georeferencing workshop

georeferencing workshops

georeferencing workshops are excellent opportunities for the museum and bioinformatics communities to share resources and information.

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georeferencing workshops

A georeferencing workshop was offered through the Danish Biodiversity Information Facility (DanBIF) January 27-29, 2009 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Georeferencing workshops are widely attended by curators, collection managers, students, database managers and many others in the natural history community. By using a standard protocol for georeferencing, researchers can make the geospatial data in thier collections interoperable with many other collections. Workshops include informative lessons, fun with problem solving and titillating discussions.

 

A typical workshop run by Carol Spencer and/or John Wieczorek will cover:

  • Basic Geography and Theory of Georeferencing
  • The Point Radius Method
  • Using the Error Calculator
  • Georeferencing With Paper Maps
  • Writing Good Locality Descriptions
  • Online Resources
  • Introduction ot using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Georeferencing
  • Using BioGeomancer

 

Past workshops (pdf for additional detail):
List is detailed by Host/Sponsor, Location (date).

  1. HerpNET/NSF, University of Kansas (12/2003)
  2. HerpNET/NSF, University of Kansas (12/2004)
  3. HerpNET/NSF, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (12/2005)
  4. HerpNET and GBIF/GBIF, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (5/2006)
  5. HerpNET and GBIF/GBIF, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (6/2006)
  6. HerpNET and REBIOMA/MVZ and HERPNET, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (8/2006)
  7. GBIF I/GBIF, Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (12/2006)
  8. GBIF II/GBIF, MACN, Buenos Aires, Argentina (3/2007)
  9. ORNIS/ORNIS and NSF, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (8/2007)
  10. Alaska Museum of the North/UAM, Fairbanks, Alaska (2/2008)
  11. APN, Bariloche, Argentina (3/2008)
  12. GBIF III/GBIF and GBIF-ES, Royal Botanical Gardens, Madrid, Spain (5/2008)
  13. DanBIF, Copenhagen, Denmark (1/2009)