News and events
Biomaratón 2018, Natusfera and GBIF.ES presented in Rivas-Vaciamadrid
Last March 23rd, 2018, Felipe Castilla (GBIF Spain), presented Biomaratón 2018 (City Nature Challenge) at the Educational Center El Campillo, in Rivas-Vaciamadrid. The meeting was addressed to six environmental educators from the Environmental Education Centers El Campillo and Chico Mendes. During the event, the GBIF platform and its link with citizen science were presented, as well as the Natusfera platform, the […]
Come and join the ID Party, closing event of the Biomaratón Madrid, with Javier Grijalbo Cervantes
Next Thursday, May 3rd, 2018, from 16:00 to 19:30, the Biodiversity ID Party will take place at the MediaLab Prado‘s conference hall (Madrid Council). If you have expertise and good knowledge in Taxonomy, come to help us to identify and validate the observations made by citizens from Madrid, and uploaded to the Natusfera project “Biomaratón Madrid (CNC […]
Biomaratón 2018, Natusfera and GBIF.ES presented to “CEAs” from Madrid.
Last April 4th, 2018, Felipe Castilla and Katia Cezón (GBIF Spain), presented Biomaratón 2018 (City Nature Challenge) at the Educational Center Polvoranca, in Leganés. The meeting was addressed to eight environmental educators from the Environmental Education Centers (CEA in Spanish) of Polvoranca, Bosques Sur and Caserío de Henares, included in the Environmental Education Network from Comunidad de […]
Open call for II GBIF.ES Workshop on Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF and Data Papers
Registration timeline for the II GBIF.ES Workshop on Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF and Data Papers is already opened. This workshop will take place in June 12-14, 2018 in the computer room at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (CSIC). This training event is directed to biologists, natural history curators, and scientists who are actively involved in […]
Biomaratón 2018, Natusfera and GBIF.ES presented at the Colmenar Viejo’s Council (Madrid)
In April 6th, 2018, Felipe Castilla (GBIF.ES), presented the Biomaratón 2018 (City Nature Challenge) at the Colmenar Viejo’s Council. The event was part of the 2018 Environmental Meeting of this municipality and supported by the Primilla Naturalist Association (ANAPRI), which is one of the coordinating organizations in the Biomaratón Madrid. Around 60 people from Colmenar Viejo […]
Adoption of ‘orphaned’ Spanish datasets completed
Last year, the GBIF Secretariat requested the assistance of national nodes in the network to help rescue a collection of ‘orphaned’ datasets. These datasets no longer appeared to be actively curated or managed, suggesting that their original data hosts no longer had the capacity to host them. In some cases, data hosts have even lost […]