Ecological and monitoring data are usually descriptive in the broad sense, so perhaps both these and morphological data fall under the rubric of GUIDs for descriptive data. -k -----Original Message----- From: Taxonomic Databases Working Group GUID Project [mailto:TDWG-GUID@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Jones Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 8:50 AM To: TDWG-GUID@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU Subject: Re: Breakout groups and volunteers to take notes I think a focus on GUIDs for ecological and environmental montitoring and experimental data would be good. Ricardo wrote to me about this topic before but I was unable to respond at the time. Nevertheless, I would be happy to participate in such a group, and even take some responsibility if others are interested. Anyone else interested in this topic? Matt

-----Original Message----- From: Taxonomic Databases Working Group GUID Project [mailto:TDWG-GUID@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU] On Behalf Of Ricardo Scachetti Pereira Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:01 PM To: TDWG-GUID@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU Subject: Breakout groups and volunteers to take notes

Dear GUID-1 Workshop Participants,

On the 2nd day of our workshop, we are planning on having two breakout groups to discuss in parallel the specific needs of different data domains regarding GUIDs. So far we have two breakout groups planned:

- Taxonomic Names and Concepts, to be convened by Jessie Kennedy (thanks Jessie for kindly accepting our invitation!), and - Specimen and Collection Data, to be convened by me.

So I have some requests regarding the breakout groups:

1) Please choose the group you would like to participate based on your work and affinity. I will make a headcount (probably via a show of hands) on the first day of the workshop so we can allocate the appropriate room for each group.

2) We need volunteers to take notes about our discussions and the decisions we make during the breakout and the main sessions. We need at least one volunteer for each breakout session and one or more to take notes during the main sessions. We need to know who the volunteers will be before the meeting.

3) If you feel that we should have additional breakout groups to discuss specific needs of other data domains (ecological, observation, and genomic data, for example), please let me know as soon as possible, so we can discuss the possibility and make the appropriate arrangements (recruit a convener, a secretary, and participants, allocate a room, etc).

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Ricardo

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