[Taxacom] Survey of the Multimedia Resources in Biodiversity

[Vishwas Chavan]

Dear Taxacom Subscribers - 

GBIF's Multimedia Resources Task Group
<http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1205258694>  is conducting an online survey
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3IfGMGfEI3SMm_2f5h3yNuAw_3d_3d>  of
multimedia resources related to biodiversity at
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3IfGMGfEI3SMm_2f5h3yNuAw_3d_3d). 

The major objective of this survey is to understand the extent of
potentially useful, sharable biodiversity multimedia resources (images,
audio, video, etc.) and repositories that hold them.

The survey is also intended to 

*	discover the current barriers to sharing these multimedia resources
in the public domain, and
*	determine the degree to which each resource is tagged with data
elements (e.g. what, when, where, by whom and how) that are essential to
facilitating its potential use as a species occurrence record.

The survey also asks your permission (if you are authorized to grant it) to
publish the attributes and URL of any public repository you are reporting,
because GBIF may develop a public directory of such facilities. 

Please contribute
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3IfGMGfEI3SMm_2f5h3yNuAw_3d_3d>  to
the survey. The survey closes 26 May 2008. 

Please feel free to circulate this request for participation to colleagues
and appropriate mailing lists. Sorry for cross postings if any.

With regards,

 

Vishwas

 

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Vishwas Chavan
Senior Program Officer for DIGIT
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
15 Universitetsparken, DK 2100, Copenhagen, Denamrk
Tel. +45 35 32 14 75, Fax. +45 35 32 14 80
Email - vchavan at gbif.org
Web - www.gbif.org

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