III Taller sobre Georreferenciación de bases de datos biológicas GBIFS/GBIF-ES
Description:
GBIF Spain organises in collaboration with the GBIF Secretariat The Third GBIF Georeferencing Workshop in Madrid. The lecturer invited will be John R. Wieckzorek from Berkeley University of California. The workshop will be conducted in English and will include the techniques needed to add or complete the geographic information stored with the biological collections’ specimens and/or in other databases holding biodiversity information.
International applications must be endorsed and submitted by a GBIF Head of Delegation or his/her designate to atalavan@gbif.org.
And applicants from Spain are kindly requested to contact directly Francisco Pando at info@gbif.es from the Spanish GBIF Node.
- Adscripción a una institución que colabore y/o provea datos a través de la red de GBIF.
- Número de solicitudes presentadas desde esa misma institución.
- Conocimientos sobre la materia.
- Solicitud y/o presencia en talleres anteriores de GBIF España.
- Orden de inscripción.
In collaboration with GBIF and The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley.
Location: The Coordination Unit of the GBIF National Node in Spain is located in the research building of the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid). The entrance is situated in Claudio Moyano street. Be aware: DO NOT use the Botanic Garden exposition main gate, located in Murillo’s Square, in front of Prado’s Museum main gate.Date: 5-8 mayo 2008.
Google Earth File with Hotel, Real Jardín Botánico and workshop venue locations
NOTE: the map showed in this page has been extracted from Madrid’s Council website: www.munimadrid.es, reproduced here with the authorization of the person in charge.
Agenda
Monday - 5 May
Hour | Activity | Location |
09:00 | Welcome (Francisco Pando) | computer room |
09:15 | Practicalities (Cristina Villaverde) | computer room |
09:20 | Workshop Overview (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
09:30 | Introductions (<5 min presentations welcome) | computer room |
10:00 | Georeferencing Overview (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
10:30 | Break | bonsai room |
11:00 | Methods and Practices Point-radius Method, Best Practices, and Georeferencing Calculator, with examples (Carol Spencer) | computer room |
12:30 | Lunch | bonsai room |
13:30 | Georeferencing Using Paper Maps (Alberto González Talaván) | computer room |
14:15 | Exercises: Using Paper Maps | computer room herbarium prep room |
16:00 | Break | bonsai room |
16:30 | Exercises: Using Paper Maps (continued) | computer room herbarium prep room |
17:30 | End |
Tuesday - 6 May
| Hour | Activity | Location |
| 09:00 | Exercises: Describe this Locality (David Draper) | computer room |
| 10:30 | Break | bonsai room |
| 11:00 | Exercises: Describe this Locality (David Draper) | computer room |
| 12:30 | Lunch | bonsai room |
| 13:30 | Online Resources Presentation Internet Resources (Carol Spencer) <<VIDEO>> | computer room |
| 14:15 | Exercises: Internet Resources | computer room |
| 16:00 | Break | bonsai room |
| 16:30 | Verification Process - Results: Paper Maps (Heather Constable) | computer room |
| 17:00 | Results: Describe this Locality (David Draper/John Wieczorek) | computer room |
| 17:30 | Good and Bad Localities. <<VIDEO>> (David Draper) | computer room |
| 18:00 | End |
Wednesday - 7 May
| Hour | Activity | Location |
| 09:00 | Introduction to GIS. (Pablo Sastre) | computer room |
| 10:00 | Darwin Core, Geospatial Extension. <<VIDEO Part I and Video Part II >> (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
| 10:30 | Break and RJB Tour | bonsai room and RJB |
| 11:30 | Using GIS Part I Using GIS Part II (Pablo Sastre) | computer room |
| 13:30 | Using DIVA-GIS (Pablo Sastre/Carol Spencer) | computer room |
| 14:00 | Lunch | bonsai room |
| 15:00 | Exercises: DIVA-GIS (Kenya,) | computer room |
| 16:00 | GIS Resources, Building Your Own Maps, Verification Using DIVA-GIS (Carol Spencer/Heather Constable) | computer room |
| 16:45 | Break | bonsai room |
| 17:15 | GBIF Data Portals (Francisco Pando) Spanish Data Portal Presentation Part I and Part II. International Data Portal Presentation. | computer room |
| 17:30 | GeoLocate (David Draper) | computer room |
| 18:30 | End |
Thursday - 8 May
| Hour | Activity | Location |
| 09:00 | BioGeomancer. How it works. <<VIDEO>> (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
| 09:45 | BioGeomancer. Georeferencing Workbench (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
| 10:30 | Group Photo and Break | bonsai room |
| 11:15 | BioGeomancer Projects (Batch Processing) (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
| 13:00 | Lunch | bonsai room |
| 14:00 | BioGeomancer Project Exercises (Batch Processing) (John Wieczorek) | computer room |
| 14:30 | Wrap-up and Summary (Francisco Pando) | computer room |
| 15:00 | Workshop Evaluation (Cristina Villaverde) | computer room |
| 15:30 | Individual Participant Georeferencing Projects (All) | computer room |
| 18:30 | End |
Hosts:
Francisco Pando – Spanish GBIF Node. Node Manager
Cristina Villaverde – Spanish GBIF Node. Training Coordinator
Trainers:
John Wieczorek – University of California, Berkeley. Programmer/Analyst
Carol Spencer – University of California, Berkeley. Curator of Herpetology
Heather Constable - Universty of California, Berkeley. Research Associate
Alberto González Talaván – GBIF Secretariat. Training Officer
David Draper – Technical University of Madrid. Researcher
Pablo Sastre – Spanish National Natural History Museum. Researcher
Documentos Adjuntos
Inscription form (deadline: April, the 10th 2008) Good and Bad Localities (video) Online Resources (video) Darwin Core Part I (video) Darwin Core Part II (video) BioGeomancer (video)
Listado de Participantes
- Nº Nombre Organización
- 1 Jorge Martínez Rodríguez CSIC-Real Jardín Botánico
- 2 Beatriz Martín Castro Centro de Investigaciones Ambientales Fernando González Bernáldez. Universidad Complutense, SPAIN
- 3 Javier Otegui Tellechea Universidad de Navarra, SPAIN
- 4 Maite Vázquez Luis Universidad de Alicante, SPAIN
- 5 Pablo Arechavala López Universidad de Alicante, SPAIN
- 6 María Santos Vicente Universidad de Salamanca, SPAIN
- 7 Miguel Ángel Martín Tomé CIBIO, SPAIN
- 8 Estrella Robles Domínguez Universidad de Navarra, SPAIN
- 9 Rosario Noya Santos CSIC-Real Jardín Botánico
- 10 David García San León Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Laboratorio de Botánica, Fac. Farmacia. [Herbario]
- 11 Margarita Dueñas Carazo The Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, SPAIN