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Expert Workshop on GBIF Data Publication in Africa with focus on Data Papers at ITCER, Kenya#

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)

Start of Hybrid Session (Zoom) at 10.00

• 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

End of Hybrid Session (Zoom) at 12.00

• 12.00 EAT Lunch Break