[Webinar] Bugs to Bytes: A Free Platform for ecological Research Data and more
Most ecological research data is still managed through scattered spreadsheets, lab notebooks and ad-hoc shared folders. Thus, organising a multi-site survey — let alone collaborating across and within institutions — quickly becomes the bottleneck that slows the actual research down.
The free, web-based platform bugstobytes.com is built exactly for this problem. It provides researchers a clear data structure that mirrors the actual workflow of modern field work, with fully customisable metadata. Every specimen record is linked to the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, with autocomplete search, synonym resolution, and full hierarchical classification.
In this webinar we will walk through:
- The platform’s foundation: how it supports and simplifies your research process and data management
- A live tour of the platform: from creating a project to exporting publication-ready datasets and plots
- Data and project sharing: how organisations and personal workspaces on the platform support collaboration across individual researchers and within institutions
Join us live, hands-on by joining the shared organisation we created on the platform just for this webinar. Use the invite link below to create your free account on our platform and join the organisation right away. During the webinar we will work inside this organisation together — creating projects, capturing data, and exporting results — so you can follow along in your own browser and try every step yourself instead of just watching.
Please register here before the webinar to participate in the hands-on session:
https://www.bugstobytes.com/invite/f5f3c90b-2b60-4d1f-b6d3-73e33b7b7381/accept
Speaker: Victor Scharnhorst, Philipp Meyer
Language: English