The symposium coincides with GBIF's annual Governing Board meeting, is a full-day event and will highlight some of the work that GBIF and its global network is doing to mobilise biodiversity data for research and to inform decision making for global biodiversity action, among other issues.
The 2nd Global Biodiversity Information Conference will be held in Copenhagen, from 23‐27 July 2018. GBIC2 will convene a broad group of invited stakeholders to discuss how an international coordination mechanism for biodiversity informatics could operate and how it could accelerate delivery of the linked and open global biodiversity data infrastructure to the benefit of science and society. While attendance will necessarily be limited, GBIC2 represents just the opening stage of a broader consultation process.
GBIF is seeking a dynamic, visionary leader with international standing to fill the post of Executive Secretary and guide GBIF into the next phase of its development.
The Challenge honours the memory of Dr Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen, an inspirational leader in the fields of biosystematics and biodiversity informatics and an important founder of GBIF. It will award up to €34,000 in prizes to innovative individuals and teams that can improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data by creating new tools and technical solutions such as new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses, or build on and extend existing tools and features like:
The call for applications to the 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge will be open on 9 May 2018. The challenge seeks to encourage innovative uses of and applications for the open biodiversity research infrastructure supported by GBIF. These creative applications of GBIF-mediated data can come in a wide variety of forms and formats—for example, new analytical research, richer policy-relevant visualizations, web and mobile applications, improvements to processes around data digitization, quality and access, or something else entirely.
Na sequência do elevado número de candidaturas ao curso formação sobre Specify 6, realizado em Fevereiro deste ano, e adicionalmente, pedidos de formação feitos especificamente pelo ICNF e Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, o Nó Português tem o prazer de anunciar a realização de dois cursos em Março, em co-organização com cada uma destas instituições, Deste modo, as próximas datas e locais dos cursos de formação a realizar são:
The call is open for applications to the 2018 Young Researchers Award. This annual programme aims to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data.
A próxima formação do Nó Português do GBIF será dedicada ao sistema de gestão de coleções biológicas Specify 6. Este curso irá realizar-se no Instituto Superior de Agronomia, em Lisboa, de 7 a 9 de Fevereiro de 2018. O Specify 6, em conjunto com a versão web Specify 7, constitui um sistema de gestão de coleções biológicas utilizado para a gestão de mais de 500 colecões em 38 países. O sistema é desenvolvido pela Universidade do Kansas, que o disponibiliza em opensource.
The Portuguese Node of GBIF, through its participation in the Research Infrastructure PORBIOTA, is seeking for a collaborator in computer sciences. The research grant contract will run for 36 months and requires a master degree in computer sciences. The collaborator will support the implementation and maintenance of the Portuguese Biodiversity Data Portal in the context of biodiversity data for Portugal. He will also help in the development of computing services for PORBIOTA and to manage referecence species databases.