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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The GBIF-commissioned white paper on Knowledge Organisation Systems (i.e., Controlled Vocabularies, Ontologies, Thesauri, etc.) for biodiversity informatics is now available at</span><span lang=DA>: <a href="http://links.gbif.org/gbif_kos_whitepaper_v1.pdf">http://links.gbif.org/gbif_kos_whitepaper_v1.pdf</a></span><span lang=EN-US>. </span><span lang=DA>The white paper provides a set of recommendations for consideration by GBIF and these are expected to inform the development of the GBIF work programme, both in 2011 and in our 3rd (2012-2016) five-year phase.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.0pt'><span lang=DA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.0pt'><span lang=DA>Feedback on the white paper is welcomed. Please use the dedicated page (<a href="http://community.gbif.org/pg/pages/view/11223/gbif-kos-report">http://community.gbif.org/pg/pages/view/11223/gbif-kos-report</a>) of the KOS Interest Group section (</span><a href="http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/11222/kos-interest-group/">http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/11222/kos-interest-group/</a>) <span lang=DA>on the GBIF Community site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Éamonn Ó Tuama<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (<a href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org">eotuama@gbif.org</a>), <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA), <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>