GBIF.ES participates in the workshop “Transfer of technical capacities associated to the publication of biodiversity data through GBIF network”

Katia Cezón (GBIF.ES) has joined the workshop “Transfer of technical capacities associated to the publication of biodiversity data through GBIF network”, as a teacher. This took place in Santiago de Chile from April 23rd to 25th, 2018.

The workshop – part of the GBIF-CESP project “Regional capacity enhancement to Latin America by establishing Chile’s node” – has tried to incentivize Chilenian institutions and experts working in biodiversity in order to publish their own data in the GBIF network.

In this link you can find more extended information about the workshop and the used teaching materials (just in Spanish).

After the workshop, the 7th Regional Meeting of GBIF-Nodes from Latin America and Caribe was hosted at the Central House in the University of Chile.

The main goal of this meeting was to present the GBIF initiative and strategic plan for 2017-2021. Katia Cezón participated as a guest and talked about the Atlas of Living Australia platform and the Living Atlases community which was created for the international cooperation of this kind of portals.