Deborah L Paul, Capacity Development Manager
Originally published by the Ecological Society of America, Ecotone Blog (after ESA/USSEE 2019 Conference). Reposted with permission from ESA.
Amber E. Budden, Megan Carter, Jeanette Clark, Kyle Copas, Stevan Earl, Megan A. Jones, Margaret O’Brien, Deborah L Paul, Dmitry Schigel, Kristin Vanderbilt, Rebekah Wallace
Preparing a dataset in order to publish on an aggregator like Canadensys or GBIF or iDigBio can be quite fastidious, but data cleaning and standardisation are the key points to good quality and useful datasets. Fortunately, a lot of tools and protocols have been develop through time to help preparing biodiversity datasets.
Delegates to the second Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference—GBIC2—called for a global alliance for biodiversity knowledge to align efforts to deliver current, accurate and comprehensive data, information and knowledge on the world's biodiversity.
This year, GBIF, NEON, and iDigBio join together to bring a special session called "Biodiversity Data Dialogues" to the Ecological Society of America/USSEE* 2019 Joint Meeting.
From the abstract:
Evolutionary researcher and administrator to take over in Copenhagen on 15 March
On behalf of the network of national Participants, the GBIF Secretariat is pleased to invite nominations for the 2019 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.
UPDATE! We will share the talks live - via Adobe Connect - you can log in to hear them: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/gb24. Talks are being recorded.
UPDATE: (Adobe Connect) recording of this webinar. mp4 version coming soon.
Title: Darwin Core Hour: VertNet presents the Aggregator's Viewpoint
Part THREE: VertNet: (More Than Vert)Net
DATE TIME: Tuesday, August 29th, 2PM EDT, 3PM (Buenos Aires), 7 PM (London), 6 PM UTC (18:00)
UPDATE: Recording of A bite from the Core - testing for data quality. (adobe connect version). mp4 version coming soon.
Title: Darwin Core Hour: GBIF and iDigBio present the Aggregator's Viewpoint
Part ONE: GBIF: free and open access to global biodiversity data
Part TWO: iDigBio - aggregating and enhancing vouchered global biocollections data
UPDATE! Recordings:
UPDATE: Vimeo Recording now available.
From Deb Paul, on twitter @idbdeb
The expansive scope of iDigBio’s activities places it in the forefront of national and international digitization and data aggregation efforts. Recognizing the importance of its numerous international partners and encouraged by the NSF to expand international collaborations, iDigBio accepted an invitation to join a digitization symposium featured at the 12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress held at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, and to follow the symposium with a digitization workshop for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in Canberra, Australia.
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