Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference

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Reporter: ahahn
Assignee: donald hobern
Type: Epic
Summary: Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference
Priority: Major
Status: ToDo
Created: 2013-11-27 17:58:08.261
Updated: 2014-03-18 15:47:24.031
DueDate: 2014-07-07 00:00:00.0
        
Description: This work programme introduces (...) a biennial Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, to support interactions between GBIF's many stakeholders. This will be an umbrella for biodiversity informatics organizations to meet and plan future developments. The plan includes budget to support an organizing committee and to host GBIC 2 in Copenhagen in 2014. Additional funds will be raised to provide assistance with travel funding. The conference is planned to include a technical meeting of GBIF Nodes, with a focus on review and planning around the Nodes Portal Toolkit and existing software developments around the GBIF network. It will also provide a forum for meetings of the Working Groups presented in Activity Stream 3 and for other technical and thematic discussions.

*Rationale*
GBIF has been a catalyst for international collaboration around biodiversity informatics. However, there have been few opportunities for its diverse stakeholders, including biodiversity informatics partners, software developers, node managers and interested biologists to come together and share ideas and plans for mobilizing data and delivering informatics solutions. The recent Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC), held in Copenhagen in July 2012 proved to be a valuable and cost-effective opportunity for some of these interactions.

*Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference: milestone Jul 2014*

*Required components*

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