Introduction
The 24th meeting (GB24) of the GBIF Governing Board was hosted by The Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, on behalf of Finland.
Agenda
https://gb24.gbif.org/en/programme/
GNM14
Sunday 24 September 2017
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Session 1:
Update from the GBIF Secretariat
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- GBIF International landscape & New regions (Latin America/Caribbean & Pacific)
- Tim Hirsch, Deputy Director, GBIF Secretariat
- Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP)
- Aisha Lolila Jensen, PO for Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat
- Biodiversity Information for Development (BID)
- Laura Russell, PO for Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat
- Biodiversity Fund for Asia (BIFA)
- Maofang Luo, Visiting Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, GBIF Secretariat
- IPT GBIF API and other tools
- Laura Russell, PO for Participation and Engagement and Thomas S. Jeppesen, Web Developer, GBIF Secretariat
- Presentation of the new GBIF Portal
- Morten Høfft & Thomas S. Jeppesen, Web Developers, GBIF Secretariat
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Session 1 Recording
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Session 2:
Nodes role in the GBIF Community
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Experiences from more established Nodes contribution to GBIF implementations plan:
- Description of the Antarctic Thematic GBIF Node, Strength & Weaknesses
- Anton Van de Putte, Node manager, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- Presentation on a recently proposed Swedish national initiative for a coherent Biodiversity Informatics infrastructure (BAS)
- Anders Telenius, Node manager and Veronika Johansson, Node staff, Sweden
- Colombia BIO - Historical Expedition for Biodiversity: Strengthening of biological collections
- Leonardo Buitrago, Node manager, Colombia
- Niger Republic: Presentation on available biodiversity data organization & management for better monitoring and uses
- Maman Adda, Node manager, Niger
- Results of BID and CESP project activities
- Saïdou Dombouya, Node manager, Guinea
- Data management: Stable identifiers for collection specimens: What could the Nodes do to spread the use of this practice?
- Walter Berendsohn, Node manager, Germany
- Olaf Banki, Species 2000
- GBIF habla español: A promotional animated video!
- Cristina Villaverde, Node Manager, Spain
- Urmas Kõljalg, Node Manager; Estonia
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Session 2 Recording
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Session 3:
Breakout - Thematic group discussions
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- Chair: David Martin, Node manager, Australia (to be confirmed)
- Enhancing the technology skills of providers and consumers of biodiversity information
- Chair: Deb Paul, iDigBio
- New data types, new data sources
- Chair: Anton Van de Putte, Node manager, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- Checklists, mobilization and uses
- Chair: Wouter Addink, Node manager, Naturalis
- Training and mentoring based on BID experiences
- Chair: Jean Ganglo, Node manager, Benin
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| Session 4: Forward looking strategies
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Plenary discussions based on thematic breakout group discussions.
- Moderated by André Heughebaert, Chair, Nodes Committee and Group Chairs
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Session 4 Recording
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Monday 25 September 2017
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Session 5:
Data Use Cases
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Uses of GBIF data - National, regional & thematic, based on input and experiences from the Nodes:
- GBIF Norway: Norwegian and Nordic crop wild relative conservation strategies derived from biodiversity data published in GBIF; and new published data (flow) before entering into assessments
- Dag Endresen, Node manager, Norway
- Ireland: Introducing new portal for capturing citizen science data)
- Liam Lysaght, Node manager, Ireland
- Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS)
- By Dimitri Brosens, Node staff, Belgium
- Presentation of SpeciesPlus.net
- Tim Wilkinson, UNEP-WCMC
- Characterizing Bird Data Gaps in Time and Space using GBIF- EBird Mediated Data
- Gautam Talukdar, Node manager, India
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Session 5 Recording
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Session 6:
Improving Data fitness for use
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Data Fitness for use based on input and experiences from the Nodes:
- Dag Endresen, Node manager, Norway
- Summary outputs: CESP 2016 Agro-training project including needs assessment on agrobiodiversity information and training
- Rui Figueira, Node manager, Portugal
- Wouter Addink, Node manager, Naturalis
- GBIF Norway: Software tools for online citizen science volunteer digitization of museum herbaria collections, https://data.gbif.no/dugnad
- Christian Svindseth, Node staff, Norway
- Christian Svindseth, Node staff, Norway
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Session 7:
Science Ambassador corps through GBIF Nodes
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- Science ambassadors and workshops on promoting use of GBIF mediated data in research
- Tim Hirsch, Deputy Director, GBIF Secretariat Chair: David Martin, Node manager, Australia
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Session 7 Recording
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Session 8:
Breakout – Regional Group Discussions
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The following topics were discussed within the regional group discussions:
- Content Mobilization
- Collections/international Landscape
- Enlargement and Endorsement of Data Publishers
- Capacity Building
- Large Regional Projects
Group Chairs:
- Fatima Parker-Allie, Regional Representative, Africa
- Tsuyoshi Hosoya, Regional Representative, Asia
- Liam Lysaght, Deputy Regional Representative, Europe
- Anabela Plos, Deputy Regional Representative, Latin America & Caribbean
- Ben Wheeler, US Node Manager, North America and Oceania regions
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Session 9:
Forward looking strategies
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- Plenary discussion based on breakout regional group discussions
- Moderated by Anders Telenius and Wouter Addink, Nodes Committee Vice Chairs + Group Chairs
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Session 9 Recording
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Session 10:
Summing up & Conclusions
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- Summarizing of discussions from sessions
- Enlarging/improving our Nodes Community
- Expectations from GBIF Secretariat
- Conclusions & Key messages
- Moderated by Anders Telenius and Wouter Addink, Nodes Committee Vice Chairs
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GB24 Public Session
Tuesday 26 September 2017
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| Strategic Plan Goal 1
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- Tim Hirsch, GBIF Secretariat
- The Living Atlases collaboration
- Anne-Sophie Archambeau, GBIF France
- Laura Russell, GBIF Secretariat
- Coordinating projects under BID: the Biodiversity Information for Development programme
- Jean Ganglo, GBIF Benin
- Dairo Escobar, SiB Colombia
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Strategic Plan Goal 1 Recording
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| Strategic Plan Goals 2-4
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- Donald Hobern, GBIF Secretariat
- Olaf Bánki, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre
- Filling data gaps and meeting research needs in Asia
- Maofang Luo, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Visiting Scientist, GBIF Secretariat
- Anders Gravbrøt Finstad, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - GBIF Science Committee
- Mobilizing data from literature
- Donat Agosti, Plazi
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Strategic Plan Goals 2-4 Recording
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| Strategic Plan Goal 5
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- Introduction to new GBIF.org
- Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat
- Improved data discovery on GBIF.org
- Laura Russell, GBIF Secretariat
- Documenting research uses of GBIF-mediated data
- Tim Hirsch, GBIF Secretariat
- Donald Hobern, GBIF Secretariat
- 2017 Awards: Ebbe Nielsen Challenge | Young Researchers Award
- Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat
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Strategic Plan Goal 5 Recording
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Oral Presentation Recordings
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