Expert Workshop on GBIF Data at ITCER, Kenya
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arranged by GBIF Germany and SNSB IT Center (in presence: Ng’iya, Siaya County)
This workshop will expand existing collaboration with ITCER Kenya and discuss opportunities for scientific and technical collaborations with professional colleagues from Kenya.
GBIF Kenya and GBIF Germany experts will initiate strategic discussions and develop approaches of data processing, interoperability, and data sharing for GBIF. GBIF biodiversity data are free and open for access at various scales. They are appropriate for various requirements in the academic and non-academic sectors. The future relevance for university research as well as for the business sector is underlined by use cases from Kenya.
Topics for discussion:
- GBIF in Africa, GBIF open science and data licensing, work programme and priorities
- GBIF distributed infrastructure for publishing biodiversity data: IPT, Darwin Core, ABCD, technical interoperability
- Regional data capture and data mobilization at ITCER Training Centre
- GBIF data model, GBIF dataset classes, data publishing and data papers, datasets from universities, agencies and business sector
Further topics:
- GBIF and national research data infrastructures like NFDI4Biodiversity
Contact persons for technical and local event organisation
- Josphat Matasyoh, Egerton University, ITCER Kenya
- Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, ITCER e.V., ITCER Kenya
Contact persons for other issues
- Dagmar Triebel, Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center
- Tanja Weibulat, Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center
Agenda#
October, 27th 2022
- 10.00 Welcome and greetings at ITCER
- 10.15 Introduction to ITCER and location
(G. Rambold)
- 11.00 Introduction of participating organisations (5–10 min each; County Government of Siaya, Nature Kenya – the East Africa Natural History Society, Siaya, National Museums of Kenya, Bavarian Natural History Collections – SNSB)
- 12.00 GBIF network and numbers, national nodes and data publishers (D. Triebel)
- 12.10 GBIF Node Kenya, activities
- 12.20 GBIF Node Germany, activities (T. Weibulat)
- 12.30 Lunch Break
- 14.00 Discussion board (with 3 min introduction): GBIF in Africa, GBIF open science and data licensing, work programme and priorities
- 15.00 End of day 1
- 18.30 Dinner
October, 28th 2022
- 10.00 SNSB as GBIF data publisher with DWB-BioCASe data publication pipelines (T. Weibulat)
- 10.30 National Museums of Kenya as GBIF data publisher with herbarium digitisation projects and East African Herbarium Search at Botany department, data publication pipelines (G. Mwachala, L. Monda)
- 11.00 Discussion board: GBIF distributed infrastructure for publishing biodiversity data: IPT, Darwin Core, ABCD, technical interoperability
- 11.30 ITCER research, teaching and data (G. Rambold)
- 12.30 Lunch break
- 14.00 Discussion board: Regional data capture and data mobilization at ITCER Training Centre
- 14.30 Discussion board (with 3 min introduction): GBIF data model, GBIF dataset classes, data publishing and data papers, datasets from universities, agencies and business sector for ecological and environmental analyses
- 15.00 General discussion (with 3 min introduction): Biodiversity evidence and "how to proceed"..."
- 15.30 Results of the meeting
- 16.00 End of day 2
- 18.30 Dinner
Participants #
- Dr. Geoffrey Mwachala, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi
- Mr. Lawrence Monda, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi
- Ms. Esther Wangui Mwangi, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi
- Mr. Gabriel Oduong, County Government of Siaya
- Mr. George Omondi, County Government of Siaya
- Ms. Rebecca Nandi, County Government of Siaya
- Dr. Dagmar Triebel, Natural History Collections of Bavaria, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany
- Ms. Tanja Weibulat, Natural History Collections of Bavaria, SNSB IT Center, Munich, Germany
- Ms. Esther Akinia Ouma, Nature Kenya – Siaya, Yala Swamp Programme
- Mr. Moses Nyawasa, Nature Kenya – Siaya, Yala Swamp Programme
- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, Germany and ITCER Kenya, Siaya
