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News: Three Nodes mentoring projects have been funded
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Mentors will assist in establishing or developing the mentee Nodes.
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28 March 2006 |
| Contributor: |
Meredith Lane |
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English |
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Not applicable |
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| Source of information: |
GBIF Secretariat |
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The three mentee-mentor pairs are
- Pakistan (Roohi Ghazala & Khalid Mahmood) - Australia (Steve Shattuck)
- Peru (Víctor E. Miyakawa) - Costa Rica (Maria Auxiliadora Mora)
- Portugal (Nelson Lima) - Spain (Carmen Quesada)
GBIF Mentoring Calls are intended to foster collaboration in order to facilitate the quick
transfer of information technologies, experiences and know-how from a “more developed” GBIF Node to a “less developed” GBIF Node. Mentors will assist in establishing and/or developing the Mentee Node and/or a national network of data users and providers promptly and effectively.
The Pakistan-Australia mentoring partnership will provide a week of training in Australia in the use of BioLink and in specimen databasing to an IT expert and a collections manager with biological experience from Pakistan. Following this, the Australian mentor will travel to Pakistan to install software and train IT and collections staff, and, if needed a second visit will be made later to trouble-shoot the software and infrastructure. There will also be a national workshop within Pakistan on sharing and accessing biodiversity data.
The main objective in the Peru-Costa Rica collaboration will be to strengthen the capacity of two networks, a national one and an Amazonian sub regional one, in biodiversity informatics tools in order to improve development of the data provider networks as well as to obtain the necessary knowledge for biological information management in accordance with international initiatives. Training by the Costa Rican mentor in Peru will include methods and information technologies used for collections management, and in the standards and protocols (DiGIR/Darwin Core, XML, UDDI, SOAP, etc.) for exchanging biological data in a GBIF-compliant way.
With the help of the Spanish Node, the Portuguese Node will develop an Action Plan and a practical implementation project, and a Report on the natural history collections and biodiversity projects in Portugal followed by the establishment of a Portugues Biodiversity Network. Spain will also help set up Portugal's web portal and install (and train in its use) a DiGIR data server at the Node, so that it can host the datasets from those providers who do not have their own equipment. Also, there will be two workshops: one on data digitisation (three days), and one on the installation of DiGIR servers (two days).
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Please note that this article expired on 2006/04/27
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