Data publishing seminar in Bergen

The GBIF node and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Center (NBIC, Artsdatabanken) will organize a biodiversity informatics seminar at the University of Bergen about data publication and use on 14th December 2016.

Time and place: Dec. 14, 2016 9:00 AM–4:00 PM, "Lille auditorium", Høyteknologisenteret, Marieholmen, Thormøhlensgate 55, Bergen

Topics:

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Publishing standardized biodiversity data using Darwin Core
Ecological Metadata Language (EML)
Writing a data paper to gain scholarly credits for data publication
Citation of biodiversity data, GBIF dataset DOI and download DOI mechanism
Accessing, downloading and analysis and GBIF-mediated data

Biodiversity informatics seminar, 09:00 to 16:00 on 14th December 2016.

Venue: "Lille auditorium" at Høyteknologisenteret, Marieholmen, Thormøhlensgate 55, NO-5006 Bergen

Contact person at UiB BIO: John-Arvid Grytnes

Ecological and Environmental Change Research Group (UiB BIO EECRG)

Contact GBIF.no at: gbif-drift@nhm.uio.no

Agenda

09:00 Welcome and information about the seminar (10 min, John-Arvid Grytnes)

09:15 Role of GBIF in Norwegian and international publication of biodiversity data (25 min, Dag Endresen, GBIF.no)

09:40 National data flow in Norway – roles, responsibilities and users (20 min, Nils Valland, Artsdatabanken)

10:00 Motivation, and how to publish open biodiversity data (45 min, Dag Endresen, GBIF.no)

Dataset metadata, data paper, long-term data archiving, and data management plan.
New incentives open public data; new guidelines and requirements for open data from EU-funded research projects, INSPIRE, Horizon 2020.
New mechanisms provide academic credits for publishing research data; data paper and dataset DOI.

10:45 How to publish standardized biodiversity data from Norwegian Institutes (45 min, Dag Endresen, GBIF.no)

Darwin Core data standard and the Darwin Core archive format.
Data publishing landscape, publishing software.
Introduction to the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT).
GBIF data portal and web-services for access to biodiversity data (REST, JSON, R).

11:30 Lunch (catering, sandwiches)

12:30 Open data licensing; the data licenses supported in GBIF are CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC (15 min, Wouter Koch, Artsdatabanken)

12:45 Presentations of some studies and examples for relevant datasets developed and maintained at UiB BIO (60 min)

Survey-based field data on bumble bees and hoverflies/syrphid flies (“blomsterfluer”) (John-Arvid Grytnes, UiO BIO)
Using GBIF-data and communit data to study climate responses and building species distribution models (Vigdis Vandvik, UiO BIO)
Mosses and lichens along Atlantic rivers (Arnold Håland, NNI)
Etc., you are invited to suggest your own presentation here.

14:00 Questions and discussion (30 min)

Development of an action plan for data preparation, quality control and publication from UiB BIO and other participants to the seminar.

14:30 Coffee break

14:45 Demo: Data publishing using the IPT software (30 min, Christian Svindseth, GBIF.no)

GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit – how to install and use.
Occurrence data, Event-core data, time-series, surveillance data, multimedia, measurements.
- https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/howToPublish#instructions
- https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/resourceMetadata
Darwin Core template

15:30 Hand-on demo, biodiversity data publishing (30 min, Christian Svindseth, GBIF.no)

Hands-on exercise with IPT for participants using their own datasets or one of the demo-datasets we will provide.
Publish a new dataset from UiB BIO "on-the-fly".
http://www.gbif.org/publisher/f92082e0-fb4f-4881-b3af-b3048610909a

16:00 Wrap-up, end of day

Introduction to GBIF [download]

GBIF supports the reuse of research data [download]

Biodiversity data publishing with GBIF [download]

32 participants

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