NLBIF Nieuws

Show what you can do with open biodiversity data, join and win the GBIF "Ebbe Nielsen Challenge"

17 / 12 / 2014, GBIF

The secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has launched the "Ebbe Nielsen Challenge", a new competition for (open) biodiversity data computer scientists...

New infoservice GBIF: global and national data trends

12 / 11 / 2014, NLBIF

Step by step the GBIF data portal is being enhanced with sophisticated information services. Data trends are now being presented in a clear and advanced mode, both at the global and...

Super tool for GBIF data visualisation

26 / 09 / 2014, Ecological Informatics

The VESpeR project of the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation, part of the Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland...

Inspiring Indian minister opens 21st international GBIF meeting

16 / 09 / 2014, GBIF

The Indian minister Prakash Javadekar, from the ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, opens the 21st international meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)...

Get your free copy of "Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens"

26 / 07 / 2014

As a relict from previous project activities NLBIF happens to have several copies of the publication "Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens - A Manual of Best Practice" available...

NLBIF site now fully bilingual

26 / 06 / 2014

The NLBIF website is available in English and Dutch again.

One of the objectives of NLBIF is to act as a platform for the exchange of information between the Dutch and...

Taking off with Big GBIF Data

07 / 06 / 2014

The third Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) workshop is taking place in Amsterdam, GBIF data play their part in this Big Data event.

The OSDC workshop, partly financed by the...

Biodiversity data for e-science

24 / 04 / 2014, NLBIF

In collaboration with the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC), NLBIF investigates possibilities to analyse and visualise the more than 400 million GBIF data records in an advanced eScience...

Who wins the Dutch Data Prize 2014? Nominate candidates before 1 July!

23 / 04 / 2014, RDNL

The Dutch Data Prize 2014 will be awarded to a researcher or research group making an extra contribution to science by making research data available for additional or new research....