1. EU BON Meeting, Joensuu, March 2015 WP2 Task 2.3: Data sharing tools – Action Point MS232 : Technical workshop, review of documents, test versions of data sharing tools (Workshop held) 18th and 20 th of March 2015  Larissa and Patricia to draft the Milestone report with the outcomes, review by partners and WP2 lead to be finalized by end of March/begin April. MS282 Training workshop on standards and prototype data sharing tools for the consortium + external users (Workshop held) 19thi of March 2015 with including external audience  Larissa and Patricia to draft Milestone report with outline of the training, feedback from the audience, show list of participants and highlight audience outside the EU BON consortium to finalize by end of March/begin April - Put the training material and links, life demo (video) online on the helpdesk  in March and April.

2. EU BON Meeting, Joensuu, March 2015 WP 2: Milestone 231 delivered in May 2014 -Recommendations by the EU reviewers and Scientific Advisory Committee to make this document available in a more user-friendly way and to produce publications out of it (ongoing )  Paper with the main part of the document. Annex 1 dealt on the helpdesk  Target : Biodiversity Information Journal from Pensoft  Larissa to check the requirements/guidelines of the journal  Larissa and Pat draft outline of the paper (in April) in google doc  Agree on co-authors (logically the contributors and authors of the M 231) asap  Co-authors to agree on the outline, format, content and size of the paper  Assign writing tasks to authors  Check up to datedness of the current Milestone report (especially the recommendations and conclusions)  Reshape the current text for publication, add citations, examples of usage …  Wording to be check by Native English speaker.  Ideally to be published before November 2015 (second EU review), but should at least have been submitted and accepted to be peer reviewed by then.

3. EU BON Meeting, Joensuu, March 2015 WP 2: Milestone 231 delivered in May 2014 -As technology evolves and new tools are analysed, such a report has to be more dynamic and be regularly updated : helpdesk in the Data Mobilisation Toolkit you can find a chapter on data sharing tools : http://eubon.cybertaxonomy.africamuseum.be/data-sharing-tools- repository  Regularly check the repository and update existing information adding new tools ( All EU BON partners + externals ongoing activity during the project and beyond for the sustainability plan)  Beyond the data sharing tool task, as the data mobilization Toolkit contains also information on the other components of EU BON such as registries, citizen sciences products, or Monitoring schemes or standards repositories.  Answers to the requirements of the EU to provide the technical information from the official reporting in a more user friendly way.

4. EU BON Meeting, Joensuu, March 2015 WP 2: D2.2 Data sharing tools for M 39 = feb 2016 Taking M231 in account, deliverable about the selected Data Sharing tools, their interlinkage with the EU Bon Data portal release and positioning among the other technical components. Description of the installations and implementations of the data sharing tools, analysis of their usage and usability Use cases with for example the data of the selected demo sites (WP5), with data from WP3 and WP4 see how their results can be fed and visualized on the portal, but Also sharing data in the proper format they need to run their models. Interaction with WP6 and 7 to make sure that the tools share the information to the experts in an proper and accurate way so they can prepare the work of the policy and Decision makers. Already think ahead of the 2 nd review and identify potential publications to do from the technical reports when we produce them and format them accordingly to be more Efficient.

5. EU BON Meeting, Joensuu, March 2015 Next training activities ? -keep track of all workshops and trainings organized/held within EU BON (Larissa with support of all) -Keep track of workshops and trainings organized outside the EU BON consortium, but have relevance for it. (Larissa with the support of all, also outside EU BON) -Have this information placed on the helpdesk. -Next planned trainings : Cambridge (June ?), later this year in JRC ISPRA ? Manifestation of Interest from Creta and Tartu … also advanced workshops, hackton interest for example in WP3 and 4 on modelling and remote sensing ? August 2015 August 2016 Feb 2016