GBIF Expert workshop to prepare Darwin Core standard
The GBIF Secretariat will hold a three day programming workshop in Copenhagen on 21 - 23 January 2009 on the proposed Darwin Core (DwC) standard.
GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) opens for beta testing
The new Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) allows for publishing specimen and observational occurrence data, names data and dataset descriptive data to the internet in a single toolkit.
Development on GBIF Harvesting and Indexing Toolkit
Development has started on the GBIF harvesting and indexing toolkit; a toolkit to simplify the job of harvesting datasources without the need for understanding the underlying protocols involved.
GBIF Web Services Performance Improvement
Due to increasing volumes of traffic on the portal web services - data.gbif.org/tutorial/services - it has become necessary to implement some performance improvements in these services.
GBIF Governing Board Meeting (GB15) and Associated events
GBIF's fifteenth Governing Board meeting (GB15) took place in Arusha, Tanzania, 31 October to 6 November 2008
