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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…

Informing the new conservation agenda The 14th NBN Conference ‘Climate, Collaboration and Collection’, held in the Royal Society, London on Friday 21st November, was a…

Written by Catherine Chen and Elizabeth Arnold On the 21st November students Catherine Chen and Elizabeth Arnold were given the opportunity to attend the National…

View November 2014 NBN eNews In this issue: NBN Conference – event report New checklists in UK Species Inventory NBN Conference review by Bangor University students…

Inspiring the Next Generation of UK Wildlife Experts Identification Trainers for the Future is an exciting new project which is targeting the thorny question of…

At the annual RSPB Members’ Day in Birmingham on Saturday 25th October 2014, the RSPB Medal was awarded to the team behind the Bird Atlas…

Nature Near Me is a new project developed by Tom August at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology with the aim to make data held…

The 21st meeting of the GBIF Governing Board, meeting in New Delhi, has agreed a set of principles and next steps relating to the licensing…