[Gbif-europe] Fwd: GBIF and ESFRI proposal for collections

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 Dear EU Node managers,

 Just a remember about Donald's message. I think that it would be nice 
 to have a discussion around this subject during the GB23 with Donald and 
 all the EU people who will be able to join this meeting.
 And of course, I would be pleased to get an update on this subject from 
 all of you but if you already communicated with Donald, I suppose he 
 will give us the last updates.
 
 Best regards
 Anne-Sophie




 -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: GBIF and ESFRI proposal for collections
 Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 14:02:51 +0000
 From: Donald Hobern <dhobern at gbif.org>
 To: "dhobern at gmail.com" <dhobern at gmail.com>

 

 Dear European GBIF representative,

 I would like to give you all a brief update on an activity within 
 Europe
 for which GBIF has been asked to play a key role in the design phase.
 Following a series of meetings involving many European collections, a
 proposal is under development to develop the European collections
 network as an ESFRI
 (http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri 
 [1])
 infrastructure. Developing and funding such a proposal would be a large
 multi-year undertaking, but could lead to a more sustainable long-term
 place for the collections as a key digitally-enabled resource.

 The GBIF Secretariat has been asked (and has been approved by the GBIF
 Executive Committee) to assist with development of the Technical Design
 for such a proposal. This will take place over the coming months. In 
 the
 meantime, I wanted you all to be aware of this activity. I have 
 prepared
 a brief presentation to facilitate an upcoming discussion on what this
 infrastructure may involve and I have attached it here for your
 information. I hope it is adequate to give an indication of what I
 believe is under consideration - some of you may recognise the ideas
 from the ELODINS proposal a year or so ago.

 Please feel free to communicate with me if you have any questions. I
 will try to keep you informed as this proceeds.

 Very best wishes,

 Donald

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 Donald Hobern - GBIF Executive Secretary - dhobern at gbif.org

 Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/

 GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

 Tel: +45 3532 1471 Mob: +45 2875 1471 Fax: +45 2875 1480

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 Links:
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 [1] http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri
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