Volunteer Update

Volunteer Update

The card on the left shows an example of the type of records our species volunteers have been digitising, for species such as Yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis) on the right (©Radu Chibzii) My last GiGLer article in April 2022 introduced the start of GiGL’s...
Volunteering at GiGL

Volunteering at GiGL

Volunteers have always been a key part of GiGL, whether they’re working hard to help us get through the mountains of data that we receive or participating in large online projects digitising record cards. Volunteers feature as an important branch of GiGL’s network...
Mapping Dragons

Mapping Dragons

Dragons are known to guard high security vaults at Gringotts Bank, Diagon Alley, London. Luckily they escape only very rarely, as is pictured here in 1998 (c) Harshlight CC BY 2.0 Benjamin Town, GiGL Community Officer Back in March 2019, the GiGL team were trying to...
Interview, Benjamin Town

Interview, Benjamin Town

Benjamin Town, GiGL Community Officer Ben is GiGL’s Community Officer. He delivers work for community partners and clients. This includes work for members of the public and community groups, as well as carrying out work with students that wish to use GiGL data for...