PLEASE NOTE:
The deadline for reduced registrations to the TDWG 2000 meeting
has been extended to 30th September.
see http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/tdwg/2000/RegistrationForm.htm
for the registration form.
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Date sent: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:37:27 +0100
Send reply to: Georgina MacKenzie <gmackenzie(a)YORK.BIOSIS.ORG>
Subject: TDWG 2000 Meeting
The 2000 meeting of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group
(TDWG) will be held from 10th to 12th November at the
Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. The theme of this
year's meeting will be "Digitizing Biological Collections".
For further details, please look at
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/tdwg/2000/
This provides a preliminary program of the meeting, information on
costs and how to register, and details of hotels.
For further information on TDWG, please look at the web site
http://www.tdwg.org or contact me.
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Georgina MacKenzie
Secretary, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases (TDWG)
gmackenzie(a)york.biosis.org
Telephone: +44 1904 642816
Fax: +44 1904 612793
Folks,
Hi. We now have a grant to convert the Tree of Life project into a
full-fledged database, and are looking for a lead developer to help
us with this effort. If you know of any good candidates, please pass
this note their way.
Below is a portion of the official job advertisement; the complete ad
with more details can be found at
http://hr2.hr.arizona.edu/17905xcox.htm.
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We seek an applications and database developer to redesign and
implement a database of biological organisms (The Tree of Life
Project). The Tree of Life (http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree) is a
widely-used, multi-authored, international, distributed Internet
project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. This
position will be lead developer in the rebuilding of the project as
database-driven system with open-source, Java-based data entry tools
and flexible data-presentation and manipulation modules.
Additionally, this position will coordinate with other bioinformatics
projects (e.g. NABIN, species2000) to ensure interoperability of the
data served by the project. As lead developer in the project, this
person will oversee the day-to-day duties of two half-time graduate
research assistants, and provide expertise and leadership when needed
for these positions.
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If you or potential applicants have any questions, please contact me
or Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj(a)u.library.arizona.edu).
Best wishes,
David
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David Maddison
Department of Entomology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
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