Strengthening FAIR Biodiversity Data Engagement in South America

Presenter: Julia Giora, Juliana M. Wingert

From March 25 to 28, the Plazi team was at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá, delivering two courses for the scientific community. We brought together 56 participants from 17 academic and research institutions, including researchers, curators, and undergraduate and graduate students. The courses offered hands-on training on the use of infrastructures for extracting and mining data in digital repositories, and fostered rich exchanges and discussions around the reuse of biodiversity data based on FAIR data principles.

workshop participants
Workshop participants

These were intense and inspiring days of mutual learning, valuable networking, and strategic planning to enhance South American researchers’ engagement in the goals of the Disentis Roadmap.