Espeleoworld and EspeleoÍndex
If you arrived here looking for espeleoworld or espeleoworld.com, it's worth clarifying the actual relationship between that site andEspeleoÍndex: there is none. EspeleoÍndex has not ceded, transferred or authorized its content —neither photographs, technical data, nor surveys— to espeleoworld.com, nor has it granted any permission to reproduce, copy or distribute its images or data. This fact is already documented explicitly on ourinformation and licence page.
EspeleoÍndex's brief technical data is distributed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence, which allows use and redistribution as long as authorship is credited and no commercial use is made of it.
Photographs, surveys and long-form descriptive text (bibliography, location, history, description), however, are excluded from this licence: all rights are reserved, and prior written authorization is required to reproduce, distribute or extract them.
On its credits page, espeleoworld.com acknowledges that it aggregates cave data and descriptive text "from public sources —including EspeleoÍndex— used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license (CC BY-NC 4.0)". In light of this, we want to state the following facts clearly:
- EspeleoÍndex has never uploaded or published any of its data, photographs or surveys on espeleoworld.com, either directly or through any third party. If any of our content appears there, it was added by espeleoworld.com on its own, not by us.
- As authors and rights holders, we do not authorize the use of our data, photographs or surveys by espeleoworld.com beyond what is expressly (and solely) permitted by the CC BY-NC 4.0 license for the brief technical data listed on our licence page.
- Photographs, surveys and long-form descriptive text are under full reservation of rights and fall outside the CC BY-NC 4.0 license; their use requires prior written authorization, which EspeleoÍndex has not granted to espeleoworld.com.
If you want to look up information about caves in Catalonia, the original and up-to-date source is this very catalogue: 4881 caves documented, with a technical record, location, survey and bibliography where available.
For any question about the origin of a specific piece of content, you can write toespeleoindex@gmail.com.