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title Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization Workshop 2025
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OBIS-USA, IOOS, Hakai, CIOOS, MBON, OTN, OBIS Secretariat, Caribbean-OBIS, OBIS-Chile

Online

November 4-6, 2025

13:00 - 17:00 EDT

Instructors: Mathew Biddle, Steve Formel, Elizabeth Lawrence, Tylar Murray, Carolina Peralta, Jonathan Pye, Tim van der Stap

Helpers: Stace Beaulieu, Nicolas Bralic, Carlos Carmona, Bruce Delo, Braulio Fernandez, Dheemanth Kumawat, Erika Montoya

General Information

This workshop is intended to be a small hands-on, interactive virtual workshop focused on mobilizing marine biodiversity observation datasets to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) by helping data providers standardize their data using Darwin Core including species observations from a range of sampling methodologies (e.g. visual surveys, net tows, microscopy, fish trawls, imaging, 'omics, acoustics, telemetry).

What this workshop will cover:

  • Darwin Core and the required terms for OBIS and GBIF.
  • Typical data cleaning tasks needed to standardize the data.
  • Getting your data into a final Darwin Core format.
  • Common QA/QC steps, data enhancement, and validation tools.
  • Help you improve your understanding of controlled vocabulary.
  • Required metadata information.
  • How to get your data into the Integrated Publishing Toolkit.
  • Tools that will help in all of the above processes.

The goal is that by the end of the workshop you will have a dataset in a final standardized state and shared to OBIS. We are hoping to address some of the blockers that you identified, including: lack of time, training, and specific formatting questions.

We have a short time together therefore our focus will be hands-on work in breakout rooms using the dataset you bring to the workshop. We will not have many presentations and they will be relatively short. Instead we will have large portions of time for you to work on your data and ask questions when you hit a stumbling block. Therefore, if you do not have a dataset to work on you may not find this workshop a good use of your time.

What this workshop will not cover:

  • What is OBIS?
  • Rationale for sharing data with OBIS.
  • Using data that is already in OBIS.
  • Data analysis.
  • Use of programs or software.

If you would like to learn more about OBIS and a short rationale for sharing data to it, please watch this two minute video and this two minute video and share them with those you want to work with to share data.

When: November 4-6, 2025

Requirements:

  • Must have a dataset to work on.
  • Must have some R or Python experience.
  • Must have a basic knowledge of GitHub.
  • Participants must have the software they wish to use for data standardization installed (e.g., R and RStudio, Python, or Excel software).

Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.

Contact: Please contact us via email or Slack if you have any questions.

Schedule

Times are in EST.

The videos created for the Marine Biological Data Mobilization Workshop can be found in this playlist.

November 4

13:00 Welcome and Housekeeping
13:10 Introduction to Darwin Core
13:30 Breakout Rooms
14:30 Social Break
15:00 Data Cleaning and Taxon Matching
15:10 Breakout Rooms
16:45 Return to Main Room
17:00 Finish

November 5

13:00 Measurements or Facts and Controlled Vocabulary
13:10 Breakout Rooms
14:30 Social Break
15:00 QA QC
15:10 Metadata and publishing
15:20 Breakout Rooms
16:45 Return to Main Room
17:00 Finish
End Post-workshop help & survey

November 6

13:00 Optional 3rd work day
13:10 Breakout Rooms
17:00 Finish