In the aftermath of the Empowering Biodiversity Research Conference, the Belgian Biodiversity Platform (BBPf), the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) organized a LifeWatch Data Cleaning and Data Publication Workshop. Participants were trained in the use of OpenRefine to clean data as well as the IPT to standardize and publish biodiversity data and metadata to the GBIF network.