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Announcing GBIF Training Workshops on “Becoming a GBIF Data Provider”

Announcing GBIF Training Workshops on “Becoming a GBIF Data Provider”

The DiGIR network is designed to serve primary data on species occurrences derived from museum specimens and observational records. This training is designed to facilitate the development of a network of DiGIR providers serving primary data. In most instances these servers will be hosted by the Natural History Collections or other institutions that hold this type if data. It would be expected that participants already have access to these types of data sets or are preparing to train others that are willing to serve this type of information.

A basic set of documents describing the training is available on the GBIF web site under http://www.gbif.org/Support/training.

Workshop description is available under http://www.gbif.org/Support/training/courses/course01

All GBIF Participants are invited to send one person to these events. Please take note of the target audience and prerequisites. The training is intended for technical people that are already knowledgeable about operating systems, relational databases, Web servers and XML. They should be able to install and operate the data provider packages.

Schedule

The planned schedule is available from here http://www.gbif.org/Support/training/schedule and is currently as follows:

Northern and Central Europe

2003-09-19 Stockholm, Sweden

North America

2003-09-25..26 Ottawa, Canada

Asia and Oceania

2003-10-05 Tsukuba, Japan (in connection with GB7 and NODES4 - priority will be given to participants from Asia and Oceania)

Southern and Central Europe

2003-10-24 Lisbon, Portugal (in connection with TDWG meeting)

Latin America (in Spanish)

2003-11-17..19 San José, Costa Rica

Africa

2004-03-23..26 Cape Town, South Africa

Francophonie worldwide (in French)

2004-03-29..04-02 Paris, France

Organisers for the two last mentioned classes are still being sought. If you wish to volunteer to organise one of these, please make sure that you can provide a classroom supporting the following requirements http://www.gbif.org/Support/training/hosting/classroom and contact the GBIF Secretariat. Help will be appreciated.

Principles for attending

1. Every GBIF Participant is invited send one *technical* person to one DiGIR training event at GBIF cost. Participants should in principle choose the event closest to their region or language.
2. Trainees should register on the web site at least 3 weeks in advance. After registering, those who have given “Official Delegate” as their status will receive on email an invitation letter, which entitles them for reimbursement. General rules of GBIF Travel and reimbursement should be followed.
3. Additional trainees with the required technical background may be sent at the Participant’s expense, provided that space is available. They should also register on the web site as “Other Attendee”.
4. GBIF will support only regional training events where many Participants come. The Participant nodes are strongly encouraged to organise afterwards their own national/Participant events.

The plan

The data provider software that is the main subject of this round of training is available for download at http://www.gbif.org/Support/training/material/course01. It consists of GBIF-tested implementations, for both Linux and Windows, of materials from http://digir.sourceforge.net as well as some programs produced by the GBIF Secretariat. These packages will automatically enable users to register data providers in the GBIF central registry at http://registry.gbif.net/, so that the data providers can be integrated into the GBIF network and located by users.

A portal software toolkit for easy access to the distributed data sources will be demonstrated in the training, and new versions of it be made available for use by the nodes in a few months.