European training hackathon on species checklists using GBIF data

This regional collaboration supported actions targeted at European nodes to enhance their capacity to produce national checklists. Using the innovative format of intensive open-source software development used with success in computational biology, the hackathon aimed at removing barriers to collaboration while seeking to improve participants’ skills in using cross-mapping tools. The resulting tools and workflows facilitate the automatic creation of precursor national checklists using the GBIF-mediated data, the Catalogue of Life, and other data sources.