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
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Chihjen Ko
Asia Regional Support Team
www.gbif.org/
ORCiD: 0000-0001-5912-1761
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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/>
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/>
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/>
Hello
At 16:00 GMT+9 ( 15:00 Taipei, 14:00 Jakarta, 12:30 India) on every Thursday, we Asia Regional Support Team will have an "Office Hour" to answer your questions and share knowledge about GBIF and Biodiversity Informatics, LIVE at https://ufl.zoom.us/j/94020649634
Office Hour, you have a way to participate in and:
1) have your questions answered;
2) learn about what questions other Asian colleagues may have;
3) Or, just get to know more about GBIF data mobilization and use.
This is a casual meet-up for all of us. Lily, Melissa, Chihjen and Vijay are here every Thursday. Don't be shy and you're welcome even to just drop in to say "Hi!".
Please do share the meeting link to team members. We look forward to seeing you !
Best regards,
Asia Regional Project Support Team
www.gbif.org/<http://www.gbif.org/>
Dear friends of GBIF Asia community,
We are writing to inform you that we will not be conducting our regular office hour this week that is tomorrow. We have an ongoing Data Use Workshop in Asia that is conflicting with the Asia Office Hour time.
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/>
