New research group at UiO-NHMO for biodiversity informatics

UiO-NHMO has now many biodiversity informatics projects including the GBIF-node, DiSSCo, BioDT, BioMedData, ... Some with long-term lifetimes including the GBIF-node and DiSSCo. And many with larger scope than any other research group at UiO-NHMO. We are currently organized under the GEco research group, and the project portfolio for the GEco group itself is also growing! It is thus decided to explore establishing a new research group for biodiversity informatics. And we have been asked to set a name for the group:

Top group name?

• MaNa = Machine Readable Nature (forskningsgruppe for maskinlesbar natur)
• Acronyms: MaNa, MNR, MaRN, MaReN, M@N4! ...

Good group names?

• NorBIF = Norwegian Biogeodiversity Information Facility
• NaReD = Nature Research Data Group (forskningsgruppe for naturdata)
• NIG = Nature Research data Infrastructure Group (forskningsgruppe for naturdata infrastruktur)
• NHIG = Natural History Informatics Group
• NaHIF = Natural History Information Facility
• NaDaSc = Nature Data Science Group (forskningsgruppe for naturdata)
• NaDaM = Nature Data Management Group (datahånderingsgruppen)
• RED = Research Data Group (forskningsdatagruppen)
• RIG = Research data Infrastructure Group (forskningsdatainfrastrukturgruppen)

More suggested group names?

• Natural History Data Facility
• Nature Data Flow Group
• Natural Diversity Data Flow
• Nat Hist dScience
• BioGeoDataFlow
• Nature and Machine

Discarded names

• Bio Geo Data gruppen = BiGD ----> discarded