Workshop e-platforms & e-tools for taxonomy Feb.2013

== Workshop "e-platforms & e-tools for taxonomy", 11 of February (Monday) to 14th of February (Thursday) 2013, Leiden, the Netherlands. ==

We are pleased to announce the first pro-iBiosphere workshop held in Leiden, Netherlands, from 11 to 14 February 2013.
The aim of Pro-iBiosphere is to prepare, through a coordination action, the ground for an integrative system for intelligent management of biodiversity
knowledge.
Once it becomes operational, the European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System will play a major role in facilitating the synthesis of core biodiversity data by creating an authoritative framework including, discovery of new species, naming of specimens and species, identification tools, descriptions, and various other basic types of information. It will also facilitate the acquisition of high quality biodiversity data from various sources, including legacy data; the curation of the data; and at the same time it will optimize the delivery of those data to the various users.

The workshop will address
* e-platforms & e-tools for taxonomy
* legacy literature - semantic mark-up generation, data quality and user-participation infrastructure,
* prospective Literature – toward Best Practices for data acquisition and curation using e-tools for taxonomy

Audience :
Editors of Floras and Faunas who are interested in adopting e-platforms and e-tools
Taxonomists who are interested in using the e-tools
...

Objectives:
Promote digital taxonomic tools amongst taxonomists
Understand the software requirements of users
Provide exemplar training

Please have a look at http://wiki.pro-ibiosphere.eu/wiki/Workshops_Leiden_February_2013 for the preliminary agenda.

Please contact Patricia Kelbert in case of any questions regarding this workshop.

p.kelbert@bgbm.org
Botanical Garden and Museum of Berlin
Berlin - Germany

http://www.pro-ibiosphere.eu/
http://wiki.pro-ibiosphere.eu/wiki/Workshops_Leiden_February_2013