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@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@nhm.ac.uk