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!! [Expert Workshop on GBIF Data] at [ITCER, Kenya|https://itcer.org/]

arranged by [GBIF Germany|https://www.gbif.org/country/DE/summary] and [SNSB IT Center|http://www.snsb.info/] (in presence: Ng’iya, Siaya County)


''This workshop will expand existing collaboration with [ITCER Kenya|https://itcer.org/] and discuss opportunities for scientific and technical collaborations with professional colleagues from Kenya. 

[GBIF Kenya|https://www.gbif.org/country/KE/summary] and GBIF Germany experts will initiate strategic discussions and develop approaches of data processing, interoperability, and data sharing for GBIF. [GBIF biodiversity data|https://www.gbif.org/] 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:

*[Diversity Workbench Services|https://diversityworkbench.net/Portal/Diversity_Workbench]

*GBIF and national research data infrastructures like [NFDI4Biodiversity|https://www.nfdi4biodiversity.org/en/]



__Contact persons for technical and local event organisation__
*Josphat Matasyoh, Egerton University, ITCER Kenya
*[Gerhard Rambold|mailto:gerhard.rambold@uni-bayreuth.de], University of Bayreuth, ITCER e.V., ITCER Kenya

__Contact persons for other issues__

*[Dagmar Triebel|mailto:triebel@snsb.de], Bavarian Natural History Collections, SNSB IT Center
*[Tanja Weibulat|mailto:weibulat@snsb.de], 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|Attachments/ITCER_Introduction_2022-10-27_fin.pdf] (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|https://museums.or.ke/], [Bavarian Natural History Collections – SNSB|Attachments/Triebel_Kenya_SNSBfin.pdf])

*12.00 [GBIF network and numbers, national nodes and data publishers|Attachments/Triebel_Kenya_GBIFintro-fin.pdf] (D. Triebel)

*12.10 GBIF Node Kenya, activities 

*12.20 [GBIF Node Germany, activities|Attachments/Weibulat_Kenya_GBIF-Germany.pdf] (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|Attachments/Triebel_Kenya_GBIFafrica-workprogramme-fin.pdf]

*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|Attachments/Weibulat_Kenya_SNSB-GBIF-DataPublisher+DWB-BioCASe-Data-Publication-Pipelines.pdf] (T. Weibulat)

*10.30 National Museums of Kenya as GBIF data publisher with herbarium digitisation projects and [East African Herbarium Search|http://eaherbarium.museums.or.ke/] at [Botany department|https://museums.or.ke/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|Attachments/ITCER_Research-Teaching-Data_2022-10-28_fin.pdf] (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|Attachments/Triebel_Kenya_GBIFdataset-classes-papers-fin.pdf], 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"...|Attachments/Triebel_Kenya_GBIFbiodiversityevidence-CESP-fin.pdf]"

*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