Expert Workshop on GBIF Data Publication in Africa with focus on Data Papers at ITCER, Kenya
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arranged by GBIF Germany and SNSB IT Center (in presence: Ng’iya, Siaya County)
October 17th to October 18th, 2024
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is by far the largest international platform for biodiversity data. It is an intergovernmental initiative whose formal members – known as 'Participants' – consist of countries, economies and international organizations (see here). Based on this, the Expert Workshop at ITCER, Kenya is addressing various szenarios and existing IT developments for GBIF data publication in Africa.
The workshop is on occurrence data and co-occurrence data with images. It will be done with the ITCER Photomonitoring resources of macroorganisms occurring on site and their interactions organised in WordPress photo galleries (see ITCER Resources with images). The event will bring together potential providers of occurrence data in Kenya, young educated environmental scientists and volunteer taxonomists, nature conservation professionals from Siaya County and data scientists from SNSB IT Center, Botanische Staatssammlung Munich and GBIF Germany.
The participants will discuss established data pipelines in the GBIF/ NFDI context and their usability for ITCER data release. The outcome of the workshop will include a concept for GBIF data publication by establishing ITCER as an endorsed data publishing organisation. The publication of a first GBIF data paper (via Pensoft data pipelines) with ITCER Site — Macrobiome Expert Taxonomists for species identification involved as co-authors is another goal envisaged for the next year. The 2-day workshop is part of planned future research activities with organisations in Africa and Europe on biodiversity data mobilisation in tropical Africa.
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 person for the thematic focus ITCER Macrobiome co-occurrence data and images
- Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, ITCER e.V., ITCER Kenya
Contact persons for GBIF and SNSB DWB data pipelines
- Dagmar Triebel, SNSB IT Center, GBIF Germany Node Manager, NFDI4Biodiversity
- Tanja Weibulat, SNSB IT Center, GBIF Germany Node Staff, NFDI4Biodiversity
Registration for Hybrid Session (Zoom)
- send email to Tanja Weibulat
- max. 15 persons
Invitees and participants#
- Maximus T. Anochirim (remote) (Universität Greifswald, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ Leipzig, Germany)
- Josphat Matasyoh (ITCER Kenya, Egerton University, Kenya)
- Brenda Moraa (Egerton University, Postdoc, Kenya)
- Brian Ochieng (BSc, IT student, Kenya)
- Gerhard Rambold (ITCER Kenya)
- Dagmar Triebel (SNSB IT Center, Germany)
- Camila Uribe-Holguin (remote) (SNSB, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
- Tanja Weibulat (SNSB IT Center, Germany)
Agenda#
(East African Time)
October, 17th 2024
- 09.00 EAT Arrival at ITCER (Participants)
- 10.00 EAT Welcome and Introduction to ITCER
(Gerhard Rambold)
- 10.15 EAT GBIF Africa Network and GBIF Kenya Node - Status quo (Dagmar Triebel, on behalf of GBIF Node Kenya team)
- 10.30 EAT ITCER tools and dataflows: Macrobiome occurrence data and images; ITCER tools for GBIF compliant preprocessing of data and images; ITCER taxon identification and taxon expert) (G. R.)
- 11.15 ITCER in GBIF: To become a publisher of occurrence data (D. T., as representative of GBIF Node Germany)
- 11.30 EAT GBIF data papers: Getting scholarly recognition for your GBIF datasets with use case (Tanja Weibulat, Jasmin Firozpoor)
- 11.45 EAT Discussion
- 12.00 EAT Lunch Break
- 13.30 EAT ITCER terms and data policy, concerning data ownership, licences for GBIF on the level of dataset, data record and multimedia, discussion
- 13.45 EAT ITCER terms and data policy, "observed by", "identified by", "curated by" etc. - roles of persons relevant for GBIF occurrence data and GBIF data papers, discussion
- 14.00 EAT Endorsement of ITCER as GBIF data publisher: Administrative and governance recommendations, discussion
- 14.30 EAT Endorsement of ITCER as GBIF data publisher: Technical recommendations, dataset hosting and multimedia, discussion
- 15.00 EAT Summarizing (G. R.)
- 15.30 EAT End of day
- 18.30 EAT Dinner
October, 18th 2024 (for GBIF expert team only)
- 10.00 EAT Welcome at ITCER (Gerhard Rambold)
- 10.15 EAT Start of team work in one or two small groups
- Designing two chart diagrams on data- and workflows (using draw.io)
- for agreed standard data- and workflow on GBIF data publication of ITCER macrobiome occurrence data (with more than one image per observation/ observed organism, but without indication of co-occurrence relationship and without multiple observations of a single organism at different times)
- for the data- and workflow resulting in a GBIF-guided journal publication of a data paper (with use case ITCER macrobiome occurrence data of one species group with several authors)
- 12.00 EAT Lunch Break
- 13.30 EAT Problems identified, challenges and solutions (moderated discussion)
- 15.00 EAT End of the Day
References#
Weibulat, T. M. & Triebel, D. 2024. Continuation of partnership Germany-Kenya with two workshops in 2023. GBIF Europe and Central Asia Nodes meeting 2024 (GBIF ECA 2024), Zagreb, Croatia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12082639
ITCER Event Website: https://itcer.org/event/seminar-workshop-expert-workshop-on-gbif-data-publication-in-africa-2
2023-10-11 to 2023-10-12 Expert Workshop on GBIF Data Publication in Africa at ITCER, Kenya, arranged by GBIF Germany and SNSB IT Center
2022-10-27 to 2022-10-28 Expert Workshop on GBIF Data at ITCER, Kenya, arranged by GBIF Germany and SNSB IT Center
Relevant GBIF Resources#
GBIF overview: PowerPoint slides
GBIF Kenya Activity Report 2023
GBIF Data Publisher Endorsement Guidelines (with involvement of the GBIF Node Kenya)
Become a GBIF Data Publisher (to be accepted by ITCER, endorsed by the GBIF Node Kenya)
Data Hosting Centres (to be accepted by ITCER and SNSB - BioCASe/ ABCD?; several alternatives)
Agreement on GBIF Hosted Repository Service (Repository Owner SNSB)
- example for class occurrence data
- example for class checklist data, see data quality requirements
- example for class sampling event data
- example for class occurrence data
Blog on GBIF Occurrence License Processing
Blog on Sharing images, sounds and videos on GBIF
- Data publisher SNSB hosting the data publisher "V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russia" with 1 occurrence dataset without images: here
- GBIF Data publisher Nature Museums of Kenya hosting the data publisher "Strathmore University" with 3 datasets without images: here
GBIF Data papers with more than 550 papers now
- example 1 for occurrence data in Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ): https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/119539/
- example 2 for occurrence data in BDJ: https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/119539/
- example 1 for occurrence data in Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ): https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/119539/
GBIF Data papers calls "Bringing data to light"
