Please find below a list of the training activities organized by the Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF Node, together with other outreach activities in events not organized by GBIF Spain. The information provided here includes the documents related to these courses and workshops.

Unless specifically mentioned all workshops are conducted in Spanish.

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3rd Workshop on SIG - March 2012
	Status: subscription open Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), 27th-29th March.   Description: This workshop will tackle the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at a basic level.   More information (usually in Spanish)...
E-Learning Workshop on Data Quality in biodiversity databases - Feb. 2012
	Status: open Venue and date: Online, February 27th - March 11th, 2012.   Description: This workshop is addressed to people who work with biological databases: both those working in natural history collections and those working with other biodiversity-related databases. The principles of data quality will be revised together with methods to increase this quality in our databases   More information (usually in Spanish)...
2nd Workshop on VegAna - Dec. 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), December 20th-21st, 2011.   Description: Basic workshop on VegAna (Vegetation edition and Analysis). It is a software aimed in the ecological data managent and analysis, focused on vegetation data   More information (usually in Spanish)...
AHIM/GBIF.ES Workshop on Herbaria Management and Digitization - Nov. 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), November 28th - December 1st, 2011.   Description: This course will cover the complete process of managing a botanical collection. It is organised in collaboration with the Iberian and Macaronesian Herbarium Association. Application forms should be submitted to velayos@rjb.csic.es before September the 30th 2011.   More information (usually in Spanish)...
5th Workshop about Digital Image for Biodiversity Studies - Oct. 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), October 26th-28th, 2011.   Description: This workshop will cover the process of capture, management and Internet publication of digital images of natural history collection specimens and other images related to biodiversity research projects: icons, microscope slides, etc. Participants are encouraged to bring their own images that will be processed and published in a server especially installed for the workshop   More information (usually in Spanish)...
E-Learning Workshop on Data Recording for Technicians in Natural History Collections - Sept. 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: online, September 15th-30th, 2011.   Description: This workshop is addressed to technicians specialised in natural history collection specimen data recording, both in zoological and botanical ones. During the workshop, the different approaches to the digitization of this kind of information will be studied. The software application used will be Herbar Zoorbar Liegero (HZL), developed by the Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF Node. The advanced functionalities and their use to manage natural history collections will not be included in the workshop, since there are specific workshops on those issues.   More information (usually in Spanish)...
2nd Workshop on Spatial Data Infraestructures (SDI) - June 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), June 14tht-16th, 2011.   Description: This workshop will focus on the service offered by the Spatial Data Infraestructures (SDI) and their application on GBIF. The main goal of the SDI's is to integrate the geographic information from different sources and make it available for user either by checking it on line or by downloading this information.   More information (usually in Spanish)...
Mentoring GBIF Programme: Training and Stakeholder Consultation Workshop - Jun. 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Nairobi (Kenia), 8th to 9th June 2011.   Description: Kenya Biodiversity Information Facility (KenBIF) and GBIF Finland were selected as one of the three GBIF Mentoring Projects in 2010. This programme brought different GBIF Participant Nodes (South Africa, Tanzania, Finland and Spain) together to organised a workshop KENBIF Stakeholder Consultation Workshop that took place in Nairobi from 6th-10th June 2011. The aim was to share their experiences – and expertise with Kenia and enabled the quick transfer of information, technologies, experiences and best practices on documentation, management and data and metadata exchange to enforce the GBIF Node of Kenia.   More information (usually in Spanish)...
7th Call of the GBIF Ecological Niche Modelling Workshop - May 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), May 10th-13th, 2011.   Description: The Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF node organises a replica of the seventh GBIF Ecological Niche Modelling workshop. The basic concepts needed to understand and perform biological data analysis through modelling are studied in this practical workshop, together with diverse software commonly used in this field, as Open Modeller or MaxEnt. This workshop will be given by Blas M. Benito from Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente. It will take place in May from the 10th to the 13th 2011 in the computing facility of The Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC). The deadline to send pre-subscription forms is April the 9th, 2011.   More information (usually in Spanish)...
Workshop on GIS and GEOLocate - April 2011
	Status: closed Venue and date: Madrid (Spain), April the 4th-8th, 2011.   Description: 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.   More information (usually in Spanish)...