Happy New Year for 2020

Hello,

We are sending you this message, first of all , to wish you a Happy New Year for 2020 and to present the new features of the latest version of Grottocenter ( under development at http://beta.grottocenter.org/ )

So what’s new this year ?

• You can now view and search the BBS data (Speleological Bibliographic Bulletin): that’s 111,134 documents available to you .

• Access to data via maps has already been available for a few months.

• The V2 coordinate conversion tool from Grottocenter has been transposed to V3.

• You can now download data in csv format

If you think the Grottocenter/Wikicaves project is worth supporting , give us a hand ;-)

We need people like you to translate, take part in development, promote the project, or enter data and information provided by our partners. Work is still underway to define the Grottocenter V3 user interface. If you wish to contribute, or simply give us some feedback , then make sure you contact us.

You may also take part and support the project by becoming a member of the Wikicaves association ( that’s a 10 € fee only ) .

Wikicaves has done some major work in the new version of Grottocenter V3 to reduce the amount personal data used. You can easily access your personal data by logging into http://www.grottocenter.org and then clicking on the “My Settings” menu.

The whole Grottocenter team (http://www.grottocenter.org) wishes you some great caving and exploring and hopes you will take the opportunity to share them with the caving community through our project.

BBS: more than 200,000 documents are referenced

For several years Grottocenter has hosted the BBS, development work continues and today more than 200,000 documents about Karst are referenced

Caving expedition in Kyrgyzstan !

The Fund for the Preservation and Exploration of Caves (FPEC) offer cavers the opportunity to take part project on caving research in almost non-explored caves in Kyrgyzstan. In Kyrgyzstan , the caving potential is huge. Almost all prospective regions are poorly explored or unexplored at all. Cave systems which were discovered previously require further exploration. In connection with this we think that the co-operation with colleagues from other countries with the aim to make joint researches in Kyrgyzstan may bring good results. This year we are planning researches in the perspective regions of the Turkestan Range located in the south-west of Kyrgyzstan and associated with the Pamir-Alai Mountain system. For the time being those regions are insufficiently explored and that provides good opportunity for the wide search of caves. Besides, there i...

We offer several ways to get involved in the project

The website http://www.grottocenter.org has been really active for a few months. This message is a quick overview of the project and will explain how you can contribute. The www.grottocenter.org web application is a worldwide database community dedicated to speleology and based on the wiki collaborative system. The project aims to list natural caves ; every caver can collaborate to the database. All the data on www.grottocenter.org is under the CC-BY-NC license which guarantees free access and free usage of the data for non-commercial use with respect of the authors’ rights. The software running GrottoCenter is licensed under the AGPL license; all source code is available on Github. This license is similar to the CC-BY-NC license but is better-suited for web-application. The 2012 GrottoCenter statistics : Accounts 1340 Cave entries 31422 Caving Clubs 423 Languages 4 You can follow the project on Facebook , Twitter , a blo...

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