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We received 12 applications for IT developer. Five applicants were invited for an online interview in October. The most qualified candidate has accepted the position.
GBIF reached 1 billion occurrence data points published from 1217 institutions and 123 countries (56 participating countries) today, July 4th 2018.
From 16 to 17 january 2018 biological data experts are meeting in Brussels to exchange experiences and use cases for the new darwincore Event core and how the standard can be used in Marine and terrestrial contexts. By discussing use case we aim to provide guidelines on best practices of this new standard.
GBIF.no has started to link barcode sequence data from Barcode of Life Datasystem (BOLD) to datasets from the Norwegian university museums.
Bireme is a GBIF project to explore data flows in Europe for national biodiversity information reporting processes to the European Union. Active from June 2017 to December 2018. See the final project report and summary activity report for more information.
Dag Endresen from GBIF Norway was invited to present a key note on using GBIF-mediated data for predictive characterization at the 8th International Triticeae Symposium 2017 (8ITS) in Wernigerode Germany.
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.