[Crm-sig] Proceedings of TDWG 2007

[Weitzman, Anna]

The work of the Biodiversity Information Standards group, TDWG, should
be of interest to many on this list.

The 2007 issue of The Proceedings of TDWG has just been published from
the Bratislava conference.  This conference draws together work of the
TDWG Infrastructure Project (http://www.tdwg.org/activities/tip/):
Significant developments of the new standards architecture were
presented and of direct relevance to this list, Rich Pyle's presentation
on LSID's in ZooBank (http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/252).

The Table of Contents and individual abstracts are accessible from

http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/issue/view/ISBN%20978-1-930723-71-9,

the PDF version of the complete journal can be found at 

http://www.tdwg.org/fileadmin/2007meeting/documents/Proceedings_of_TDWG_
2007.pdf, 

and the conference presentations can be found at

http://www.tdwg.org/conference2007/programme/how-to-upload-slides/. 

Anna Weitzman and Lee Belbin acknowledge with thanks the Session Chairs,
authors and the peer reviewers in helping with scheduling and the
processing of abstracts. And - a special thanks to Eduard Stloukal and
his team for an excellent meeting.


Anna L. Weitzman, PhD
Botanical and Biodiversity Informatics Research
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
 
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