2025

Do you have biological data waiting to be published but feel overwhelmed by the process? Join us for an engaging workshop on data publishing with GBIF and OBIS Norway, where we give you the tools and provide help to turn your datasets— spanning the last 5 decades —into accessible resources for the global scientific community. Learn step-by-step how to prepare, publish, and make your data openly accessible. Let’s break down the barriers and get your data out into the world!

Metabarcoding course in Drøbak, 17 to 21 November 2025, including a lecture on publishing data to GBIF. For the International Research School in Applied Ecology (IRSAE), University of Innland Norway (INN).

Course on how to manage, produce, use, and reuse data with reproducible workflows. The course is planned to be held at Hjerkinn, in November 2025. Students will be introduced to open science, data management, data repositories/databases, data standards (e.g. FAIR, CARE), best practices, and reproducible workflows (e.g. data curation, analysis, GitHub, reporting results).

The GBIF node contributed to the BioDATA Advanced Research School on metabarcoding, delivering lectures on DNA-derived data mobilization in GBIF.

This joint Living Data conference in Bogotá will bring together members of our biodiversity networks, alongside hundreds of scientists, researchers, practitioners, and other experts from around the world.

Open data Hackathon 2025. Passionate about using open source data to develop solutions targeting Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America or South-East Asia? Join the OpenEPI x Unleash Hackathon in July 2025.

The 17th meeting of the nodes of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia region will take place in Ireland from 20 to 23 May 2025. This in-person meeting is open to node managers from the region's participant nodes.

GBIF nodes in Europe collaborate to develop an AI LLM driven machine-annotation service for digital specimens with CESP 2024-016 funding from GBIF. The service is being integrated with the DiSSCo machine-annotation service (MAS).

The BioDT final conference was held in Rome together with Destination Earth.

All-hands workshop for the GBIF Norway node board and node staff at Solstrand in Osøyro, outside of Bergen.

BioDT project staff from UiO Natural History Museum was teaching at the Biodiversity Digital Twin (BioDT) winter school in Lecce.