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A refresh of the NBN Strategy has been taking place over the last six months and many of you will have been involved in workshops…

CEDaR, the Centre for Environmental Data and Recording was established in 1995 by the Ulster Museum, with the active support of the Environment and Heritage Service, as…

We are pleased to bring you a guest feature from Professors from Michigan State University who have recently published an article on data sharing in BioScience. …

Invasive Non-native Species Workshop Report Image of Giant Hogweed courtesy of GBNNSS   The UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF), in partnership with the Marine Biological…

Written by Sue Townsend, FSC Biodiversity Learning Manager The Field Studies Council is proud to become the 100th member of the NBN Trust. It took a long…

We would like to thank everyone who has responded to the survey we carried out following this year’s NBN Conference. With 73 responses from 170…

Written by Paula Lightfoot, NFBR The National Forum for Biological Recording and the British Ecological Society’s Macroecology Special Interest Group have announced the line up…

View NBN eNews December 2014 In this issue: 100th member of the NBN Trust NBN Conference survey results Open Data: The future of data sharing…

Over the last 12 weeks the NBN Trust has held a series of 9 workshops across the UK to seek input to a new NBN…

As mentioned briefly in the NBN Conference report, we were delighted to present two Honorary Membership Awards this year. One of these was for Dr…

Presentation made by Charles Roper at the NBN Conference 2014 and adapted for the website 25 years ago this year Tim Berners-Lee created the World…

The NBN Gateway team has released a revised version of the NBN Metadata Form (version 3.3) which can be found here.  The main change is…

Innovate UK, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are to invest up to £7.5m in collaborative R&D projects, with…

Scotland needs more taxonomic experts who can accurately identify the many different species and help new generations carry forward this important work. In order to…

A surprising number of alien, or non-native, amphibian and reptile species are present in the wild in the UK today. Species present range from unwanted…

Written by Lucy Robinson, Jade Cawthray and Anne Jungblut The Natural History Museum’s latest citizen science project is now live and the Museum is inviting…

Written by Rich Burkmar, Field Studies Council Prior to starting work as a project officer with the Field Studies Council in 2013 I had worked…

Written by Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory at the Natural History Museum, London. The latter half of 2014 has seen some excellent…

Most security patches for software tend to fix an obscure problem which might be a vulnerability only in some circumstances. However, when Drupal 7.32 was…

As part the NBN Strategy Refresh, the NBN Trust conducted a survey of user experiences with the NBN Gateway. The purpose of this survey was…