The hands-on course is designed to teach users how to publish biodiversity data through GBIF. This edition of the course includes presentations on how to publish occurrence data derived from DNA (including environmental DNA), and ecological data through the Humboldt extension. The course is aimed at researchers or teachers, curators of biological and natural history collections, public administration or private sector collaborators, protected area managers and members of NGOs who are actively involved in cataloging, monitoring and managing biodiversity data.
The course covers the following topics:
- Data standards and organization of biodiversity data
- Publishing data derived from DNA and environmental DNA
- Publishing ecological data with the Humboldt extension
- Data quality control and cleaning
- Publishing data through the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) platform