GBIF Metadata Implementation Framework Task Group
The current design of the GBIF data portal is focused on mobilising and making directly accessible primary species occurrence data delivered as Darwin Core or ABCD records with an emphasis on providing access to individual data...
EDIT Summer School 2009 now open
The call for participation to the Second EDIT Summer School 2009 is open now. The setting for this event is the biodiversity rich region of the Muránska planina national park, Slovakia, from July 19th 2009 until August 1st 2009...
New specimen and specimen image system developed
The GBIF Secretariat has helped develop a data management system for the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen
Paper submitted for Systema Naturae 250
David Remsen of the GBIF Secretariat submitted a paper for inclusion in the publication of Systema Naturae 250, a compilation of presentations made at the SN 250 symposium in Paris, Aug 2008.
GBIF and Fishbase collaborate on Fish Names evaluation
A contract was signed on 20 January with the Fishbase Information and Research Group to perform an evaluation of scientific names surported to be fishes within the GBIF data portal.
