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GBIF-BID 2020 GRANT PROPOSAL
by Ebigwai Joseph 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Hello. I am Dr Joseph Ebigwai, a biodiversity expert, attached to the University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. My application for this year's GBIF-BID grant has necessitated me to contact you, with hopes of securing your partnership, for my project, which highlights the following objectives: - Biodiversity data mobilization and publication; obtaining biodiversity data on the flora and fauna of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, for use in developing an online database, for ease of accessibility and referral for utilization. - Capacity training and workshops for relevant stakeholders on the multi-dimensional importance of GIS mapping tools for biodiversity field data operations and usefulness of specimen collection. - Establishment of a Specimen Data Repository Center (SDRC) for checklist validation and ease of digitization and subsequent mobilization. I would be very delighted to have you come onboard to help me achieve this. More details regarding the project proposal will be made available to you upon request. I would be looking forward to getting your favourable response soonest. -- *________________________* *DR. J.K. EBIGWAI (MD/CEO**)* *MIFOR CONSULT NIG. LTD* *Address: NO 55 Old Ikang, Marian Road* *CALABAR, CRS NIGERIA* *Website: www.miforconsult.com <http://www.miforconsult.com>* *Email: ebigwai.joseph(a)miforconsult.com <ebigwai.joseph(a)miforconsult.com>Phone No: +234(0)8064173245; +234(0)8182103269*

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Erasmus+ Project Proposal
by Marie Elise Lecoq 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hello all, I'm contacting you regarding a project proposal that we have started to work on. It is through the Erasmus+ Programme. You will find more information here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfCWQq3P9G0bkpoO7TLzaL6xH1M2_5PaKgT6Usk…>. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. I will do my best to answer them. In advance, thank you for your feedback. Best regards, Marie-Elise -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Administrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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Remote support sessions to help Living Atlas developers bootstrapping and launching their new national or thematic data portal.
by Marie Elise Lecoq 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Dear all, One of the feedback that we get from the LA community is to improve and simplify the implementation of a new LA data portal. To achieve this, Vicente Ruiz Jurado, technical coordinator of the LA community, put in place a procedure based on remote sessions to bootstrap and/or launch a new LA instance within an institution. It will help newcomers to have an overview of the LA modules, but it will also support developers who want to install new modules on their platform or launch their data portal in production. The sessions will be prepared and guided remotely by Vicente in coordination with the institution developers. The remote session will be divided typically in two half-days or more depending on the node requirements. We propose two options: - the deployment of a demo with several VMs. It will be helpful for newcomers or participants that need a demo data portal to show to their institution's decision-makers or to evaluate their future hardware or software requirements. The demo VMs, hosted by the GBIF Spain, will be kept for a few weeks after the session (depending on the other nodes necessities for similar help); - the guidance of participants during the first deployment in their real production machines. During the sessions, the participants and Vicente will use the ala-install ansible repository <https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-install> with the help of the Living Atlas Ansible Generator <https://github.com/living-atlases/generator-living-atlas>. Already 3 participants did these remote sessions for deploying their demos and/or their production nodes: - Biodiversity Atlas of Living Austria (@Georg); - Biodiversity Atlas of Living Tanzania (@Finian Mwalongo, @Gerald Francis or @Meshack Victor); - The Vermont Center for Ecostudies <https://vtecostudies.org/> in the US (@Jason Loomis). We encourage you to contact them through Slack to have their feedback on their remote workshops. You will find more information about the procedure in this document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v_j7tHNGmEPu6RH1uv3mCUBc4FzHLmTvcpeLP4M…> and the technical instructions here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pNbT6suWcnyXaUcRhtLcsTfNNodtuIMO16CMaUG…> . Please contact Vicente by email (vjrj(a)gbif.es) or via Slack (@vjrj) for future sessions. If you have any questions or if you don’t have access to the Slack channel ( atlaslivingaustralia.slack.com), please contact Vicente or Marie-Elise Lecoq (melecoq(a)vertnet.org). We will be happy to help you as much as we can. Best regards, Marie-Elise and Vicente -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Administrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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[CESP 2019] Data portal - Spatial portal - Region module
by Marie Elise Lecoq 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Hello all, We are working on the final report for the CESP project. We would like to know who has installed the data portal, the region module or the spatial portal this year (from July 2018 to July 2019) with a link to the new tool(s). Thanks in advance for your help. Best, Marie-Elise -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Administrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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by Yoel Flores del Castillo 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

Saludos Enviar en español Yoel (Cuba)

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Information about your data portal for a #TuesdayPortal thread
by Marie Elise Lecoq 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

Hello all, As you may know, last Tuesday, we have successfully launched both videos. We are currently working on how to improve the communication outside the community. To accomplish this, I'm going to do a #TuesdayPortal, The main idea is to show that data portals based on ALA works and are useful. I creates this Google Form (https://forms.gle/NnXxzjQ4JjCQxrmG9) to have some information about your installation. Could you please take a few minutes to fill it? Thanks in advance for your help! Best, Marie-Elise -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Adminitrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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Dissemination plan for Living Atlases videos
by Marie Elise Lecoq 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Dear colleagues, As you may know, we are currently working on a CESP project around the Living Atlases community. In addition to the workshop, we have created two videos that explain how to use some modules of the ALA toolsets. We are about to launch them. The two videos are ready and available in YouTube and we have planned to broadly disseminate them this Tuesday (June 18th). To facilitate the promotion of these videos, we have made a dissemination plan. It would be great if you can support this plan by completing some of the following tasks: Tuesday at 8:00 am (CESP) – I (Administrative LA Community Manager) publish the attached news on the LA community website, upload the videos to the website (embedding them in the Homepage) and publish a tweet in the new LA Twitter account (@LivingAtlases). After this, throughout the day: · GBIF.org uploads the videos to the CESP project website <https://www.gbif.org/project/6AxerPwlnacq6S28iK0Gki/international-living-at…> . · GBIF.org adds the videos on the Homepage. · GBIF.ES uploads the videos to the CESP project website <https://www.gbif.es/en/proyecto/international-living-atlases-workshop-how-t…>. If other members have also created an specific website for this CESP project on their organization websites, it would be awesome if they upload the videos in there. · Rest of LA community members upload the videos on their organization websites (where they consider). · If possible, all LA community members add (embed?) the videos on their organization Homepages. · All LA community members publish this news <https://www.gbif.org/news/lnzgTHGWkrHJd3nVuNJBL/_preview> on their websites in the language(s) they consider (i.e. GBIF.es will publish the news in Spanish and English). · GBIF.org and the whole LA community (if they have a Twitter account) repost the original tweet published by Marie at 8:00 am (CESP). · Optional but desirable – GBIF.org and the whole LA community (if they have a Twitter account) publish a personalized tweet about the videos. Personalization could be, for example, a tweet in our local languages. This is especially relevant because our own tweets allows us to tag other profiles and increase the impact of our posts. Please, do not forget to mention the LA community account (@LivingAtlases). · If other LA community members use a different social media channel from Twitter, it would be nice if they also disseminate the videos trough them. · GBIF.org notifies the wider nodes community by email. · All LA community members notify their local contacts by email. We will be very grateful if you can support this dissemination plan as much as you are able. If you have any doubts related to any of these tasks, please, do not hesitate in sharing it. We will be glad to help you. Thank you for the support! Best regards, Marie-Elise on behalf of the coordination team. -- Marie-Elise Lecoq Adminitrative coordinator - Living Atlases community Developer - VertNet

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Strategy for sequence-based data
by Maria Prager 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hi all, I am part of a group of people working with integrating molecular data into the Swedish equivalent of the Atlas of Living Australia, currently called Biodiversity Atlas Sweden (BAS). We are considering different strategies to do this, and would like to ask for some input from the ALA/GBIF community, especially from those of you who are also dealing with biodiversity data derived from metabarcoding och metegenomics data. Our main problem is that the current GBIF taxonomy backbone has insufficient coverage of many microbial organism groups, although we're hoping for substantial improvement coming out of the announced collaboration with SILVA. But even if SILVA´s cluster-based OTUs are integrated into the backbone, following the UNITE example, we think researchers will increasingly want to access and analyse data at the highest possible resolution, i.e. at Amplicon Sequence Variant (ASV) level. We see two alternative solutions to this problem, in BAS: 1) We treat ASVs as a (unranked) taxonomic level and (locally, in BAS) try to merge the existing GBIF backbone with a checklist based on unique ASV IDs and taxon strings derived from an external reference database, e.g. SILVA. We don't know how to do this, and suspect that it would require more manual curation than we have resources for, though. 2) We use the existing taxonomy (hoping that SILVA integration will soon happen, centrally, at GBIF), and treat the (ASV) sequence as a property of the observation, e.g. using the GGBN extension or dynamicProperty term. Accessing data at ASV level would then, however, require that sequences (and perhaps also primer names and sequences) are fully searchable and available for analysis and display. Does anyone have any thoughts or advice to offer regarding this? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Maria -- Maria Prager, PhD, Research Engineer Science for Life Laboratory Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) Stockholm University Email: maria.prager(a)scilifelab.se

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by Andrea Ferreira Portela Nunes 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Dear all., I would kindly ask you to include, on our ALA community portal, within the participants list, a mention to the portal whcih is under develoment is Brazil (under the GBIF Brazilian node), Thanks a lot, Andrea Ferreira Portela Nunes DEPPD/SEPED Coordenadora Geral de Biomas (061) 2033-7401

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GBIF GB25 - Living Atlas Coordinator
by David.Martin＠csiro.au 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Dear all, At the GBIF Governing Board meeting in Kilkenny (October 2018) the work program and budget was approved. In the 2019 Budget GBIF will contribute 40k euros to help support the Living Atlases community. Following on from this agreement, there was some discussion in Kilkenny about how best to allocate these funds. An opportunistic meeting was held with some members of the Living Atlases community who where present in Kilkenny. This included representatives from Spain, France, Portugal, Australia, Sweden, Brazil. That group came to the conclusion that the funds would be best put to use by supporting a “Living Atlas Coordinator” position. Following on from the meeting, we created the following document (called “The Kilkenny Accord”) that attempts to outline scope and some details of this position: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14tyjEPaDpIo9B_8wvHDKbfMRLO81FviTsVQt9IT… The proposal is to recruit a coordinator and expect this needs to be someone within the community. In addition, the majority of the countries present agreed to provide additional funds to support the role (5k euros per country). We are aware that quite a few members of the Living Atlas community were not present at this meeting. At this stage, we’d like to ask the wider community if they agree with the proposal outlined. Additionally, we would like to ask if there are more participants willing to make a financial pledge that would be used towards the coordinator, setting up the project management structures and/or workshops. The Living Atlas community aims to be inclusive, so any group may contribute regardless of their participation status in GBIF - e.g. an institution or a national center may contribute. An early indication of finances available in 2019 will be helpful to help plan activities. Please feel free to respond to this mailing list, or to email directly. Kind regards Dave Martin Atlas of Living Australia david.martin(a)csiro.au

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