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📦 Data standards for natural science collections – what are they and why should you care?

DarwinCore, LIDO, ABCD… if these sound familiar but confusing, this webinar is for you! Our colleague Caitlin Thorn will explain what data standards are, how to use them, and how to choose the right one for your work.

📅 April 29, 2025 | 11:00–12:00 CET
🌐 Online | 🇬🇧 English
🔗 Register: https://winoda.de/en/event/webinar-data-standards/
#WiNoDa #DataStandards #OpenScience #NaturalScience #BiodiversityData

📣 Calling #BiodiversityData innovators!

The 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has opened for submissions! ⭐

The annual GBIF grant programme celebrates innovation in the development of new and existing biodiversity data tools.

An expert jury will judge entries on their relevance, novelty and quality to select a pool of winners to share a prize pool of up to €20,000.

🕷️ Deadline: 7 September 2025

🔗 https://www.gbif.org/news/7cNvqaLzeSyQrLOulk4L5S/

red graphic with a drawing of a spider that reads 2025 ebbe nielsen challenge

📝 Survey amongst 638 informally trained members of the public engaged in #scientific endeavours reveals the majority - especially younger & non-white participants - preferred the term '#community' over '#citizen' #science.

📄 The Forum Paper is openly accessible in our #journal: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e137412.

#citizenscience #citizenscientists
#CollectionsClub #collections #biodiversity #opendata #biodiversitydata #naturalhistory

Discover how the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is revolutionizing biodiversity data access with its integrated Biodiversity Advisor platform.#BiodiversityData #SANBI #EnvironmentalSustainability #OpenData https://groundtruth.app/south-africas-integrated-biodiversity-data-portal-initiative-a-paradigm-shift-in-environmental-data-management/

I had a good experience with #GBIF. A record from the Natural History Museum in London had stag-horn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, present in Wellington, NZ, in 1933, "very common on rocks and cliff faces.” This species is only now starting to naturalise from Auckland garden plants.

I submitted a note and within days the senior curator of ferns at NHM emailed saying they'd corrected the mistake—it was in Papua New Guinea—and updated the species ID.

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#BiodiversityData #museum #herbarium

A screenshot of the GBIF webpage, showing the options when the speech bubble icon on the top left is tapped. The top option is "Content" and that's what I used to send feedback on a record with the wrong location.

Precious cargo of canasteros from Peru is out of quarantine. 🥳 Genetic samples already sequenced but these wings need to be photographed for estimations of flight performance. Data galore. #museomics #biodiversitydata #Furnariidae