New article offers historical overview of the organization, the infrastructure, its services and the global community underpinning it
Users can discover occurrence records using DNA or RNA sequences
GBIF launches new website consolidating developments around taxonomic backbone handling, event data exploration, improved search and download, web stack consistency…
Call to submit entries to GBIF’s annual incentive competition with €20,000 in prizes
The call is now open for the GBIF 2026 Graduate Researchers Award.
In sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pacific
Open-access resources will remain available to support global mobilization of vector-borne disease records
Venue: Biological Station Drøbak, Norway, Oslo
Software integration aims to increase use and citation of open data on biodiversity among geospatial platform users
The scientific publication becomes the first of many titles under the Pensoft masthead expected to provide GBIF-enabled data access
A proposal for a Vocabulary Enhancement to the Darwin Core standard, is scheduled for full public review beginning 2025-09-01. Click…
Technical collaboration and capacity building activities to support shared objectives and ensure free and open access to comprehensive information about…
New quick start guide outlines steps for using the Humboldt Extension to upgrade and enrich existing datasets derived from structured…
Call for nominations to the 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award
Guide supports researchers in government, academia and NGOs, and freshwater practitioners to format and publish freshwater data.
Assistant developed by Norwegian engineer Rukaya Johaadien helps transform spreadsheets into standardized GBIF-ready datasets; Planetary Knowledge Base and CoreTech Assistant…
When: December 9-15, 2024 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. UP is one of Africa’s top universities and the…
PhD candidate from the University of Johannesburg investigates the relationship of plant-pollinator interactions and climate change across South Africa
Date: 18 – 21 November 2024 Venue: Kruger National Park, South Africa Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2024
Three-year staff role will focus on writing, social media and general communications support
The call is now open for the GBIF 2024 Graduate Researchers Award previously the Young Researchers Award. The award fosters…
Date: 5th – 8th March 2024
A handy tool to use in the identification of Erica species, are now freely available: Genus Erica: An Identification Aid…
Deadline for receiving nominations from GBIF member countries for graduate students whose innovative research relies on biodiversity data: 24 June…
Galician PhD candidate—and second winner nominated by Portugal—offers integrated view of the dynamics behind the vertebrate genetic diversity and biogeography…
Master’s student at Makarere University becomes Uganda’s first recipient—and the second in Africa—to earn selection for improving knowledge and understanding…
DEADLINE for community feedback: Friday, 22 December 2023
Deadline for community input and feedback: Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Now available for review and testing, version 3 of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit accommodates more formats and richer data while…
New task group to address data challenges revealed by IPBES assessment, national needs for tracking progress toward reducing impacts of…
GBIF continues partnership with FinBIF and Pensoft to support publication of new datasets about organisms whose life cycles depend on…
Two 4-month MSc student internships (1 February - 31 May 2024) at the Natural History Museum, Univ. of Oslo, in…
Experimental tool is supporting collaborative research on phylogenetics by enabling data access, review, comparison and downloads that reveal evolutionary relationships…
Venue: The Iziko South African Museums, Cape Town, South Africa
Call for Applications for SANBI-GBIF Training in Analytical Techniques in Biodiversity Big Data using GBIF-Making an Impact
SANBI-GBIF requires a service provider to support a review of biodiversity data use, citations and impact
The call is now open for the GBIF 2023 Graduate Researchers Award (previously the Young Researchers Award). The award fosters…
Biodiversity Informatics: Data demonstrating Use and Impact
2023 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity
The SANBI-GBIF Team embarked on a two-day journey to Spain in December 2022 to participate in an exciting new project…
Call for nominations to the 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award
“Showing, showcasing and supporting data use across the GBIF network”
Engagements with biodiversity programmers and funders, were conducted at the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, in June. The South Africa…
SANBI-GBIF Hosts Successful Data Management and Cleaning Training Event
Programme Officers for Science Support
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is currently advertising the 2022 GBIF Young Researchers Award in biodiversity informatics. The call is…
SANBI-GBIF is providing an opportunity for training in Data Management and Cleaning supporting stakeholders to access data and follow quality…
National Process developed to support biodiversity informatics skills and capacity development The Establishment of the SANBI-GBIF Young Researchers Award Advisory…
An exciting joint project entitled “BioDATA Advanced - Accelerating biodiversity research through DNA barcodes, collection and observation data” was submitted…