A look back at the past three years more

BHL and Plazi will collaborate to create a workflow from existing literature to liberate digital accessible data to its reuse in GBIF... more

One of the big challenges in biology - how many species are on planet Earth, where do they live and what do they do - is increasingly relevant... more

Plazi submitted a new term “materialCitation” for dicussion for an eventual inclusion in the TDWG Darwin Core standard... more

The launch of the new feedback button in GBIF reflects the commitment by GBIF and Plazi to care about the data... more

Managing collaborations involving multiple locations, time zones and complementing operations is challenging... more

Three months ago we started with Pensoft an effort (see also press release) to contribute to a better understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) aka corona virus that led to the global... more

A milestone in the development of modern biology was the introduction of the standardization resulting from comparative and... more

On the 1st of April, 2020, a new copyright law was enacted in Switzerland. Amongst other revision points, it declares an extension of the protection of... more

The COVID-19 pandemic presumably started with the escape of the Coronavirus from its bat host to humans... more