GrottoCenter Blog

Hello, T he Wikicaves association is in charge of the maintenance and development of the website http://www.grottocenter.org . Its objective is to promote caving data-sharing. The website http://www.grottocenter.org allows you to make public on the web in an easy way t he documents of which you are the author. Perhaps, you find it too complicated? You would still like to share data, but you want it be quick and easy. We are aware of that and this   is the   reason why you may enter your data on a page giving you the possibility to share under the CC-BY-SA licence (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence or web encyclopedia Wikipedia licence) in a few clicks only. The web page is available either in English or in French . We thank you and are looking forward to your contribution .

Hello, The Wikicaves Association is working on a new version of the website http://wwwgrottocenter.org to be proposed to you in the coming months. At the same time we wish to change the logo : Therefore, we invite you to participate in a big contest. The rules are the following: The logo must express the grottocenter values : Caving, knowledge sharing, worldwide We encourage you to include the Grottocenter name in your logo. The existing Grottocenter logo can be reused and adapted. The logo should, if possible, be presented as a vector file. The logo should be original. You should mention in your message that you agree to it being put under CC-BY-SA licence. Please address your propostion to cont...@wiki...ves.org The different projects will be published on the Grottocenter facebook web-page. The Management Board of the Wikicaves association will choose the logo according to the « like » obtained by each proposition. You may join the Wikicaves As...

By decision of the Board of Directors of the association Wikicaves dated May 12, 2013, the license of http://www.grottocenter.org has been changed from CC-BY-NC to CC-BY-SA. This decision was motivated by our will to: - Allow a link with other open source projects through the use of compatible licenses - Encourage users of data from GrottoCenter to share their work under the same license. Thus, the caving data will become gradually more accessible. If you have added information under copyright in GrottoCenter and if you do not want this information to remain on the site under the new license, please contact us

Dear Caving Friends, The FSE has the pleasure to inform you that we have signed a partnership agreement with the association Wikicaves who has created the well-known site www.grottocenter.org that become "Privileged Partner" of the European Speleological Federation. The aim is to broadcast this speleological multilingual wiki-tool (5 languages at this day) among the clubs and local caving structures allover Europe. For this, the association Wikicaves is looking for volunteer cavers in every European country, and even outside Europe, in order to developp the following actions : - Exchange informations on a definite area (county, regions, states or European linguistic area) (local correspondants) - Translation of the website in other languages (at this day English, French, Spanish, German and Bulgarian) - Web development (Integration of the different caving modules in the site) - Data entry of specific data about European...

We started to work on the version 3 .0 of GrottoCenter which will be available early 2014. To provide the best possible service we would like to know the opinion of our users. You can share with us your point of view about the new features that you would like to see or about the difficulties that you encountered with the current version of GrottoCenter by filling out this short online questionnaire . It will be closed in July . The specification is being written and we will work on the first mockups in the coming weeks.  

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...

Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in the south of France named after the mouth of the Rhône River . It is renowned for it's capital city, Marseille and it's Calanques which were recently (April 2012) declared National Parks due to their uniqueness. At a caving point of view, this region has some notable underwater caves like the Cosquer cave . Grottocenter has a detailed cave inventory of this region with 562 caves . We are also lucky enough to have an active member of the GrottoCenter community who has enrich the available information for this region. So, Guy Maurel give you access for example to the Daladé cave map. Thanks to him and to all the GrottoCenter's contributors.