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Joaquim Santos @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy to see georeference.it among the four winners of the 2026 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 🎉 A personal project to enable the community to improve biodiversity data georeferencing. A great motivation to keep building the platform and its community. Thank you @gbif.org! 🙌 georeference.it

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georeference.it | Georeference GBIF Specimens

georeference.it is a crowdsourced platform to add coordinates to ungeoreferenced natural history specimens from GBIF. Help map biodiversity collections worldwide.

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Joaquim Santos @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

After 5 years as an idea in my head, I finally built it. Introducing georeference.it: an open-source platform for collaborative georeferencing of GBIF specimens. Help improve biodiversity data through community georeferencing, validation and error detection. Feedback welcome! 🌍 georeference.it

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Georeference Specimens — georeference.it

Add coordinates to ungeoreferenced natural history specimens from GBIF. Collaborative georeferencing tool for biodiversity collections worldwide.

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Joaquim Santos @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Not to brag, but... seeing our Wikidata for botanists paper among the most-read recent articles in Annals of Botany made my day!

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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira @hgoliv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Last Wednesday at the CISUC Summit! With first-year PhD students Paulo, @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social, Tomás. #CISUC

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Sabine von Mering @svmering.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is part of this new issue of @annbot.bsky.social See: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... Result of a great #collaboration @siobhanleachman.bsky.social @joaquimsantos1978.bsky.social Heidi Meudt! #Wikidata #LOD

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Wikidata for Botanists: Connecting People, Plants, and Data 📚 Now in @botany.one 🌿 botany.fyi/7dtcvb Full paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Globe in the hands. Image: ASphotostudio / Canva.

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