Posts Tagged ‘Recorder’
A day in the afterlife
My connection with GiGL began with Ian Holt, the then warden of Sydenham Hill Wood, in 2006. In order to make the most of my baby boomer final salary pension I was planning to retire from my job as Librarian at the Horniman Museum where Ian was based. As I told Ian, I was looking for some good works to amuse myself and (no doubt) make work for others …
Read MorePark it
The Royal Parks cover approximately 5,000 acres, making an enormously important contribution to open space and wildlife habitats in the capital.
Such a wide area means that there is a lot of wildlife to be recorded. The Royal Parks’ data currently account for nearly 10% of …
Read MoreThe only way is up
Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager, on the benefits of our latest software upgrade. After considerable effort to install, accurately migrate data and develop the custom reporting we need for our day-to-day work, our Recorder 6 database is now up and running. Having reached the one million record milestone, the limit for the old Access-based system,…
Read MoreFrom Darwin to Deptford
Matt Davies and Lauren Alexander, GiGL’s data team, give an overview of GiGL’s data holdings and the process of inputting and extracting information from the database. GiGL may be ten years old, but the records that GiGL holds cover a much broader time span, dating from 1843 (Charles Darwin, Down House) to May 2006 (Jo…
Read MoreThe view from here – London Borough of Redbridge
Emily Reynolds, London Borough of Redbridge. For those over-stretched local authority ecologists who would love to play around with data and GIS maps but don’t have the time, GiGL provides an invaluable service. As nature conservation team leader for Redbridge, and someone who used to play with data as a records officer for the then…
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