IV Seminar of Environmental Documentation Centers and Protected Natural Areas

  • Names

    Naturgune Babestu Eta Ingurumeneko Dokumentazio-Zentroen IV. Mintegia
    IV Seminario de Centros de Documentación Ambiental e Espazos Naturais Protexidos
    IV Seminari de Centres de Documentació Ambiental i D'Espais Naturals Protegits

  • Place and date

    Olot-Arbúcies (Catalonia), from 16 to 18 November 2005

  • Coordination

    Montserrat Grabolosa. Documentary Center of the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa. Environment and Habitat from Generalitat of Catalonia.
    Josep Melero. Pedagogy Programm and Natural Spaces Area Divulgation Unit. Council of Barcelona.
    Rosario Toril. Documentary Center from CENEAM.

  • Seminar development

    Wednesday 16th November 2005


    Questions and discussion turn.

    New participants' presentation:

    • Teresa González Pueyo, General Secretariat of Maritime Fisheries [PDF 1394 KB]
    • Eva Rozas Alós y Mª Jesús Círez Pueyo, Environment Documental Fund. General Directive of Environmental Quality. Environment Department Government from Aragon.
    • Belén Hidalgo Martín, Documentary Center from CEPLAM Las Palmas (CEPLAM means Environmental Planification Center).
    • Aina Borràs Bou y Sebastián Pou Font, Documentary Center General Direction from Caça, Species Protection and Environmental Education from Balears Island Government.
    • Oihane Lopetegi, San Sebastián Resource Center for Sustainability.


    Presentation and visit to Documentary Center of the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa.

    Experience presentation:

    • Dissemination of digital information from the Documentation Center of the Department of the Environment and Housing of the Generalitat de Catalunya. [ZIP 1205 KB]. Rosa Bonet.
    • The FAO virtual library at INIA. Carmen Pérez. INIA. Madrid
    • From an ordered collection of documentary links to a virtual library linked to databases. The experience of EUROPARC-Spain. Javier Puertas. Documentation Center Europarc Spain. Madrid.
    • Portals to free electronic journals in Spain. [ZIP 657 KB]. Elena Primo. Documentation Center National Library of Health Sciences. Madrid
    • Digital catalogue of the lepidoptera population of the Granollers Museum CN. Antoni Arrizabalaga.


    Questions and debate turn.

    Thursday 17th November 2005

    • Technical presentation by Isidro Aguillo. CINDOC. Generating, positioning and measuring: the commitment to content on the Web.

    Questions and discussion turn.

    Experiences presentation:

    Questions and discussion turn.

    Friday 18th November 2005

    Following the projects and common agreements:
     

    • Presentation of a suggestion about the Environment Documentary Centers Guide
    • Presentation of a suggestion to diffund REIDA network (Information and Environment Documentation Network)
    • Conclusions, agreements and preparation of the next Seminar

  • Conclusions

    Follow up and proposal for new projects of common interest to the Seminar participants:

    1. Distribution list and exchange file services

    They informed the new participants in the Seminar of the existence of the CDENPMA Distribution List. Throughout the year, we exchange news of interest, and problems are raised and solved. Moreover, information and documentation also are exchanged. RedIris supports this List. It also has a web space where documents of interest to participants can be there. All interested parties are invited, encouraged, and reminded to subscribe and use it. If you have any question or a technical issue, you have to talk with Javier Puertas from Europarc Spain, who is the administrator of this list (jpuertas@europarc-es.org), or with Jorge Iriarte from Environmental Resources Center from Navarra (jorge@crana.org).

    2. About he Network

    It corrected the network's name (REIDA), and now it is called RECIDA, which means Information and Environmental Documentation Network Centers.

    3. A pamphlet's publication

    At the initiative of Documentary Center of the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa and Natural Space Areas from Barcelona Council, a text proposal is revised and modified for the publication of a RECIDA pamphlet, which will be accompanied by the name of all the members of the network (with basic contact details: name of the CD (Documentary Center), telephone, and email); and a network logo that the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa will try to design. The agreed version of the pamphlet text and the suggestions for the logotype will send to the List to discuss and finally approve it. CENEAM will fund the Castilian version.

    The pamphlet pretends to attend to the necessities of two kinds of the public. On the one hand, it aims to support the current network participants to explain the collaboration project internally within the organization. On the other hand, to be the letter of introduction for those Environmental Documentary Centers that does not know about the existence of this network and could potentially become part of it.

    4. Environment Documentary Centers Guide

    One of the projects participants of the previous Seminar decided to carry out was the creation of a Environment Documentary Centers Guiden. In this Seminar, the participants have committed themselves to carrying out a prospection of their Autonomous Community to be able to do it. Moreover, to make this work easy, participants can use the Environmental Documentary Centers Directory hosted on the CENEAM website and published annually on paper.

    A selection of fields that could use for the Guide will be proposed for possible suggestions.

    The requirement for incorporation of an entity in this Guide is that it is a Documentation Center and/or Library from Spanish State with environmental content and an open service public.

    5. Another projects

    • CENEAM offers the possibility of editing a CD-ROM where compiles the contributions made by the speakers and participants in the Seminar held so far and all the documentation posted on the file server of the Distribution List.
    • Carmen Pérez from INIA suggests the possibility to create an online library. Some solutions are also proposed: space on the CENEAM website or creating a web page on its own, where the library would be located.
    • Belén Hidalgo Documentary Center from CEPLAM Las Palmas, Yolanda Monteiro Sustainable Barcelona Resource Center y Aina Borràs from Species Protection and Environmental Education from Balears Island Government, offer to compile documentation on operation and evaluation of services: forms, templates, procedures, models of documents for planning, management and evaluation, etc. Documentary Center of the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa offers the Usage and Working Manual of Documentary Centers from Environment and Habitat Department of Generalitat of Catalonia which is posted on the website of the Documentary Center of the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa and on the Red Iris mailing list. The Documentary Center from Castilla y León Regional Government offers its list of services.


    6. Organization and Seminar's working

    Due to questions from various Centers about how the organization of the Seminars works, it is an initiative of CENEAM and supported by Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa. Moreover, each year if it arises, by the corresponding host. It is financed by CENEAM if it held in Valsaín —the Center´s headquarters—, and expenses are shared if the venue is elsewhere. Attendance to the seminars is voluntary and open but agreed upon by the organizers, trying to have as much representation of autonomous communities as possible, depending on the available budget. In any case, anyone interested in further information can contact any of the people involved until now in the Seminars organization.

    As for the venue of the next edition of the Seminar, different proposals are presented informally: Regional Government from Andalucía, Aragón, and the Canary Islands. If there is no firm proposal for the venue of the next Seminar, this will hold at the CENEAM, Valsaín (Segovia).

    Regarding the structure and the program, it agreed to continue in general terms with the model followed in this edition (a framework paper and a technical paper, brief interventions by the new participants, and presentation of experiences by the participants) since the majority of the participants' assessment was positive.

    It decided that the next edition will not deal monographically with one topic, but that apart from the topic of digital libraries (which continues to be of interest), will add new points of interest: management and treatment of cartography; compilations of environmental bibliographic resources; use of the distribution list and the archive service; quality in CDs, and sources and financial resources for Environmental Documentary Centers with scarce economic resources (it commented that, in the first edition of the Seminar, these last two topics had been addressed partially).

    It reported the conclusions are going to upload on the CENEAM website soon, together with the presentations made at this year's Seminar and the previous one.

    A Follow-up Team is composed of the representatives of CENEAM and the hosts of the Seminars that have been held so far (Catalonia and Navarra). This group will finalize the Seminar proposals, collect new contributions, monitor their implementation and inform the rest of the group about the status of the projects. It will also be in charge of the organization of the following Seminars.

    7. Requests

    Over the Seminar, it has had several requests for help in solving technical or more general problems. These included the following:

    • Javier Puertas Europarc Spain: raised the problem that some documents hosted on web pages change their permanent URL, and it is impossible to establish links or save direct accesses to them.
    • Given the enormous interest raised by Isidro Aguillo's technical presentation on the Invisible Internet, all participants agree on the possibility of extending it with a short course. CENEAM receives this demand and will see the opportunity of carrying it out in its facilities.


    Some of these questions can solve through the mailing list. In other cases, it might be necessary to address it monographically in a Seminar.

  • Appendix: Speakers and Assistants

    SPEAKERS

    • Isidro Aguillo. Internet Laboratory. CINDOC-CSIC.
    • Alice Held. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Library.


    ASSISTANTS

    • Aguillo, Isidro. Internet Laboratory. CINDOC-CSIC
    • Alcàntara Guirado, Carme. Natural Park Cadí-Moixeró
    • Andrés Casanovas, Marc. Natural Park of Garraf
    • Antolín, Teresa. National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM)
    • Arrizabalaga Blanch, Toni. Natural Park Montseny, Natural Science Section
    • Ávila, Anna. Ports' Natural Park
    • Bermejo March, Àngels. Barcelona Provincial Council. Area d'Espais Naturals, Directorate of Natural Areas Services.
    • Bonet Carrera, Rosa. Generalitat of Catalonia. Environment and Habitat Department. Park Services
    • Borràs Bou, Aina. Species Protection and Environmental Education from Balears Island Government
    • Bretcha Plana, Gemma. Itinerant Librarian
    • Canyellas Isern, Teresa. Collserola Park
    • Círez Pueyo, Mª Jesús. Environment Department. Government from Aragon
    • Comerma Gómez, Marta. Park Montnegre i el Corredor
    • Cuellar, Leticia. Tenerife Environmental Planification Center (CEPLAM-Tenerife)
    • Escobar Paiagua, Rosa. Monfragüe National Park
    • Fernández Herrero, Susana. Investigation Center for the Peace, Employee´s House Foundation
    • Font Valentí, Gemma. Montseny Natural Park
    • Fortuño Domínguez, Salomé. Natural Park Delta del Ebro
    • Francisco Tundidor, Mar. General Direction for the Natural Environment, Biodiversity Service. Aragón Government
    • García Muñoz, Eva. Environment, Coordination Service and RENPA management Counsil. Andalusian Regional Government
    • Gomila Portella, Lina. Generalitat from Catalonia. Environmental and Habitat Department. Park service
    • González Lozano, Teresa. Documentary Center of Water and Environment. Local Government of Zaragoza
    • González Pueyo, Mª Teresa. Agriculture, Fishing and Food Ministry. General Secretariat of Maritime Fisheries
    • Grabolosa Sellabona, Montse. Documentary Center of the Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa
    • Gracia, Sandra. Directorate General for the Natural Environment, Forestry Coordination and Planning Service. Government of Aragon
    • Held, Alice. UICN Library
    • Hervás Garrachón, Berenice. Information and Environmental Documentary Center (CIDA), Regional Goverment from Castilla y León
    • Hidalgo Martín, Belén. Las Palmas' Environmental Planification Center
    • Iborra Botía, Mª Bárbara. Environmental Education Resource Center from Murcia
    • Iriarte Ollo, Jorge. Enviromental Resources Center from Navarra
    • Llinàs Viola, Rosa. Natural Park Aiguamolls Empordà
    • Llobet Jorba, Conxa. Generalitat from Catalonia. Environmental and Habitat Department. Park service
    • Lopetegui, Oihane. Cristina Enea. Resource Centre for Sustainability in San Sebastián
    • López de Arriba Guerri, Piluca. Agriculture, Fishing and Food Ministry
    • López Piquer, Anna M. Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac Natural Park
    • Melero Bellmunt, Josep. Barcelona Provincial Council. Area d'Espais Naturals, Directorate of Natural Areas Services.
    • Miralles Cassina, Marta. Montnegre i el CorredorPark Natural
    • Montagud Blas, Èlia. Montseny Park Natural  (Natural Science)
    • Monteiro Robles, Yolanda. Barcelona Sustainable Resources Center
    • Moral Fernández del Rincón, Alejandro del. Interpretation and Documentation Centre of Water and Wetlands of La Mancha. Daimiel Town Council
    • Moratonas Hernández, Marta. Generalitat from Catalonia. Environmental and Habitat Department. Park service
    • Navarro Pérez-Dolz, Muntsa.  Natural Park from Zona Volcánica of Garrotxa
    • Neira García, Natalia. Documentary Center Domingo Quiroga (CEIDA- Oleiros)
    • Ortiz, Anna. Protected Area of Illes Medes
    • Ovelleiro Valdespino, Reyes. Information and Environmental Documentary Center (CIDA), Regional Goverment from Castilla y León
    • Pajón Jacobe, Veronica. Documentary Center Domingo Quiroga (CEIDA- Oleiros)
    • Palomo Sánchez, Ángel. National Parks Autonomous Body. Ministry of the Environment
    • Pérez Muñoz, Carmen. National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA)
    • Pou Font, Sebastián. Species Protection and Environmental Education from Balears Island Government
    • Prieto Vicente, Jacinto. Centre for Didactic-Environmental Education and Research (Ingurugela-CEIDA-Bilbao)
    • Primo Peña, Elena. National Healthy Science Institute
    • Puertas Blázquez, Javier. Europarc-Spain
    • Puigvert, Tània. Itinerant librarian
    • Rozas Alós, Eva. Directorate General for Environmental Quality, Department of the Environment. Government of Aragon
    • Toril Moreno, Rosario. National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM)
    • Vela Casero, Rosa. Environment Documentation Funds (Valencia)
    • Vicente Canillas, Jordi. National Park d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici


    If you need more information about this seminar, please contact with the CENEAM Documentation Center, using the following email: doc1.ceneam@oapn.es

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