom summary views of GBIF occurrence data? This is now possible as an experimental feature withAPI SQL [...]

The GBIF Africa Regional Support Team is pleased to provide an overview of the GBIF Data Publishing Tools. This webinar will serve as an update to the latest GBIF tools for data management, and their functionalities. The aim is to help participants understand how to effectively use these tools to [...]

The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is organizing a data mobilization workshop to address capacity needs and to promote data publication in the region. Based on theGBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum , this workshop trains data holders in project planning, data capture, data management and data publication, with a focus [...]

The North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) covers all branches of paleontology, including vertebrate, invertebrate, paleobotany, micropaleontology, paleo-related organic and inorganic geochemistry, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and astrobiology. It provides a forum for exchanging research findings, defining future directions, and fostering relaxed interactions within the paleontological community at large. The meeting will [...]

Following its announcement <> on 28 May, learn more about the OBIS-GBIF joint strategy and action plan , what it means and how you can get involved.
We encourage that participants post questions to the topic on the discourse forum
Agenda
* GBIF and Marine Biodiversity Data [...]

Following its announcement <> on 28 May, learn more about the OBIS-GBIF joint strategy and action plan , what it means and how you can get involved.
We encourage that participants post questions to the topic on the discourse forum
Agenda
* GBIF and Marine Biodiversity Data [...]

Following its announcement <> on 28 May, learn more about the OBIS-GBIF joint strategy and action plan , what it means and how you can get involved.
Final agenda to follow
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Will be available soon Agenda and meeting overview
Contact Leslie Melisa Ojeda Cabrera Nodes regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean for any further information on the agenda.
Questions on the logistics please contact Victor Sánchez Chocho Nodes regional representative deputy for Latin America and the [...]

iDigBio , the Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA) , and The University of Kansas's Biodiversity Research Institute are delighted to announce the 2024 Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, 29-31 May, with this edition of the conference offering both in-person and virtual participation. The overall theme for the 2024 [...]

The 16th meeting of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia nodes is hosted by the GBIF Croatia 26 to 29 of May 2024 the in person and on site meeting is open to node managers from the European and Central Asia participant nodes. Nonmember countries and international organizations are [...]

Expected audience: Node managers, Node staff and potential project partners
The GBIF Secretariat will be holding an open question and answer session in English, for persons interested in knowing more about the2024 CESP call for proposals .
The aim is to provide an opportunity to raise any questions about the [...]

Many users come to GBIF.org in order to access occurrence records (the observation or collection of a specimen at a given time and place). They can also access information about species: their scientific names, taxonomy, and associated data like vernacular names or whether they are invasive in a given [...]

GBIF is working with regional support teams in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia. In this webinar, the regional support team in Africa will update the Node Managers and staff within the region, highlighting their ongoing efforts. There will be a deliberate emphasis to align these efforts with [...]

This workshop is a part of CESP2023-005 and is designed for researchers, data managers, and biodiversity enthusiasts who are keen to enhance their skills in data publishing and management, with a focus on biodiversity data in Slovakia.

Organized as part of the Capacity Enhancement Support Programme project "Enhancing capacity to mobilize and use biodiversity data to support sustainable development in West Africa" (CESP2020-005) , this workshop was held at the University of Ghana and aimed to enhance participants' knowledge and skills in utilizing biodiversity for sustainable development.

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| Day 1 | Topic | | ----- | --------------------------------------- | |9.00 - 10.30 | Session 1: Welcome and Introductions| |11.00 - 12.30 |Session 2: What is GBIF and what is its relevance?| |13.30 - 15.00 |Session 3: How can GBIF support countries to meet the Kunming - Montreal [...]

May 1st, 2024, we will convene for the next GBIF technical support hour for nodes where the topic is how to detect and solve formatting issues in your DwC-A. The session will occur on May 1st, 2024, at 4pm CEST (UTC+2).
Publishers and nodes occasionally encounter errors that are not [...]

Expected audience: Node Managers and Node staff
Note this webinar will be run twice to accommodate different time zones. Please register to the one that works best for you below.
Register for the event (evening CPH time)
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Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections .
In this community call we will discuss the progress of the GRSciColl roadmap implementation .
Agenda
* Review of the data schema: output of the survey, changes being implemented and mapping to Latimer Core * Support [...]

Symposium organized jointly by Biodiversa+ and GBIF, to discuss the requirements for national biodiversity monitoring hubs in the context of proposals for a European Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre.
The symposium, which follows a similar event in Brussels in October 2022 alongside the 29th GBIF Governing Board, will explore how [...]

The conference will be a key moment for governments, leaders, maritime sectors, philanthropy, universities, private sector, NGOs and more, to take stock of the achievements of the first three years of the Ocean Decade and define a collective vision for the coming years. Participants will benefit from concrete examples and [...]

The topic for the next Technical Support Hour for nodes is A general introduction to GBIFs technical documentation. Last year the GBIF Secretariat released the first version of the technical documentation and work is ongoing to improve and enrich the documentation. We will give you an introduction to what information [...]

Be part of one of the leading citizen science events in Europe, to discuss and network with citizen science practitioners, researchers, activists, scientists, policymakers, artists, and more.
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B-Cubed’s hackathon is planned as a 4-day event, bringing together biodiversity informaticians, researchers, and practitioners who are passionate about leveraging biodiversity data for impactful solutions.
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The ARISE project is building an infrastructure that will identify and monitor all multicellular species in the Netherlands.
On March 27 the ARISE day will provide updates on ARISE, keynote speeches, workshops, entertainment, meet old friends, make new ones. All lectures and activities will be in English.
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This conference will focus on utilizing biodiversity data to bridge the gap with Policy.
Meet GBIF Secretariat deputy director Tim Hirsch at the following session during the EBR III conference
Monday, 25 March 2024: 10:40-11:10 GBIF’s role in empowering biodiversity research and policy Session 1
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MarineBon meeting to strengthen links between national MBON teams and partners and identify or develop common activities and outputs. Followed by a species distribution modelling workshop to trace a roadmap to move from research to operations in the ability to map distributions of species and habitats using ‘Species Distribution Models’ [...]

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is seeking to improve its biodiversity data disclosure practices by sharing biodiversity data generated through EBRD-financed projects with GBIF, the world’s largest open source repository of biodiversity data. Data sharing with GBIF has potential to make a substantial contribution to [...]

The theme for the March 2024 session of the Technical Support Hour for Node is GBIF’s data quality workflow. We will go through how published data is processed regarding quality checks, show how you can get an overview of the flags and issues of datasets, how users provide publicly accessible [...]

Desde el 2013, cada 3 de marzo, se celebra el Día Mundial de la Vida Silvestre con el objetivo de crear conciencia sobre el incalculable valor de la fauna y flora silvestres para la naturaleza y el bienestar humano, la urgente necesidad de combatir los delitos contra el medioambiente [...]

During the next Data Use Club <> webinar, three speakers from the Science and Decision Support Team at theAtlas of Living Australia (ALA) will share their insights on how early surveillance and incursion detection of invasive species is a crucial component of an effective biosecurity system. Australia is a [...]

Join the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) for the first webinar of 2024 showcasing a selection of amazing projects from the Australian Biodiversity Data Mobilisation Program. This important initiative supports the mobilisation of Australia’s biodiversity data which may not yet be digital, making it available through the ALA, and [...]

This workshop, organized in Croatia as part of the CESP project “CroMent” (CESP2023-006) , is a full week of GBIF immersion. Next to a GBIF community workshop, where it will be taught on how GBIF works, there will also be two full days on data cleaning and publication. These two [...]

The two organisations will come to together to develop a joint GBIF-OBIS action plan to further support collaboration between the two infrastructures.
Participation by invitation only.
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The theme for February session of the Technical Support Hour for Node, is DNA data publishing. For this session, we welcome Tobias Guldberg Frøslev from the Participation and Engagment team. Tobias will present the resource currently available for sharing DNA-derived data - with a focus on a new [...]

As the BID programme concludes, the GBIF Secretariat is dedicated to facilitating opportunities to share best practices identified by BID project teams and partner.
The knowledge exchange webinar will:
* Provide a platform for BID project teams to showcase key achievements and impacts of their BID-funded projects. * [...]

SBDI Days: Towards data-driven ecology is hosted by the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure and will take place on January 24th-25th 2024 at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
The event will offer keynotes and presentations, posters, demonstrations, and time to mingle and exchange ideas about data driven [...]

A transformative three-day hackathon titled Harnessing Digital Twinning for Sustainable Agriculture: Predictive Characterisation and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives, takes place from January 23rd to 25th, 2024 in Oslo, Norway.
The event, promises to unravel the immense potential of digital twinning in revolutionizing global agricultural practices.
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This January, we celebrate one year of Technical Support Hour for Nodes !
In the first session of 2024, Paloma Shimabukuro will give you an overview of what is currently available for publishing health data on GBIF. Paloma is the GBIF contractor behind theGBIF health Helpdesk <> and is [...]

The 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners will present their work to theGBIF Data Use Club <> community.
Dorothy Akoth , master's student atMakarere University in Uganda, will present her research in improving the knowledge of the distribution and imperilment status of 110 native fish species outside the iconic [...]

Join ecologists from around the world in December 2023 for Europe’s largest and most welcoming conference dedicated to ecology.
Each year our Annual Meeting attracts over 1200 delegates and provides opportunities to meet new colleagues, develop your career, learn new skills, and share your science with the global ecological community.

Join GBIF Secretariat communications manager Kyle Copas at the following sessions during the AGU Fall Meeting 2023 —or seek him out elsewhere during the meeting.
Monday, 12 December 2023: 17:05-17:15 How Biodiversity Data Supports Research on Climate-driven Changes in Patterns of Human Diseases Session: GH14A: Advances in [...]

In the December session, we will explain the new features of Integrated Publishing Toolkit Version 3.0 (IPT3).
For some background information, you can read our release information here .
Mikhail Podolskiy from the Informatics team will join the session. We will be happy to answer any question relating or [...]

Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections. In this community call we will focus on the first item of the GRSciColl road map: the review of the data schema.
Agenda:
* Welcome and introduction * Data Schema and Road Map Update * Q&A and [...]

In collaboration with Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Thailand and the Thailand Pest Management Association (TPMA) as co-organizations, Prof. Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap from Kasetsart University (KU), is planning to host the Asia Pacific Conference on Mosquito and Vector Control (AMV) held in Chiang Mai between 27 and [...]

Join GBIF Secretariat communications manager Kyle Copas at the following meeting “Transmitting the value of GBIF at national scale” at the NBN Conference at the National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh.
The theme of the conference will follow the NBN Trust Strategy 2022-2027 “Making data work for nature” with each [...]

This event focuses on: Reviewing the latest advances in EO and Earth System Science across domains and specially to showcase the latest ESA and EC funded results, projects (e.g., ESA Science Clusters), and initiatives as a basis for networking and interdisciplinary science.
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Why is data citation crucial for biodiversity data?
Data citation is a fundamental step in promoting transparency, credibility, and collaboration in the field of biodiversity research. It ensures that the hard work of data collectors and curators is recognized and facilitates the sharing and integration of valuable biodiversity datasets.
This [...]

In this November session, we will explain how we identify related occurrence records on GBIF (which is sometimes referred to as the GBIF "data clustering" feature). For some background information, you can read our blogposthere . Tim Robertson from the Informatics team will join the session. We will be [...]

Organized by the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), International Data Week brings together a global community of data scientists and data stewards; researchers from all domains; data, interoperability and informatics experts from all fields; industry leaders, entrepreneurs [...]

The 30th meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events will take place in Canberra, Australia, on 15-20 October 2023.
15 October - Nodes Training - Day 1 16 October - Nodes Training - Day 2 + NSG meeting 17 October - GBIF committee meetings 18 [...]

The Global Conference on Biodiversity and Monitoring is organized by GEO BON and its partners between 10-13 October 2023 in Montreal, Canada.
One year after COP15 of the UN CBD and the landmark agreement of a Global Biodiversity Framework, the GEO BON global conference will focus on the grand challenge [...]

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual conference in 2023 will be a hybrid meeting, hosted in Hobart, Tasmania by theAtlas of Living Australia, ALA and the National Research Collections Australia, NRCA .
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In the October issue of the support hour, the Data Products team will explain what the current routine is to improve the stability of occurrence urls (IDs).See this news item for some background. We will go over what our system checks and what can be done when changes are [...]

Enhancing capacity to mobilize and use biodiversity data effectively to support the Global Biodiversity Framework
This GBIF- and EU-hosted symposium brings together key stakeholders, including representatives from funded projects, funders, aligned initiatives, and policymakers to reflect on the progress to date of theBiodiversity Information for Development <> (BID) programme. The [...]

Our next community webinar will explore another example of how the new data model <> expands the possibilities for evolving and enriching the Darwin Core standard, this time taken from theWorldFAIR project led byCODATA and the Research Data Alliance .
GBIF and Embrapa are leading adjacent work [...]

During this Zoom event, you will have an opportunity to preview the agendas for the Global Nodes Training and Global Nodes Meeting to be held inCanberra Australia 15-17 October .
Even if you are unable to attend the events in Canberra, we encourage you to attend thisvirtual event to [...]

The GBIF technical support hour for Nodes is back!
For this session, we have a guest, Daniel Noesgaard from the Communication team, who will explain how GBIF tracks literature citations of GBIF data. How the citations are found, labelled, and integrated in the GBIF index. The Data Product team [...]

El objetivo de este evento es dar a conocer el estado del arte de la gestión y uso de las colecciones biológicas y la implementación de sistemas de datos abiertos de biodiversidad en Latinoamérica mediante el intercambio de experiencias internacionales (Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, México y Chile).
El simposio se [...]

In a world where biodiversity and ecosystem services are at high risk, business as usual is no longer possible. Transformation of how societies deal with natural resources is much needed, but requires a better understanding of how ecological and social-ecological systems respond to change and human intervention. Ecological Modelling thus [...]

IPBES 10 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 27 August 2023. Further information on these events will follow in due course.
At IPBES 10, the Plenary will consider, among other items, the thematic assessment of invasive alien species, as well as requests, inputs and suggestions [...]

A community call with network members who are running GBIF's hosted portal service <> will provide an opportunity for introducing some new teams, sharing updates on progress, and discussing potential new features.
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| Time | Topic | Speaker | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------| | 14:00–14:05 |Welcome and [...]

One of the challenges to open access biodiversity data in Asia is the lack of technical skills among data holders to mobilize it and make it available. The GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization workshop trains data holders in project management, data capture, data management and data publication, with a focus on [...]

The Ecological Society of America advances the science and practice of ecology and supports ecologists throughout their careers. The field of ecology has much to offer in addressing pressing ecological problems at all scales. Ecologists working in the private sector (e.g., as consultants, for industry, or in NGOs) and public [...]

ICCB is the premier global meeting for conservation scientists and professionals, including researchers, students, agency personnel, environmental educators, practitioners, and other conservation stakeholders. Attendees gather for lively discussions and scientific presentations on the nexus between biodiversity conservation and genetics, ecology, biogeography, anthropology, history, psychology, economics, conservation marketing, religion, and more.

Call for Symposia Proposals - Deadline 31, October, 2022

The Freshwater Biological Association FBA will be hosting SEFS13 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.