About Alpandino
Alpandino emerged from ALPECOLe, an e-learning course in alpine ecology jointly developed by a consortium of Swiss institutions as part of the Swiss Virtual Campus program. Alpandino is the Spanish translation of the globally applicable alpine plant ecology part of ALPECOLe. The original ALPECOLe course also offers lessons that are rather specific to the Alps or to the temperate zone and thus have not been considered for translation in the context of Alpandino (e.g. specific accounts of vegetation, animals, glaciers and history of treeline in central Europe).
Alpandino is the collective effort of the following people and institutions:
- Alpandino contains 10 lecture units, 1-8 designed by Christian Körner and 9 and 10 by Jürg Stöcklin, both Institute of Botany, University of Basel.
- The project Alpandino was initiated by Erika Hiltbrunner (Institute of Botany, University of Basel), who also obtained the SDC grant that permitted its realisation.
- Thomas Zumbrunn (Institute of Botany, University of Basel) created the website and course pages based on XML technology.
- Amelia Garrett (La Paz) translated all text from English to Spanish.
- Stephan Beck, Ramiro López (Herbario Nacional de Bolivia) and Dirk Hoffmann (Instituto Boliviano de la Montaña) are thanked for their help with the Spanish lectorate.
- The Computer Centre of the University of Basel (URZ) and its IT specialist Bernd Sindlinger provide the website hosting.
- Swiss Virtual Campus funded the work on the original ALPECOLe lessons.
- The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) funded the translation and implementation of Alpandino.
The following applications were used during the development of Alpandino:
- Vector graphics editing was accomplished with Inkscape.
- Bitmap graphics were touched up with the GIMP.
- Lesson contents were structured in the XML dialect eLML.
- XSL transformations were done with Saxon.
- Text files were edited with Eclipse and Emacs.
- CSS editing was facilitated by the Firefox extension Web Developer.
- Project management depended on Apache Ant.
- Relief maps were produced with GRASS, using the digital elevation data SRTM30_PLUS, which is in the public domain.
- Various GNU/Linux systems were used to run the applications above.
Alpandino contains the following third-party components:
- Icons and artwork from the Oxygen project, licensed under the GNU LGPL 3.
- The JavaScript thumbnail viewer Highslide, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Licence.
- Cross-browser tooltip JavaScript of Walter Zorn, licensed under the GNU LGPL.
Except where otherwise noted, all content of the Alpandino e-learning course is licensed unter the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Switzerland Licence. This means you have the freedom to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, provided you give proper credit to the original authors. It is strictly forbidden to use Alpandino for any commercial purpose. If you intend to make derivate works (except in class lecturing), for instance using diagrams in printed or electronic publications, please contact us. We are happy to grant permission on a person to person basis and we may be able to provide higher resolution diagrams and images. Translations are not permitted without permission, but if you are willing to contribute a translation in another language, please contact us for further assistance.
Referencing Alpandino has to be done in the following way: "© Alpandino (alpandino.org)" or, if this is not feasible because of layout or space restrictions: "© alpandino.org". In online materials, the reference must be underlain with a link to our website http://alpandino.org/ or, if the reference applies to a specific page of Alpandino, with a link to the corresponding page.
Contact:
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Prof. Christian Körner
Institute of Botany
University of Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 6
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland
