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04-Jun-2008 TDWG 2008 in Fremantle

Registration for TDWG 2008 is now open at www.TDWG.org/conference2008/registration. The conference will be held at the Maritime Museum of Western Australia in Fremantle, about 20km southwest of Perth.

Details about the...

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...