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GRSciColl how-to videos on YouTube
by Chihjen Ko 14 Mar '24

14 Mar '24

Dear readers, Thank you very much to those who joined our Asia Office Hours to listen to Lily Shrestha's introduction on GRSciColl. We had a great time learning about your questions and considerations. During the hour, we were made aware that Vimeo is not available in Indonesia, and thanks to the support from the GBIF Secretariat, we now have GRSciColl videos on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy6tIKN_kHB_ZUdj1DtQNzIgYGye7QOy0 To put in context, these videos are embedded on these pages: 1. Introduction to GRSciColl: https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/ 2. How to add/edit a GRSciColl entry: https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/how-to Hope this helps our Indonesia friends! Best regards, Chihjen ----------------- Chihjen Ko Asia Regional Support Team www.gbif.org/ ORCiD: 0000-0001-5912-1761 #citetheDOI

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Asia Office Hours - Introduction to GRSciColl
by Lily Shrestha 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Dear GBIF friends, This Thursday during our office hour, we have a presentation entitled "Introduction to GRSciColl-Global Registry of Scientific Collections" by Lily Shrestha. This might be particularly interesting if your institution hosts natural history collections. Please help share this information to whom in which you think would be interested in, and join us at your local time: 16:00 (GMT+9:00) Seoul, Tokyo 15:00 (GMT+8:00) Manila, Taipei, Singapore 14:00 (GMT+7:00) Hanoi, Indochina, Jakarta 12:45 (GMT+5:45) Kathmandu 12:30 (GMT+5:30) New Delhi 12:00 (GMT+5:00) Islamabad And on every Thursday with the meeting link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634 After the presentation, we are open to any questions regarding biodiversity data publication and use. See you online! Best wishes, Lily and the rest of the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team …………………. Lily Shrestha Asia Regional Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Asia Office Hours - Data paper
by Melissa Liu 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Dear GBIF friends, This Thursday we have a presentation "Data paper" by Melissa Liu Please help share this information to whom in which you think would be interested in, and join us at your local time: 16:00 (GMT+9:00) Seoul, Tokyo 15:00 (GMT+8:00) Manila, Taipei, Singapore 14:00 (GMT+7:00) Hanoi, Indochina, Jakarta 12:45 (GMT+5:45) Kathmandu 12:30 (GMT+5:30) New Delhi 12:00 (GMT+5:00) Islamabad And on every Thursday with the meeting link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634 After the presentation, we are open to any questions regarding biodiversity data publication and use. See you online! Best wishes, Melissa and the rest of the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team ----------------- Melissa Liu Asia Regional Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Asia Office Hours - Data Use Club
by Vijay Barve 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hello This Thursday we have a presentation "GBIF Data Use Club" by Vijay Barve Please help share this information to whom in which you think would be interested in, and join us at your local time: 16:00 (GMT+9:00) Seoul, Tokyo 15:00 (GMT+8:00) Manila, Taipei, Singapore 14:00 (GMT+7:00) Hanoi, Indochina, Jakarta 12:45 (GMT+5:45) Kathmandu 12:30 (GMT+5:30) New Delhi 12:00 (GMT+5:00) Islamabad And on every Thursday with the meeting link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634 After the presentation we are open to any questions regarding Biodiversity data publication and use. See you online! Best wishes, Vijay and the rest of the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team ----------------- Vijay Barve Asia Regional Project Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Asia Office Hours - Enchanting flora of Jammu Himalaya
by Vijay Barve 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello This Thursday we have a presentation by Dr Harish Chander Dutt, Assistant Professor, University of Jammu . His talk is titled "Enchanting flora of Jammu Himalaya - My 20 year's association with it". Please help share this information to whom in which you think would be interested in, and join us at your local time: 16:00 (GMT+9:00) Seoul, Tokyo 15:00 (GMT+8:00) Manila, Taipei, Singapore 14:00 (GMT+7:00) Hanoi, Indochina, Jakarta 12:45 (GMT+5:45) Kathmandu 12:30 (GMT+5:30) New Delhi 12:00 (GMT+5:00) Islamabad And on every Thursday with the meeting link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634 After the presentation we are open to any questions regarding Biodiversity data publication and use. See you online! Best wishes, Vijay and the rest of the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team ----------------- Vijay Barve Asia Regional Project Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Asia Office Hours - Lizards in Tajikistan
by Chihjen Ko 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

Dear readers, As our first(ever!) guest presentation from GBIF Europe and Central Asia region, Dr. Komildzhon Saidov kindly offers to share his research on lizards and will present in our next Asia Office Hours. The talk is: 'Distribution, biotopic placement and density of lizard population in the Dashtijum Reserve and adjacent territories (Tajikistan)'. Please help share this information to whom in which you think would be interested in, and join us at your local time: 16:00 GMT+9:00 Seoul, Tokyo 15:00 GMT+8:00 Manila, Taipei, Singapore 14:00 GMT+7:00 Hanoi, Indochina, Jakarta 12:45 GMT+5:45 Kathmandu 12:30 GMT+5:30 New Delhi 12:00 GMT+5:00 Islamabad And on every Thursday with the meeting link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634 See you online! Best wishes, Chihjen and the rest of the GBIF Asia Regional Support Team

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Upcoming Asia Office Hours and topics
by Chihjen Ko 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Dear readers, A belated Happy New Year to all! And we hope that you have had a great start of 2024! As we continue our support to strengthen our community of practice in Asia, we have laid out a series of topics that we would like to introduce and discuss in the coming Asia Office Hours. Some of them include: - Training and learning resources from GBIF - How to take a self-paced Biodiversity Data Mobilization Course - Data Use Club - Occurrences filter on gbif.org - Data paper - GRSciColl intro & workflow - Using GBIF-mediated data - GBIF supported data types and data quality requirements - OpenRefine API feature - OpenRefine other features (eg: faceting, clustering) - Date capture/ formatting - Data management/validation tools - GBIF data validation tools - Data publishing/IPT - Georeferencing using Geopick tool - Republishing dataset into production IPT from datasets published in test IPT - Hosted Portals We won't necessarily run these topics in the order they are presented here, but we will announce the topic of the week here prior to the scheduled Asia Office Hour. So if you are interested to revisit or learn more, be sure to watch announcements on this list (https://bit.ly/gbif-asia-mailing) For each topic we will prepare a short presentation, then together with participants we can discuss, gather feedback, or share more information. This Thursday we will begin by introducing "Training and learning resources from GBIF". Please join us at your local time: 16:00 GMT+9:00 Seoul, Tokyo 15:00 GMT+8:00 Manila, Taipei, Singapore 14:00 GMT+7:00 Hanoi, Indochina, Jakarta 12:45 GMT+5:45 Kathmandu 12:30 GMT+5:30 New Delhi 12:00 GMT+5:00 Islamabad And on every Thursday with the meeting link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634 See you online! Best wishes, Chihjen and the rest of the GBIF Regional Asia Support Team ----------------- Chihjen Ko Asia Regional Support Team www.gbif.org/ ORCiD: 0000-0001-5912-1761 #citetheDOI

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Office hour break
by Asia Support 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Dear friends of GBIF Asia community, We are writing to inform you that we are taking a break for our regular office hours for the next three weeks. We will resume again from 11 January 2023. We hope to see you then. Thank you for your participation. Warm Regards, …………………. Asia Regional Project Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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Cancellation of Asia Office Hour today
by Asia Support 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Dear friends of GBIF Asia community, We are writing to inform you that we will not be able to conduct our regular office hour this week that is today. We have an ongoing Data Mobilization Workshop for Asia 2023 this week. We will see you in the coming week. We would like to thank you for joining in. Warm Regards, …………………. Asia Regional Project Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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[GBIF Asia data mobilization workshop] 2023 Interest survey
by Asia Support 25 May '23

25 May '23

Dear friends of GBIF Asia community, We are writing to inform you that we are planning to organize a GBIF biodiversity data mobilization workshop in Asia 2023. The workshop would include the topics of project management, biodiversity data capture, data management and data publication. This will be based on the biodiversity data mobilization course that is also available online<https://docs.gbif.org/course-data-mobilization/en/index.en.html>. Upon successful completion of the workshop course and assignments, either a basic badge or an advanced badge would be awarded depending upon the performance. Anyone working in biodiversity data and would like to publish for open access would be a suitable participant for the workshop. We are sharing with you a link to the google form. This is just a quick survey to see if there is enough interest among the Asian biodiversity community for the data mobilization workshop. Please kindly share the word and the link with anyone you think would be interested in participating in the workshop and obtaining a badge within your network. Here is the link to the form that will only take two minutes to fill: https://bit.ly/23-asia-dm-interest We are aiming to collect interest by mid June so we would request anyone interested to please submit the form as soon as possible. To get updates on such regional activities and opportunities, please subscribe to our asia mailing list here: https://bit.ly/gbif-asia-mailing. If you have any question, you are welcome to join our office hour<https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634> that runs every Thursday from: 16:00 Tokyo/Seoul (GMT+9) 15:00 Manila/Beijing/Taipei/Singapore (GMT+8) 14:00 Hanoi/Phnom Penh/Jakarta (GMT+7) 12:45 Kathmandu (GMT+5:45) 12:30 Mumbai (GMT+5:30) 12:00 Islamabad (GMT+5:00) Or also please feel free to contact us. With kind regards, …………………. Asia Regional Support Team www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>

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