GBIF.ES Latest news in GBIF.es http://www.gbif.es/ en-US info@gbif.es(GBIF.es information) http://www.gbif.es/Creditos.php Sun, 1 Aug 2010 06:41:54 +0200 http://www.gbif.es/img/gbifes_p.jpg GBIF.ES http://www.gbif.es/ [News] <![CDATA[Young Researchers Award ]]>July the 15th, 2010.

Call for proposals for the first GBIF Young Researchers Award

The main objective of the award is to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students in masters and doctorate programs at universities in countries participating in the GBIF network.  It is expected that the awards will stimulate graduate students to develop new research in biodiversity informatics and also serve as an outreach mechanism to universities. Two awards of Euro 4,000 each will be made available fow the winners. Applicants can obtain details regarding the submission of proposals and other information from the national GBIF node. In Spain, applications must be submitted to the Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF Node to info@gbif.es before September the 15th 2010. ]]>GBIF.ES Newsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200[News] <![CDATA[Memoradum of Cooperation between GBIF and LifeWatch ]]>June the 23rd, 2010.

A Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between LifeWatch and GBIF has been signed.

This MoC provides the basis for both projects to collaborate together to develop and share critical biodiversity informatics infrastructure and information, in order to further their respective mandates. The complementarities and commonalities of both initiatives match so nicely that it is a unique opportunity for nodes to work better on making biodiversity data accessible and used for the benefit of our societies. ]]>GBIF.ES Newsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200[News] <![CDATA[GBIF Network serves more than 200 million records. ]]>June the 23rd, 2010.

GBIF Network serves more than 200 million records.

GBIF has now made accessible on line more than 200 million primary biodiversity data. In 2009, 35 new data publishers registered to the GBIF network and the total number of accessible records increased by 20%. The current rate of data mobilization continues to show linear growth in 2010. Regarding Spain, 54 Institutes and projects participating in GBIF have set up 140 online biodiversity databases giving access to over 6 million records. The full list of data publishers can be found at www.gbif.org/participation/data-publishers/who-is-publishing/. Visit the Spanish and international data portals at: http://data.gbif.org/ and www.gbif.es/datos. ]]>GBIF.ES Newsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200[News] <![CDATA[Towards 2020 Science ]]>June the 14th, 2010.

The recommendation of the month: Towards 2020 Science

In the summer of 2005, an international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fifteen years. The resulting document, Towards 2020 Science, sets out the challenges and opportunities arising from the increasing synthesis of computing and the sciences. In particular this report focuses on the biological sciences as it is in this area where the greatest impact of the computer science will be felt. The information, findings and opinions contained in this document are still totally valid. ]]>GBIF.ES Newsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200[News] <![CDATA[Terms used in bionomenclature ]]>May the 28th, 2010.

Terms Used in Bionomenclature glossary by Prof. David Hawksworth and published by GBIF

GBIFS Informatics announces the publication of an updated edition of Terms Used in Bionomenclature, compiled by Prof. David Hawksworth. This is a glossary of over 2,100 terms used in biological nomenclature. The glossary is available in print-ready PDF format as well as via an online web application that can be browsed, searched, and output in HTML, JSON and RDF to support re-use and referencing.

]]>GBIF.ES Newsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200[Event] <![CDATA[TDWG 2010: Woods Hole Massachusetts]]> Woods Hole, Massachusetts (USA). 27th September - 1st October 2010
Organised by: TDWG Community.
Venue: Marine Biological Laboratory.
Deadline for pre-subscriptions: to be confirmed.
TDWG 2010 will be held in Massachusetts, USA from Monday 27th September until Friday 1st October. Some of the themes are: Names, concepts and identifiers; Citizen Science; Agrobiodiversity; Literature and publications; Hardware and infrestructure. Registration must be done on line at: http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=862491 ]]>GBIF.ES Eventsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:59:59 +0200[Event] <![CDATA[1st Workshop on SDI]]> Madrid June 7th-9th, 2010
Organised by: Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF Node.
Venue: Computer Room of the Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC).
Deadline for pre-subscriptions: to be confirmed.
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.]]>GBIF.ES Eventsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:59:00 +0200[Event] <![CDATA[Workshop on GIS and GEOLocate]]> Madrid (Spain) March 19th-23rd 2010
Organized by: Coordination Unit of the GBIF Spanish Node.
Venue: Computing Facility of the Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC).
Deadline for pre-subscriptions: March the 22nd, 2010.
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. It will be given by Pablo Sastre and David Draper.]]>GBIF.ES Eventsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:59:59 +0200[Event] <![CDATA[Sixth call of the GBIF Ecological Niche Modelling workshop]]> Madrid (Spain) May 4th-7th, 2010
Organised by: Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF Node.
Venue: Computer Room of the Royal Botanical Garden (CSIC).
Deadline for pre-subscriptions: April the 9th, 2010.

The Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF node organises the he sixth 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 Desktop GARP or MaxEnt. This workshop will be given by Elisa Liras from Almería University in collaboration with Alicia Gómez (Centro de Información Cartográfica y Territorial de Extremadura, Consejería de Fomento, Junta de Extremadura). ]]>GBIF.ES Eventsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:59:59 +0200[Event] <![CDATA[4th Call of the "Ciclo de Ciencia e Sociedade"]]> Vigo (Spain) March 1st-3rd, 2010
Organized by: Fundación Carlos Casares.
Venue: Sede Fundación Caixa de Galicia.
Free entrance
Some of the goals of this "Ciclo de Ciencia e Sociedade" are to spread how important biodiversity is, try to stop the loss of biodiversity in areas with a high biodiversity level and show methods to cuantify the worldwide bioidversity. Francisco Pando, manager of the Spanish GBIF node, will give a presentation about GBIF.]]>GBIF.ES Eventsinfo@gbif.es(GBIF.es information)Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:59:00 +0100