Congress on “Tools for Identifying Biodiversity” in Paris, France.
20 September 2010 - 22 September 2010
Austria
In a joint effort between three European projects dedicated to biodiversity and/or biological identification and in cooperation with the Venice office of UNESCO the Congress on “Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems” will be organised in Paris, on September 20-22, 2010.
Identification of organisms plays an important role in many areas of everyday life, such as hospitals, agriculture, fisheries, etc. In the last decades, important advances have taken place in the ways identification is carried out, from molecular and biochemical methods of rapid identification to the development of interactive identification systems based on morpho-anatomical data. The congress will offers an opportunity to provide an overview of recent advances in this field. It aims at stimulating integration of existing methods and systems, fostering communication amongst different research groups, and laying the foundations for integrated projects in the next decade.
The scientific program of the congress is subdivided into four sessions:
• Interactive identification tools based on morpho-anatomical data
• Molecular and biochemical methods for the identification of organisms
• Identification and education
• Industrial and practical applications of the new identification tools: case studies and markets
The proceedings of the event can already be downloaded from the congress website. In the book, which is available free of charge as PDF under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License (CC by-sa 3.0) the reader will find short presentations of major current and upcoming projects (EDIT, KeyToNature, STERNA, Species 2000, Fishbase, BHL, ViBRANT, etc.) in the field of biodiversity, plus a large panel of short articles on software, taxonomic applications, use of e-keys in the educational field, and practical applications.
About 150 researchers are expected to participate in the international congress.
The three EU projects jointly organising the event are:
KeyToNature (www.keytonature.eu)
EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, http://www.e-taxonomy.eu(opens in new window))
and STERNA (Semantic Web-based Thematic European Reference Network Application, http://www.sterna-net.eu(opens in new window)).
They are co-funded by the European Commission in the eContentplus Programme (KeyToNature, STERNA) and the 6th Framework Programme (EDIT).
Proceedings (full text) can already be downloaded from http://www.bioidentify.eu(opens in new window).
Registration can done on http://www.bioidentify.eu(opens in new window)
Identification of organisms plays an important role in many areas of everyday life, such as hospitals, agriculture, fisheries, etc. In the last decades, important advances have taken place in the ways identification is carried out, from molecular and biochemical methods of rapid identification to the development of interactive identification systems based on morpho-anatomical data. The congress will offers an opportunity to provide an overview of recent advances in this field. It aims at stimulating integration of existing methods and systems, fostering communication amongst different research groups, and laying the foundations for integrated projects in the next decade.
The scientific program of the congress is subdivided into four sessions:
• Interactive identification tools based on morpho-anatomical data
• Molecular and biochemical methods for the identification of organisms
• Identification and education
• Industrial and practical applications of the new identification tools: case studies and markets
The proceedings of the event can already be downloaded from the congress website. In the book, which is available free of charge as PDF under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License (CC by-sa 3.0) the reader will find short presentations of major current and upcoming projects (EDIT, KeyToNature, STERNA, Species 2000, Fishbase, BHL, ViBRANT, etc.) in the field of biodiversity, plus a large panel of short articles on software, taxonomic applications, use of e-keys in the educational field, and practical applications.
About 150 researchers are expected to participate in the international congress.
The three EU projects jointly organising the event are:
KeyToNature (www.keytonature.eu)
EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, http://www.e-taxonomy.eu(opens in new window))
and STERNA (Semantic Web-based Thematic European Reference Network Application, http://www.sterna-net.eu(opens in new window)).
They are co-funded by the European Commission in the eContentplus Programme (KeyToNature, STERNA) and the 6th Framework Programme (EDIT).
Proceedings (full text) can already be downloaded from http://www.bioidentify.eu(opens in new window).
Registration can done on http://www.bioidentify.eu(opens in new window)