News 2021

A new innovation project will make valuable subsea data and data products available to academic researchers and other societal end users.In November 2021 Swedish government research council for sustainable development (FORMAS) granted a new project to our SBDI partner at the University of Gothenburg. In this innovation project we will...

Changes in bird community composition have made the spring bird chorus more quiet and less varied.Bird song is for many people an important source of joy and recovery. In the last few decades both the number of birds and the bird community composition has changed which has affected the acoustic...

The Swedish Research Council addresses the SBDI network in its online magazine Curie.The article states that “Sweden has a long and unique tradition of collecting data on biological diversity, but so far it has been difficult to find and analyze all information. A new research infrastructure will change that.” The...

The Swedish public service television company (SVT) has made a clickable map of fish species in Swedish lakes. “What is (or was) in the lake where you live?” As part of the newsroom, SVT works with Data Journalism and Editorial Development, to show journalism in new, as they say in...

A number of clips are now availble introducing SBDI and showcasing key functionality of tools ands services.What is SBDI? Watch acting director Fredrik Ronquist explain SBDI in seven minutes or explore yourself among these issues:Inauguration webinarsInauguration of SBDIAccess SBDI data and tools with RAccess and publish genetic data with SBDISBDI...

Two young winners was awarded during the 28th meeting of the GBIF Governing Board. GBIF Young Researchers Award 2021 was shared between Julen Torrens Baile, Spain and Michael Belitz, USA.BaiBaile developed protocols—along with an algorithm—for preprocessing occurrence data to improve its quality and then test them on species distribution models (SDM)...

Svensk fågeltaxering, Swedish Bird Survey, has recently been named “Environmental Hero of the Year 2021” by WWF Sweden in the category Biodiversity. Much of the project data is available via SBDI. Within this bird monitoring project, volunteers and ornithologists monitor changes of Swedish bird populations. For more than 50 years,...

Bio-Dem, an open-source web-app for exploring temporal and spatial relationships between the availability of biodiversity data and the dimensions of democracy, has earned selection as first prize in the 2021 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. The international team, led by Alexander Zizka of the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig...

The inauguration of the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure, a platform for publishing and accessing data on biodiversity, was recorded and is now available. During the launch we introduced Sweden’s most important e-infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research,The official inauguration of Sweden’s national access hub for biodiversity data, the Swedish Biodiversity Data...

The Steering Committee of SBDI is inviting nominations of candidates for the SBDI Scientific Committee. Nominations should be received by November 1, 2021.The SBDI Scientific Committee (SciC) is an advisory group tied to and appointed by the Steering Committee. The task of the SciC is to monitor the international development...

Welcome to the inauguration week of the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure, a platform for publishing and accessing data on biodiversity, starting on Monday October 4. During the official launch we will introduce you to Sweden’s most important e-infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research in the emerging landscape of biodiversity information...