Deadline: 27 July 2020
The 2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has opened with the aim of recognizing innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science.
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 available across the GBIF network. They encourage entrants to review previous winners as well as previous entries—for ideas, problems or approaches you may wish to pursue.
Winners will be announced at the 27th GBIF Governing Board meeting, to be held in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, from 20-22 September 2020.
Prize Information
An expert jury will judge entries on their openness and repeatability, relevance and novelty and present a selected pool of winners with a total of up to €35,000 in prizes.
Eligibility Criteria
The Challenge is open to:
- Individuals;
- Teams of individuals, with no limit on the number of people included in a team;
- Organizations—including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities)—at exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry (“Organizations”);
- An individual may join more than one team or Organization, and an individual who is part of a team or Organization may also enter the Challenge on an individual basis. If participating in a team, the team must appoint and authorize one individual (the ‘Representative’) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf.
The Challenge is not open to:
- 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.
Judging Criteria
Eligible Submissions will be evaluated by an expert panel of judges from relevant scientific, informatics and technology domains selected by the Administrator (the “Judges”), and scored using the following equally weighted criteria (the “Judging 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.
Jury members will score entries based on four categories:
- Innovation;
- Impact;
- Quality of the system;
- Overall quality of the submission.
How to Apply
- All submission materials must be in English or, if not in English, the Maker must provide an English translation of the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions as well as all other materials submitted.
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Entrants must complete the entry form via given website, 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 submission materials on any appropriate website or repository
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