ZooBank Symposium Florida, 18 Dec

[Frank Krell]

Dear Colleagues,
 
hurricane Wilma has forced the Entomological Society of America to postpone their Annual Meeting to next week. Thus, the ZooBank Symposium also had to be postponed, which has enabled two additional speakers to attend: Andrew Polaszek from ICZN and Per de Place Bjorn from GBIF. The new programme of the Symposium is attached.
If you consider to attend the ESA meeting, join us to hear about the progress of ZooBank, the ICZN's open-access web-register of all new animal names (and descriptions). Join the discussion and contribute to the development of this exciting new infrastructure for taxonomy and beyond!
 
Frank Krell
NHM London
 
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ESA Annual Meeting 2005, Fort Lauderdale

Late breaking symposium

 

Revolutionising taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and descriptions

 

Sunday, 18 Dec. 2005; 13:30-15:30

 

Organizer: Frank Krell, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK; F.Krell at nhm.ac.uk

 

13:30-13:35: Frank Krell (Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK):


Welcome and Introduction


 

13:35-13:50: Andrew Polaszek (ICZN, London):

"ZooBank: the ICZN's open-access web-based register of all new animal names and original descriptions"

 

13:50-14:00: Nigel Robinson (Thomson Zoological, York, UK) remotely presented:

"ZooBank and Zoological Record: a partnership for succes"

 

14:00-14:10: Per de Place Bjørn (GBIF, Copenhagen, Denmark):

"ZooBank and GBIF" (working title)

 

14:10-14:25: Richard Pyle (Bishop Museum, Honolulu) remotely presented:

"Implementing the Digital Taxonomic Revolution: Strategies for a Successful Web-Based Registry of Taxonomic Names"

 

14:25-14:35: Norman Johnson (Ohio State University, Columbus) & Donat Agosti (American Museum of Natural History NY):

"Copyright: the new taxonomic impediment"

 

14:35-14:45: James Woolley (Texas A&M University):


"Name accessibility: One less impediment to taxonomy"


 


14:45-15:30: Panel discussion


 

Norm Johnson, Frank Krell, Per de Place Bjørn (Zoological Museum, Copenhagen), Andrew Polaszek, Jim Woolley


+ Richard Pyle & Nigel Robinson remotely (via WebEx)


 

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Dr Frank-T. Krell
Head, Coleoptera Division
Head, Scarab Research Group
Editor, Systematic Entomology
Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7942 5886
Fax +44 (0) 20 7942 5229
f.krell at nhm.ac.uk