Workshop Day on open/FAIR Natural History Data
- GLAM
- Hackathon
20 September 2022, 09:15–17:00 @ Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern
33 curators, data managers and users of natural history collections met at the Natural History Museum of Bern on 20 September 2022 to take stock of data management and digitisation in Swiss collections and to place them in the emerging ecosystem of open biodiversity data. After short talks by SwissCollNet, NMBE, the Swiss data centre for nature and landscape, GBIF, Plazi and National Museums Scotland, they worked in six workshops.
The day was the pre-event of GLAMhack 2022 in Mendrisio, where the United Herbaria Z+ZT brought two challenges.
Documentation and recordings
- Folien der Referate (Google Drive)
- Programm im Opendata.ch-Wiki
- Hauptanlass: GLAMhack 2022 in Mendrisio
Challenges
- historicalMAP
Interaktive Karten, die Veränderungen der Artverbreitung über die Zeit sichtbar machen.
Challenge description
Ein Plugin, das die Verbreitung überwiegend historischer Beobachtungen aus naturhistorischen Sammlungen mit den überwiegend heutigen Daten der Schweizer Biodiversitätsportale vergleichbar macht. Portale wie InfoSpecies veröffentlichen ihre georeferenzierten Daten in GBIF meist als 5-km-Raster, was den Abgleich mit punktgenauen historischen Fundangaben erschwert.
Programme
- 09:15–09:45
FoyerCheck-in and welcome coffee
- 09:45–10:15
- 10:15–11:30
AuditoriumActivities of various parties in data management
Six short presentations.
- 11:30–12:00
FoyerCoffee break
- 12:00–12:50
AuditoriumPanel: main challenges in the collaborative management and use of natural history data
- 12:50–13:50
Lunch break
- 13:50–14:00
AuditoriumIntroduction to the workshops
- 14:00–14:50
- 14:00–14:50
- 14:00–14:50
- 15:00–15:50
- 15:00–15:50
- 15:00–15:50
- 16:00–16:30
AuditoriumWorkshop wrap-up in the plenary
- 16:30–16:50
AuditoriumGetting ready for the GLAMhack on 4–5 November in Mendrisio
How the GLAMhack works, submitting challenges, Q&A
- 16:50–17:00
AuditoriumFarewell and next steps
Read the original announcement
The workshop day is intended for curators, managers, and users of natural history collections in Switzerland. It serves as a forum to draw up an overview of the current situation regarding data management and digitization in Swiss institutions and sets the collections and their data in the wider context of the emerging ecosystem of open/FAIR natural history data with its various infrastructures, stakeholders, initiatives, usage scenarios, value-added services, and governance structures.
The workshop day is a pre-event of the GLAMhack 2022, organized by the OpenGLAM working group of the Opendata.ch association, hosted by the Natural History Museum of Bern and supported by Plazi.org and the eBioDiv Project, in cooperation with SwissCollNet and Infofauna.
