"Jaime Andrés Rodríguez" LEB Herbarium has launched its new official website http://herbarioleb.unileon.es/ where users could check information about Herbarium staff, colections hosted, services offered, rules to use the Herbarium and workshops organised in order to support its research and education activities.

The Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF Node organises in April the 19th-23rd the first call for the Workshop on GIS and GEOLocate. This workshop will tackle both the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at a basic level as well as an introduction to the GEOLocate software, an electronic georeferencing solution designed to facilitate the task of assigning geographic coordinates to the locality data associated with natural history collections.

In February we start a new section called "Recommendation of the month" with the aim of pointing an article, project, web, talk, etc. that may be interesting in the GBIF context.

This month's recommendation is a video talk of Tim Berners-Lee about the next Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 20 years ago. For this new project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. This talk remarks the effort that some developed countries do in order to make data available and ready to use. For instance: http://data.gov/ y http://data.gov.uk/

The GBIF Secretariat has already published its bymonthly newsletter, GBits. In this newsletter you can read about past events such us the Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity or the workshop organised by the Albertine Rift Conservation Society that took place in Burundi last January and brought together representatives from data centres throughout the Albertine Rift region. You can also find forthcoming information as the next call for nominations for the 2010 Ebbe Nielsen Prize or the draft GBIF Memorandum of Understanding for the post-2011 period.