News and events
GBIF Spain attends the 11th European GBIF Nodes Meeting
The 11th European GBIF Nodes Meeting took place in Oslo (Norway) on May 22-24, 2019, and it was hosted by GBIF Norway in the Natural History Museum. During the meeting, staff from GBIF Secretariat presented an update of the 2019 GBIF Work Programme and shared the strategy to engage new countries from southern and eastern […]
GBIF.ES assists the GBIF Secretariat in using the Spanish e-learning platform
GBIF.ES together with the GBIF Secretariat organized a training activity focused on the use of the GBIF.ES Virtual Training Platform (http://elearning.gbif.es/), based on the free software Chamilo. The workshop took place on April 25-26, 2019 at the headquarters of GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen and the main instructors were Katia Cezón and Carmen Lujano, staff members of the […]
The Identificatona, an ID Party from the Biomaratón Madrid 2019
Last April 30, we hosted the Identificatona, the identification party (ID Party) from the Biomaratón Madrid, which took place in the LAB 1 of MediaLab Prado (Madrid City Council). The main goal of this event was identifying what species we can find in the city and it was part of an international friendly challenge, the City Nature […]
New edition of the International Living Atlases Workshop, in Paris
The International Living Atlases Workshop took place in April 1-5th 2019, in the National Museum of Natural History of Paris and was organised by GBIF France, VertNet, Atlas of Living Australia and GBIF Spain. This workshop was one of the main activities in the CESP project granted by GBIF in the 2018 call. In this edition, […]
Biodiversity data hosted on datos.gbif.es ready to work with R software
In order to support the scientific community, that needs powerful tools to manage, visualize and analyze ecology and biodiversity data, GBIF.ES has configured the ALA4R module on the Spanish Living Atlas. ALA4R is an R programming language package, originally developed by Ben Raymond (Australian Antarctic Division), which enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted […]
Open call for II GBIF.ES Workshop on the use of Elysia, tool for managing natural history collections
Registration period for the II GBIF.ES Workshop on the use of Elysia, tool for managing natural history collection is already opened. This workshop will take place on June 10-12, 2019 in the computer room at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (CSIC). The three-day hands-on workshop is addressed to curators and technicians working with natural history collections (both zoological and botanical collections), […]