GBIF Norway
GBIF Norway is the Norwegian participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF. Our main task is to make primary data on biological diversity from the Norwegian collections and observation databases freely available and to coordinate and support GBIF-related activities and data use in Norway.
News
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NatSCA Manchester, May 2025, Manchester Nov. 28, 2025 12:45 PM
Vanessa Pitusi from UiT presented GBIF-OBIS Norway and the UiT Hosted Portal at the NatSCA (Natural Sciences Collections Association) conference, 8th and 9th May 2025, at the Manchester Museum, UK.
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Ebbe Nielsen Challenge 2025 winner Nov. 17, 2025 6:56 PM
GBIF Norway Data Manager Rukaya Sarah Johaadien has won the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge for the second year in a row. The Ebbe Nielsen 2025 1st prize was shared between Rukaya and colleagues from Australia.
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Deep-sea data – the Bathysphere 2025 symposium Nov. 7, 2025 3:52 PM
The 3rd Bergen Bathysphere Science Symposium took place this week in Espegrend Marine Biological Station outside Bergen. Bathysphere gathers deep-sea scientists across disciplines, institutions and countries, creating a venue for sharing both knowledge and enthusiasm for the deep-sea.
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DiSSCo MAS SpLAT June 14, 2025 10:25 AM
GBIF Norway is proud to contribute to the development of the new DiSSCo MAS SpLAT service, supported by the GBIF CESP program, CESP2024-016: AI for Specimen Label. Read more about SpLAT here.
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Data mobilization call 2025 May 8, 2025 7:38 AM
GBIF Norway has launched a co-funding call for 2025 to mobilize your species' occurrence data with preparation to ensure data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline June 15th, 2025.
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Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) joins GBIF Apr. 17, 2025 2:27 PM
Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) joins GBIF as the latest non-country associate organization from Europe (September 2019).
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