Detailed program

Fair data management and open science in ecology, wildlife management and conservation

June 11. – 12. 2019

Seminar invitation can be found here.

June 11th:

Open seminar at NINA-huset

Time	Program
09:30 – 10:00	Registration and coffee
	Session chair: Bob O’Hara, NTNU
10:00 – 10:10	Welcome (Einar Hjorthol, Director of Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre)
10:10 – 10:30	Towards FAIR data management of ecological data? (Erlend B. Nilsen, NINA)
10:30 – 10:50	Challenges in dissemination of biodiversity knowledge (Arild Lindgaard, Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre)
10:50 – 11:10	Why, when and how do we need ecological data for environmental policy and management (Ingunn Limstrand, Norwegian Environment Agency)
11:10 – 11:30	Norwegian participation in international biodiversity research infrastructures (Frank Hanssen, NINA)
11:30 – 12:30	Lunch
	Session chair: Eveliina Päivikki Kallioniemi, NBIC
12:30 – 13:00	Open Science in the Nordics and the EOSC-Nordic project (Andreas Jaunsen, Special advisor, NeIC)
13:00 – 13:30	The new joint Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI) (Debora Arlt, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
13:30 – 14:00	Data integration on the global stage and the forward direction of GBIF (Tim Robertson, Head of informatics – GBIF)
14:00 – 14:30	Coffee break
	Session chair: Katrine Eldegard, NMBU
14:30 – 15:00	New statistical methods for data integration in ecology and beyond (Nick Isaac, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
15:00 – 15:30	Education and training resources for FAIR data management and scientific reuse of data (Vigdis Vandvik, University of Bergen)
15:30 – 16:00	Summary and discussion (Anders G. Finstad, NTNU)

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June 12th:

Workshop 1: NeIC and Nordic collaboration

Workshop-leader: Frank Hanssen, NINA

CANCELLED

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Workshop 2: Legacy data: prioritization, data types, sources and tools

Workshop leader: Anders G Finstad, NTNU.

What kind of ecological data should be prioritized for archiving and re-use retrieval preparation? We will have a special focus on legacy data. Legacy data include a large backlog of digitalization and documentation of data collected throughout (mainly) the last century. In particular, as a consequence of increased focus on ecological research during the 1970s, a large surge of ecologist is currently passed or closing in on retirement. Consequently, Irreplaceable observations from the last decades are being lost due to inappropriate storage formats or lack of documentation. Concurrently, in a field such as ecology that relies on unique non-replicable observations from nature, data rescue missions to secure legacy data and make them available to the current generation of scientists are a most pressing task. However, the task is daunting, both due to the share volume of information, due to the huge variety of storage formats and common lack of associated documentation (metadata), but also due to legal issues. Here, we will ask questions and facilitate discussions around:

• Practical solutions for data discovery, data rescue and FAIRification of legacy data
• How do we prioritize between data-sets and data-types?
• Licencing and legal issues?

Time	Program
09:00 – 09:10	Welcome and intro (Anders G. Finstad, NTNU)
09:10 – 09:20	Example of a successful data-rescue mission: the case of ptarmigan monitoring in Norway (Erlend B. Nilsen, NINA)
09:30 – 09:40	Digitizing legacy data through crowdsourcing: “Dugnadsportalen” as case study (Rukaya Sarah Johaadien, GBIF Norway)
09:40 – 10:05	Why does legacy data matter? New tools and approaches for the integration of unstructured and historical data in ecological research (Joseph Chipperfield, NINA)
10:05 – 10:20	Discussion and comments
10:20 – 10:35	Coffee break
10:35 – 11:10	Legal issues and licencing (Wouter Koch)
11:10 – 12:00	Data paper discussion (Bob O’Hara)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch.

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Workshop 3: How could and should Open Science be implemented in biodiversity education?

Workshop leaders: Vigdis Vandvik and John-Arvid Grytnes, UiB and Dag Endresen, GBIF-Norway

The Open Science movement represents a paradigm shift in science – it is currently transforming not only the standards and payment schemes for scientific publication, but how we think and act around every aspect of science, from our daily research practices, data, scientific publications, to teaching, learning, and communication of science. Future researchers will need to know and master new tools and practices, but also think about data and science in new ways, to succeed in the new landscape.

The current science curricula taught at the biology programmes at our universities are not reflecting this rapid transformation – we are not making use of the opportunities represented by Open Science, but we are also not preparing students for the challenges.

There are new opportunities rapidly emerging to integrate open data in education – students can reuse available data in their studies, and we can teach them to make their own data openly available as part of their course or thesis work. In this way, students can be part of the ‘real’ scientific enterprise during their studies, using and contributing to ‘real’ science.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss these issues, share experiences and ideas. The intended outcome is to write a discussion piece in a journal (e.g., commentary in Methods in Ecology and Evolution)

Time	Program
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 13:30	What is Open Science, and why is it important for students? (Dag Endresen)
13:30 – 14:00	Why, how, and when could and should Open Science be implemented in our educations? (Vigdis Vandvik)
14:00 – 14:15	Coffee break
14:15 – 16:00	How are we dealing with data in biology educations today? (Case studies – examples from participants) Way forward: Group discussions; summary in plenary