Open Data: The future of data sharing
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/open-data-the-future-of-data-sharing/

Read the transcript of Charles Roper's presentation to the NBN Conference on Open Data being the future of data sharing.

Updated NBN metadata form
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/updated-nbn-metadata-form/

The NBN Gateway team has released a revised version of the NBN Metadata Form, the main change being in section F of the Data Provider Agreement.

NBN Strategy workshops now complete
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/nbn-strategy-workshops-now-complete/

Read the topline review of the workshops we recently held around the UK, which are helping to input to the new NBN Strategy.

Honorary Membership 2014
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/honorary-membership-2014/

This year, the NBN Trust bestowed Honorary Membership upon two worthy recipients, Dr James Munford and Val Burton.

Solving Urban Challenges with Data – competition now open
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/solving-urban-challenges-with-data-competition-n/

Proposals sought for innovative, commercial solutions for urban areas which integrate environmental, social and/or economic data with data from other sources. 

Bursaries for natural history training courses
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/bursaries-for-natural-history-training-courses/

In order to encourage more taxonomic experts in Scotland, seven bursaries are being offered towards training courses in natural history field studies.

Alien amphibian and reptile species in the UK
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/alien-amphibian-and-reptile-species-in-the-uk/

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation has just published a booklet on the UK’s alien amphibians and reptiles.

 

The Microverse project
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/the-microverse-project/

The Natural History Museum's, The Microverse, project takes biological recording to a microscopic scale and invites 250 schools and colleges to collaborate.

QGIS – tools for biological recorders
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/qgis-tools-for-biological-recorders/

Rich Burkmar has created a QGIS plugin tool, which uses NBN Web Services and helps do the things that biological recorders find most useful with GIS.

New checklists in UK Species Inventory
News: https://nbn.org.uk/news/new-checklists-in-uk-species-inventory/

The MSBIAS Marine checklist and the GBNNSIP checklist of non-native species are now in the UK Species Inventory.