This workshop aims to increase the region’s capacity in digitizing and publishing biodiversity data from scientific literature, images and other multimedia objects. It is one of five projects to receive GBIF capacity enhancement support for 2014. The training event is organized by Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA), INCT-Herbário Virtual da Flora e dos Fungos do Brasil (INCT-HVFF), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and GBIF Spain.