TDWG 2004
Schedule for Discussion, Papers, Posters and Demonstrations

Last updated: 16 October 2004 at 09:10 New Zealand time

Times are approximate and are subject to change.

We are encouraging authors of Posters to put them up as soon as they arrive at the meeting and to be available at lunch and coffee breaks as appropriate. Computer demonstrations will be scheduled ad hoc as the meeting develops.

If you need space for a computer demonstration please let us as soon as possible know what you need (equipment, internet connection, projector, etc.), how much space, and when you would prefer your demonstration to be scheduled.

List of Papers, Posters and Demonstrations in alphabetical order by senior/presenting author (new browser window)

Monday 11 October - Chair: Stan Blum

09:00 Welcome & Overview
09:30 TDWG Mission, Structure, & Process (coffee will be taken at a convenient time)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Architecture for Biodiversity Data and Services
The Application of Globally Unique Identifiers in Taxonomic Databases
Author: Dave Thau, SEEK Project Group, University of Kansas and www.learningsite.com
15:00 Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) - ABCD Schema (coffee will be taken at a convenient time)
17:00 Discussion
17:30 Close

Tuesday 12 October (morning session) - Chair: Stan Blum

09:00 Darwin Core 2
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Distributed Query Protocol
The integration of DiGIR and BioCASe
Author: Döring, M., Giovanni, R., Hobern, D., Vieglais, D., Güntsch, A., Blum, S., Wieczorek, J., de la Torre, J.
13:00 Lunch

Tuesday 12 October (afternoon session - SDD) - Chair: Gregor Hagedorn

14:30 Introduction to SDD (Structured Descriptive Data)
Author: Gregor Hagedorn (Federal Biological Research Center, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biological Safety, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany)
14:50 SDD support tools
Author: Jacob Asiedu, and Robert A. Morris, University of Massachusetts at Boston Department of Computer Science, U.S.A.

Wednesday 13 October (morning session - Taxonomic Names) - Chair: Jessie Kennedy

09:00 The Taxonomic Concept Schema (TCS) Overview and Rationale
Author: Jessie Kennedy, Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, Scotland.
09:30 TCS explained - schema elements/attributes and their use in different scenario
Author: Robert Kukla, Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, Scotland.
10:00 Clarification issues
10:15 Interpreting Taxonomic Databases and mapping their structure to the TCS
Author: Robert Kukla, Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, Scotland.
10:45 Discussion
11:00 Coffee/Informal discussion
11:30 Taxon names and concepts: building a strong foundation for biodiversity information
Author: Anna Weitzman, The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, & Chris Lyal, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
11:45 Access protocols for Taxonomic Names Concepts and Data
Author: Donald Hobern, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 København Ø , Denmark
12:00 The Species 2000 standard data set, common data model and transfer protocols
Author: Richard White 1, Frank Bisby 2, Andrew Jones 1, Xuebiao Xu 1, Ed Donovan 1, Yuri Roskov 2, Alex Gray 1 & Rainer Froese 3
1 School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3XF, U.K.
2 School of Plant Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AS, U.K.
3 Institute of Marine Research, D-24105 Kiel, Germany
12:15 Name Usage as Pricipal Data Vehicle for Name/Taxon Data Exchange
Author: Nozomi Ytow1, Akira Sato2, David R. Morse3, David McL Roberts4
1 Gene Reserch Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572 Japan. 2 Academic Computing and Communication Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571 Japan. 3 Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
12:30 SEEK Project Taxonomic Object Service: Making Sense of Names and Concepts
Author: Aimee Stewart and Robert Gales, Software Developers, Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. Email: astewart@ku.edu; rgales@ku.edu.
12:50 Discussion
13:00 Lunch, computer demonstration (BIOGIS) and CODATA/TDWG Task Group breakout meeting (mapping DC2/ABCD)

PRESENTATION WITHDRAWN: Use case scenarios for TaxonConceptSchema (TCS, Napier)
Author: Gregor Hagedorn (Federal Biological Research Center, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biological Safety, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

Wednesday 13 October (afternoon session - Unified Biodiversity Information Framework) - Chair: Stan Blum

14:30 Introduction to UBIF (Unified Biosciences Information Framework)
Author: Gregor Hagedorn (Federal Biological Research Center, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biological Safety, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany)
14:45 Global Infrastructure for Biodiversity Informatics
Author: Donald Hobern, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 København Ø , Denmark
15:00 Building a Global Network using TDWG Standards
Author: Donald Hobern, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 København Ø , Denmark
15:15 Proxy data objects provide optional linking to external objects and small modular data interfaces from which DarwinCore and LinneanCore- like protocol interfaces can be constructed
Author: Gregor Hagedorn (Federal Biological Research Center, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biological Safety, Königin-Luise-Str. 19, 14195 Berlin, Germany)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Discussion
17:30 Close

Thursday 14 October (morning session)

TDWG Business - Chair: Stan Blum
Contributed Papers (Taxonomic Names) - Chair: Jim Beach

09:00 TDWG Business
10:00 Using informal names within taxonomic datasets; a practical perspective
Author: Charles Hussey, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK, Dr Steve Wilkinson, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Monkstone House, City Road, Peterborough PE1 1JY, UK
10:20 Overview of nomenclatural practices in Zoology and Botany with respect to the consequences of integrating zoological and botanical checklists data into a single virtual environment
Author: Yde de Jong, Zoological Museum Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94766, NL-1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10:40 Towards a language for indicating relationships among taxonomic concepts
Author: Nico M. Franz1 & Robert K. Peet2, 1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California 2 Department of Biology, University of North Carolina
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Taxonomic Names Meet Formal Parsers: Building Better Biodiversity Databases
Author: Brook Milligan, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 USA
11:50 THE TRANSMISSION ENGINE: accessing biological content linked to names representing different taxonomic concepts
Author: Marc Geoffroy & Anton Güntsch, Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14191 Berlin, Germany
12:10 Protonyms, References, and Assertions: An introduction to the Taxonomer data model
Author: Rich Pyle, Database Coordinator for Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817, USA.
12:30 Formal Taxon Concept and Rough Set Approximation
Author: Nozomi Ytow1, Akira Sato2, David R. Morse3, David McL Roberts4
1 Gene Reserch Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572 Japan. 2 Academic Computing and Communication Center, University of Tsukuba,
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571 Japan. 3 Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
12:50 Discussion
13:00 Lunch and computer demonstrations

Thursday 14 October (afternoon session - Contributed Papers) - Chair: Donald Hobern

14:15 Introduction to Contributed Papers
14:30 Ontogenies and OWL, with some notes on XML Schema, E-R Diagrams and UML in 15 mins
Author: Dave Thau, SEEK Project Group, University of Kansas and www.learningsite.com
14:45 taXMLit: a vital piece of the puzzle for digitally interoperable taxonomy
Author: Anna Weitzman, The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, & Chris Lyal, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
15:00 Data standards: objective data, subjective data, and data interchange
Author: Anna Weitzman, The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, & Chris Lyal, The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
15:15 A world of conceptual schemas: mapping of standards to databases and other standards
Author: J. Torre, W. Lipp, M.Döring, A. Hahn & W. Berendsohn. Freie Universität Berlin , Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin -Dahlem, Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories, Königin-Luise-Str. 6–8, D–14191 Berlin, Germany. {a.hahn, j.torre, m.doering, w.berendsohn, w.lipp}@bgbm.org
15:30 Genebanks as GBIF data providers – first experiences
Author: Helmut Knüpffer1, Nobert Biermann1, Dag Terje Endresen2, Pawel Kolasinski3, Wieslaw Podyma3, 4, Javier de la Torre5
1Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany (knupffer@ipk-gatersleben.de),2Nordic Gene Bank, POB 41, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden,3Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR), PL-05870 Blonie, Radzików near Warsaw, Poland,4Present address:  5Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Königin-Luise-Str.6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
15:45 Mapping of OECD-MDS (culture collections standard) to ABCD
Author: Patricia Mergen, Guissart, F., Swings, J., Berendsohn, W., Hobern, D., Dawyndt, P., Wautelet, F.
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Progress in, and plans for, the development of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, including the need for standards to enable mapping marine species over the internet
Author: Mark J. Costello 1, Phoebe Zhang 2, Karen Stocks 3, Fred Grassle 2
1 Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand.;  2 Institute of Marine Sciences, Rutgers State University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521, USA; 3 San Diego Supercomputing Centre, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, L Jolla, CA 92093, USA
16:45 www.DNA-surveillance: Web-based Genetic and Phylogenetic Identification of Taxa -- tools, methods and future developments
Author: C. Scott Baker, Merel Dalebout, Greg Ewing, Matt Goode, Shane Lavery, Allen Rodrigo, and Howard Ross, School of Biological Sciences and the Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand.
17:00 Repatriation of Specimen Data to Reinforce National Systems of Biodiversity Information
Author: Patricia Koleff, Jorge Soberón, Cecilia Fernández and Juan Manuel Martínez. National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio), Liga Periférico- Insurgentes Sur 4903 Col. Parques del Pedregal. Tlalpan 14010. Mexico D.F. Mexico (pkoleff@xolo.conabio.gob.mx)
17:15 Discussion
17:30 Close

Friday 15 October (morning session - Contributed Papers) - Chair: Reed Beaman

09:00 Towards indexing the biodiversity of the Carpathian region (Europe)
Author: Eduard Stloukal, Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
09:15 Use and Functions of GBIF UDDI Registry
Author: Giorgos Ksouris1, Hannu Saarenmaa2, GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen.
09:30 Research Challenges in Using Distributed GIS Services to Support Biodiversity Visualization and Analysis
Author: Robert Guralnick 1, David Neufeld 2. 1Asst. Professor and Curator Dept. of EEB and CU Museum University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO 80309-0265. 2CU Museum University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO 80309-0265.
09:45 A New Computing Tool for Automated Georeferencing of Natural History Collection Data
Author: Nelson Rios & Bart, Henry L. Jr., Tulane University Museum of Natural History, Building A-3 Wild Boar Rd., Belle Chasse, LA 70037, U.S.A. nelson@museum.tulane.edu
10:00 Implementing Open Geospatial Consortium standards for the GBIF-Austria web portal
Author: Paul Schreilechner1, Michael Hadrobolec2, Kerstin Placer2, Robert Venier1. 1BIOGIS Consulting GmbH, Dr.-Hans-Lechner-Strasse 6, 5071 Wals-Siezenheim. 2Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Spittelauer Lánde 5 , 1090 Wien/Österreich.
10:15 Problems and solutions to modelling species distributions at a global scale: the importance of taxonomic and specimen databases
Author: Peter Brewer and Frank Bisby, Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics, The University of Reading, Reading. RG6 6AS. United Kingdom
10:30 BDWorld: A grid-based workflow manager for high-throughput distributed computing in biodiversity research
Author: Neil Caithness 1 , Shonil Bhagwat 3 , Peter Brewer 1 , Oliver Bromley 4 , Frank A. Bisby 1 , Alastair Culham 1 , Nick J. Fiddian 2 , W. Alex Gray 2 , Andrew C. Jones 2 , Malcolm Scoble 3 , Tim Sutton 1 , Richard J. White 2 , Paul Williams 3 , Xuebiao Xu 2 , and Chris Yesson 1
1 Centre for Plant Diversity & Systematics, School of Plant Sciences, The University of Reading , Reading RG6 6AS , UK . {P.W.Brewer|F.A.Bisby|N.Caithness|A.Culham|T.Sutton|C.Yesson}@reading.ac.uk
2 Cardiff University, School of Computer Science , Queen’s Buildings, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA , UK . {N.J.Fiddian|W.A.Gray||Andrew.C.Jones|R.J.White|X.Xu}@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
3 Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum , London SW7 5BD , UK . {S.Bhagwat|M.Scoble|P.Williams}@nhm.ac.uk
4 School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton , Southampton SO16 7PX , UK . O.Bromley@soton.ac.uk
10:45 openModeller - An open, collaborative environmental niche modelling toolkit
Author: Tim Sutton (BDWorld), Mauro Muñoz (Cria), Ricardo Pereira Scachetti (University of Kansas), Peter Brewer (BDWorld), Renato De Giovanni (Cria),  Neil Caithness (BDWorld)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Tropicos: The Next Generation - Lessons Learned on the Biodiversity Information Highway
Author: Chuck Miller & John Sheppard, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Email: chuck.miller@mobot.org; john.sheppard@mobot.org
11:45 iPlants -Procedures for Collaborative Data Gathering
Author: Alan Paton1, Chuck Miller2 & Melissa Tulig3
1 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK., 2 Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis.
12:00 A call for TDWG support in the creation of invasive alien species standards
Author: Annie Simpson1, Elizabeth Sellers1, Hannu Saarenmaa2 and Robert A. Morris3. 1National Biological Information Infrastructure, USGS, Reston, Virginia, USA, 2GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. 3University of Massachusetts at Boston Department of Computer Science, U.S.A.
12:15 CHRONOS : A federation of databases to support taxonomic data preservation for the paleobiological community
Author: Doug Fils1, Cinzia Cervato1 Vladimir Davydov2 Pat Diver3, Brian Huber4, and Mark Leckie5 ( 1Iowa State University , Dept. Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, 253 Science I, Ames , Iowa , 50011 , USA (fils@chronos.org); 2 Boise State University, Boise , Idaho , USA; 3 DivDat Consulting, Houston , Texas , USA; 4 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC , USA; 5 University of Massachusetts , Amherst , USA
12:30 Geospatial Interoperability Standards and Emerging TDWG Specifications
Author: Phillip C. Dibner, Ecosystem Associates
13:00 Lunch

PRESENTATION WITHDRAWN: Development of web-based interactive system for taxonomy of the plants of Indian Subcontinent
Author: Ganeshaiah, K. N.1, Rajanikanth, G.2, Mohan, G.S.2, 3, Nanditha Mahadev1, Uma Shaanker, R.1.1University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore - 560065, India.2Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Hebbal, Bangalore - 560024, India.3For correspondence: mohan@atree.org

Friday 15 October (afternoon session - Contributed Papers and Closing Business) - Chair: Stan Blum

14:15 Digitized Insect Specimen Access: new digitization tools
Author: Karl-H. Lampe, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut & Museum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
14:30 MorphBank: Web Image Database Technology for Biology
Author: Fredrik Ronquist1, David Gaitros2, Austin Mast3 (Presenting) ,1 School of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University, USA.;2 Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, USA;3 Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, USA
14:45 Specimen Image Databases for Taxonomic Research: Experiences on File and Metadata Handling
Author: Arturo H. Ariño (Presenting), David Galicia. Department of Zoology and Ecology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
15:00 Integrating Observational Data into Biodiversity Information Networks
Author: Bruce A. Stein and Lynn S. Kutner. NatureServe, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, 15th Floor, Arlington, Virginia, 22209 USA
15:30 Initial dissemination of MBARI’s unique deep-sea biodiversity data
Author: Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing , California 95039 USA.
15:45 Network access to XML data embedded in JPEG2000 images
Author: Matthew Calder, Jacob Asiedu, and Robert A. Morris, University of Massachusetts at Boston Department of Computer Science, U.S.A.
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Final Meeting Business
17:30 Close of Plenary Meeting

Saturday 16 October

Provisional schedule:

Morning session (09:00 - 13:00)

Coffee break: 11:00 - 11:30
Lunch: 13:00 - 14:00

Taxonomic Names/Concepts

 Main meeting room (Coppertop)
Spatial Data Commerce 101
SDD Commerce 111

Afternoon session (14:00 - 17:30)

Wrap-up Session: 17:00 (in Coppertop)

Collections Descriptors (Introduction: 14:00 - 14:30)
 Main meeting room (Coppertop)
Collections Descriptors (14:30 onwards - note room change) Commerce 112
Literature (14:30 - following Collections Introduction) Main meeting room (Coppertop)
SDD Commerce 111
Spatial Data Commerce 101

Sunday 17 October

Provisional schedule:
Morning session (09:00 - 13:00)

Coffee break: 11:00 - 11:30
Lunch: 13:00 - 14:00

Schema Repository / Protocols

 Commerce 112
SDD Commerce 111
Spatial Data Commerce 113
Afternoon session (14:00 - 17:30)

Wrap-up Session: 17:00 (in Coppertop)

Image Data
 Commerce 112
SDD Commerce 111

Monday 18 October (not at the University)

SDD Subgroup session (if required) - venue likely to be a downtown hotel

Posters submitted to date

  Integrating Descriptive Data from Floras
Author: Mary McGee Wood1, Lydon, S. J.2, Wang, S.1, Huxley, R.3 & Sutton, D. A.3, 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, 2 Earth Science Education Unit, Keele University, 3 Department of Botany, Natural History Museum
  Integrating Biodiversity Information Systems - Landcare Research NZ
Author: Jerry Cooper, Aaron Wilton, Nick Spencer, Mike Wilson, Mark Fuglestad, Kevin Richards, Mike Cochrane. Landcare Research, PO Box 69 , Lincoln 8152, New Zealand.
  XML Delivery of Digitised New Zealand Floras and Faunas
Author: Nick Spencer, Jerry Cooper and Aaron Wilton. Landcare Research, PO Box 39-141, Christchurch, New Zealand
  Data Repository and Metadata Integration: A case study
Author: Nick Spencer, Susan Wiser, Larry Burrows. Landcare Research, PO BOX 69, Lincoln 8152, New Zealand.
  Automatized knowledge extraction from paper documents
Author: Guillaume Rousse, Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA
  Taxonomic authority files for the Mexican biodiversity information system
Author: Patricia Koleff, Susana Ocegueda, Diana Hernández & Jorge Soberón.
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio), Liga Periférico- Insurgentes Sur 4903 Col. Parques del Pedregal. Tlalpan 14010. Mexico D.F. Mexico (pkoleff@xolo.conabio.gob.mx)
  Replication framework for regional and thematic portals in GBIF network
Author: Donald Hobern, Giorgos Ksouris, Ciprian Vizitiu & Hannu Saarenmaa. GBIF Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, hostmaster@gbif.org
  Biodiversity World: Towards an Extensible Virtual Laboratory for Biodiversity Research
Author: Richard White, Andrew Jones, Alex Gray, Xuebiao Xu, Nick Pittas, Nick Fiddian, Frank Bisby, Alastair Culham, Neil Caithness, Tim Sutton, Peter Brewer, Chris Yesson, Oliver Bromley, Malcolm Scoble, Paul Williams, Shonil Bhagwat.
  Biodiversity World: An Architecture for an Extensible Virtual Laboratory for Analysing Biodiversity Patterns
Author: Richard White1, Andrew Jones, Nick Pittas, Alex Gray, Tim Sutton, Xuebiao Xu, Oliver Bromley, Neil Caithness, Frank Bisby, Nick Fiddian, Malcolm Scoble, Alistair Culham, Paul Williams, Paul Valdes

Demonstrations submitted to date

  Demonstrations of SDD systems
Author: Jacob Asiedu, and Matthew Calder, University of Massachusetts at Boston Department of Computer Science, U.S.A.
  A TAXONOMIC WEB-EDITOR: carrying out taxonomic revisions online
Author: Marc Geoffroy, Anton Güntsch, Jinling Li , Javier de la Torre & Walter G. Berendsohn Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14191 Berlin, Germany
  The PyWrapper serving BioCASe, ENBI and Species2000
Author: Döring, M. & de la Torre, J.. Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14191 Berlin, Germany
  Protonyms, References, and Assertions: An introduction to the Taxonomer data model (See also presented paper)
Author: Rich Pyle, Database Coordinator for Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817, USA.
 

Demonstration of BioGIS software
Author: Paul Schreilechner, Robert Venier. BIOGIS Consulting GmbH, Dr.-Hans-Lechner-Strasse 6, 5071 Wals-Siezenheim

This demonstration will take place at the presentation end of the main meeting room during the lunch period on Wednesday 13 October

  Demonstration of the BeBIF portal
Author: Patricia Mergen
  Fauna Europaea; all European animal species on the web
Author: Yde de Jong1, Melina Verbeek1, Verner Michelsen2, Fedor Steeman2, Nicolas Bailly3, Claire Basire3. 1Zoological Museum Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94766, NL-1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2Zoological Museum, Department of Entomology, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. 3Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Institut de Systématique (CNRS FR 1541), Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie, 43 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France