🦋 The Swiss Node of GBIF (GBIF.ch) and #SwissNatColl has transformed access to Switzerland’s natural history collections by launching a national data aggregator that improves the discoverability, standardization and reusability of specimen data delivering:
🦀 Direct integration with #GRSciColl
💻 40+ institutions and 400+ collections registered
🤯 1,700,000+ new records published to GBIF
🌍 Improved biodiversity outcomes for Switzerland!
📣Calling all biodiversity data holders in #Asia!
The next virtual data mobilization workshop for Asia has been announced for December 2025!
🌏Join the GBIF Asia Support Team for a workshop based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum, covering project management, data capture, management and publication, with a focus on GBIF's tools and data infrastructure along with an introduction to #GRSciColl
Only 30 spaces! Applications close 1 Nov
Learn more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/Asia-workshop
🦋 Instead of your #Collection records collecting dust, 💨 learn how to make your data findable through #GrSciColl!
The Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) is a registry service managed by GBIF that contains information on physical scientific collections (content, location and contacts). 📍🌏
In our recent #GBIFDataBlog post, 📖 learn how to upload collection descriptors (metadata about a collection) which are indexed and searchable. 🔎
This blog post is a tutorial on how to upload collection descriptors in the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl). If you are someone working with a physical collection or work with people who do, you might be interested in making these collections findable. Ideally, the content of these collections would be digitized and made available online on relevant platforms like GBIF.org, iDigBio.org, ALA.org.au, etc. Sharing digital specimen records is a great way to ensure the discoverability of collection content.
Looking for a sign to support equitable, collaborative and efficient plant 🌼 and fungi 🍄 collecting standards? Here's one! 👇
Last week GBIF Director Joe Miller was a signatory of the 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting led by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
851 signatories across 85 countries signed the Declaration, agreeing to 5 commitments for cataloguing the world's flora and fungi. 🌏 🔗 https://buff.ly/4fk76cS
See records on #GrSciColl:🔗 https://buff.ly/4e6IFP5
📣 Join the next #GRSciColl Community Call to discuss the implementation of the roadmap and the latest developments of the Global Registry of Scientific Collections.
📅 22 August 2024
🔗 Register here: https://gbif.link/GnD44
📸 Tine Kinn Kvamme - CC BY 4.0
📢 Únete a la comunidad de #GRSciColl y contribuye con tu experiencia! Ayuda a mejorar la calidad y cobertura de los datos, añade nuevas traducciones y mantente al día sobre oportunidades de colaboración relacionadas con colecciones científicas.
#GBIF! #Colecciones
¡Atención comunidad de la biodiversidad hispanohablante! #GRSciColl –el registro global de colecciones científicas–ahora está disponible en español. Únete a esta iniciativa que promueve la colaboración y el intercambio de conocimientos relacionados con especímenes biológicos del mundo. 🌍 #GBIF
@Carl_Zimmer @nytimes thanks for detailing our collaboration to connect the world's scientific collections. More to come, given the "intention to work with GBIF to make our data available to all natural history museums by integrating it with the Global Registry of Scientific Collections."
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf6434
In case it's new to anyone, #GRSciColl has a long history as a community-curated clearing house of information on scientific collections. The more the merrier!
https://gbif.org/grscicoll
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