Key details:
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Dates: March 13th-14th, 2023
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We encourage you to attend the whole workshop, although it may be possible to come for parts of it. Please indicate in the registration form what you will be attending.
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Location: Department of Natural History (Realfagsbygget), University Museum of Bergen
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Participation is free and open to anyone working with and interested in sharing their biodiversity data.
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Lunch will be provided for registered attendants.
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Bring with you: biodiversity data, and a laptop.
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Participants: 20 (those with data will be prioritized should we run out of space)
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Registration deadline: FRIDAY MARCH 3rd - Registration form
Are my data right for this?
GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data.
Data types suitable for publication on GBIF:
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Lists of species (eg redlists, checklists of species for certain areas, crop wild relatives, etc)
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Species occurrences (eg citizen science observations, data from species atlas projects, observations from field courses, etc)
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Sampling event data (eg vegetation transects, standardized bird census data, eco-genomic samples and eDNA data, etc)
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Measurements or facts associated with any of the above data types can also be included, including community measurements.
If you are not sure whether your data are suitable to publish as a Darwin Core Archive, or if you have any other questions, please contact helpdesk@gbif.no
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
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Have published their own data or be able to finish publishing them at home by following a few simple final steps.
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Have learned about the Darwin Core standards and why it is important to publish biodiversity data in Darwin Core Archives.
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Be able to convert future data to Darwin Core Archive by themselves.
Schedule - Monday March 13th:
09:00-12:00 Seminar
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What is GBIF (Dag Endresen)
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Why publish data (PPTX) (Vidar Bakken)
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IPT at IMR and the NMD for marine data (Arnfinn Morvik)
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Overview of how to publish data (Rukaya Johaadien & Michal Torma)
12-13: Lunch
13:00-15:30: Hands-on workshop, publish your own data as a Darwin Core Archive
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You will work with the assistance of experts from GBIF.
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You will learn by doing and from any challenges other people in the group encounter.
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Convert your data to Darwin Core Archive.
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Map parameter names to Darwin Core terms
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Restructuring and cleaning of data where necessary
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Using GBIF's Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT): https://www.gbif.org/ipt
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Publish your data to GBIF
Schedule - Tuesday March 14th:
09:00-15:30: Hands-on workshop, publish your own data as a Darwin Core Archive (continuation of Monday afternoon)
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Short recap from Monday
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Continuing work from Monday afternoon
Links GBIF Norway
Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen
GBIF.org: Data sharing from the private sector
GBIF.org: Data shareability
Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide
Where is Allégaten 41, 5007 Bergen? Here! (Google Maps)
