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Dear EU nodes collegues, <br>
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<big><big><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";"></span></big></big>EASIN
has invited GBIFS to provide a speaker at its 3rd ‘enlargement' and
training workshop early next month, 9-10 Feb, at JRC, in Ispra,
Italy
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/workshop/easin-enlargement-training?search">https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/workshop/easin-enlargement-training?search</a>).
The Secretariat has an interest in the event and has recently
started collaborating on getting the EASIN invasive species
catalogue published as a checklist (still an open item). <br>
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Ana Cristina Cordoso, EASIN’s director, wrote to the Secretariat
that the event will focus on its expansion "by including new
partners, such as research institutes, national authorities, data
base managers, experts and relevant stakeholders, who own, represent
or manage national or regional biodiversity information systems and
databases, including large scale personal databases.” In addition to
interactive training, the workshop will also address data
standardization issues and protocols for sharing information. That
is where GBIF comes in, as EASIN is interested in a general
presentation that shares GBIF experiences and perspectives on data
collection, quality assurance, data standards and interoperability,
data format and data updates.<br>
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Like EASIN is a european initiative, GBIFS contacted Anders and I
(as European representatives) and it has been decided that Anders
will go and make the presentation.<br>
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In order to help him in this task (he kindly accepted), I would like
to ask you to provide any information you could have about invasive
species at national/regional levels , or highlight any
solutions/considerations/issues around GBIF and invasive species.<br>
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Many thanks for considering my request.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Anne-Sophie <br>
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