GBIF-HerpNET Workshop

Other Meetings:
UC Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, ORNIS Georeferencing Workshop, August 2007.

Buenos Aires - GBIF/ORNIS Georeferencing Workshop, March 2007.

Previous meeting: 5-8 December 2006 at the Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren, Belgium. The meeting will being at 9:00 am on Tuesday, 5 December at the Palais de Colonies (Colonial Palace), Building A, 1rst floor, on the grounds of the RMCA.

Please bring a copy of some data from your institutional database with you. We will be georeferencing your own data at this workshop.

Before you come to the meeting, please read these documents:

Before purchasing your ticket or making your travel plans, please carefully read through the GBIF Travel Guidelines.

Bring a laptop computer. Both wireless and wired internet access will be available. We will be using DIVA-GIS and ESRI GIS software, so a PC or a Mac with a Pentium processor is needed. These programs require the Windows XP or 2000 operating system.

Before attending, download DIVA-GIS to your computer. We will give you an evaluation copy of ArcView 9.1 to install, so you will need the administrative password for your computer.

If you do not have a computer to bring to these meetings, please contact Carol Spencer and Patricia Mergen.

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