<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><span style="color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dear Belgian GBIF community members,</span><div><br></div><div><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">GBIF has released a new technical document, </span><a href="https://gbif.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a483b43cb36d0d60edb3a266b&id=8a461ff425&e=14166f07ab" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(23,92,161);font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;text-decoration-line:none">Best Practices for Managing and Publishing Camera Trap Data</a><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">, which is now open for input and feedback from community members until </span><strong style="font-size:14px">Tuesday, 31 October 2023</strong><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">.</span><br></h2><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">Authors <a href="https://gbif.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a483b43cb36d0d60edb3a266b&id=76ecdf7655&e=14166f07ab" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(23,92,161);text-decoration-line:none"><strong>Lien Reyserhove</strong></a>, <a href="https://gbif.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a483b43cb36d0d60edb3a266b&id=4231d89bc7&e=14166f07ab" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(23,92,161);text-decoration-line:none"><strong>Ben Norton</strong></a> and <a href="https://gbif.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a483b43cb36d0d60edb3a266b&id=dcbd8e21a6&e=14166f07ab" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(23,92,161);text-decoration-line:none"><strong>Peter Desmet</strong></a> prepared the guide to provide up-to-date guidelines that optimize data management and publication by anyone running a camera trap study—particularly data stewards, data publishers, database and information managers and students working with biodiversity informatics.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">You can find more information on how to review <a href="https://www.gbif.org/news/1tNrbZGtOLUw2rdUKsM8Se/guide-to-publishing-camera-trap-data-opens-for-community-peer-review" target="_blank">here</a></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">Kind regards,</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(35,31,32);font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">Dimi</p></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.biodiversity.be" target="_blank">Belgian BiodiversityPlatform </a></span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Dimitri Brosens </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(73,74,76);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116</a></span></p><div></div><span style="color:rgb(73,74,76);font-family:"Noto Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#f79646">Biodiversity Research
Liaison Officer</span></p><p><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><font color="#38761d">GBIF Node Manager</font></span></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://oscibio.inbo.be/blog/" target="_blank">Open science lab for biodiversity</a></span><br></div>

Research Institute for Nature and Forest<br>Havenlaan 88 bus 73<br>1070 Brussels<p><span style="font-size:10pt">ORCID: </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px">0000-0002-0846-9116</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.inbo.be/" target="_blank">www.inbo.be</a><br></span><a href="http://www.biodiversity.be/" style="font-size:10pt" target="_blank">www.biodiversity.be</a><br><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><a href="mailto:d.brosens@biodiversity.be" target="_blank">d.brosens@biodiversity.be</a></span></p><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><b>WATCH OUR BELGIAN BIODIVERSITY PLATFORM MOVIES ON:</b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><a href="http://vimeo.com/114955090" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/114955090</a> (data publication activities)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><a href="http://vimeo.com/114955160" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/114955160</a> (science-policy activities)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#45818e" size="1"><a href="http://vimeo.com/114955193" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/114955193</a> (our general mission)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><img src="https://www.biodiversity.be/5127/download" width="200" height="95"><br></div><p><img width="420" height="63" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zn3bglHVAwANM9nw-I1rTKSOUUrjJcMXc0mF_xQs2IPnf4OQtojwXbzXotGUK0Kn1_JGWJuCs"> </p><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br><br></div>

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