Kigali (Rwanda), April 2012. The JRS foundation has awarded the Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS) a grant to build competence for biodiversity information systems in the Albertine Rift region. In the context of that project a first workshop is planned, targeting to cover the following contents: Quality assurance and quality control, data verification and validation, standards and monitoring plan, data users and delivery, data summaries, analysis and reports, distribution mechanisms and feedback.

The event will be organised in collaboration with the GBIF nodes in the region.

 
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The Kew Herbarium Techniques Course is being offered this August at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 

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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.

Santiago de Chile (Chile), 19-21 March 2012. Chile and Costa Rica are engaged in a GBIF mentoring project to facilitate the development of a biodiversity information facility in Chile. Trainers from Costa Rica will participate in this workshop on biodiversity informatics to create capacity and raise awareness on these issues in Chile.

Madrid (Spain), 8-10 February 2012. GBIF has identified the provision of identifiers for biodiversity objects as one of the central challenges to developing a global bioinformatics infrastructure. Besides, one of the main recommendations of the “LSID GUID Task Group” convened by GBIF was to provide education and support for community members who are in the process of adopting Persistent Identifiers.
This course aims at increasing the knowledge of the participants about Persistent Identifiers, specifically on how to issue, use, publish and resolve these identifiers, helping them to select the most appropriate solution for their specific situation.