The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is an international science competition conducted annually from 2015 onwards by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), with a set of cash prizes that recognize researcher(s)' submissions in creating software or approaches that successfully address a GBIF-issued challenge in the field of biodiversity informatics . It succeeds the Ebbe Nielsen Prize , which was awarded annually by GBIF between 2002 and 2014. The name of the challenge honours the memory of prominent entomologist and biodiversity informatics proponent Ebbe Nielsen , who died of a heart attack in the U.S.A. en route to the 2001 GBIF Governing Board meeting.
16-507: The Ebbe Nielsen Prize was an international science award made annually between 2002 and 2014 by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), to recognize a researcher who had made substantial contributions to the field of biodiversity informatics . The prize was established in memory of prominent entomologist and biodiversity informatics proponent Ebbe Nielsen , who died of a heart attack in
32-528: A cash prize plus an invitation to give a guest lecture to address the annual meeting of the governing body of GBIF in whichever country the meeting was being held for that year. In its 2003 call for submissions, the prize was stated as being "[awarded] annually, to a promising researcher, normally within ten years of their entering the research field of biodiversity informatics. Candidates should be combining biodiversity informatics and biosystematic research in novel and exciting ways ... The primary selection criterion
48-486: A theme announced annually for each round of the competition, and also to split the prize money among multiple groups instead of a single winner as in the initial era of the Prize. Calls for entries to the competition, now called the "Ebbe Nielsen Challenge", have been issued annually from 2015 to the present, with winners announced through a competitive process in all years except for 2017, when an insufficient number of entries
64-439: Is scientific excellence as evidenced by the nominee’s research and publication record, and in particular, the innovation shown in combining biosystematics and biodiversity informatics research in their field of activity." Over the life of the prize, it was won by researchers from Japan, Germany, Sweden, Argentina, United States (twice), Australia (twice), United Kingdom, Colombia, Canada, Denmark and Portugal. In 2015, GBIF revamped
80-686: The Catalogue of Life partnership, Biodiversity Information Standards , the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), and GEOSS . The biodiversity data available through the GBIF has increased by more than 1,150% in the past decade, partially due to the participation of citizen scientists . From 2002 to 2014, GBIF awarded a prestigious annual global award in
96-638: The 2015 Challenge is available here. First Prize winner: Second Prize winner: Details are available via the GBIF website here. Challenge: "In 2016, the Challenge will focus on the question of data gaps and completeness, seeking tools, methods and mechanisms to help analyse the fitness-for-use of GBIF-mediated data and/or guide priority setting for biodiversity data mobilization. We expect both data users and data holders to benefit from this year’s emphasis on gaps and completeness." First Prize winner: Joint Second Prize winners: Details are available via
112-625: The GBIF website here. Challenge: "The 2017 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks submissions that repurpose these datasets [in public open-access repositories] and adapting them into the Darwin Core Archive format (DwC-A), the interoperable and reusable standard that powers the publication of almost 800 million species occurrence records from the nearly 1,000 worldwide institutions now active in the GBIF network. The 2017 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge will task developers and data scientists to create web applications, scripts or other tools that automate
128-410: The GBIF website here. Challenge: "The 2019 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is deliberately open-ended, so entrants have a broad remit for creating tools and techniques that advance in open science and improve the access, utility or quality of GBIF-mediated data. Challenge submissions may be new applications, visualization methods, workflows or analyses, or they build on and extend existing tools and features. It
144-412: The U.S.A. en route to the 2001 GBIF Governing Board meeting. The award was created in 2001 to honour the recently deceased Danish-Australian entomologist Ebbe Nielsen , who was a keen proponent of both GBIF and the biodiversity informatics discipline. At the time of its creation, the prize was the only global award for work in biodiversity. Initially set at US$ 35,000 and later €30,000, the award comprised
160-708: The area of biodiversity informatics , the Ebbe Nielsen Prize , valued at €30,000. As of 2018 , the GBIF Secretariat presents two annual prizes: the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge and the Young Researchers Award. Ebbe Nielsen Challenge In 2001, GBIF created the Ebbe Nielsen Prize to honour the recently deceased Danish-Australian entomologist Ebbe Nielsen , who was a keen proponent of both GBIF and
176-584: The award as an incentive competition, now known as the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge . The following list of recipients is given on the GBIF web site: Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Information Facility ( GBIF ) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services . The data are provided by many institutions from around
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#1732776068460192-448: The biodiversity informatics discipline. That prize recognized a global researcher or research team for their retrospective contribution(s) to the field of biodiversity informatics , according to criteria set out by GBIF in the terms of the award. From 2015 onwards, GBIF re-launched the award process as a competition between global individuals or teams of researchers to create new software or approaches to using biodiversity data according to
208-659: The discovery and extraction of relevant biodiversity data from open data repositories." No winners were announced, indicating that the 2017 prize money was not awarded to any entry. Challenge: "The 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is deliberately open-ended, so entrants have a broad remit for creating tools and techniques that advance in open science and improve the access, utility or quality of GBIF-mediated data. Challenge submissions may be new applications, visualization methods, workflows or analyses, or they build on and extend existing tools and features." Joint First Prize winners: Joint Second Prize winners: Details are available via
224-515: The interlinking of diverse data types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and catalysing development of analytical tools for improved decision-making. GBIF strives to form informatics linkages among digital data resources from across the spectrum of biological organisation, from genes to ecosystems , and to connect these to issues important to science, society and sustainability by using georeferencing and GIS tools. It works in partnership with other international organisations such as
240-658: The world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The mission of the GBIF is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpin sustainable development . Priorities, with an emphasis on promoting participation and working through partners, include mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building an informatics architecture to allow
256-439: Was received. Challenge: "Make significant use of GBIF-mediated data in a way that provides new representations or insights. Your submission could involve a range of results—websites, stand-alone or mobile applications, or outputs of analyses—or could seek to improve any number of issues or processes, including (but not limited to) data analysis or visualization, data workflows, uploading, or annotations." A list of finalists for
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