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New calls for proposals planned in 2020 for sub-Saharan Africa, wider Caribbean and Pacific
by Kyle Copas 29 May '20

29 May '20

Dear BID colleagues, GBIF has just announced this morning that, thanks to additional funding from the European Union, we will extend the Biodiversity Information for Development or BID programme to 2023, with new calls for proposals currently planned for June and September 2020. The upcoming calls will again target the mobilization and use of data for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa, wider Caribbean and the Pacific, this time in four grant categories: * Regional biodiversity data mobilization grants * National biodiversity data mobilization grants * Institution-level biodiversity data mobilization grants * Data-use grants To learn more detailed information about the grant categories, eligible countries and other specifics for the planned calls for proposals, read the pre-announcement in * English: https://www.gbif.org/news/2CWAyHikixiCKf7tjm5J28/ * Español: https://www.gbif.org/es/news/2CWAyHikixiCKf7tjm5J28/ * Français: https://www.gbif.org/fr/news/2CWAyHikixiCKf7tjm5J28/ * Portugeûs: https://www.gbif.org/pt/news/2CWAyHikixiCKf7tjm5J28/ If you are subscribed to the BID regional mailing lists, you’ll have already received the announcement via email. If not, to ensure that you receive the relevant call for proposals, sign up to your preferred mailing list here: https://eepurl.com/du73YP All best, Kyle ===== Kyle Copas Communications Manager ORCID: 0000-0002-6590-599X<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X> GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark +45 35 32 14 75 | mobile +45 28 75 14 75 | Skype kylecopas https://www.gbif.org

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Darwin Core Hour + 2BBQs: Imagining a global gazetteer of georeferences
by Paula Zermoglio 07 May '20

07 May '20

A new *Darwin Core (DwC) Hour + 2BBQs!* are almost here: *Imagining a global gazetteer of georeferences* [image: Promotion_v2.jpg] This Darwin Core Hour will consist of a 1hs Webinar and two 2hs BBQ sessions. Please see Webinar and BBQs Details and Meeting Links at https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-2-bbqs-imagining-global-ga… *Abstract:* We want our georeferencing to be just right: complete, as accurate as possible, and usable for research. However, it takes a great effort and resources to do so, right? Although the majority of the records shared online are not georeferenced, we have invested a huge, collective effort already; there ARE a lot of georeferenced locations already published. In GBIF, for example, there are >54M unique location strings that are georeferenced, affecting >530M occurrence records. We know that many collection/observation sites tend to be repeated across institutions and even taxa. Could we take advantage of all the effort already invested by the community? Could we use those georeferences to complete records that do not have them? The answer is: (probably) yes, and it would be awesome! In this Darwin Core Hour and BBQ we will present and discuss the idea of building a global gazetteer of georeferenced localities for everyone to use. When: 1. *Darwin Core Hour Time (~1 Hour **13:00 to 14:00 UTC)*: 9:00 AM EDT, 10:00 AM ART, 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 13:00 GMT Click for your local time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200504T1300> . 2. *Darwin Core Hour BBQ 1* (Monday 4 May 2020, 14:00 to 16:00 UTC) 3. *Darwin Core Hour BBQ 2* (Thursday 7 May 2020, 20:00-22:00 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200507T2000>) 4:00 PM EDT, 5:00 PM ART, 9:00 PM BST, 10:00 PM CEST, 20:00 GMT EXTRAS: - Explore the Darwin Core Questions & Answers wiki: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki - See which of your questions have been asked and answered so far: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/issues - Submit your question / volunteer (yourself or someone) to do a webinar on a darwin core topic: https://tinyurl.com/zja2muz Happy Darwin Core and Data Quality, and hope to see you soon! Paula Zermoglio, et al. from the Darwin Core Hour Team (please kindly excuse cross-postings!)

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