Technical support hour for GBIF nodes

The technical support hour for GBIF nodes is a monthly one-hour session in which node staff and the GBIF Secretariat convene and discuss topics such as data publishing and use, the ingestion process, Registry components, etc. It is optional to join, and you are welcome to stay for a short while to ask a question, or the whole hour if you like – it is up to you!
We begin every session with a short presentation on a practical topic and then open the floor for technical questions including, but not limited to, the topic presented.
Sessions are held in English.
Latest technical support hours

Technical Support Hour for Nodes: August 2026

Technical Support Hour for Nodes: June 2026

Technical Support Hour for Nodes: April 2026

Technical Support Hour for Nodes: February 2026
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Previous technical support hours

DNA and its role in biodiversity data
3 June 2026

GBIF Rule-based Annotations
1 April 2026

Choosing a dataset class when publishing on GBIF
4 February 2026

Darwin Core Data Package DwC-DP
3 September 2025

MDT - the Metabarcoding Data Toolkit
6 August 2025

Introducing the new gbif.org (demo site)
2 July 2025

Humboldt Extension to Darwin Core
4 June 2025

Date-related issues and flags
7 May 2025

Camtrap DP
5 March 2025

GBIF Vocabulary server
2 October 2024

How to publish data on GBIF via the registry API
7 August 2024

API SQL downloads
3 July 2024

Data quality workflow
6 March 2024

DNA data publishing
7 February 2024

Health data publishing
3 January 2024

How GBIF identifies related occurrence records
1 November 2023

GBIF and occurrenceID stability
4 October 2023

Literature tracking
6 September 2023

Statistics and graphics for nodes
3 May 2023

Open questions and answers
5 April 2023

Installing, updating and backing up an IPT
1 March 2023

Overview of the technical components of GBIF
1 February 2023

Tour of the registry and how to debug ingestion
4 January 2023
Want to suggest a technical support hour topic?
We welcome your feedback and encourage you to post your ideas for topics, suggestions or questions in the community forum or email them to helpdesk@gbif.org







