Becoming an NBII-GBIF Data Provider

Second US DiGIR workshop: Becoming an NBII-GBIF Data Provider September 21, 2004, Reston, VA. (Outside of Washington, DC) Following the success of the first session in April, NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure) is offering a second one-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. NBII seeks to provide access and highlight digitized 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 (and more information) can be found at http://gbif.nbii.gov As the U.S. Node to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), NBII looks forward to working with educational and research institutions across the United States interested in showcasing their digitized collections through the 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. Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Location: US Geological Survey Headquarters Building, Reston VA Details: http://gbif.nbii.gov If your organization is interested in participating in the training, please contact Nichole Kallas at 703.648.4360 or nmcneely@usgs.gov.