VII Seminar of Environmental Documentation Centers and Protected Natural Areas

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VII Seminario de Centros de Documentación Ambiental e Espazos Naturais Protexidos
VII Seminari de Centres de Documentació Ambiental i D'Espais Naturals Protegits

CENEAM. Valsaín (Segovia), from 7 to May 9, 2008

Rosario Toril. Documentary Center from CENEAM
Montserrat Grabolosa. Natural Park Zona Volcánica de Garrotxa. Generalitat of Catalonia

This year, the Seminar held at the CENEAM facilities in Valsaín (Segovia), with the participation of 44 people from 15 different Autonomous Communities. For the first time, a person from the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, coming from the University, has come to this Seminar and also a representative of Environment Ministry of Valencia Community. Moreover, it has also incorporated five representatives from National Parks: Caldera de Taburiente, Sierra Nevada, Timanfaya, Ordesa and Garajonay, and others, such as Cabañeros, have not been able to attend the Seminar because of work commitments, but they have expressed their interest.

We had the presence of two experts, José Antonio Merlo from Salamanca University, to deal with Web 2.0; and Patricia Riera, from Open University of Catalonia, with the topic of intellectual property. In both cases, there was also a practical workshop.

In addition, we have been working in working groups: electronic bulletins and user orientation for digital information services. We also presented the beta version of the RECIDA portal and established some guidelines to follow.

Miércoles 7 de mayo de 2008

• Welcome:
  - Juan Carlos Dueñas. CENEAM Director.
• New participants presentation:
  - Francisco Villaespesa. Caldera de Taburiente National Park.
  - José Pino. Sierra Nevada National Park.
  - Dulce Merino. Timanfaya National Park.
  - Elena Villagrasa. Ordesa National Park.
  - Enma Belén Pereira. Nursery School Río Guadarrama.
  - Jacinto Leralta. Garajonay National Park.
  - Ignacio Andollo. University of La Rioja.
  -  Jose Antonio Sánchez. National Commission of Energy.
  - Antonia Bernardino Rodríguez. Regional Ministry of Environment, Water, Urbanism and Housing. Generalitat Valenciana.
• Lecture on web 2.0. José Antonio Merlo. University of Salamanca.
• Workshop: Informing and informing on the social web. José Antonio Merlo. University of Salamanca.
   

Working groups:

Orientation to users for digital information services (the coordinator is Jesús Tramullas. University of Zaragoza. Documentation Department). They used the RECIDA pamphlet as an example. Moreover, they analyze the target public, which will read it. The question arises from whether carried out with a user-oriented design ISO 13407.

Before launching a product, it has to do the following tasks: 1. Identify the users, their necessities, and contexts; 2. Analyze their ; 3. Establish measurable objectives; 4. Create prototypes of the product; 5. Try the offer; 6. Redefine, improve, and try the proposal.

This workshop´s documentation is available on the following website http://www.slideshare.net/tramullas/orientacin-a-usuario and on http://infonautica.net/santiago, where you can find information about a course on library dynamization that Jesús Tramullas prepared for the 2007 Santiago Conference.

Electronic bulletins (coordinates by Javier Puertas from Europarc). It decided to collect the existing ones through the Distribution List. They also defined a form to fill in each bulletin. The manageable list of newsletters must be sent to jpuertas@europearc-es.org. Javier Puertas and Verónica Pajón will coordinate this topic.

Thursday 8th May 2008

• Experiences presentations:
  - The long and winding road to virtuality. Dª Susana Fernández Herrero. Investigation Center for the Peace (CIP – Ecosocial) http://www.fuhem.es/cip-ecosocial
  - Analysis of a centre's activity. Dª Carmen Pérez. INIA
  - Virtual Library of EUROPARC http://www.europarc-es.org/. Javier Puertas Blázquez. EUROPARC Spain
  - Virtual exhibition on the vine. Cristina García. Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine 
• Lecture and workshop on intellectual property. Dª Patricia Riera. Open University of Catalonia
• RECIDA portal workshop. Jesús Tramullas. University of Zaragoza. Documentation Department  and Javier Puertas. Europarc
   

Friday 9th May 2008

• RECIDA projects and actions. Montserrat Grabolosa (Natural Park Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa) y Rosario Toril Moreno (CENEAM).
• Conclusions and preparation for the next Seminar.

On the last day of the Seminar, it revised the conclusions for the last Seminar:

1. Objectives planned in 2007 and achieved:

• Create a website with its domain.
• Create an Advisory Committee of specialists to improve the Seminars and strengthen the network.
• Facilitate ongoing training for RECIDA members.
• Extend RECIDA to a greater number of Centers.
   

2. This year, the following actions has been decided to carry out:

 - Proposals to be carried out in a short term:

• Edit RECIDA pamphlet. The pamphlet has not been printed for the Seminar because there have been many changes recently, and some websites of various Ministries have not yet defined, so it did not seem reasonable to print it now.
• Website diffusion
  - All RECIDA members will have a report and a presentation in PowerPoint for each Center to use according to their necessities. They discussed the possibility of using these tools in Communications and Congress. Moreover, it requests the Centers to use them in their versions and updates. As of May 2008, 74 Libraries and Documentary Centers from 15 different Autonomous Communities are on the network.
  - We will try to write articles in specialized journals, present communications, papers and posters about Documentation and Environmental Conferences. We will presentate a poster soon at the Europarc Congress (Baiona, from 18 to 22 June 2008). It also proposes to present it to CONAMA at the Cities of Volcanoes Congress (Tenerife, November 2009) and the IUCN Congress (Barcelona, October 2008).
  - Jesus Tramullas comments on the occasion of the suggestion of a round table on environmental information and Documentation for the next Spanish Conference, which will be held in Zaragoza in May 2009.
  - It will aso draft an annual report of actions.
  - Register RECIDA in Wikipedia.
• RECIDA website. Jesús Tramullas from Documentation Department from the University of Zaragoza suggests the following schedule: two months (June and July 2008) taste the beta version and in September migration to the definitive version. For this purpose, they will provide each Center with an access key.It also offers administration and technical maintenance until 2010.
  After discussing how content was contributed, individually per Center or with the management of two Administrators, the majority preferred the first option.
  Rosario Toril (CENEAM) y Montse Grabolosa (P.N. Garrotxa) will be in charge of elaborating a form to be filled in by all the Centers to create a specific node in the Portal. That will allow us to know in more detail the different Centers.
  Work will do in a shared way, wherever it is possible.
• Participate in European projects. CENEAM plans to work on European projects, so we request the interest of the Centers relating to this topic. To bring these projects about the contact and the promotion of exchanges with other European Environmental Centers will be necessary.
• Antonia Bernardino from Regional Ministry of Environment, Water, Urbanism and Housing. Generalitat Valenciana will do a summary of Environmental Information Law.
• Susana Fernández from Investigation Center for the Peace will facilitate information on how to make a Society to study the possibility of RECIDA becoming an Association.
• Check each Center if one of their purposes is the investigation, considering that Jesús Tramullas from University of Zaragoza comments that it can offer project financing help for this type of Center.
   

- Proposals to carry out in a half term:

• Drawing up an Annual Action Plan.
• Develop a practical manual as a basis for the operation of our Documentary Centers.
• Convert CENEAM into an Association.
• Develop a directory of electronic resources.
• Initiate Moodle courses to continue with workshops.
• Analysis of the economic and personal possibilities for sharing Infosud QuestionPoint.
   

 - Proposals to carry out in a long term:

• Seek funding for RECIDA projects.
• Participate in Librari@ns without frontiers projects.
   

3. Next Seminar edition

Jacinto Prieto from Igurugela Center from Bilbao will present the proposal to hold the Seminar in the Basque Country. Mª Angeles Puga García, from Environmental Planification Center (CEPLAM) Las Palmas commented on the possibility of doing the Seminar in the Canary Islands. Both will communicate the results of their efforts.

For the following editions, they show an interest in doing the Seminar in CIDA (Information and Environmental Documentary Center) from Castilla y León and in Regional Ministry of Environment, Water, Urbanism and Housing. Generalitat Valenciana.

Topics to discuss at the next Seminar:

- Marketing strategies, dynamization and dissemination of a Documentary Center: attracting users, presentation of information, information resources, etc.
- Continue with Web 2.0. Practical workshops on the application of social tools.
- Ontology, semantic web, W3C.
- Information sources on the environment.
- Content syndication, RSS.
- Usability of the RECIDA network.
- Digitalization: workshop on the elaboration of digital documents, watermark, shared form guides. Training progresses and tools for the digitalization of funds.
- Environmental information Law and Environmental Legislation.
- New digital services: how to take advantage of the new virtual environment and make it profitable.
- Computer tools to facilitate daily tasks.

Programas de elaboración de citas, buscadores colectivos, revisores de enlaces web...

- SIG (Geographical Information System)
- Photography: experiences with photo-catalogs, software for storing, standardizing, searching and editing photo archives
- Content and information management
- Creation of won materials
- Procedures and quality management
- Information systems
- Implementation of a RECIDA online catalog that allows sharing cataloging
- QuestionPoint
- Benchmarking between Centers

SPEAKERS

• José Antonio Merlo. University of Salamanca.
• Patricia Riera. Open University of Catalonia

ASSISTANTS

• Andollo Santamaría, Ignacio. University of La Rioja
• Antolín García, Teresa. National Educational Environmental Center (CENEAM)
• Bernardino Rodríguez, Antonia. Regional Ministry of Environment, Water, Urbanism and Housing. Generalitat Valenciana
• Bonet Carrera, Rosa. Environment and Habitat Department from Generalitat of Catalonia
• Borràs Bou, Aina. Species Protection and Environmental Education from Baleares Island Government
• Durán Campamà, Carme. Council of Barcelona. Area of Natural Spaces
• Escobar Paniagua, Rosa. Monfragüe National Park
• Fernández Herrero, Susana. Investigation Center for the Peace
• García Fernández, Cristina. Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine
• Gomila Portella, Catalina. Generalitat of Catalonia. Environment Department
• Grabolosa Sellabona, Montserrat. Natural Park Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa. Generalitat of Catalonia
• Gracia Forcé, Sandra. General Directorate of Forestal Management, Environment Department. Government of Aragón
• Hervás Garrachón, Berenice. Information and Environmental Documentary Center (CIDA), Regional Goverment from Castilla y León
• Isla Yagüe, Irina. Documentary Center of Natural Spaces (CDEN). Library of Science. Autonomy University of Madrid
• Iriarte Ollo, Jorge. Environmental Resources Center from Navarra
• Leralta Piñán, Jacinto. Garajonay National Park
• López de Arriba Guerri, Pilar. Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine
• Melero Bellmunt, Josep. Barcelona Provincial Council. Natural Areas Services
• Merino Naranjo, Dulce María. Timanfaya National Park
• Monteiro Robles, Yolanda. Environmental Documents Service. Catalan Society of Environmental Education / Barcelona City Council
• Moratonas Hernández, Marta. Generalitat of Catalonia. Environment and Habitat Department
• Orovio Melero, Cristina. Interpretation and Documentation Center of Water and Wetlands of La Mancha. Daimiel City Council
• Pajón Jacobe, Verónica. Documentary Center Domingo Quiroga (CEIDA- Oleiros)
• Pardo Cereijo, Ana Belén. Documentary Center Domingo Quiroga (CEIDA- Oleiros)
• Paz Otero, Pilar. Investigation and Environmental Information Center. Ministry of Environment. Regional Government of Galicia
• Pereira Valle, Emma Belén. Autonomous National Parks Organization
• Pérez de la Cámara, Fuencisla. Information and Environmental Documentary Center (CIDA), Regional Goverment from Castilla y León
• Pérez Muñoz, Carmen. National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA)
• Pino Díaz, José. Sierra Nevada National Park
• Prieto Vicente, Jacinto. Centre for Didactic-Environmental Education and Research  (Ingurugela-CEIDA-Bilbao)
• Primo Peña, Elena. Health Institute Carlos III
• Puertas Blázquez, Javier. Europarc Spain
• Puga García, Mª Angeles. Environmental Planification Center (CEPLAM) Las Palmas
• Sánchez Montañés, Ana María. IEDCYT-CSIC (Institute of Documental Studies about Science and Technology-Superior Council of Scientific Research)
• Sánchez Montero, José Antonio. Energy National Commission (CNE)
• Satué Otín, Josué. Documentary Center of Water and Environment. Local Government of Zaragoza
• Toril Moreno, Rosario. National Educational Environmental Center (CENEAM)
• Tramuyas, Jesús. University of Zaragoza. Documentation Department
• Vela Casero, Rosa María. Documentary Center Patronat Sud-Nord. University of Valencia
• Velasco García, Carmen. CEDREAC (Centre of Documentation and Resources for Environmental Education of the Government of Cantabria)
• Villaespesa Sánchez, Francisco. Caldera de Taburiente National Park
• Villagrasa Ferrer, Elena. Ordesa y Monte Perdio National Park
• Andollo Santamaría, Ignacio. University of La Rioja
   

If you need more information about this seminar, please contact with the Centro de Documentación del CENEAM (Documentary Center from CENEAM), using the following email: doc1.ceneam@oapn.es