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Subergorgia suberosa observed in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain by robin_dive_diva (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

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Call for data papers describing datasets from Russia

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BID programme funds 18 new projects in sub-Saharan Africa

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Community consultation: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens

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GBIF forecast: increasing chance of clouds for species occurrence data

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Using GBIF-mediated data with Apache Spark on Amazon Web Services

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The GBIF Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) in 2021

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