At the same time as our world is facing a biodiversity crisis, probably more than 80% of all species on Earth are unknown to science. Thus, there is an urgent need to find new ways to accelerate the processes of describing, identifying and protecting species. DNA barcoding is a powerful tool that promises to speed up the identification of known species and the discovery of new taxa. Based on the premise that each species can be identified by a short standardized gene region, researchers and citizen scientists around the world collaborate to develop the DNA barcode reference library needed for of species identification using DNA barcoding. The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) consortium was launched in September 2010, with the goal of assembling 5 million barcodes representing 500 000 species by the end of 2015. iBOL is now in its second phase and through the project BIOSCAN aims to enlarge the reference library to 2 million species by 2028. NTNU University Museum coordinates the Norwegian contribution to to iBOL through the Norwegian Barcode of Life, a network of 17 biodiversity institutions in Norway that forms a distributed national infrastructure for DNA barcoding. Through the involvement in this large-scale international research enterprise, Norway will contribute significantly to the global effort of characterizing the world's biodiversity and provide new innovative tools for its discovery, management and conservation. This webpage gives an overview of the activity in NorBOL since 2014. For additional information on NorBOL and DNA barcoding, please see the project webpage.