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10 months ago Suggested priority of tasks for the ECA support contractors:
Call for all ECA nodes to contribute to discuss our suggested priority of tasks!
Priority 1: Joint meetings and processes for all regional support contractors across all the GBIF regions. Develop shared best practices across all regions and share them back to ECA nodes and publishers. Building shared practices and a global GBIF nodes community.
Priority 2: Contact and follow up with new data publishers in the ECA region endorsed by the Nodes Steering Group, normally from non-member countries. Offer support with access to the ECA cloud IPT. Including outreach to mobilize new data publishers in particular from non-member countries in close coordination with other ECA Nodes and the GBIF Secretariat.
Priority 3: ECA cloud IPT administration together with Dimitri Brosens and Jörg Holetschek. Create user accounts and support users with data publication.
Priority 4: Support with GRSciColl registration for biodiversity scientific collections in the ECA region. Focus on complementary inventory of collections for non-member countries.
Priority 5: Monitor and improve the registrations from all ECA countries (including member countries). Suggest registration of ROR ID for all ECA institutions. Suggest complementary registration of Wikidata entries for all ECA collections (Wikidata QID as a proxy collection identifier). Suggest registration of ORCID for all people linked to the collections.
Priority 6: Support regional workshops and training events. ECA nodes are encouraged to allocate an appropriate travel budget for this task.
Priority 7: Support GBIF-mediated data use for science and policy in the ECA region in coordination with ECA nodes and the GBIFS.
Priority 8: Support the development of ECA strategic plans and work plans in coordination with the regional representatives and the ECA nodes.
Salza Palpurina and Oleg Borodin are the new regional support contractors for ECA
After a highly competitive recruitment process, the GBIF Secretariat has selected two regional support contractors to assist in establishing a dedicated team to support the GBIF network in Europe and Central Asia (ECA).
Salza Palpurina is a research assistant in botany and data scientist at NMNHS in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Oleg Borodin is a researcher in zoology at Daugavpils University in southeastern Latvia. He was driving force behind Belarus joining GBIF in 2019 and was the country's first GBIF node manager.
The work tasks are described in the advertisement.