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Cape hyrax (Procavia capensis) observed near Tamra, Israel by Igal. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Occurrence records

Datasets

Publishing institutions

Peer-reviewed papers using data

2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

Call for nominations to the 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award

Virtual workshop planned on “Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections”

Global analysis of potential marginal land resources of cassava

The Equator Principles encourage open access to environmental impact data through the GBIF network

New species: Leporinus tepui

New species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the highlands of the Guiana Shield in Venezuela

New dataset: MacFadden Herbarium (MACF), California State University Fullerton

Named after botanist Fay A. MacFadden, who sold her extensive collection of plants to the university just prior to her death in 1964.

How to choose the right dataset class

If you are a (first-time) GBIF publisher and you are trying to decide which type of dataset would best fit your data, this blog post is for you.