News and events
Strengthening the Living Atlases Community of Practice
The Living Atlases community appoints two new coordinators and launches new video tutorials for users of the platform The GBIF Secretariat has funded two half-time positions in the network to assist in developing a growing community of practice around ‘Living Atlases.’ Vicente Ruiz Jurado of the Atlas of Living Spain will act as technical coordinator, […]
Open call for XV GBIF.ES Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling
The registration period for the XV GBIF.ES Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling is already opened. This workshop will take place on September 4-7, 2019 in the computer room at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (CSIC). This training event aims to teach participants on terms and techniques to be able to run species distribution models through the use of the R statistical application. This workshop will be […]
GBIF.ES releases Elysia v2: a software application to manage natural history collections
Elysia is an open source software application developed by the Spanish GBIF Node (GBIF.ES) to digitize and manage botanical and zoological natural history collections. The release of Elysia v2 was published on 10 June 2019. This version includes new features and improvements focused in managing acquisitions, loans, and exchanges of plant specimens, locations, as well […]
GBIF Spain attends the 11th European GBIF Nodes Meeting
The 11th European GBIF Nodes Meeting took place in Oslo (Norway) on May 22-24, 2019, and it was hosted by GBIF Norway in the Natural History Museum. During the meeting, staff from GBIF Secretariat presented an update of the 2019 GBIF Work Programme and shared the strategy to engage new countries from southern and eastern […]
GBIF.ES assists the GBIF Secretariat in using the Spanish e-learning platform
GBIF.ES together with the GBIF Secretariat organized a training activity focused on the use of the GBIF.ES Virtual Training Platform (http://elearning.gbif.es/), based on the free software Chamilo. The workshop took place on April 25-26, 2019 at the headquarters of GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen and the main instructors were Katia Cezón and Carmen Lujano, staff members of the […]
The Identificatona, an ID Party from the Biomaratón Madrid 2019
Last April 30, we hosted the Identificatona, the identification party (ID Party) from the Biomaratón Madrid, which took place in the LAB 1 of MediaLab Prado (Madrid City Council). The main goal of this event was identifying what species we can find in the city and it was part of an international friendly challenge, the City Nature […]