The CROMENT Workshop on Biodiversity Data and the GBIF Network is a hands-on, in-person workshop focused on mobilizing biodiversity observation datasets to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The workshop was held in Zagreb, Croatia, on February 19–23, 2024, and was organized for staff of Croatian environmental agencies and partner institutions.

Participants learn how to standardize their data using Darwin Core, clean and transform datasets with OpenRefine and SQLite, and publish them to GBIF through the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT).

The workshop was jointly organized by the Belgian Biodiversity Platform and GBIF Croatia, with support from the GBIF Secretariat.

Instructors: Dimitri Brosens (Belgian Biodiversity Platform) and André Heughebaert (Belgian Biodiversity Platform)

Workshop website: https://dimevil.github.io/bio_mobilization_workshop/

Topics Covered

• Introduction to GBIF, GBIF nodes, and the global biodiversity data network
• FAIR and Open Science principles
• Data management best practices
• Data cleaning with OpenRefine and SQLite
• Darwin Core standard and extensions
• Metadata and EML
• Data validation with the GBIF Validator
• Publishing data via the IPT
• GBIF Registry and GRSciColl
• GBIF opportunities: CESP, BID, mentoring programme
• Biodiversity informatics community (TDWG, Living Atlases, community forum)

This workshop is a small hands-on, interactive virtual workshop focused on mobilizing marine biological observation datasets to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) by helping data providers standardize their data using Darwin Core. This includes species observations from any type of sampling methodologies (e.g. visual surveys, net tows, microscopy, fish trawls, imaging, `omics, acoustics, telemetry).

The workshop will be organized based on the sections described on the schedule. We will spend 5 - 10 minutes presenting each section and then the rest of the time will be spent in breakout rooms working on your data.

Overview

Click on the to be taken the relevant section of this workshop from this overview figure highlighting various resources used for core processes:

Breakout Rooms

The breakout rooms are organized into topics based on the Darwin Core mobilization activity you plan to work on. Below are the breakout rooms and their descriptions: