Edited by Walter G. Berendsohn and Adrian Rissoné

 

 

Contents

1.     Experience exporting and importing SDD 1.0. 1

2.     An ontological approach to the organisation of biological information. 1

3.     HERBIS is the Erudite Recorded Botanical Information Synthesizer: electronic data publication from herbarium specimens – a click away. 2

4.     The PBI Solanum project – an international collaboration to monograph Solanum.. 2

5.     ABCD – the proposed standard XML schema for Access to Biological Collection Data. 3

6.     Twenty years of TDWG: no more the travelling tea-party! 4

7.     Completing the Catalogue of Life: phase 2 of the programme. 4

8.     The Darwin Core 2. 5

9.     Graphic identification tool applied to West African trees. 5

10.    CHRONOS System’s approach to the development of paleobiological taxonomic databases and dictionaries  6

11.    Towards best practice in georeferencing - Project BioGeomancer 6

12.    Data quality tools for use in georeferencing natural history location data - Project BioGeomancer 7

13.    Detecting spelling errors in taxonomic databases. 7

14.    A standards-based structure for supporting the exchange of biocollections data. 7

15.    WDC-MARE / PANGAEA – Publication of observational data on the base of persistent identifiers (DOI) 8

16.    A first TAPIR implementation - the BioCASe PyWrapper serves a new protocol. 8

17.    Make the tapir work. Practical potential of the TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR) 9

18.    Website and web application design for biodiversity informatics applications: incorporating the stakeholders  9

19.    MorphBank: The requirements and implementation of a digital image phylogenetic database. 9

20.    Databases of the dendrological collection of PABGI 10

21.    RMCA collaborator of the Belgian Generalized Natural Sciences Online and Spatial Information System project GNOSIS  10

22.    Reducing the pain of digitising herbaria and sharing data. 11

23.    Open Source for species identification: an application of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to a web based version of IDAO   11

24.    Electronic collection of agricultural crops, their wild-growing relatives and pest organisms within the Former Soviet Union  12

25.    An Internet-based information resource on the family Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera) 12

26.    Structured Descriptive Data (SDD) version 1.0. 13

27.    Remote annotation in a distributed access system - How to provide feedback?. 13

28.    Machine Learning for Extracting Darwin Core Data from Museum Labels. 14

29.    Development of GBIF data services. 15

30.    Using the Catalogue of Life in GBIF. 15

31.    The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant for the GBIF–TDWG partnership. 16

32.    A machine learning environment for the automatic mark-up of taxonomic descriptions with XML. 16

33.    Modularisation of the TDWG XML standards. 17

34.    AlgaTerra: calibrating micro algal information on the Internet 18

35.    EOL: a database application for presenting results of taxonomic revisions on the web. 19

36.    The Catalogue of Life Web-services. 19

37.    Workflow as a Metaphor for Biodiversity Problem-Solving. 19

38.    The contribution of monitoring data to information about biodiversity. 20

39.    The Taxonomic Concept Schema: an XML standard for exchanging taxonomic names and concepts. 20

40.    ABCDEFG – a draft Extension For Geosciences to the ABCD XML schema. 21

41.    Databases on the “Supersite” of the Zoological Institute Web-portal – “Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterists” 22

42.    Half a million species: the Catalogue of Life Annual and Dynamic Checklists. 22

43.    Database “Habitats of East Fennoscandia”. 23

44.    Databases of the information storage and retrieval system of the Herbarium MSKH: Hortus Botanicus Centralis - Info  23

45.    Internet and XML-based program tools for the everyday work of taxonomists. 24

46.    The bird monitoring data exchange schema. 25

47.    The catalogue of the World Ocean Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) from the collection of samples of the Institute of Oceanology RAN (Laboratory of Bottom Fauna) 25

48.    “ZOOCOD” - the data standard for the building taxonomic tables and representation of multilevel hierarchies in the relation databases. 25

49.    Database “Weed Plants in Russia Flora” – results and perspectives. 26

50.    FloraWeb – the German Web Flora. 27

51.    World Database of Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): SIPHONAPTERA): experience of morphological analysis  27

52.    The Royal Museum for Central Africa in the era of biodiversity informatics. 28

53.    Tropicos in taxonomic toil: daucus or ferula?. 28

54.    Integrated search on taxonomic databases. 28

55.    SPICE protocol and SPICE system.. 29

56.    The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), a core-ontology for information integration. 29

57.    Distribution maps of Russian Umbelliferae – simple technique of electronic view. 30

58.    Legacy Infrastructure Network for Natural Environments (LINNE) 30

59.    Concept of a simple database providing storage and management of the information on regional fauna and flora  31

60.    Spatial modelling of plant species potential habitats. 31

61.    Information technology tools in biodiversity research: basic results and trends. 32

62.    A Web-based collaborative environment for building the Cypriniformes Tree of Life. 33

63.    Species 2000 Metadatabase: practicality and dreams. 33

64.    Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species. 34

65.    On the standards of taxonomic description in Nematoda. 34

66.    The revision of the genus Bursaphelenchus Fuchs (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae) and analysis of the phylogeny and evolution with the use of the information technology tools. 35

67.    ALTER-Net - An Object Oriented Approach to Ecological and Biodiversity Data Networking. 35

68.    Serving Our Audiences: What teachers want from a tree of life visualization. 36

69.    Illustrated catalogue of the types of plant taxa of the Vir Herbarium (Wir) 36

70.    Access rights management and access control for BioCASE. 37

71.    SDD and the Key to Life. 37

72.    Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): a standard for describing entire collections. 38

73.    Collections of digital iconographic pictures of plants to decides taxonomic questions on living collections in Russian and Chinese botanical gardens. 38

74.    Using TAPIR views for integrating Biodiversity data sources into existing standard applications. 38

75.    Mapping equivalences: the role of a name server in providing access to real-world biodiversity datasets  39

76.    Database of the herbaceous perennial plants of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden used outdoors in the Northern Territories introduction experiments. 39

77.    Services for improving integrity in federated taxonomic information systems. 40

78.    Usable georeferencing infrastructure: preliminary lessons with BioGeomancer 40

79.    Pitfalls and prospects for spatially challenged occurrence data. 41

80.    Making TAPIR data providers BioMOBY services: first steps. 41

81.    Data exchange formats: experience from the National Biodiversity Network. 41

82.    Taxon names in multiscript languages. 42

83.    OBIS continues its global expansion through content, standard, and service development 42