Annual Training Plan

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You can find below the courses that GBIF.Es has currently planned for 2018. Please, note that in some cases the dates shown might be tentative. If you want 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.

22 January - 6 February 2018

GBIF.ES Online Workshop on Biodiversity Data Quality

Biodiversity data are the basis of many research projects and have a very important role in decision making regarding conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The workshop is aimed at biologists, curators of natural history collections, scientists and anyone who is actively involved in the biodiversity data management. Concepts, methods, and tools related to biodiversity data quality will be updated.

Free - 30 Teaching hours

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19 - 23 February 2018

International Living Atlases Workshop

The Living Atlases Workshop, funded by GBIF as part of the CESP programme, 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 aim is to share knowledge and experiences of this toolset and strengthen the burgeoning Atlas open source community. The workshop will cover the core set of components in use by the Atlases, and will include information on updates and new features

Funded by GBIF - 30 Teaching hours

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5 - 6 April 2018

II GBIF.ES Workshop on Natusfera. Record and Manage Observations From Nature Using Natusfera

This theoretical-practical workshop is aimed mainly at people in charge of groups and associations with activities in nature, teachers in natural sciences, environmental technicians, and coordinators and educators of nature classrooms. The program of the workshop includes basics about citizen science, the GBIF network and the main functionalities of Natusfera. The workshop will be focused on preparing participants for the City Nature Challenge competition, an international bioblitz that will be held in April 27-30, 2018 in more than 60 cities around the world (in Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, Cádiz, and Seville), to obtain the greatest number of observations of living beings in their local nature and publish them on the internet. The second day of the workshop will consist of a bioblitz somewhere near the city of Madrid.

Free - 9 Teaching hours

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23 - 25 April 2018 (Santiago de Chile)

Regional Workshop on Biodiversity Data Publication

Regional workshop organized in Chile, with Ecuador as a guest country, addressed to data publishers, with the instruction of GBIF Spain, SIB Colombia, and GBIF Argentina, on issues such as data publication and incentives to the publishers. At the end of the Workshop, participants will be familiar with the process of publishing occurrences data and species checklists through the GBIF network. Training will focus on: describing a dataset using appropriate metadata standards, cleaning data with appropriate tools, standardizing data using the Darwin Core standard and publishing datasets in the GBIF network using the IPT. This course is funded by GBIF as part of the CESP programme.

Funded by GBIF - 20 Teaching hours

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29 - 30 May 2018

GBIF.ES Workshop on the Use of R software in research field: new tools for biodiversity data programming, manipulation and visualization

This workshop is aimed at researchers who are interested in improving their knowledge of the R software and at students who need to learn how to use the new R tools. The first day will be focused on searching, refining and downloading data from GBIF using R, and the second day has been reserved to explore different ways to visualize these data.

Free - 15 Teaching hours

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12 - 14 June 2018

II GBIF.ES Workshop on Biodiversity Data Publishing in GBIF and Data Papers

This training event is directed to biologists, natural history curators, and scientists who are actively involved in monitoring and managing biodiversity data. It 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).

Free - 24 Teaching hours

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4 - 7 September 2018

XIV GBIF.ES Ecological Niche Modelling Workshop

The Coordination Unit of the Spanish GBIF node organizes the 14th 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. This workshop will be given by Blas M. Benito (Aarhus University).

280 € - 26 Teaching hours

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October 2018 (to be confirmed)

GBIF.ES Online Workshop on Biodiversity Data Quality - Second Edition

Free - 30 Teaching hours

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13 - 15 November 2018

GBIF.ES Workshop on Georeferencing Natural History Collections

Three-day hands-on workshop led by David Draper (Lisbon University) and Nelson Rios (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History ) to get a glimpse into using GEolocate, a software platform for georeferencing natural history specimens.

100 € - 19 Teaching hours

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27 November - 11 December 2018

I GBIF.ES Online Workshop on the Use of R software in research field (beginner level)

This workshop is aimed at researchers who are interested in improving their knowledge of the R software and at students who need to learn how to use the new R tools.

100 € - 15 Teaching hours

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