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