Annual Training Plan

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Find below the courses that GBIF.Es has planned for 2019. Please, note that in some cases the dates shown might be tentative. If you wish to obtain further information about any of the activities listed here, please visit our section: activities organized by GBIF Spain. All comments from users are welcome at infogbifspain@gmail.com.

The “more information” links, that point to the specific page of each workshop with detailed information, will be working when as the workshops’ dates get closer and their contents are confirmed.

12 - 27 March 2019

II GBIF.ES Online Workshop on Biodiversity Data Quality

This workshop is aimed to provide the theoretical base and introduce different tools useful for controlling data quality, from the data collection to the publication process, through their systematization, identification, taxonomy, documentation, storage, and conservation of the information. Biodiversity data are the basis of many research projects and have a very important role in decision making regarding the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The workshop is addressed to biologists, curators of natural history collections, scientists and anyone who is actively involved in the biodiversity data management.

Free - 30 Teaching hours

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1 - 5 April 2019 (Paris)

International Living Atlases Workshop

The Living Atlases Workshop is intended to bring together developers who are using Living Atlases tools, and developers who have an interest in using these tools for new projects. The main topics will be the configuration of geospatial and regions modules, ALA4R modules, the publication of trait data and species lists management. The last day of the workshop will be focused on planning the launch of the Living Atlas Community of Practice. This workshop is funded by GBIF as part of the CESP project "Living Atlases workshop: how to improve data use with Atlas of Living Australia modules".

Funded by GBIF - 30 Teaching hours

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23 & 30 April 2019

RJB, GBIF.ES & CRIF Las Acacias Workshop on Natusfera.

This theoretical-practical workshop is aimed at science teachers from the Madrid County. The program of the workshop includes basics about citizen science, the GBIF network and the main functionalities of Natusfera. The workshop will also include detailed information for the City Nature Challenge competition, an international bioblitz that will be held in April 26-29, 2019 in more than 130 cities around the world (in Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, Pamplona, and Banyoles), to obtain the greatest number of observations of living beings in their local nature and publish them on the internet.

Free - 4 Teaching hours

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13 & 14 May 2019 (Barcelona)

GBIF.ES Workshop on Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF (Generalitat de Catalunya)

This training event is exclusively for environmental technicians working at the Generalitat de Catalunya and it aims to learn participants to be able to prepare and publish biodiversity data through the GBIF network. Topics such as data quality, data cleaning and validation, data standardization and data publication through the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) will be addressed.

Free for environmental technicians from the Generalitat de Catalunya - 9 Teaching hours

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10 - 12 June 2019

II GBIF.ES Workshop on the use of Elysia, tool for managing natural history collections

This workshop is aimed at curators and technicians working with natural history collections (both zoological and botanical collections), who need to make full management of their collections: digitalization of specimens, labels, reports, transactions such as loans and exchanges, etc. The workshop will be structured by theoretical presentations and practical sessions using ELYSIA, a software developed by the Coordination Unit of GBIF.ES.

Free - 18 Teaching hours

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September 2019

XV GBIF.ES Ecological Niche Modelling Workshop

In this practical workshop, we will study the required concepts and techniques to make species distribution models (SDM) using the statistical software R. Some of the addressed topics will be basic concepts on ecological niche and the modelization process, statistical functions such as GLM, GAM, Regression Trees or Random Forests and concluding with the presentation of a teamwork made during the workshop. This workshop will be given by Blas M. Benito (University of Bergen, Norway).

Free - 26 Teaching hours

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October 2019

II GBIF.ES Online Workshop on the Management, Visualization and Analysis of Ecological Data by using R software (beginner level)

This workshop is aimed to give participants the basics to know how to use the R software to manage, visualize and analyze ecological and biodiversity data. It will deepen in those competencies allowing to be an efficient user of the program such as the directory management, the object manipulation, the graphic design (ggplot), etc.

Free - 15 Teaching hours

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Postponed to 2020

I GBIF.ES online Workshop on Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF and Data Papers

This training aims to learn participants to be able to prepare, use and publish biodiversity data through the GBIF network. Topics such as data quality, data cleaning and validation, data standardization and data publication through the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) will be addressed. This workshop will also show how to convert descriptions of biodiversity data (metadata) into scientific journal articles (data papers). This year, the workshop will be developed online in order to reach a greater number of participants from all over the world.

Free - 24 Teaching hours

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Postponed to 2020

I GBIF.ES Workshop on data use for decision making

This workshop, derived from the CESP Project "Data Use for Decision Making Workshop: an Iberoamerican community call", will introduce the importance of biodiversity data within the decision-making process. Participants will learn how to clean data and run key analyses, such as determining the distribution of a species and assessing the conservation status of species. They will then learn how to communicate their results to key stakeholders in the decision-making process.

Free - To be confirmed Teaching hours

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Annual Training Plan

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