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

Upcoming Georeferencing Workshop: SPNHC Conference 2011, San Francisco, May 21-22. (05.10.2011)

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

 

Recent worksohps: List includes most recent workshops, detailed by Host/Sponsor, Location (date). See the list of past workshops (pdf) for additional detail.

  1. SABIF, Cape Town, South Africa (4/2011)
  2. TanBIF, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (10/2010)
  3. Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University (8/2010)