Just back from GB21, the GBIF Governing Board meeting (the first such meeting I've attended). It was in New Delhi, and this was also my first time in india, which is an amazing place. At some point I may blog about the experience: the heat, the sheer number of people, the juxtaposition of wealth and poverty, the traffic (chaotic in a wonderfully self-organising sort of way), seeing birds of prey wheel overhead around a hotel in a major city, followed by fruit bats skimming the trees in the evening, the joys of haggling with tuk-tuk drivers, and the wonder that is the Taj Mahal.Lots to also think about regarding the meeting. A somewhat unsatisfactory conversation about licensing started on Twitter, so at some point I need to revisit this.
#gb21 Fly in ointment of adopting/enforcing @creativecommons licenses for @GBIF is that most taxonomic databases would be excluded :O
— Roderic Page (@rdmpage) September 18, 2014But for now, here are the slides from my summary of the GBIF Science Committee's activities. It discusses the forthcoming Ebbe Nielsen Challenge (details still be worked on so the slides are not the final word), the challenges of adding sequence data to GBIF, and the much-discussed case of the chamaeleons.
