ALA-LAs Technical Workshop (Madrid, March 2025)
This workshop aims to strengthen collaboration and efficiency in Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) related developments, specifically targeting developers and managers within the Living Atlases (LAs) community. It is not an introductory or training workshop; rather, it is designed specifically for developers and teams actively maintaining and adapting biodiversity data portals based on the ALA platform.
The workshop is structured in two streams: one for developers and one for managers. It was suggested and welcomed to introduce a time frame dimension with two aspects. In the long term, the goal is to advance a common strategic framework. In the short term, with a focus on addressing concrete development issues, so developers can return home with practical solutions and approaches they can apply.
Venue: Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC. Madrid. Spain
Dates: March 11-14, 2025
Background: As part of the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Conference, a productive and thought provoking session around "Biodiversity Data, Software and Workflows: Beyond observations, beyond biodiversity (SYM07)" took place. The session had a strong focus on ALA community developments and as a result, the idea of reviving the technical meetings around ALA-LAs, which had ceased during the pandemic, was proposed. Some members of the LAs community (Flanders, France, Sweden and Spain) strongly believe in the necessity and potential of these meetings, leading to the organization of this workshop.
Registration and admission
Please use this form to register for the workshop. Closed.
Registration will be open until January 8th. Admission will be notified by January 14th.
Note: Registration does not imply automatic admission. A confirmation message will be sent to those who are admitted. For inquiries, please contact info@gbif.es.
For operational reasons, a limit for 25 participating developers is set. Similar constraints operate for managers.
Location map and recommended accommodations
Hotels nearby
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Agenda
(Updated as of February 17, 2025)
| NOTE: The structure of the developers' sessions will be as follows: - 15' Introduction of the topic by a speaker, followed by - 45' Discussion in two parallel groups, concluding with - 30' Pooling and conclusions. |
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Developers |
Managers |
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March 11, Tuesday |
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| 9:00 | Welcome, introduction, objectives | |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:00 | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | 01. Strategies for common LA installation procedures | Long term vision (Consortium, Community of practice) |
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:00 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch break | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | ||
| 13:30 | Tour to the garden | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 14:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 15:00 | 02. Spatial portal & spatial interfaces | GBIF collaboration |
| 15:30 | ||
| 16:00 | ||
| 16:30 | 03. Reuse of the GBIF infrastructure as in: Registry, GRSciColl, Collectory | Managers are invited to participate in the developers' session |
| 17:00 | ||
| 17:30 | ||
| 18:00 | ||
Developers |
Managers |
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March 12, Wednesday |
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| 9:00 | 04. Managing sensitive data | Regional focus needs (such as for EU and Annex II, Natura 2000 uniformization, invasive EU species), region-specific taxonomy |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:00 | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | 05. Code documentation, issue management | Adaptation to CARE principles, new tracking systems for local community data, new extensions for socio-biodiversity data, and new ways for integration with GenBank in BIE |
| 11:15 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 11:45 | 06. Identifiers sharing between ALA and GBIF | |
| 12:00 | ||
| 12:15 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch break | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | ||
| 13:30 | 07. Pipelines adoption and thresholds | Branding & internationalization |
| 14:00 | 08. Reuse of the GBIF infrastructure as in: occurrence processing | |
| 14:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 15:00 | 09. Species list handling & management | eDNA datasets index in LA platforms |
| 15:30 | ||
| 16:00 | 10. Species pages | |
| 16:30 | ||
| 17:00 | ||
Developers |
Managers |
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March 13, Thursday |
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| 9:00 | 11. Event base data handling | LAs community governance |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:00 | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | 12. Taxon oriented: checklistbank, use of different taxonomies and Catalogue of Life | |
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:00 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch break | Lunch break |
| 13:00 | ||
| 13:30 | 13. Internationalization | |
| 14:00 | 14. Discussing the process to refactor the Biocollect software to improve adaptability and streamline module deployment- | |
| 14:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 15:00 | Final discussion and conclusions | |
| 15:30 | ||
| 16:00 | ||
| 16:30 | ||
| 17:00 | ||
Bonding Day |
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March 14, Friday |
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| 8:00 | Departure from Madrid - Atocha | |
| 9:15 | Arrival at San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Stroll around the historical surroundings ("Seat of Phillip II") | |
| 10:00 | Guided tour of the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial | |
| 12:30 | Picnic in La Herrería Forest | |
| 13:00 | Countryside walk | |
| 14:00 | Return | |
| 15:30 | Arrival in Madrid - Atocha | |