[Taxacom] Call for participation: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge

[Andrew Jones]

As previously announced, a workshop entitled:

Biodiversity Informatics:
challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge

is to be held on 10th July, 2008 at Cardiff University (Wales, UK).

Registration is open; "early bird" fees apply until 31st May 2008
inclusive. A registration form may be obtained from the workshop
home page:

http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/

Full papers
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Andrew W. Hill & Robert P. Guralnick,
"Distributed Systems and Automated Biodiversity Informatics: Genomic
Analysis and Geographic Visualization of Disease Evolution"

Ewen R. Orme, Andrew C. Jones & Richard J. White,
"LSID Deployment in the Catalogue of Life"

Martin Graham, Paul Craig & Jessie Kennedy,
"Visualisation to Aid Biodiversity Studies through Accurate Taxonomic
Reconciliation"

Christopher H.C. Lyal & Anna L. Weitzman,
"Releasing the content of taxonomic papers: solutions to access and
data mining"

Russell P. McIver, Andrew C. Jones & Richard J. White,
"Workflow Systems for Biodiversity Researchers: Existing Problems and
Potential Solutions"

Short papers
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Nicola Nicolson,
"Exploring International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Data using
Visualisation"

Vincent S. Smith, Simon D. Rycroft & David Roberts,
"Scratchpads: getting biodiversity online, redefining publication"

Jennifer M. Schopf, Sarah Bordenstein, Patrick Leary, Peter
Mangiafico, David J. Patterson, Alexey Shipunov & David Shorthouse,
"Managing Biodiversity Knowledge in the Encyclopedia of Life"

Pablo Salvanha, Pedro Luiz Pizzigati Correa, Antonio Mauro Saraiva &
Etienne Americo Cartolano Junior,
"An architecture to approach distributed biodiversity pollinators
relational information into centralized portals based on biodiversity
protocols"

Charles Hussey & Yde de Jong,
"A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)"

Please visit our workshop page for futher details of the workshop
timetable, etc:

http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/

Andrew Jones
Richard White

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Dr Andrew C Jones

School of Computer Science, Cardiff University,
Queen's Buildings, 5 The Parade,
Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

E-mail: Andrew.C.Jones at cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44-(0)29-20875537  FAX: +44-(0)29-20874598
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