NIOO/PE&RC Biodiversity Data Workshop

Boosting the Impact of Biodiversity Data

Monday 22 April 2024

NIOO-KNAW and WUR Campus, Wageningen

Scope

Are you a researcher studying biodiversity and do you collect and/or analyse biodiversity relevant data? And do you want to increase the impact of your work and data? Join our biodiversity data workshop! Data is worth so much more if others can find, understand and (re)use it easily. In this workshop you will learn the ins and outs of data and metadata standards, repositories to store your (meta)data, and their valuable contributions to improving the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) of your data and thereby the transparency and impact of your research. The program consists of two workshops, interspersed with a seminar on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility or GBIF.org.

Workshops

1. Part 1 of the workshop program is a general introduction to biodiversity data management, including the FAIR data principles, data standards, and an introduction to data papers. Using a dummy data set, we will introduce you to two standards widely used in biodiversity science: Darwin Core (DwC) and Ecological Metadata Language (EML).
2. In part 2, we will take a deeper dive into the world of biodiversity data. You will document and FAIRify your own biodiversity data set, readying it for publication to an online repository, such as GBIF, thereby boosting the impact of your biodiversity research and data. This second workshop has a maximum of 20 participants. Only the first 20 people who register for it will be able to follow. 

Seminar

GBIF— the Global Biodiversity Information Facility — is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. The GBIF participant network currently consists of 44 voting participating countries including the Netherlands, 20 associate country participants and 43 associate organisations, working through the participant nodes, and provides data-holding institutions around the world with common standards, best practices and open-source tools enabling them to share information about where and when species have been recorded. At present the network counts >2,000 data publishers that provide open access to ~90,000 datasets sharing >2.5 billion biodiversity records using machine-readable Creative Commons licence designations, allowing scientists, researchers, and others to apply the data in nearly five peer-reviewed publications every day, along with other reports, analyses, and policy documents. Niels Raes is the Node manager for the Dutch branch of GBIF; NLBIF and will present an overview of possibilities and recent developments of the information facility. Afterwards there will be lunch with room for further discussion.

Organizers

• Gijs Gerrits, WUR / NIOO-KNAW / Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Niels Raes, NLBIF Node manager / Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Stefan Vriend, LTER-LIFE Veluwe Coordinator / SPI-Birds Data manager / NIOO-KNAW
• Eric Kuijt, Data steward / NIOO-KNAW
• Cherine Jantzen, FAIR data analyst / NIOO-KNAW
• Sanja Selakovic, PE&RC

Programme

Fees

REGISTRATION DEADLINE for WORKSHOP 2: 17th APRIL

PE&RC Cancellation Conditions

If you register for the Workshop part 2 and you do not show up at the event, a fee of € 25,- will be charged.
Note: If you would like to cancel your registration, always inform us (please note that you will be kept to the cancellation conditions).

ECTS

ECTS credits will be awarded to those that follow all three parts of the programme.

More information

If you have any questions, you can contact Stefan at s.vriend@nioo.knaw.nl.

Registration

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