GBIF Finland

A good read on the current state and future of taxonomy.


A collaborative, integrated and electronic future for taxonomy. By Norman F. Johnson
www.publish.csiro.au
In the year 1220, under the direction of the Archbishop Walter de Gray, the construction of the York Minster Cathedral was begun. Today, its three towers rise 60 m into the air, providing an expansive view of the ancient city of York. Whenever I visit such old church buildings in Europe, I feel a st...

GBIF contributing marine data to D4Science project.


Saving ecosystems with open data and e-infrastructure ecosystems
www.alphagalileo.org
Take maps of marine biodiversity and cross-reference them with records of fish catches and you should get a clear picture of where fish stocks are most at risk. Doing so could help save the world's oceans, but needs a huge amount of complex data to be processed and analysed. EU-funded researchers ar...

Congratulations to GBIF partners ARCOS for winning this prestigious award, for its work to improve conservation decision making in E Africa biodiversity hotspot.


Albertine Rift Conservation Society, 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions
www.youtube.com
Albertine Rift Conservation Society, a recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, fights to preserve biodiversity in the ...

Request for comments on paper


GBIF Community Site: PUBLIC REVIEW: GBIF Position Paper on Advancing free, open-access, peer-reviewe
community.gbif.org

Encyclopedia of Life Announces Open Access Support Project with Pensoft Publishers - Encyclopedia of
eol.org
Washington, D.C. – February 10, 2012 – The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and Pensoft Publishers are pleased to announce a new collaboration that will increase the flow of new species descriptions from scientists in developing countries into the Encyclopedia of Life and promote the open access publishin...

GBIF training event on use of persistent identifiers is being streamed live from Madrid 8-10 Feb from this site http://www.cienciatk.csic.es/. To participate online, use hashtag #GBIF_PID and send comments via training@gbif.org


Gbif.org: Training Event Details
www.gbif.org
Description of the event: GBIF has identified the provision of identifiers for biodiversity objects as one of the central challenges to developing a global bioinformatics infrastructure. Besides, one of the main recommendations of the “LSID GUID Task Group” convened by GBIF was to provide educ...

Canada-based citizen science observation service publishing data to GBIF.


Wildlife Surveys' Just Got A Whole Lot Easier
www.pr-inside.com
Wildlife Surveys' Just Got A Whole Lot Easier

GBIF-authored paper just out in Phytokeys journal.


From text to structured data: Converting a word-processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archi
www.pensoft.net
The paper describes a pilot project to convert a conventional floristic checklist, written in a standard word processing program, into structured data in the Darwin Core Archive Format.

GBIF Norway is looking for a new Node Manager.


Naturhistorisk museum - Biodiversity data coordinator and GIS-analyst
uio.easycruit.com
A permanent position in biodiversity data coordination (position code 1087, Senior Engineer) is vacant at the Department of Research and Collections, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway.

Marine Study in Singapore Digs Up 100 Species | The Jakarta Globe
www.thejakartaglobe.com
Singapore. Burrowed deep into the mudflats of Lim Chu Kang is a bumpy, warty sea anemone so new to science, it does not even have a scientific name yet.

Donald Hobern shares thoughts on GBIF
vimeo.com
Donald Hobern outlines his vision for the organization, after taking up his post as executive secretary of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org) and director of its secretariat based in Copenhagen. Donald, who started in the job...

New issue of GBIF bimonthly newsletter GBits now online - click to download.


Gbif.org: Newsletters
www.gbif.org

http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/call-for-applications-for-regional-training-support/


Gbif.org: Call for applications for regional training support
www.gbif.org
The GBIF Secretariat calls for applications from Participants seeking support to organize regional training activities in 2012.

Gbif.org: Call for proposals for the 2012 Young Researchers Award
www.gbif.org
GBIF invites proposals from graduate students for the 2012 Young Researchers Award. This prize intends to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics. Two awards of €4,000 will be available to graduate students in a master’s or doctoral programme at a university in a GBIF Vo...

PLoS ONE: Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard
www.plosone.org
PLoS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world.

Is GBIF a 'data brickyard'?


To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data
www.theatlantic.com
The massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp it, yet networked science rolls on.

Gbif.org: Call for nominations for the 2012 Ebbe Nielsen Prize
www.gbif.org
GBIF invites nominations for the 2012 Ebbe Nielsen Prize, awarded annually to a person or team who demonstrates excellence in combining biodiversity informatics and biosystematics research. The €30,000 award is intended to allow the recipient(s) to engage in biosystematics/biodiversity informatics r...

Gbif.org: German research team targets ‘at risk’ data on biodiversity
www.gbif.org
A new German-based project is setting out to rescue biodiversity data at risk of being lost, because they are not integrated in institutional databases, are kept in outdated digital storage systems, or are not properly documented.The project, run by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dah...