Webpages tagged with «Biodiversity informatics»

GBIF Norway and the University of Oslo Natural History Museum will host the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2026 conference.

Network seminar for DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) and GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) in Norway on 6th and the 7th of February 2020. The seminar had a focus on developing a governance structure for GBIF and DiSSCo in Norway. The seminar was open to all interested parties and was streamed online as a webcast to allow for remote participants.

GBIF Norway has launched a co-funding call for 2025 to mobilize your species' occurrence data with preparation to ensure data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline June 15th, 2025.

2025 call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline June 15th, 2025.

In March 2025, 12 new honorary ambassadors were recognized for their contributions to Oslo’s international conference scene. GBIF Norway and UiO NHMO MaNa received this award for the upcoming TDWG conference in Oslo in September 2026. The award was granted by Oslo Convention Bureau.

BioDATA Advanced course on data use with GBIF in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, from the 18th to the 21st of November 2024. The application deadlines: 31st of July 2024 for South African students, 15 August 2024 for Norwegian students.

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.

GBIF Norway was invited to the UiO Digital Scholar Centre Data Managers Network to present how we use biodiversity ontologies.

GBIF Norway and the GBIF Secretariat were invited as speakers at the Plant Treaty (ITPGRFA) fifth meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Global Information System (GLIS) in Rome from 8^th to 9^th May 2023.

GBIF data mobilization and publication course for the Tajikistan GBIF Node at the Institute of Botany, Plant Physiology and Genetics, Tajikistan National Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan (3 days).

TDWG 2021 will be a virtual conference the week of Oct 18-22. Working sessions for interest and task groups will follow in November.

Role of biodiversity informatics in the Global Biodiversity Informatics Facility (GBIF). Seminar at the Government College University of Lahore in Pakistan 18th of May, 10:00 CEST Oslo, 13.00 PKT Lahore, 08:00 UTC.

A symposium for post-graduate PhD-fellows based in Trondheim on biodiversity informatics and GBIF metadata standards.

Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and GBIF organize a side-event (Data4Nature) at the Finance in Common summit. 

2020 call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline November 1st, 2020.

The 2020 annual conference for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will be an online virtual event this year. The first week (September 21-25) includes working sessions, and the second week (October 19-23) will run in parallel with the GBIF virtual governing board and committee meetings.

Network seminar for DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) and GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) in Norway on 6th and the 7th of February 2020. The seminar had a focus on developing a governance structure for GBIF and DiSSCo in Norway. The seminar was open to all interested parties and was streamed online as a webcast to allow for remote participants.

Regional GBIF data mobilization course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with expert trainers and trainers-in-training - Ukraine (4 days). More information from the course home page. Postponed course dates because of the Russian war in Ukraine. The new course dates are 15 to 19 August 2022.

Regional GBIF data mobilization course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with expert trainers and trainers-in-training - Yerevan, Armenia (5 days). More information from the course home page.

GBIF-Norway provides co-funding grants for the preparation of Norwegian species occurrence data to ensure data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). A total of 6 projects were co-funded from the 2019 call.

Living Norway seminar in Trondheim 11 to 12 June 2019.

2019 call for 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). The deadline was March 1st, 2019.

Regional GBIF training course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with expert trainers and trainers-in-training - Białowieża forest, Belarus (5 days). [Read more at the course home page].

BioDATA - train-the-mentors course in Minsk is the first of series of GBIF training courses for students from Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.

The 2019 annual European GBIF Nodes meeting will be in Oslo 22 to 24 May at the UiO Natural History Museum in Oslo.