The National Biodiversity Data Centre, the national GBIF Participant and node in Ireland, hosted GB25 in Kilkenny, in the country’s southeast, from 15-18 October 2018. More details about the event remain available (for now) on the GB25 website.
Governing board presentations
- Report of the Governing Board chair—Tanya Abrahamse
- Report of the Budget Committee chair—Peter Schalk
- Report of the Science Committee chair—Anders G. Finstad
- Report of the Nodes Committee chair—André Heughebaert
- Report of the GBIF Executive Secretary—Donald Hobern
- Report on GBIF Capacity Development—Maheva Bagard Laursen & Mélianie Raymond
- Report on GBIF in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia—Dmitry Schigel
- Report on 2019 Work programme and budget—Donald Hobern
- Report on modernizing data standards—Tim Robertson
Public session
On the afternoon of 17 October, members of the broader GBIF community shared presentations under the theme of GBIF applications and relevance: progress and next steps. In addition, as in recent years, winners of the annual Young Researchers Awards were presented and winners of the 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge announced.
GBIF.org at 1 billion records: trends in data publication and research use
Kyle Copas, Communications Manager, GBIF Secretariat | presentation
Encouraging a data citation culture
Daniel Noesgaard, Science Communications Coordinator, GBIF Secretariat | presentation
Shining a light on ‘dark taxa’: naming and discovering DNA-based biodiversity data, Part 1
Dmitry Schigel, Scientific Officer, GBIF Secretariat | presentation
Shining a light on ‘dark taxa’: naming and discovering DNA-based biodiversity data, Part 2
Urmas Kõljalg, University of Tartu Natural History Museum & Botanic Garden, Estonia
Shining a light on ‘dark taxa’: naming and discovering DNA-based biodiversity data, Part 3
Dmitry Schigel, Scientific Officer, GBIF Secretariat
Improved information on invasive and alien species, Part 1
Shyama Pagad, IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group (via video), New Zealand
Improved information on invasive and alien species, Part 2
Tim Hirsch, Deputy Director, GBIF Secretariat | presentation
Improved ecological data capture and Essential Biodiversity Variables
introduced by Donald Hobern, Executive Secretary, GBIF Secretariat
Improved ecological data capture and Essential Biodiversity Variables
Laetitia Navarro, GEO BON: Group on Earth Observations – Biodiversity Observation Network, Germany | presentation
Overcoming the taxonomic challenge
Olaf Bánki, Species 2000 | Catalogue of Life, Netherlands | presentation
Biodiversity data for national reporting
Liam Lysaght, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland | presentation
GBIF Young Researchers Award
introduction by Anders G. Finstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | GBIF Science Committee
2018 GBIF Young Researchers Award winner: Kate Ingenloff, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, United States
2nd introduction by Anders G. Finstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | GBIF Science Committee
2018 GBIF Young Researchers Award winner: Raquel Gaião Silva, University of Algarve, Portugal
2018 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
introduced by Greg Riccardi, iDigBio | GBIF Science Committee