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CESP Darwin Core Data Package adoption, capacity enhancement and knowledge-transfer (DwC DACK) kickoff

Event name: CESP DwC DACK kickoff
Event type: Work meeting
Event description: This kick-off meeting for the CESP project Darwin Core Data Package adoption, capacity enhancement and knowledge-transfer (DwC-DACK) brings CMS developers, DiSSCo, GBIF Nodes and partners together to refine our technical roadmap, select target CMS instances and establish our path toward the March 2027 Leiden Hackathon.

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Time and date: Sunday, 27 September 2026. 12:00 – 17:00 CEST
How to register: The meeting is targeted to project participants but open to a limited number of other interested people for attending, as long as meeting capacity allows (accepted attendees will get a confirmation). Register through the registration form before 11 September.
Cost: Meeting participation is free.
Organisers: Wouter Addink (wouter.addink@naturalis.nl)
Venue: Meeting room K29 in the Botanical Museum, Oslo.

TDWG Sensitive Species Data Extension Task Group

Event name: Sensitive Species Use Cases Workshop
Event type: Workshop
Event description:
The TDWG Sensitive Species Extension Task Group is hosting a workshop to work through sensitive species (restricted access species - RASD) data use cases to see how the proposed RASD extension to Darwin Core (DWC) can be applied in practice.
Do you manage sensitive species data in your systems? Do you have sensitive species data use cases you are trying to find solutions to?
Bring your use cases with you and we will workshop potential solutions to them in line with the proposed DWC RASD Extension.
These worked solutions will help us provide use cases to the DWC Maintenance Group as part of our submission for the proposed Extension.

Agenda:
9:30am - Introduction to the topic and how the workshop will be run
10:00am - Discussion of potential use cases to workshop
10:30am - Tour of the sensitive plants in the botanic garden - (Bernhard Kløw Askedalen)
11:30am - Workshopping use cases to new DWC RASD Extension
1:00 pm - Lunch break (provided)
2:00pm - Workshopping use cases to new DWC RASD Extension
3:00pm - Wrap up and close

Time and date: Sunday 20th September - 9.30 am to 3.30 pm (max)

How to register: This workshop is open to all who would like to attend - Note we are limited to 10 participants - to register please contact: Cameron Slatyer - cam.slatyer@csiro.au

Cost: Free
Organisers: Cameron Slatyer (cam.slatyer@csiro.au), Tania Laity (tania.laity@csiro.au)
Venue: Botanical Museum (Lids House), K29

Living Atlases Workshop

Event name: Living Atlases around ALA: From Deployment to Contribution and Future Technical Directions
Event type: Work meeting
Event description: The Living Atlases community, coordinated by the Atlas of Living Australia, is a global, open-source network supporting over 20 biodiversity data portals across multiple continents. Since 2013, it has enabled widespread adoption through shared infrastructure, standards, and collaboration among GBIF nodes and partners.

As the network expands, it faces evolving technical and organisational challenges, including supporting new deployments, improving shared codebases, and adapting to architectural changes.

This workshop will cover the Living Atlases lifecycle: deployment strategies and common pitfalls, best practices for contributing to the shared codebase, and emerging technical challenges such as interoperability and sustainability. It aims to strengthen collaboration, support new adopters, and align future priorities across the community.

Agenda:

9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome & Framing
Towards a more organized, present and coordinated community. An overview of the LA lifecycle arc (deployment → contribution → future direction), introductions.
9:15 – 9:45 | Latest Developments in ALA (Javier Molina)
Technical presentation setting the scene — current state of ALA core, what’s changed, what’s coming.
— Block 1: Deployment & Contribution —
9:45 – 11:00 | Reusability Guidelines for ALA Next-Gen Components (facilitated per Stefan van Dyck’s proposal, building on Vicente Ruiz’s draft)
Hands-on, laptops-open. 10-min lightning demo per portal on how they ship a change to production, then group comparison of deployment/build pipelines. Deliverable: move the draft toward a consensus version to present back to the community.
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break
11:30 – 12:15 | Advantages and Benefits of the ALA Spatial Portal (Clara Fonseca + Dimitri Brosens)
A concrete “what you get when you adopt/extend ALA” case study — good bridge between the deployment conversation and the community/governance conversation after lunch.
12:15 – 13:00 | Governance of the LAs Community (Paco Pando)
How the network organises itself as it scales — natural close to the morning’s deployment/contribution thread.
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch

— Block 2: Future Technical Directions —
14:00 – 14:45 | Update on GBIF work at GBIF Secretariat (Federico Méndez)
Including but not limited to plans to develop and adopt DwC-DP. and Pipelines
14:45 – 15:30 | DwC-DP: An Exploration Exercise (Anne-Sophie / Sophie / Thomas — tentative)
Forward-looking interoperability discussion. Flagged as provisional pending readiness; if it doesn’t materialize, this slot is the natural place to extend the reusability-guidelines deliverable or open a general future-directions discussion instead.
15:30 – 15:45 | Short break (time to stretch, etc.; vending machines may be available, but coffee is not guaranteed)
15:45 – 16:00 | Synthesis & Next Steps
Pull threads together across deployment, contribution, and future direction; agree on concrete follow-ups (e.g., finalizing the reusability doc, CESP next steps).

Time and date: Sunday 20 September - 9 am to 4 pm
How to register: This workshop is open to anyone already part of the Living Atlases Community or interested in setting up an LA portal. Participants must be registered for the TDWG conference. Space is limited, so to request participation, please email Francisco Pando before September 15th at pando@rjb.csic.es. Due to space constraints, participation is not automatically granted — you must receive a confirmation email before you are considered registered for the workshop.
Cost: None, no catering available
Organisers: Javier Molina, Vicente Ruiz, Francisco Pando
Venue: Auditorium at the botanical museum building of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, campus Tøyen

European Specify Summit

Event name: European Specify summit
Event type: Summit
Event description: The European Specify Summit 2026 will bring together Specify users, developers, and partners from across Europe with the main aim of establishing a strong and sustainable European Specify community within the global Specify Collections Consortium (SCC).

The two-day program will combine talks, discussions, and networking focused on defining the community’s aims, governance, communication structures, and potential working groups. Participants will explore the benefits of stronger European collaboration, identify shared challenges and priorities, and discuss opportunities for knowledge exchange, peer-to-peer support, training, and technical collaboration.

The Summit will provide an opportunity for the community to shape its future together and lay the foundation for a connected, collaborative, and self-sustaining European Specify network. More information can be found here.

Home page: https://natur.unimus.no/events/europeansummit.html
Time and date: 26-27 September
How to register: 30-80 Specify users. Please register here.
Cost: Registration fee 100 euro (including venue, coffee breaks and lunch for 2 days).
Organisers: European Specify Summit Organizing committee
For any questions, email g.m.marthinsen@nhm.uio.no

Venue: Professorboligen, Karl Johans gate 47

Lunch options

Cafeteria at the Museum campus and inside the botanical garden, Handwerk (map) https://www.handwerk.no/meny

There are several good lunch places close to the museum:

Tøyen Torg (600 meters to walk from the Museum)
https://www.visitoslofjorden.no/butikker-i-oslo/2019/4/23/tyen-torg
https://sarayrestaurant.no/ (sit-down restaurant)
https://www.istanbulkebab.no/ (sit-down restaurant)
https://backstube.no/ (simpler sit-down cafeteria)

Online delivery

Order ordinary fast-food delivery:

Foodora
Wolt

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