Biodiversity_Next

Biodiversity_Next is a joint conference by The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), a new pan-European Research Infrastructure initiative (DiSSCo),  the national resource for digitized information about vouchered natural history collections (iDigBio), Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Biodiversity_Next is a conference that brings together, for the first time at this scale, major international organisations, research scientists, and policy makers to jointly identify socio-technical bottlenecks and horizon-scan opportunities around data-intensive biodiversity and geodiversity research.   During the conference, the LifeWatch INBO team is (co-)organizing the following symposium and workshop: ST69 Machine Observations Interest Group: A first dive into Darwin Core for exchanging biologging data (symposium organized during the conference) WT18 Using the checklist recipe to standardize data to Darwin Core using R (pre-conference workshop)   The LifeWatch VLIZ team will be present with the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone.   More information can be found on the link below.