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Indian Fungi Database structure
by Shubhada Nagarkar 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Dear Sir/madam, I am a librarian in the Bioinformatics Center, University of Pune, India. I am pursuing my Ph.d. in Library and Information Science. I am pursuing this research under the guidance of Prof. Harsha Parekh, (Chair) SNDT University, Mumbai and Prof. Geoffrey Bowker (co-Chair) UCSD, USA. My research area is Biodiversity informatics and in particular the construction of the database structure for Indian fungal species. The structure of the database is based on the Information needs of various types of users such as Mycologists, agriculturists, medical mycologists, industrialists, etc. During the study I will synthesize the contents of the various primary (books, journal articles) and secondary (abstracting services) sources of information as well as existing worldwide databases available on the Internet. Apart from this I have designed a questionnaire to be circulated to the various researchers from these areas. The questionnaire is available online at http://202.41.70.82/ques/quesup.htm It has been observed that several worldwide efforts concerning "Biodiversity Informatics" are underway with the aim of digitizing biodiversity data and making the results of biotic surveys easily accessible on the Internet. But little importance has been given to documenting fungi species. It has also been observed that these databases are inadequate to use for average users and scientists. First, they are not comprehensive in coverage and are unable to answer all possible questions of the users. Second, they are too complex to understand and designed without consulting users. I am writing to ask you to kindly help me understand your information needs by providing the maximum possible information, your candid comments and suggestions by filling the online questionnaire. If you have any difficulties in filling the questionnaire please contact me at shubha(a)bioinfo.ernet.in Filling up the questionnaire will not take more than 15-20 mins. I would also appreciate if you forward the same to the students, other researchers at your department/ organization Thanking you in advance Sincerely Shubha Nagarkar http://bioinfo.ernet.in/library/personal/main.html

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Georgina MacKenzie, TDWG Secretary
by Adrian Rissone 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

Dear TDWG-ers, You may not know that Georgina MacKenzie, long time Secretary of TDWG, leaves Biosis (now part of Thomson International) tomorrow (Friday 12 March 2004). She is a victim of "rationalisation". Georgina has served TDWG with dedication, efficiency and great good humour for many years. She will be sorely missed. If you would care to send your good wishes to Georgina, her e-mail address (until tomorrow morning UK time) is: gmackenzie(a)york.biosis.org Please pass on this message to colleagues who may not have heard the sad news. Regards, Adrian Rissone

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TDWG Meeting 2003 - reminder request for copies of presentations
by Adrian Rissone 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

I would be grateful if all delegates who presented a talk or poster at the 2003 Annual Meeting in Oeiras, and are able to let us have an electronic copy for posting on the TDWG web site, could send it to me as soon as possible. I will be compiling a web page for the presentations in the next few days. Many thanks. Adrian Rissone TDWG 2003 Meeting Programme Coordinator http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Email: A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk

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TDWG Annual Meeting 2003 - possible KE Emu break-out session
by Adrian Rissone 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

URGENT: Request for registration of interest - Informal KE Emu Users meeting CIRCULATION: TDWG membership only An informal meeting of current and prospective users of the commercial Collections Management System KE Emu has been proposed. The Taxonomic Databases Working Group does NOT promote, endorse or support the use of any particular commercial product but on that understanding we are willing to host such a meeting as it is apparent that several TDWG member institutions are using, or are evaluating, the product. If you are interested in participating in the meeting it is important that you send email without delay to Adrian Rissone (A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk) with "TDWG KE EMu" in the subject line, stating the date and time that you intend to arrive at the TDWG meeting in Oeiras. This will allow us to estimate the numbers and best time to schedule the informal meeting. --------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Rissone TDWG 2003 Meeting Programme Coordinator http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Email: A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------- Information Systems Manager Department of Palaeontology The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, LONDON SW7 5BD ---------------------------------------------------------

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Taxonomic Databases Working Group Registration Deadline
by Adrian Rissone 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Taxonomic Databases Working Group Annual Meeting 21-26 October 2003 To help us organise a successful meeting it is vital that delegates register as early as possible. Please register if possible by the end of Sunday 19 October (Portugal time) - before would be helpful. Registrations after this date will attract a Late Registration Surcharge of 20 Euro (twenty Euro). Registration will continue to be available until 24 October, on-line or in person at the meeting venue. Register on-line at https://www.regonline.com/?10342 or visit the TDWG meeting site at http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Thank you for your cooperation. Regards, Adrian Rissone --------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Rissone TDWG 2003 Meeting Programme Coordinator http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Email: A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------- Information Systems Manager Department of Palaeontology The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, LONDON SW7 5BD ---------------------------------------------------------

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Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) 2003 Meeting - Registration on-line now available
by Adrian Rissone 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

You may now register on-line (and pay by credit card) for the 2003 Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) Annual Meeting here: https://www.regonline.com/?10342 Please register as soon as possible. To minimise administration costs imposed by RegOnLine.com all TDWG Institutional Members should register all delegates in a single session (up to 3 Institutional delegates qualify for member discount). Details of the meeting (including membership and registration) may be viewed via the main meeting site at: http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Regards, Adrian Rissone TDWG 2003 Meeting Programme Coordinator http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Email: A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------- Information Systems Manager Department of Palaeontology The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, LONDON SW7 5BD ---------------------------------------------------------

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Important change to TDWG mailing list
by Rob Dewhirst 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

TDWG Subscribers: The email and web addresses for this list have changed, as of this message. To submit messages to the TDWG list for others to read, send them to TDWG(a)LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU. The new web address for viewing archives and managing your subscription is: <http://listserv.nhm.ku.edu/> To send commands to the LISTSERV (unsubscribe, etc) send them to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU No action needs to be taken by you except to send all future submissions to the new email address TDWG(a)LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU If you need further clarification, please reply to me directly. Rob Dewhirst Listserv Admin KU Biodiversity Research Institute robd(a)ku.edu

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TDWG 2003 Annual Meeting - Call for Papers
by Adrian Rissone 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

This is a call for papers and posters for the TDWG Annual Meeting to be held in October 2003 at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Lisboa, Portugal. Please see the meeting web site for details: http://www.tdwg.org/2003meet/TDWG2003.htm Titles and abstracts (up to 200 words) should be submitted *as soon as possible* to the Programme Coordinator (Adrian Rissoné <A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk>). Indicate whether you are willing to make your final contribution available on the TDWG website (for example, as a PowerPoint document). Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes. In previous years it has been necessary to reduce this time to 20 minutes so please design presentations to be shortened easily if required. Please try to make your contribution relevant to the primary themes of the meeting, which has special emphasis on Taxonomic Names, interoperability, and the provision of data via the Web. Papers or posters addressing collaboration and interoperability would be welcome, papers on "my cool website" or "the status of informatics at my institution" less so (unless directly addressing "lessons learned" and how to move forward). Looking forward to seeing you in Portugal, regards, Adrian Rissone A.Rissone(a)nhm.ac.uk

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Phyloinformatics: a new journal
by Dennis DeGreve 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Phyloinformatics: new journal - call for papers - editors wanted - http://phyloinformatics.org Dear taxonomist, Phyloinformatics is a new, non-profit, international, peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality papers on the use of informatics in taxonomy and phylogenetics. Taxonomist often need to manage fairly large amounts of data for which elegant solutions are needed. And the inference of phylogeny itself is impossible without the use of computers and optimized algorithms. To help this emerging field of taxonomy grow, we have started Phyloinformatics. Phyloinformatics is not a regular journal: it's only available online and it's open access. Phyloinformatics offers all published papers as a free PDF download, there are no subscription or login procedures for readers and no page charges for authors. But open access means more than just free: our authors remain the copyright holders of their work. Being an online journal has lots of advantages: papers can be published very fast and are available to anyone with a computer and internet connection. CALL FOR PAPERS Phyloinformatics is just starting now and we are looking for high quality manuscripts in one of the following two categories: - Papers Describing new research developments in computational taxonomy, for example: new evolutionary models, algorithms, software involving new methods, taxonomic databases, proposals for new file formats and network information services, and their impact on taxonomy. - Application Notes Short descriptions about new software or new algorithm implementations, databases and network services. The software or data should be available online as free- or donationware. We are planning to publish our first articles before the end of 2003. Visit our site for more information on manuscript submission EDITORS WANTED We are looking for senior taxonomists with experience in the field of phylogenetic analysis and/or taxonomic databases who would like to join the editorial board. Just send an e-mail to editor(a)phyloinformatics.org The editorial board will be announced on our website soon. Apologies for any cross-postings. Sincerely, Dennis DeGreve Editor Phyloinformatics editor(a)phyloinformatics.org http://phyloinformatics.org

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Further details on TDWG 2003
by Georgina MacKenzie 08 Aug '03

08 Aug '03

TDWG 2003 Annual Meeting, 21-26 October 2003 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal A special room rate has been negotiated at the Hotel Praia Mar, http://www.maisturismo.pt/aapmar, which is close to the Gulbenkian Institute. During the meeting, a shuttle bus will be arranged, but it is also possible to walk, or get a local train. Room reservation: TDWG special rates single room Euro 53.00 double room Euro 58.00 extra bed Euro 20.00 To reserve rooms at the special rate, please be sure to mention TDWG 2003 meeting when booking. You can reserve rooms via the registration option on the hotels web site (in Portuguese) http://www.almeidahotels.com/praiamar_pt.htm. Attendees canfill in "TDWG 2003" in the last box named Comentários (Comments) - that will be enough for the special rates to apply. Or book by fax to +(351) 214573130. It is acceptable to print the form from the web, fill it in and fax it. The hotel will also accept booking in writings, by post, of course. Details on registration for the meeting will appear soon on the TDWG website (www.tdwg.org) along with details on transport options from Lisbon airport to the hotel or institute. 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 54 Micklegate, York, YO1 6WF, UK ****************************************************************** This email is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an intended recipient please inform the sender. BIOSIS UK accepts no responsibility for statements clearly those of the sender and not expressly made on behalf of the Company, or for damage caused by any transmitted viruses. ******************************************************************

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