GBIF SpeciesBanks Workshop
Co-sponsored by GBIF, NLBIF, ETI and the University of Amsterdam, this will be a workshop on shaping the future: What are speciesbanks and what should they become? What are the best pathways for developing them? This workshop, which will be held in Amsterdam from 2 through 4 March 2005. Registration has closed. Additional participants will be by special invitation only.
Registrants who have been selected to attend will represent three groups of people:
Online Users - What do people who search for species information on the Web want as a result of their queries? How do they want that information presented? How do they want to be able to ask their questions?
Information Providers - What amount of information must be available before it can be said to constitute a SpeciesBank? That is, must each species of nematode have had as much research done on its taxonomy, physiology, chemistry and behavior (and all of that research data be available on the Internet) as have the species of primates? Or, can an information-retrieval portal be built such that all the available data, whether a great deal or only a name, can be retrieved for any species the user wishes to ask about?
Informatics Technologists - What standards for data and metadata are going to be needed to be able to search for data about species among databases of taxonomy, physiology, ecology, molecular genetics, etc. etc. etc.? What software and protocols already exist that can be adapted to this purpose? What is the role of web services technologies? How can different interfaces for various user groups access the common pool of data?
Workshop webpage: http://www.gbif.org/Stories/STORY1103024362 and
Although the workshop registration is closed I decided to post the information since I will attend the event and latter report on workshop results. I will participate on the user and IT sessions.
For info on GBIF events, you should review frequently: http://www.gbif.org
Regards,
Jorge Brenner
Registrants who have been selected to attend will represent three groups of people:
Online Users - What do people who search for species information on the Web want as a result of their queries? How do they want that information presented? How do they want to be able to ask their questions?
Information Providers - What amount of information must be available before it can be said to constitute a SpeciesBank? That is, must each species of nematode have had as much research done on its taxonomy, physiology, chemistry and behavior (and all of that research data be available on the Internet) as have the species of primates? Or, can an information-retrieval portal be built such that all the available data, whether a great deal or only a name, can be retrieved for any species the user wishes to ask about?
Informatics Technologists - What standards for data and metadata are going to be needed to be able to search for data about species among databases of taxonomy, physiology, ecology, molecular genetics, etc. etc. etc.? What software and protocols already exist that can be adapted to this purpose? What is the role of web services technologies? How can different interfaces for various user groups access the common pool of data?
Workshop webpage: http://www.gbif.org/Stories/STORY1103024362 and
Although the workshop registration is closed I decided to post the information since I will attend the event and latter report on workshop results. I will participate on the user and IT sessions.
For info on GBIF events, you should review frequently: http://www.gbif.org
Regards,
Jorge Brenner
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