News Archive

15-Apr-2008 Central African Biodiversity Information Network (CABIN)

The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) is pleased to announce that the new project called "CABIN" (Central African Biodiversity Information Network) started 1 April 2008. The aim of this project, funded for a period of 5...

14-Apr-2008 NC State University Insect Museum Implements LSIDs

The Insect Museum of NC State University has now implemented LSIDs for their collections with help from Roger Hyam, see blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/insects.

To quote the announcement-

"What does...

08-Apr-2008 Generalising Sensitive Species Data

Arthur Chapman and Oliver Grafton have just written a definitive guide to handling sensitive species data.

The  Guide to Best Practices for Generalising Primary Species-Occurrence Data is the result of a project generated...

04-Apr-2008 Report on Australian National National Taxonomy Forum

The report of a National Taxonomy Forum held in October 2007 at the Australian Museum has just been released-

www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/workshop-forum/pubs/ntf-proceedings.pdf

While the report is...

13-Mar-2008 Launch of the BioCASE Portal

The following announcement taken from TAXACOM March 12, 2008 is another application of TDWG standards in action.

CETAF (the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities), in conjunction GBIF and the EU-SYNTHESYS project,...