Dear all,
It was great to connect
with many of you yesterday. Here is a summary of what was
discussed:
- Update on Aligning GBIF.org and Hosted
Portals (shared by Morten)
- Why:
GBIF.org is aging software
(~9yrs old) and there is an increasing maintenance burden.
We are aligning the GBIF.org software around the hosted
portal stack. We are aiming for consistency in data
exploration between GBIF.org and HPs. In future, features
can be brought to both GBIF.org and the HPs at the same
time. We hope for faster development as a result of having
fewer codebases.
- Impact: We
plan to update the staging environments in early 2025.
Morten will inform each hosted portal team as we approach
this stage. Some pages will look a bit different, but
familiar. The configuration format (JSON) and some HTML
elements will change, and Morten will handle these
updates. Custom styles may need slight adjustments.
- Next steps:
Once the staging updates are ready, Morten will announce
this by email and arrange the next community call. Your
feedback for improvements will be encouraged.
- Note for Living Norway and Vermont Portals: There may be some specific challenges;
Morten will contact you directly.
- Hosted Portals Communication Campaign (from
Kyle)
- Plan: Once
the GBIF communications team has reviewed its proposals
within the Secretariat, they will work with site owners on
weekly features that promote individual hosted portals
(and, more generally, the hosted portal programme) through
via its social media and news channels.
- How you can help: Comms staff will be in touch in the coming
weeks to secure or confirm key details (site name,
institutional host, social media handles, etc.). If there
are specific dates for which it would be helpful to have
your hosted portal in the spotlight, please do reach out
to
kcopas@gbif.org or
communication@gbif.org to let us know. Also, if you
have any events coming up during which you could help
presenting GBIF’s hosted portal programme, we would be
happy to support you with materials (slides, printed
materials, etc.).
- Automated mailing of news item updates on
hosted portals (from Carole)
- Carole Sinou (legumes portal) is exploring
automatic mailing of news updates to users. If you have
experience with this, please reach out to Carole.
- Next community call
- Future meetings will have a registration link
so you can easily add them to your calendar. Our next call
is planned for early 2025.
Thanks again for a nice
meeting.
Best
Melianie
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Dr. Mélianie Raymond
Community and Capacity Manager
GBIF Secretariat
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel.: +45 35 32 14 96
E-mail: mraymond@gbif.org
www.gbif.org