The ECPGR working groups on forage crops and on barley invited GBIF-Norway to the joint workshop in Malmö to present the GBIF data portal.
Results from the digitization project co-funded by the Norwegian GBIF node are presented in the national news this week (link 2). Field diaries from 1950-1955 for marine benthic invertebrates (animals living in the sea on sandy or soft sediments) were registered and occurrence data published in GBIF.
GBIF country report 2016 for Norway
A brief report from a planning meeting between BIBSYS, GBIF.no and Artsdatabanken on Wednesday 16th November
The new Nodes Chair team was elected this week at the GBIF Governing Board GB23 in Brazil
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) organizes a workshop on 1st November 2016 to collect experiences on research data archiving and open access data publishing. The Norwegian GBIF-node will present the GBIF framework including dataset DOIs and download DOIs.
Start-up meeting for the Cultural Heritage Mediascapes research project on participatory citizen science in museums and archives.
GBIF Norway (GBIF.no) and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken.no) organize a seminar on data publishing in Tromsø on 7th and 8th of September 2016. Read more at: http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-data-publishing-tromso.html
Meeting 23rd August 2016, between GBIF.no and Artsdatabanken, and NIBIO (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research) to discuss support for data publishing
In April 2015, the GBIF Secretariat and Bioversity International created a ‘Task Group on Data Fitness for Use in Agrobiodiversity’ to improve the quality and quantity of data on the GBIF portal that are important to agricultural biodiversity research and policy communities. These include data on agricultural biodiversity monitoring, gaps in conservation, crop wild relatives, collections and genebank inventories, crop suitability index and more. The Norwegian GBIF node was invited and accepted to be a member of this task group.
The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge 2015 is launched.
Update: The winners were announced at the GBIF governing board (GB22), October 2015.
Data repatriation of 972 occurrence data from India published from the Norwegian University Museums.