ALERC Conference

ALERC Conference

Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager Once a year, local environmental records centres (LERCs) have the opportunity to meet at their association’s (ALERC) conference. As we all operate in separate geographic locations, it is great to come together to share learning...
Sharing is Caring

Sharing is Caring

Tom Hunt, ALERC, & Rosie Whicheloe, The Ecology Consultancy The Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) requires its members to share data with Local Environmental Records Centres. Yet in many cases this is not happening. Should...
The Consultants’ Portal

The Consultants’ Portal

Ella Vogel, NBN Secretariat Of the hundreds of thousands of biological records collected by environmental consultants and other ecological professionals, only a very small number are shared beyond the commissioning agency. This is due in part to the lack of a standard...
Gatecrashing the Gateway

Gatecrashing the Gateway

Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Publicly available planning figures show 17,000 planning applications were assessed in London between January and March last year (2011). In the same period, GiGL delivered just 144 data searches. While not all applications have a potential...
Branding GiGL. Brand new GiGLer

Branding GiGL. Brand new GiGLer

Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Welcome to the 9th edition of the GiGLer and the first version of our new ‘iGiGLer’. In this issue, we have moved away from PDF files, a sophisticated way of delivering information back in 2006, to this new web-based format. The new iGiGLer...