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by Olebogeng Suwe 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Received with thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Bid-community [mailto:bid-community-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of bid-community-request(a)lists.gbif.org Sent: 12 January 2017 01:00 PM To: bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org Subject: Bid-community Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1 Send Bid-community mailing list submissions to bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/bid-community or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to bid-community-request(a)lists.gbif.org You can reach the person managing the list at bid-community-owner(a)lists.gbif.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bid-community digest..." Today's Topics: 1. JRS Biodiversity Foundation calls for proposals for freshwater and pollinator biodiversity informatics for Africa (Aisha Lolila Jensen) 2. Re: JRS Biodiversity Foundation calls for proposals for freshwater and pollinator biodiversity informatics for Africa (Gilbert Muvunankiko) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:51:49 +0000 From: Aisha Lolila Jensen <aljensen(a)gbif.org> To: "bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org" <bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org> Subject: [Bid-community] JRS Biodiversity Foundation calls for proposals for freshwater and pollinator biodiversity informatics for Africa Message-ID: <DB5PR0901MB13514758AB633B1F40CCC0C0B0660(a)DB5PR0901MB1351.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear everyone, I am Aisha, new temporary Programme Officer for Participation and Engagement (PO) at GBIF Secretariat as from 1st January 2017. As part of the Participation and Engagement team at the Secretariat, my role will involve providing support to the GBIF Participant Nodes, and other participants/communities involved. I very much look forward to working together. >From the Secretariat we would like to share with you the information that JRS Biodiversity Foundation is presently issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for multi-year projects focused upon biodiversity data, knowledge and information services related to freshwater biodiversity and pollinator biodiversity in eastern and southern Africa. The scope, timeline, forms, and online application portal are now posted on the JRS Website. For more information: http://jrsbiodiversity.org/how-to-apply/current-opportunities/2017rfp/, and if interested you can contact jrsrfp2017(a)jrsbiodiversity.org<mailto:jrsrfp2017@jrsbiodiversity.org> with any questions. Applications are due by end of day February 22, 2017. Best regards, Aisha Lolila Jensen Programme Officer for Participation and Engagement GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 2100 Copenhagen Denmark E-mail: aljensen(a)gbif.org<mailto:aljensen@gbif.org> www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Deadline approaching: iDigBio symposium, Advances in Digitization Worldwide, SPHNC 2017
by Kyle Copas 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

All, Just a quick note to alert you that iDigBio is hosting two symposia at next year's SPNHC (Society for Preservation of Natural History Collection) meeting in Denver (https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-call-abstracts). One of the symposia is titled "Advances in Digitization Worldwide", and iDigBio would be pleased to see the BID community to engage with SPNHC and submit abstracts for consideration for this or other symposia. There are a number of travel grants available (http://www.spnhc2017denver.org/travel-grants/), but note: the deadline for both travel grants and abstracts is January 13, 2017. You can learn more about the SPNHC conference here: http://www.spnhc2017denver.org Please review the opportunity-best of luck to those of you who choose to apply! All best, Kyle ===== Kyle Copas +45 35 32 14 75 | mobile +45 28 75 14 75 | Skype kylecopas GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Details of side event at UN Biodiversity Conference
by Tim Hirsch 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Dear all I wanted to let you know that the BID programme generated great interest at the side event we organised on Tuesday at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancún, Mexico. It was well attended with a range of policy makers, experts and various international networks. There was real appreciation and excitement at the projects which I described in some detail, showing both the essential role being played by the support from around the GBIF community and examples of tangible results already evident including new data publishers registered in GBIF, new datasets online and new countries engaged in the network. You can see details of the event, including the presentations, at this page http://www.gbif.org/event/82947. Feel free to re-use any slides from my presentation in your own materials. Kind regards Tim Tim Hirsch Deputy Director Head of Participation and Engagement Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark +45 2875 1485 (mobile) +45 3532 1476 (office, direct line) www.GBIF.org<www.gbif.org> Skype: lukehirsch

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Did you knowŠyou can link datasets and project pages using projectID?
by Kyle Copas 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Dear BID colleagues, As many of you are starting to publish BID-related datasets, we’ve taken the opportunity to add a page to the BID grantees website and align it with the programme’s specific data quality requirements: http://bid.gbif.org/en/community/data-quality We encourage you to attend to the details—they’re all genuinely important for ensuring the quality of your data—but for today, we’d like to call your attention to one required field in the metadata: projectID. This field is intended to provide a unique identifier for any project from which a dataset is derived. By entering your BID project number (e.g. BID-AF2015-00..) as its value, you can automatically link your datasets to your BID project page on GBIF.org. Help us share your work—please use your BID project number in the metadata’s projectID field! Best regards, Kyle Copas ===== Kyle Copas Communications Manager +45 35 32 14 75 | mobile +45 28 75 14 75 | Skype kylecopas GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark http://www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Side event at CBD COP13 meeting in Cancún
by Tim Hirsch 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Dear colleagues I wanted to pass on details of a side event we will be co-hosting at the upcoming meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP13) being held in Cancún, Mexico from 5-17 December. The event, entitled 'Mobilizing biodiversity data for decision making in Africa: progress and challenges' will be held at 13.15 on Tuesday, 6th December (see flyer attached) and is hosted jointly by GBIF Secretariat, the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). It will be an opportunity to showcase the BID projects currently under way in Africa as well as highlighting the further opportunity presented by the second BID Africa call scheduled for launch in February 2017. In case you are aware of any representatives from your institutions or partners in your country attending the COP event, I would be very grateful if you could pass on details of this event as they would be most welcome to attend. We will also make the presentations available to these lists after the event. Apologies for any cross posting. Kind regards Tim Tim Hirsch Deputy Director Head of Participation and Engagement Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark +45 2875 1485 (mobile) +45 3532 1476 (office, direct line) www.GBIF.org<www.gbif.org> Skype: lukehirsch

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[Bid-community] BID_CE_Workshop_1_USE_CASE_1_Exercise_sheet_ONLINE_Joseph_Tuyishimire
by Joseph TUYISHIMIRE 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Chers Participants BID_CE_Workshop, Je suis heureux de vous faire savoir que j'ai téléchargé la pratique. Vous pouvez y accéder via https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0_Z0HHH7Mw8ZlpTUzlMVnJQWFU J'ai pu identifié deux défis principaux: - Beaucoup de travail réservé à l'équipe Web -Manque du personnel Géographe, Documentaliste et Helpdesk malgré leurs rôles quotodiens dans le projet. Joseph TUYISHIMIRE Specialist in Geo-Information and Earth Observation/Natural Resources Management Center for Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (CGIS) College of Science and Technology (CST) University of Rwanda University Avenue P.O.Box 212 Huye Rwanda E-mails: j.tuyishimire(a)ur.ac.rw <jtuyishimire(a)nur.ac.rw> tuyishimirejoseph(a)gmail.com Skype: tuyishimire.joseph

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Quick guide to hosting data from BID projects
by Siro Masinde 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

Dear BID grantees, I am pleased to let you know that we have just published a 'quick guide' to data hosting targeted at grant recipients of the BID programme: http://bid.gbif.org/en/community/data-hosting We would also like to take this opportunity to thank BID mentors that provided feedback on the early draft of the guide. Best regards, Siro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Siro Masinde Programme Officer for Content Mobilisation Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Email: smasinde(a)gbif.org Skype: siro.masinde Tel: +45 3532 1477 Mob: +45 30450207 Fax: +45 2875 1480 Website: www.gbif.org<http://www.gbif.org/> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Bid-community] Bid-community Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1
by Moediwakitso 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hello Boikutso from Botswana and others on the list. I am writing from Maun, Botswana where we are working on a small GBIF BID project to rescue hunting records and data from the Botswana Wildlife Management Association. The main work is taking place at the University of Botswana's Okavango Research Institute, with the library as the repository for the materials, and data entered into the GBIF's databases. I am the PI for the project, working with my colleagues Olebogeng Suwe, Anastacia Makati, Mosepele Boiditswe, Mogae Makonyela, Ben Thupe, Dr Lucas Rutina, Keta Mosepele, Gosego Moreri, Masego Dhliwayo, Wame Mpinang, and Debbie Peake. We are looking forward to learning more about biodiversity data management with all of you. Monica Morrison -----Original Message----- From: Bid-community [mailto:bid-community-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of bid-community-request(a)lists.gbif.org Sent: 06 October 2016 12:00 PM To: bid-community(a)lists.gbif.orgD Subject: Bid-community Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1 Send Bid-community mailing list submissions to bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/bid-community or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to bid-community-request(a)lists.gbif.org You can reach the person managing the list at bid-community-owner(a)lists.gbif.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bid-community digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Self introduction (RANAIVO Jaona) 2. greetings from Botswana (Boikhutso Lerato Rapalai) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:38:30 +0000 (UTC) From: RANAIVO Jaona <ranaivo_jaona(a)yahoo.fr> To: "bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org" <bid-community(a)lists.gbif.org> Subject: [Bid-community] Self introduction Message-ID: <1574620442.5124704.1475681910055(a)mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi everybody,My name is Jaona RANAIVO, I have been working at the Centre national de Recherches sur l'Environnement and I live in Antananarivo as a botanist. Madagascar have been member to GBIF since 2003 and I am the current node manager. Madagascar is part of the regional BID project entitled? ?Capacity building and biodiversity data mobilization for conservation, sustainable use, and decision making in Africa and Mdagascar? led by Pr. Ganglo. I am confident at I will learn a lot from this program.Regards?? Jaona

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greetings from Botswana
by Boikhutso Lerato Rapalai 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hello everyone, My name is Boikhutso and i am a representative from Botswana on the African Insect Atlas project. The project is on digitising and mobilising data on insect specimens. With our portion in the Botswana National Museum, we had just kicked off with data entry on MS Excel, of which we believe will gain momentum and go at a faster pace. I hope all is well with everyone's project and i do hope we will have a wonderful and beneficial experience interacting in this forum.... Yours in Christ, Boikhutso Lerato Rapalai Natural History Division Botswana National Museum Private Bag 00114 Gaborone Tel: +2673973860 Fax: 3911186

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Self introduction
by RANAIVO Jaona 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Hi everybody,My name is Jaona RANAIVO, I have been working at the Centre national de Recherches sur l'Environnement and I live in Antananarivo as a botanist. Madagascar have been member to GBIF since 2003 and I am the current node manager. Madagascar is part of the regional BID project entitled “Capacity building and biodiversity data mobilization for conservation, sustainable use, and decision making in Africa and Mdagascar” led by Pr. Ganglo. I am confident at I will learn a lot from this program.Regards Jaona

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