[tdwg-content] Call for Small Awards for Evaluating the GBIF Checklist Publication Format

[David Remsen (GBIF)]

Dear TDWG Content subscribers,

The GBIF Secretariat is pleased to offer a limited number of small  
awards of up to €5,000 to GBIF Participants to evaluate the current  
DarwinCore Archive taxonomic data exchange format in order to  
stimulate the process of sharing species-level taxonomic data.  Please  
refer to the link below for more information on this call:

http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/gbif-awards-for-evaluating-checklist-publication-format/

The GBIF network is evaluating the means to support the publication of  
species-level data in the form of annotated species checklists and  
taxonomic catalogues.   Facilitating this capacity has been a long- 
standing request from participants and a target capacity for the GBIF  
network.   Annotated checklists and taxonomic catalogues are not only  
highly-valued resources in their own right, they also provide a means  
to improve the quality of primary biodiversity data mobilised through  
GBIF and the contexts in which it can be organised and delivered.

We would like to open up the draft checklist exchange format for  
review and testing by providing small awards to facilitate the  
publication of existing species checklist and taxonomic catalogue data  
and information.

Deadline for applications is 20 December 2010.

We look forward to your participation and contributions to this  
process.   Please make contact by email at dremsen at gbif.org with any  
questions or information requests.

With best regards,

David Remsen

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David Remsen, Senior Programme Officer
Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat
Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45-35321472   Fax: +45-35321480
Mobile +45 28751472
Skype: dremsen
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