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The first LifeWatchGreece Data Management workshop was successfully held at HCMR-Crete, gathering 29 LifeWatchGreece Data Managers from all over Greece. During the workshop an extended and detailed discussion took place regarding the Policy of Open Access to Biodiversity Data and the benefits of establishing a data repository in the Greek Territory. Many of the participants expressed the necessity for a successfull strategy to be followed in order to convince the data providers to contribute to the LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (LWG RI), an infrastructure that foressees to be the national cadastre of biodiversity.
The workshop gave the opportunity to Data Managers to get familiar with web services and data quality control tools (Lifewatch data services, WoRMS, marine regions etc) and exchange views related to the broad spectrum of datasets that are going to be evaluated and imported to the LWG RI (from extreme environment microbes to higher eukaryotes and from fieldwork data to next generation sequencing).
The workshop agenda is available here and the workshop report here
