GBIF International Training Events

Course on how to access, capture and publish biodiversity data for and from Environmental Impact Assessment work

GBIF Secretariat — 08/15/2011 17:36:39

Porto (Portugal), May - June 2012. A half-day training event on ‘how to access, capture and publish biodiversity data for and from Environmental Impact Assessment work’ is being planned associated to the 32nd annual conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment.

SPNHC 2012 workshop: Georeferencing

GBIF Secretariat — 02/21/2012 10:55:40

New Haven (United States of America), 10-11 June 2012. The third annual SPNHC Georeferencing Workshop will cover tools and techniques to correctly interpret textual location data into spatial descriptions that can be used in mapping and analyses. Participants will learn the fundamentals of georeferencing best practices with a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, including paper maps, the MaNIS Georeferencing Calculator, GEOLocate, BioGeomancer and online exercises.

Data fitness-for-use training workshop by SABIF

GBIF Secretariat — 05/10/2012 13:42:12

Cape Town (South Africa), 14-15 June 2012. This training will be part of the annual Biodiversity Information Management Forum hosted by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). The Forum brings together members of organisations involved in mobilising, managing or using biodiversity data. This training will be relevant for those involved in generating and mobilising data. All participants will be actively involved in working with data and their participation will contribute to improving the quality of data served by SANBI and South African Biodiversity Information Facility (SABIF). Many participants will be in a position to build the skills of their colleagues to improve data fitness-for-use.

VertNet I Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop

GBIF Secretariat — 10/18/2011 10:49:27

Boulder (United States of America), 24-30 June 2012.

The Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop (BITW), will provide participants with the training and experience to work with primary biodiversity data sources and new tools necessary to become proficient in biodiversity informatics and conduct biodiversity research. Led by experienced informaticists and researchers, the BITW will emphasize the use and analysis of aggregated biodiversity data from VertNet, and other sources, for a wide of variety of research.

During the course of five days, participants will work closely with trainers to address compelling biodiversity research questions, focusing on the entire scope of a research project, from initial data acquisition to tools for data evaluation to analysis and finally, project dissemination and outreach. The workshop will include large and small group exercises on a common curriculum as well as the opportunity for participants to discuss and explore individual research questions with trainers.

2012 Asia-Pacific workshop on sharing biodiversity information and the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT2)

GBIF Secretariat — 03/06/2012 12:55:57

Taipei City (Chinese Taipei), 25-27 June 2012. Asia-Pacific regional node managers and biodiversity scientists will be invited to attend this workshop that will cover the installation of the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit v. 2 (IPT2) installation, management, and user interface customization, as well as data publishing to GBIF through IPT2. The trend of data sharing and benefits of submitting data papers will also be emphasized to encourage attendees to disseminate the knowledge of IPT2 setup and to help publish biodiversity data to the GBIF portal in their own countries.