Biodiversity Information Projects of the World

A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)

Project Website

http://www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/

Project Description

PESI is the next step in integrating and securing taxonomically authoritative species name registers that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe.
PESI provides standardised and authoritative taxonomic information by integrating and securing Europe’s taxonomically authoritative species name registers, nomenclators and associated exper(tise) networks that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe.

Contact

Yde de Jong
Coordinator
Zoological Museum Amsterdam

Project Type

Data Standards

Project Language

English

Project Start Date

01-May-2008

Project End Date

30-Apr-2011

Key Inputs

Key Infrastructure

PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural components of four major community networks on taxonomic indexing and their respective knowledge infrastructures, namely those of marine life, terrestrial plants, fungi and animals, into a joint work program. This will result in functional knowledge networks of taxonomic experts and regional focal points, which will collaborate on the establishment of standardised and authoritative taxonomic (meta-) data and the development of approaches on their long-term sustain.
PESI will integrate the three main all-taxon registers in Europe, namely the European Register of Marine Species, Fauna Europaea, and Euro+Med PlantBase in coordination with EU based nomenclators and the network of EU based Global Species Databases. This will result in a standards based, quality controlled, expert validated, open-access infrastructure for research, education, and resource management.

Key Technologies

PESI will coordinate the integration and synchronisation of the European taxonomic information systems into a joint e-infrastructure following the running initiatives for the creation of a Global Names Architecture for the efficient and unambiguous cross-linking of taxon names, the progress on a joint Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy within EDIT, and the set up of a common user-interface disseminating the pan-European checklists and associated user-services results.
PESI contributes the development of a unified cross-reference system and provides of high quality taxonomic standards. PESI will further involve the Europe-based nomenclatural services and link the planned joint European taxonomic e-infrastructures middle-layer to the global e-gateway.

Key Processes

A crucial part of this project will be the involvement of the expert community to work collaboratively on the PESI tasks following common work formats accepted for the integrated European taxonomic workforce in the European Network of Excellence on Taxonomy (EDIT). The development of national and regional focal point networks assures the efficient access to local expertise.
PESI also makes a start with the geographic expansion of the European networks to eventually cover the entire Palaearctic biogeographic region. As an important first step, the cooperation is intensified with partners from Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine and Russia.

Geographic Scope

Continental - Europe sensu lato (Western Palearctic excluding Africa and Arabic penninsula)

Taxonomic Scope

Domain - All Eukaryotes.

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