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Data from Natusfera now available through GBIF
Citizens contributing data through Natusfera platform (http://natusfera.gbif.es/) have added nearly 20,000 new observations to GBIF. The Natusfera Citizen Science Observation Dataset gathers research-grade observations having one of the GBIF permitted Creative Commons licenses: CC0, CC BY or CC BY-NC. It includes 19,973 observations of any taxon of any biological group anywhere in the world, although […]
Materials of the GBIF.ES Workshop on R available
The first edition of the GBIF.ES Workshop “Optimizing the use of R in research: new tools for programming, managing, and visualizing biodiversity data” was held on May 29-30, 2018 in the Royal Botanic Garden-CSIC. The workshop provided an introduction to R and RStudio, an overview on how to visualize data in R using functions like […]
With more than 15,000 observations, Madrid, Barcelona, and Cádiz are in the TOP5 European cities during the City Nature Challenge
Madrid, Barcelona, and Cádiz have uploaded to Natusfera platform almost a half of the observations registered in Europe during the City Nature Challenge (Biomaratón in Spanish). There have been two new arthropod species registered in the Iberic Peninsula. The citizen science platform Natusfera, used to register biodiversity data in the mentioned cities, was the European platform which […]
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 […]
2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge From May 9th, the 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge call will open to encourage innovative uses of and applications for the open biodiversity research infrastructure supported by GBIF. This year, the Challenge will award €34,000 for advancements in open science that feature tools and techniques that improve the access, utility or quality of […]
The Biomaratón Madrid 2018 ends in MediaLab Prado with the celebration of the Identificatona, an ID Party
In May the 3rd, 2018, we celebrated an ID Party (so-called Identificatona in spanish), in the auditorium of Medialab Prado (a citizens’ laboratory managed by the Madrid City Council that works as a meeting place for producing open cultural projects). This was the final activity of the Biomaratón de Madrid, as part of the City Nature Challenge […]