The GBIF-commissioned white paper on Knowledge Organisation Systems (i.e., Controlled Vocabularies, Ontologies, Thesauri, etc.) for biodiversity informatics is now available at: http://links.gbif.org/gbif_kos_whitepaper_v1.pdf. 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.

Feedback on the white paper is welcomed. Please use the dedicated page (http://community.gbif.org/pg/pages/view/11223/gbif-kos-report) of the KOS Interest Group section (http://community.gbif.org/pg/groups/11222/kos-interest-group/) on the GBIF Community site.

With regards,

Éamonn Ó Tuama

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Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (eotuama@gbif.org),

Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA),

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat,

Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK

Phone:  +45 3532 1494; Fax:  +45 3532 1480