Request for Proposals: Data Mobilization Call (Norway)

Successful applications receive co-funding contributions as a grant to the applicant institution. The responsible institution is expected to provide complementary self-funded work or financial contributions matching the financial support from GBIF Norway.

Priorities

• Marine species (explore the OBIS data stream)
• Environment DNA data (or other DNA sequence data) — explore the Metabarcoding toolkit
• Ecological sampling event data — using the Humboldt Extension – and the new DwC Data Package format
• New data publishers based in Norway (Datasets from Norwegian institutions not yet publishing datasets in GBIF)
• Proposals are also evaluated based on the level of co-funding

Funding Information

• The total budget for this call is 500,000 NOK and the maximum contribution from GBIF Norway to each project is 100,000 NOK.

Eligibility Criteria

• This call addresses Norwegian institutions.
• Datasets prepared for publication must follow the international Darwin Core data standard. Characteristics of eligible datasets include for each data record, a mandatory taxon name, geographic location (preferably georeferenced), and temporal description (date or time period). Species occurrence data should contain presence/absence information or quantitative information.
• Scientific taxon names must be validated against the Norwegian National checklist (Artsnavnebasen) or other relevant regional or global checklists such as the Catalogue of Life or Global Names.
• They recommend that datasets be validated using the GBIF data validator tool.
• All resulting datasets must be openly published to GBIF and Artskart (using GBIF IPT, Artsobservasjoner, or similar). Datasets can be prepared following the format of the Darwin Core spreadsheet template provided by GBIF (or the template from GBIF Norway) and sent by email to GBIF Norway. The responsible institute can alternatively install and use standard data publishing software such as the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT).
• Sensitive species occurrence data must be managed in the appliance provided by the Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet) and the Ministry of Climate and Environment (Miljødepartementet). Resulting species occurrence datasets must be licensed either as Creative Commons Zero (CC0) or as Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) to be compatible with the GBIF data sharing agreement.
• If the application includes the preparation of species occurrence data from another data owner than the project coordinating institution, the respective public access to these data must be agreed upon and consolidated with the data owner in advance.
• Co-funding from this call will only be provided for the preparation and subsequent publication of species occurrence data. Funding for fieldwork to collect information or biological material is not eligible for funding under this call. Funding for research activities or activities to manage or physically conserve the respective biological material is not eligible for funding under this call.
• GBIF Norway strongly recommends that data owners prepare metadata descriptions on the dataset level following the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and that all specimens and data records be assigned persistent and globally unique identifiers (such as UUID or DOI).
• All applicants must provide a basic data management plan (DMP) describing how the mobilized dataset will be managed in compliance with best practices and the data requirements of this call.

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