The call is now open for applications to the 2019 Young Researchers Award. This annual programme aims to foster innovative research and investigation in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data.
Está aberta para candidaturas o primeiro curso de formação do Cost action MOBILIZE, organizada sob o WG6 “EDUCAÇÃO E TREINAMENTO, DISSEMINAÇÃO E DIVULGAÇÃO”. O curso de formação será focado na digitalização e na gestão de coleções biológicas e geológicas e no desenvolvimento de estratégias e planos de digitalização. Os tópicos específicos que serão abordados durante a formação através de exercícios práticos são, entre outros, a qualidade dos dados, a limpeza dos dados e a origem dos dados.
The Portuguese Node of GBIF, together with the Spanish Node and the Food, Farming and Forestry (F3) College of the University of Lisbon, launched in April 2017 the questionnaire on the use of information on agrobiodiversity, within the framework of the Agrotraining project. The aim was to identify the needs on the use of biodiversity information in the field of Agrobiodiversity, by different actors.
The Portuguese Node of GBIF maintains cooperation with the Government of Angola in supporting the process of preparing that country to become a member of GBIF.
A ação COST MOBILISE: Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections tem como objetivo a constituição de uma rede cooperativa e inclusiva, com o envolvimento ativo dos vários stakeholders europeus, para apoiar a investigação em informática da geo e biodiversidade. A ação MOBILISE visa facilitar a transferência de conhecimento e tecnologia entre stakeholders, fazendo a ponte entre a investigação em biodiversidade e geociências e as melhores práticas da tecnologia de informação.
Publication through the GBIF of 2.4 million biodiversity records by the Azorean Biodiversity Portal makes the region one of the most data dense areas worldwide.
Registration for the GBIF.ES training workshop: "Georeferencing of natural history collections", is now open. The workshop will be held from the 13th to 15th of November (2018), at the Royal Botanic Garden in Madrid. The course will cover the use of Geographic Information Systems - GIS and other useful tools, such as Geolocate.
Raquel Gaião Silva is a graduate student in Biodiversity and Marine Conservation at the University of Algarve, and one of the two winners of the GBIF Young Investigators Award (2018). She is the first Portuguese to win this prize. The student has just completed her thesis for EMBC+ and her research uses species records from the GBIF.org network and other sources, to examine issues related to rising ocean temperatures and the distribution of macroalgae along the Atlantic Ocean coast, in Spain and Portugal.
The GBIF.org network is working to expand the range of languages available to users worldwide. Currently, it is possible to access the site and choose, besides English, from Spanish, Japanese and now Portuguese interfaces. The Portuguese version was officially published yesterday, enabling the users of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries to work on the platform using their native language. The international data portal still plans to have the interface translated into Russian, Chinese, Danish, among others.
The recently published article by Taylor et al. (2018) presents, among other information (read the full article: http://bit.ly/2vKG5uJ), an updated checklist with 275 mammal species from Angola, comprehending 245 species with records obtained through GBIF, via the Biodiversity Data Portal of Portugal.