Online Competition 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge from GBIF and prizes 23880 USD

GBIF International announces a competition entitled 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge; Which provides an opportunity for contestants from all over the world to participate via the Internet and the opportunity to win with a total of up to USD 23880 in prizes. it aims to recognize innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science. Challenge submissions may be new applications, visualization methods, workflows, or analyses. So, individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, and usefulness of open biodiversity data.

Eligibility

You must meet the following criteria:

1. The Challenge is open to individuals, teams of individuals, companies and their employees, and governmental agencies and their employees.
2. You must not be one of:
   • Current staff members at the GBIF Secretariat.
   • Individuals currently contracting directly with the GBIF Secretariat.
   • Members of the GBIF Science Committee.
   • Heads of Delegation to GBIF.
3. You must supply the entry form with:
   • Abstract and operating instructions.
   • Link to visuals (prototype, demo, video, screenshots, slides, etc.).
   • Link(s) to the submission materials on any appropriate website.
4. The judges must be able to:
   • access and operate or review the submission at no cost.
   • operate it on readily available hardware (if it is a stand-alone application).
   • repeat any processes (if it is a script or other automated solution).
5. You can prepare and document your entries on any platform you're comfortable with GitHub, Dryad, FigShare, Open Science Framework, Jupyter Notebook, or use your own website.
6. You should focus in the abstract squarely on what the submission is, why it is important to the GBIF communities, and how it works.

Please note: Entries should benefit multiple stakeholder groups, including data users, data holders, and data managers.

How the works are judged:

Your proposals will evaluate based on the following criteria: 

• Openness and repeatability: Are the elements 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? 

Prizes:

• The winners will get a total of up to USD 23880 in prizes.
• Winners will be announced at the 28th GBIF Governing Board meeting in October 2021.

About GBIF:

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. It arose from a 1999 recommendation by the biodiversity informatics Subgroup of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Mega-Science Forum. As GBIF could produce many economic and social benefits and enable sustainable development by providing sound scientific evidence. Moreover, coordinated through its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the GBIF network of participating countries and organizations, working through participant nodes, provides data-holding institutions around the world with common standards and open-source tools that enable them to share information about where and when species have been recorded.

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