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Machine-readable Nature (MaNa)

The research group for Machine-readable Nature (MaNa) is the contact point for the research data infrastructures at the Natural History Museum in Oslo including the Norwegian participant nodes of GBIF and DiSSCo. Our key research questions focus on machine-readable FAIR research data.

About the group

Key research questions of MaNa (research group for Machine-readable Nature) focus on advancing scientific data standards and data publication solutions for machine-readable FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) research data.

Research data infrastructures and projects
	GBIF Norway - National participant node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Funded by the Research Council of Norway (since 2005).
	DiSSCo Norway - National node of the Distributed System of Scientific Collections. Horizon Europe, ESFRI.
	BioDT - Biodiversity Digital Twin, Horizon Europe (2022-2025)
	BioDATA Advanced - Accelerating biodiversity research through DNA barcodes, collection, and observation data (2021-2024). Funded by HKDir. BioDATA (2018-2022). Funded by DIKU.
	BioMedData - FAIR data management with the life sciences (2021-2024). Coordinated by ELIXIR Norway.
	MaNa Hybrid Helpdesk & Core Research Infrastructure @ UiO