The 2nd Lifewatch Data Management workshop took place from 16-20 March 2015 in the premises of the Department of Zoology in the University of Athens. About 25 Lifewatch data mangers from all over Greece participated in the course.
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The 2nd LifeWatchGreece Data Management Workshop
Post date: Thursday, 14 May, 2015 - 14:37
LifeWatchGreece in IODE-XXIII
The 23rd Session of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Committee (IODE-XXIII) was held in Bruges, Belgium during 16-20 March 2015. Dr Christos Arvanitidis participated in this meeting as the ADU contact point for the MedOBIS vLab currently developed under the LifeWatchGreece project.
Post date: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015 - 18:52
LifeWatchGreece in the LIFEWATCH ERIC meeting
LifeWatchGreece was represented in the LifeWatch meeting for ERIC that took place in Malaga (Spain) between 26 and 27 of February 2015. All of the contributing EU member states (Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Romania) were present, as well as representatives from Slovakia, Portugal, Norway and Sweden. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Fernando Ballasteros (MINECO, Spain). A presentation of the progress made so far on ERIC issues was made by the leading state (Spain).
Post date: Monday, 16 March, 2015 - 10:55
New publication: ENVIRONMENTS and EOL
A new publication with the title "ENVIRONMENTS and EOL: identification of Environment Ontology terms in text and the annotation of the Encyclopedia of Life" has been launched within the context of the LifeWatchGreece project during January 2015. This publication is an open article in Bioinformatics and the full text can be found here.
Post date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2015 - 14:44
Announcement: The 2nd LifeWatchGreece Data Management Workshop
The second meeting of LifeWatchGreece Data Managers will take place at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 16 - 20 March 2015. This meeting will be an actual hands-on workshop, which will aim to bring together the LifeWatchGreece Data Managers from all over Greece in order to digitize species occurence data from historical publications. The workshop will give an opportunity to exchange expertise and knowledge on the field of data digitization, both for terrestrial and marine data.
Post date: Tuesday, 10 February, 2015 - 11:47
RECODE Conference: Open Access to Research Data as a Driver for Open Science
RECODE (http://recodeproject.eu/) organized during 15 - 16 January 2015 in Athens its Final Conference “Open Access to Research Data as a Driver for Open Science” (http://www.openaccess.gr/conferences/conference2015). During the conference, Dr Christos Arvanitidis presented the scope and progress of LifewatchGreece and described the contribution of the Project in the Open Access Data Policy.
Post date: Monday, 2 February, 2015 - 12:32
EMBOS Data Handling and Analysis Workshop
The EMBOS Data Handling and Analysis Workshop was successfully held at HCMR-Crete, from 16 to 19 December 2014. During the workshop, participants of the EMBOS project (ESSEM COST Action ES1003 - Development and implementation of a pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System) analyzed several datasets that were produced from pilot studies conducted during the spring of 2014 along the European coastline (from the Eastern Mediterranean to the North Sea).
Post date: Friday, 2 January, 2015 - 15:00
1st Mediterranean Symposium on the conservation of Dark Habitats (October 2014, Slovenia)
Post date: Thursday, 6 November, 2014 - 12:48
LifeWatchGreece at the 7th National Congress of Ecology
The 7th National Congress of Ecology (http://www.helecos.gr/en/7th-congress) was held in Mytilene (Lesvos Island, Greece) between the 9th and 12th of October 2014.
Post date: Tuesday, 21 October, 2014 - 13:45
ENVRI Final Event
LifewatchGreece participated in the ENVRI FINAL EVENT, "Common Operations of Environmental Research Infrastructures" that took place during 7-8 October 2014 in Amsterdam. The following 6 topics were discussed:
Post date: Monday, 20 October, 2014 - 00:00