News 2023

The SBDI consortium welcomes everyone within the scientific community who wants to develop and ride the wave of data-driven research. Ecology research has not yet reached the big data revolution, while the forthcoming ‘data deluge’ creates many challenges for researchers in fields of biodiversity, ecology, conservation biology and systematics.This two-day conference, January...

Plankton Toolbox is now accessible in version 1.4.1, designed for both Windows and MacOS, with dedicated versions for both Intel and M1 processors. The Plankton Toolbox is a free tool for aquatic scientists, and others, working with environmental monitoring related to phyto- and zooplankton.The latest release incorporates an updated counting...

The DTO-BioFlow project announce an open call for marine biodiversity data holders who can contribute to the development by providing sustained and long-term biodiversity data for the EU DTO.They are looking for international networks, citizen science networks, research institutes, universities, NGOs, etc working within marine biodiversity domain, interested in sharing...

Researchers within the MARCO-BOLO-project seeking collaboration and long-term biodiversity data in order to understanding and analysing multidecadal trends of coastal and marine biodiversity at the European scale.In a new collaborative study, they aim to (a) compile comprehensive marine biodiversity time series in Europe to (b) disentangle the major patterns and...

The SBDI consortium welcomes everyone within the scientific community who wants to develop and ride the wave of data-driven research. Ecology research has not yet reached the big data revolution, while the forthcoming ‘data deluge’ creates many challenges for researchers in fields of biodiversity, ecology, conservation biology and systematics.This two-day conference invites the...

The work on a new portal for Swedish Research Data has begun. This portal is one of the major goals in the Swedish National Data Service’s (SND) mission 2023–26. SBDI and GBIF Sweden are important collaboration partners and data sources for the project. The portal will make it easier for...

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has published a report shedding light on the returns yielded by investments in their data infrastructure. The report, titled “Unveiling the Value: The Return on Investments in GBIF,” highlights the wide-ranging impact of GBIF’s efforts on both scientific advancement and societal progress.The report emphasizes...

There is now an updated version of a guide to publishing sequence-based data. It is a practical guide for holders of genomic and metagenomic information, to include recommendations for sharing occurrence records based on DNA-based studies of the world’s oceans and seas.This guide will teach you the principles and approaches...

Nu kan du nominera en lämplig person att ingå i SBDI:s styrgrupp. Styrgruppen ska ha en bred sammansättning och kompetens och ska verka för en optimal utveckling, drift och förvaltning av SBDI som en nationell forskningsinfrastruktur. Now you can nominate a suitable person to be part of SBDI’s steering group....

The Nordic Working Group for Biodiversity (NBM) funds Nordic collaborative projects aimed at stemming the loss of biodiversity. In 2024, NBM will prioritise applications from projects working towards the new biodiversity targets, as well as projects dealing with nature and wildlife crime, the sustainable use of existing buildings, forestry and...

GobyTrack citizen science challenge launched in Koster Seafloor ObservatoryWe have a new challenge for you, called “GobyTrack”. Here, we need your help to monitor the spread of an invasive fish along the Swedish coastline. In order to achieve this goal we need you to identify fish and crab species in...

A new version of Plankton Toolbox is now available.The new version (1.4.0) of the plankton counting program Plankton Toolbox is available for both Windows and MacOS. The release includes an update of the counting module and several minor fixes. In addition the NOMP 2022 biovolume list, which includes information from the...

On Samernas nationaldag (The Sami National Day), we want to draw attention to two datasets that SBDI mobilizes and that come from the Sami community.These data sets are:• Ájtte (“nature of the mountains”-collection, including: insects, birds, mammals, fish, fungi, minerals, rocks and botanicals.• Forests and Sami Museum (specimens and observations...

During 2022 and the start of 2023, SMHI has published four new datasets from the SHARK database.It concerns time series from national and regional monitoring programs for vegetated bottoms (Epibenthos), as well as time series from national programs for ringed seal (Pusa hispida) and picoplankton. Previously published time series have...

The SBDI team for genetic biodiversity data has published a paper on the Swedish ASV portal in BMC Bioinformatics. Now you can contribute your own datasets.The portal is an interface to SBDI records of DNA barcode sequences (Amplicon Sequence Variants; ASVs) and associated species occurrences that derive from high throughput...

Are you interested in the possibilities with SBDI? Meet researchers from the SBDI-community and the SBDI-office at the Oikos meeting in Gothenburg.Here are two workshops you can attend:SBDI user workshop – How to publish your metabarcoding dataModelling the distribution of alien species in SwedenThere is no time set, but given...