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Theme
II-2: Biodiversity Information Systems – L. Blaine
Presentation
abstracts will appear here as soon as possible.
If population counts
are a prognostic indicator of long term survival, biodiversity
information systems are among the least endangered species on
the planet. Since the United Nations Conference on the Environment
and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janiero in 1992, and the
subsequent formation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD), there has been an enormous international focus on cataloging,
exploring phylogenetic relationships, and characterizing the world's
biota. We have witnessed a proliferation of software tools and
databases at the local, regional, and international levels that
include species inventories and checklists, taxonomic treatments,
species descriptions, and rules of nomenclature.
The challenges for
the future in biodiversity will be to find better methods of establishing
and displaying taxonomic relationships among organisms, capacity
building to sustain information resources in the biodiversity-rich
regions of the world, and providing seamless interconnections
among the disparate data sources. This symposium will focus on
solutions to these challenges from the dual perspectives of database
content and software development for improved data management
and dissemination.
Submitted abstracts
include:
Harnessing Biodiversity
Information on a Global Scale
Ebbe Nielson, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
The Impact of the
Internet on Biodiversity: Good or Evil
Leonard (Kris) Kristalka, Natural History Museum, University of
Kansas
Fish Biodiversity:
Preliminary Insights and Suggestions for a Research Agenda
Rainer Froese, ICLARM, CGIAR, Philippines
European Register of
Marine Organisms (ERMS) Database
Richard White, U. of Southampton, U.K.
The Role of BIOSIS
in Biodiversity Information
Maureen Kelly/Judith Howcroft, BIOSIS, USA/U.K.
Unlocking the Bioinformatics
Treasure Trove of Knowledge
Alex Gray, U. of Cardiff, U.K.
Brazilian Biodiversity
Information Systems
Dora Canhos, Brazilian Tropical Database, Campinas, Brazil
Which is more useful
for the interoperability of Biological Databases, CORBA or XML
?
Hideaki SUGAWARA and Satoru MIYZAKI
WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM)
Cybershell Museum
Sung-Soo Hong, Bu-Young Ahn, Hyung-Seon Park and Sang-Rak Lee
Department of Computer Engineering, Hoseo University, Chungnam
336-795 Republic of Korea
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