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(Fwd) TDWG 2000 Meeting
by Georgina MacKenzie 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

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. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- 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. ------- End of forwarded message ------- 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

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Tree of Life Project: position available for lead programmer
by Tree of Life 14 Aug '00

14 Aug '00

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. ======== 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. ========= If you or potential applicants have any questions, please contact me or Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj(a)u.library.arizona.edu). Best wishes, David -- ========================= David Maddison Department of Entomology University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html =========================

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Botany
by Roland Keller 24 Jul '00

24 Jul '00

If you wish to know an identification key based upon vegetative characters, see www.tropicalbotany.net This website is linked to a database which is updated weakly, worth to say that end July many pictures will be added for illustrating about 500 genera of woody plants. For comments, send mail to : roland.keller(a)ie-bsg.unil.ch Roland Keller Institut de Botanique Université de Lausanne Suisse (Switzerland)

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TDWG 2000 Meeting
by Georgina MacKenzie 03 Jul '00

03 Jul '00

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. 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

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Request
by Georgina MacKenzie 28 Feb '00

28 Feb '00

For the past two years, a TDWG Newsletter has been produced in March. If you would like to contribute material for this year's newsletter, please contact me for further details. I need material by 10th March if the newsletter is to be published in March. I look forward to receiving your contributions! Regards, Georgina 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

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TDWG 2000 Meeting
by Georgina MacKenzie 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

Further information on the Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) 2000 Meeting is now available at http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/tdwg/2000/ or through the TDWG web site at http://www.tdwg.org. The main theme of the meeting is "Digitizing Biological Collections". The Fees for the meeting (including Icebreaker Party and Dinner) will be approximately EURO 150 (about 150 USD) for non-members and EURO 75 for members* and students, with a 1/3 reduction for early registration (before July 31). Information on membership can be found at http://www.tdwg.org/membership.html * Members in good standing; up to 3 persons per member institution can register at reduced rate. Apologies for cross posting.

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