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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As another example of these type of events, the OSGeo mob (Open
Source GIS software) have run ‘code sprints’ for quite some time around their
conferences. The next OSGeo conference, FOSS4G, is being held in Sydney in
October of this year, and some of my team are going along to participate. I’m
happy to get the guys to give a brief description of how that was organized and
how it went, although timing wise it’s not far from the TDWG 2009 conference.
I might be able to get the FOSS4G organizers in Sydney to give us some info on
how they organize it if you guys think it’s worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Now I suppose I better start getting distracted by submitted standards
too…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Piers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Blum, Stan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 18 February 2009 3:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lee Belbin; Kevin Richards; Technical Architecture Group mailing
list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Kevin et al,</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here
is another event that TDWG should be aware of -- the NESCent sponsored
hackathon on phylogenetic (database) interoperability. <a
href="https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackathon"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>https://www.nescent.org/wg/evoinfo/index.php?title=Database_Interop_Hackathon</span></a></span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It
would be nice if TDWG had someone there at least to observe, in particular if
this event could serve as a model for our own hackathons.</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-Stan</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org on behalf of Lee Belbin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tue 2009-02-17 10:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Kevin Richards'; 'Technical Architecture Group mailing list'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Kevin</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Sorry for the delay in responding. Been distracted with
submitted standards (a nice distraction).</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The TAG should act as the ‘glue’ between the other TDWG groups.
Is the key issue therefore the vocabularies/ ontology?</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I like the idea of a bunch of weasels. It would seem a good idea
for the TAG to disseminate a statement of intent as soon as your strategy
crystallizes. This would (hopefully) encourage the groups to aim in a
productive direction.</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I’m still working on recruiting members of the Programme
Committee. They should have a significant input to the meeting. They will be
the ones making a call to Conveners for group activities including involvement
across the themes.</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Lee</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Lee Belbin</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>TDWG Secretariat</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org
[mailto:tdwg-tag-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin Richards<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 February 2009 7:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Technical Architecture Group mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [tdwg-tag] FW: TDWG in 2009</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:black'>Hello fellow TAGers,</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I
like the sound of Donald's mention of a "hackathon". If anyone
else is keen for such a thing at TDWG 2009, then let me know.</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Some
ideas that we could work on:</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-
Tapir tools, services, enhancements</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-
LSID tools, services, enhancements</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-
LSID vocabulary work - elaboration of the vocabs, tools for working with the
vocabs, ?</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-
mash ups</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-
semantic web integration with tdwg standards/tools</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Also
had a few thoughts about how TAG ought to influence the the other sub groups
and their discussions.</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>A
snippet from an email to Doanld...</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>"I
do like the idea of concentrating more on the developing standards etc. </span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I
feel we will have to be careful though not to end up with different groups
heading different directions, or re-inventing wheels, because they are in
separate discussions/sub groups. One of the main concerns here is
subgroups creating models for data types that have been done elsewhere - ie the
"reuse" of existing schemas issue. I do have a cunning plan
though that may help (so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a
weasel :)). As this "reuse" issue is really a major concern of
the TAG group, we could have members of the TAG group spreading themselves
through the different discussion, making sure they are heading the same
direction as other groups and reusing models, etc, where appropriate. It
may help to have a short TAG "plan of attack" meeting before the main
meeting to work out strategies for this??"</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Any
thoughts?</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Kevin</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of
Donald.Hobern@csiro.au [Donald.Hobern@csiro.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 February 2009 5:27 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> tdwg@lists.tdwg.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [tdwg] TDWG in 2009</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear
TDWG Members and Friends,</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TDWG
2009 will be help in Montpellier France from November 9-13. I thought I would
take this opportunity to outline the activities I see as important for TDWG
this year leading up to the conference this November. There are many important
things for us to be doing in the lead up to the meeting.</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Consolidation
of past work</span></strong><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
have made much progress over the last few years in reworking our standards for
greater interoperability. The LSID work and the associated LSID vocabularies
have been a major part of this. These changes make it much easier to reuse TDWG
standards with different technologies, to embed TDWG data elements in other
structures, and to map other data formats into forms which can be interpreted
as TDWG-compliant data. However this work is still incomplete. We need to
formalise the vocabularies as an agreed high-level ontology or data model to
support cross-project data integration. Many of our projects are awaiting a
clear lead in this area. Please contact me if you are interested in leading
some of this work or contributing to the discussion.</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One
obvious example of the importance of this work comes from Annie Simpson's
comments during her presentation in Perth. It should not be difficult<span
style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'>for a group like GISIN
to adopt TDWG standards and be able quickly to build a network to share data
using those standards. I reiterate the challenge for us to solve this problem this
year, using GISIN's requirements as a benchmark.</span></span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>It is encouraging to see that NCD nears the end of its public
review and that TAPIR has just been submitted to the TDWG standards track. It
would appear that the submission of Darwin Core is not far off either. Please
help to ensure that we end up with effective standards that can be easily
adopted by a wide audience. </span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>e-Biosphere
2009</span></strong><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
e-Biosphere 2009 conference (<a href="http://www.e-biosphere09.org/"
target="_blank" title="http://www.e-biosphere09.org/">http://www.e-biosphere09.org/</a>)
will take place in London in June. This goals of this conference are to:</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Present and
discuss the extraordinary progress made in Biodiversity Informatics over
the past decade, </span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Provide
participants with demonstrations of current capabilities in this field,
and </span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bring stakeholders
together to create a roadmap for the next decade. </span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
main meeting (1-3 June) has a programme of invited speakers who will provide an
overview of what is happening in biodiversity informatics and promote a
vision for the importance of this work. These sessions will address the
first and second of the goals above. At the end of the week, there will be a
smaller two-day workshop with representatives from a range of biodiversity
informatics projects discussing synergies and efficient collaboration (the
third goal).</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>e-Biosphere
is significant to TDWG for several reasons:</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The opening
session on 2 June will present the benefits of data standards and
integration, and we expect that many of the other sessions will directly
or indirectly highlight TDWG work. We are also organising a booth to
publicise the work of TDWG and hope that this will be an opportunity to
demonstrate the value of our role to a wider audience. </span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The e-Biosphere
organisers have established an "Online Conference Community" (<a
href="http://forum.e-biosphere09.org/" target="_blank"
title="http://forum.e-biosphere09.org/">http://forum.e-biosphere09.org/</a>)
to engage the wider community in pre-conference discussions. One of
the categories (to be added soon) will be on the role of standards and tools
in biodiversity informatics. We encourage TDWG members to contribute
to this and to the other conference discussions. </span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TDWG will be
represented in the roadmap discussions on 4-5 June. We trust that
this session will help us all to clarify priorities for the next few years
and will feed into discussions at TDWG 2009 and beyond. </span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>TDWG 2009</span></strong><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
recent years TDWG conferences have moved away from their earlier format, with
significant emphasis on working group meetings, to become more of a reporting
conference on the activities of TDWG-related projects. This has had some
benefits, but has also in some ways weakened the organisation by reducing our
focus on the core activity of developing and promoting standards. The
vitality of our working groups in large measure depends on the conference
providing a focus for their activity.</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For
this reason, TDWG 2009 will be structured differently. Monday and Friday
of the conference have been reserved for plenary sessions, but for the rest of
the conference we plan to run three parallel (and, I hope, intersecting)
streams of activities. One of these will be on the use of biodiversity
informatics to support agriculture and crop diversity. Another stream
will be for TDWG to initiate activity in response to the roadmap developed at
e-Biosphere 2009. The third stream is still be be selected. Each
stream will include a range of activities (e.g. symposia, seminars, task group
sessions, hackathons) planned to address key issues and to result in real
deliverables to progress biodiversity informatics in the area.</span><span
lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We
are establishing a Program Committee to plan the conference in detail and will
keep you informed of progress.</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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wishes,</span><span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Australia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra,
ACT 2601</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile:
0437990208 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Email: </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><a
href="mailto:Donald.Hobern@csiro.au" title="mailto:Donald.Hobern@csiro.au"><span
lang=FR>Donald.Hobern@csiro.au</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Web: <a href="http://www.ala.org.au/"
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