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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could store our ecological data using a common format, in a common place, freely available for everyone? In his guest blog, researcher Jens Åstrøm, NINA, discuss how you can use the Darwin Core standard to publish complex ecological data

Setting up data infrastructure to simplify management of (ecological) data, to facilitate publishing using open community standards (foremost as a Darwin Core Archive) was centre stage for the discussion at our miniworkshop this week. One of the activities we are engaged with currently is to develop R-functionality that help researchers in ecology and related fieldsContinue reading “Miniworkshop: Facilitating FAIR management of ecological data using R”

A starting point for good data management is a logical folder structure to organize the files associated with the data collected.

Towards openness and transparency in Applied Ecology Ecology is a discipline that tries to understand nature and how changes affect it. How is the diversity of organisms dispersed around the world? How do extreme climate changes influence populations of animals and vegetations? These are all questions regularly asked, and topics that are necessary to addressContinue reading “2nd International Living Norway Colloquium”

Written by Benjamin Cretois, Lasse F Eriksen and Wouter Koch – PhD students at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. There is a rapidly increasing awareness of the importance of ecological data. With the climate crisis and global biodiversity loss as a background for much of today’s ecological research, we cannot afford wasting anyContinue reading “A fruitful two days seminar”