Cash Prize Valued €34,000 in Innovation Challenge about Technology and Data

The 2019 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge will award up to €34,000 in prizes to the most innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science. Individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness, and quality of open biodiversity data and submit them to this open-ended incentive competition.

Details:

Challenge entries can take any number of approaches. Entrants may choose to develop new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses, often (but not always) making use of the GBIF API to access data. You may also build on or extend the capabilities of existing tools and features from across the GBIF network. It's encouraged for entrants to review previous winners as well as previous entries—for ideas, problems or approaches you may wish to pursue. Entries should benefit multiple stakeholder groups, including data users, data holders, and data managers.

Eligibility Criteria:

The Challenge is open to individuals, teams of individuals, companies and their employees, and governmental agencies and their employees.

Submission Guidelines:

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.

Submission Requirements:

Entrants must complete the entry form, which provides information about the entry, including:

• Submission name/title
• Team member(s) names and affiliations
• Abstract and rationale
• Operating instructions
• Link to visuals (prototype, demo, video, screenshots, slides, etc.)
• Link(s) to submit materials on any appropriate website or repository

Judging Criteria:

A panel of expert judges from relevant scientific, informatics and technology domains will evaluate submissions based on the following criteria:

• Openness and repeatability: Are the constituent elements of the submission, like code and content, freely available and transparent? Are they appropriately licensed?
• Applicability: Does the submission have sufficient relevance and scope that the communities GBIF support can use or build it?
• Novelty: Has a significant portion of the submission been developed specifically for the challenge? Submissions based largely or entirely on previously published work are not deemed to be eligible entries.

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