The BioDATA Advanced project includes the exchange of student interns. Two 4-month MSc student internships (1 February - 31 May 2024) at the University of Oslo Natural History Museum, in biodiversity data skills and molecular methods.
GBIF Norway was invited to the UiO Digital Scholar Centre Data Managers Network to present how we use biodiversity ontologies.
The Norwegian GBIF node is hosted by the University of Oslo Natural History Museum and has been approved for status as UiO "kjernefasilitet" (core research infrastructure).
The UiO Natural History Museum is invited to present the evacuation of the Kherson herbarium in Ukraine at the 2023 annual conference for the Norwegian Association of Archives .
GBIF Norway and the GBIF Secretariat were invited as speakers at the Plant Treaty (ITPGRFA) fifth meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee ( SAC) of the Global Information System ( GLIS) in Rome from 8 th to 9 th May 2023.
Biodiversity digital twin for advanced simulation, modeling, and prediction capabilities (BioDT) is a 3-year Horizon Europe project (2022-2025) that will build a digital model of biodiversity systems. Three project vacancies at UiO .
The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is an annual incentive prize that seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers and other experts.
The International Conference on DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity (ICDBB) will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 25 th to 27 th of May 2022.
Official inauguration of the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure! Webinars from 4th to 8th October 2021.
The University of Oslo Natural History Museum is looking for a biodiversity data steward for working together with the Norwegian GBIF node, and the collection curators.
News: BioDATA (2018-2021) will be continued with the BioDATA Advanced (2021-2025) - "accelerating biodiversity research through DNA barcodes, collection and observation data".
The Norwegian university museums have started a process to maintain but re-evaluate the collaboration structures. This process includes an evaluation of informatics solutions including digitisations solutions, collection management software, and GBIF data streams.
The OpenPSD project promotes the publication and use of private-sector data on biodiversity. This is a joint private-sector data mobilization campaign with several partners, including GBIF Norway. More information is available on the project page .
2020 call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline November 1st, 2020.
Twenty years of GBIF: Independent review charts successes and challenges. Review by International Science Council’s Committee on Data ( CODATA) makes comprehensive recommendations to maintain GBIF’s relevance and standing.
Poland and Norway were elected as the new Regional representatives for Europe in GBIF at the European Nodes Meeting in Oslo in May 2019.
A new report summarizes results from cooperation among all the Nordic countries during the period 2015 – 2019. The work has focused on the conservation of Crop Wild Relatives (CWR), i.e. wild plant species closely related to crops, including establishing the data flow through the GBIF data infrastructure.
Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) joins GBIF as the latest non-country associate organization from Europe.
Diku-funded ANTENNA project kick-off meeting (16th September 2019) in Oslo including project partners from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana Kenya, Madagascar, Norway, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The 8th International Barcode of Life Conference will be in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-20, 2019. The NTNU University Museum and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre in collaboration with NorBOL is hosting the conference.
Visit the new homepage for the Living Norway Ecological Data Network that was launched in November 2018.
Towards 2030: Strategy seminar for the Research Section at the UiO Natural History Museum in Oslo on 8-9 November 2018. Strategic directions for the UiO Natural History Museum, GBIF.no, and GBIF. Progress towards a long-term permanent GBIF research data infrastructure in Norway and a sustainable and actionable GBIF Node consortium.
biodiversity data management skills for students - навыки управления данными по биоразнообразию для студентов
News story originally published at the international GBIF home page describing Norwegian data flow established to ensure mobilization of biodiversity data to GBIF from the private sector.