Becoming an NBII-GBIF Data Provider
The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) (www.nbii.gov),
as the U.S. Node to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), is
seeking educational and research institutions across the United States
interested in becoming data providers in the US GBIF network. NBII is a
broad, collaborative program designed to provide increased access to data
and information on the nation's biological resources, and works with
federal, non-federal, state, universities, societies, museums, and local
organizations to accomplish its goals and objectives.
To facilitate this, NBII is offering a two day workshop on "Becoming an
NBII-GBIF Data Provider." The workshop will cover the DiGIR Communications
Protocol, the Darwin Core metadata schema, software and hardware
requirements, and how to crosswalk your database schema. Participants are
encouraged to bring a copy of their organization's database for live
demonstration and one-on-one troubleshooting. The intended audience is an
organization's database administrator, or a department's IT and/or systems
personnel.
Date: April 27-28, 2004
Location: Center for Biological Informatics, Denver, Colorado
If your organization is interested in participating in the training, please
contact Nichole McNeely at 703.648.4360 or nmcneely@usgs.gov.
NBII seeks to provide access and highlight US collections, in order to
represent them and their needs to GBIF (http://www.gbif.org/) and the
international community. To facilitate this, NBII has established an "NBII-GBIF portal" for
data providers, displaying data from participating US
institutions/organizations. The portal can be found at http://gbif.nbii.gov
Date | Tuesday
2004/04/27 09:00 to
2004/04/28 17:00
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Type |
Training |
Venue |
Center for Biological Informatics, Denver, CO |
Organiser |
Nichole McNeely |
Agenda |
See the agenda |
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