A two-day event with three parts.
Thursday 6th February Morning (10-12): DiSSCo-Norway
Consolidating the Norwegian consortium for DiSSCo. Discussion and planning of activities. This section before lunch is most relevant for university museums in Norway.
- DiSSCo-Norway, status and planned activities ahead (Hugo de Boer, DiSSCo NTF for Norway, UiO-NHM, DiSSCo-Norway) (slides) (video)
- DiSSCo ESFRI, DiSSCo Rising event, and DiSSCo Prepare kick-off in Helsinki 26-28 February
- NLBIF and the DiSSCo-node in the Netherlands (Niels Raes, NLBIF, Naturalis) (video)
- MUSIT University Museum databases (Susan Matland & Eirik Rindal) (slides) (video)
- Living Atlas community and collection portals
- Recommendations for forming national biodiversity information facilities and preparations before the public seminar on 7th February
12:00 Lunch (baguettes, served at Tøyen Manor)
Thursday 6th February Afternoon (13-16): GBIF-Norway
Preparing a new Norwegian consortium for GBIF-Norway. Discussion, planning, and establishment. Invited participation from the GBIF secretariat, Living Norway, Finland, Netherlands, and Sweden. This section in the afternoon of February 6th is most relevant for institutions that already have (or plan to have) active participation in providing GBIF services in Norway (including DiSSCo and Living Norway).
13:00 Welcome and goals for the meeting (Hugo de Boer and Dag Endresen) (slides) (video)
13:10 Recommendations from the GBIF Secretariat on establishing effective GBIF nodes and node governance models (Mélianie Raymond, GBIF Secretariat) (video)
13:15 Recommendations from the GBIF-Norway advisory board on forming a new GBIF-Norway consortium (Fridtjof Mehlum, Nils Valland, and Solveig Bakken)
13:30 Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure - SBDI (Anders Telenius) (video)
14:00 Governance of Biodiversity informatics infrastructures: experiences from Finland (Leif Schulman, LUOMUS, FinBIF, CETAF) online presentation (video, video-zoom)
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Recommendations from the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Facility (Arild Lindgaard, NBIC, Artsdatabanken) (slides) (video)
15:00 Break-out group discussion
Task 1: work on forming a new consortium governance model for GBIF-Norway, including distributed responsibility for providing national GBIF-node services among consortium partners, and protocols for accepting new consortium members. Discussion on the process for preparing a GBIF-Norway research Infrastructure proposal with the application deadline in November 2020.
Task 2: collect best practices from GBIF-node and national biodiversity infrastructure governance structures established in Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, and include best practices and recommendations collected by the GBIF Secretariat.
16:00 Short wrap-up from group discussion
18:15 Hosted Dinner at SüdØst Asian Crossover, Trondheimsveien 5, 0560 Oslo
Friday 7th February - open symposium on DiSSCo and GBIF
Full day symposium on national and international initiatives and projects related to DiSSCo and GBIF. Discussion on creating a governance platform to coordinate Norwegian participation in national and international infrastructure projects in biodiversity.
Webcast with video-streaming for remote participants. Participants were asked for consent to the video-streaming and recording during the registration at arrival. The video recordings only show the presenter and not the participants.
Program - times reported as CET
09:30 Registration and coffee
10:00 Welcome to the seminar (Hugo de Boer and Dag Endresen)
10:10 Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF, and governance models for national biodiversity information facilities (BIFs) (Mélianie Raymond, GBIF Secretariat) (slides) (video)
10:40 Distributed System of Scientific Collections - DiSSCo and governance models for national DiSSCo Nodes (Dimitris Koureas, DiSSCo Coordination Office) (slides) (video)
11:10 Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) as DiSSCo- and GBIF-node (Niels Raes, Naturalis) (slides) (video)
11:40 Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI), GBIF-Sweden, BioAtlas.se, Swedish LifeWatch (Anders Telenius, Swedish Museum of Natural History) (slides 1, slides 2, slides 3) (video)
12:10 Questions and discussion
12:30 Lunch (wraps, served at Tøyen Manor)
13:30 Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre - NBIC (Knut Anders Hovstad, Artsdatabanken) (slides) (video)
13:50 Using open ecology data in research and education (John Arvid Grytnes, EECRG, University in Bergen) (slides) (video)
14:10 Living Norway Ecological Data Network (Erlend Nilsen, NINA) (slides) (video)
14:30 Coffee break (with Danish pastry)
15:00 Discussion on common governance models for DiSSCo, GBIF. Do we want to build a distributed “Norwegian Biodiversity Information Facility”? Based on the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC), GBIF-Norway, Living Norway Ecological Data Network, Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL), etc?
16:00 Closing of the seminar
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