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View NBN eNews April 2015   In this issue: NBN draft Strategic Action Plan 2015-2020 released for comment Orchid observers UK implementation of Atlas of…

The Scottish Biodiversity Information Forum (SBIF) launched their new publication Making the Most of Biodiversity Data at their Spring Conference on the 16th April 2015…

The Action Plan describes the 104 actions that the NBN Secretariat and Network members have proposed are necessary to achieve the Network’s vision, aims and…

Vote for your local wildlife by taking part in the People’s Trust for Endangered Species ‘Living with Mammals’ survey.   As General Election fever mounts…

View NBN eNews March 2015 In this issue: Summary of your responses to the draft NBN Strategy 2015-2020 Pretty in pink, a new springtail to…

Introduction The following information summarises the 86 responses the Secretariat of the NBN received in relation to the draft NBN strategy 2015-2020 consultation in February…

(Collembola: Bilobella braunerae Deharveng 1981)  Written by Pete Boardman   I rather unexpectedly found myself with more time than I would normally have at the…

Integrating a 200 year-old record scheme into the 21st Century written by Joseph Butler   Allow me to steal you for a minute and picture this:…

Identification Trainers for the Future Update – our trainees have arrived! Written by Steph West, Project Manager – Identification Trainers for the Future, Angela Marmont Centre for…

As many of you may be aware, the NBN received funding in 2014 from the Cabinet Office via their Release of Data fund to mobilise…

Written by Kyle Copas, GBIF The 80 million specimens in the Natural History Museum, London, comprise one of the world’s most important scientific collections—a repository…

Conference report by the NBN Trust A large and diverse group of people gathered on Saturday 21st March 2015 at the Ulster Museum in Belfast…

Written by Ben Deed Merseyside BioBank is the Local Environmental Records Centre for North Merseyside. Opened in 2007 the initial project focused heavily on establishing…

19th and 20th November 2015  Lakeside Conference Centre, York For the first time, the NBN Conference will run over two days and will move away…

Spring is swiftly approaching and with it BioBlitz events are springing up around the country. If you are planning your own event, whatever the scale,…

The Communications Strategy review work began in summer 2014.  This resulted in a draft Strategy, which was consulted on at the beginning of 2015 and…

Written by Karen Kramer-Wilson (Holme Dunes Image, copyright Norfolk Wildlife Trust) University of East Anglia and Norfolk Biodiversity Information Service are working in collaboration to…

View NBN eNews February 2015   In this issue: NBN inventory of un-digitised datasets Certificate in Web Writing Use of NBN Gateway Data Case Studies…

Case Study Template Introduction and background The NBN Trust is developing a series of case studies to tell the story of how data are used…

Written by Paul Gilbertson JNCC would like to update the NBN on its current position with regards to GBIF and the development of Record Commenting…