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C5.18 User requirements for E-ViTaL

I am pleased to announce the release of Component C5.18 - Statement of Requirements. This report has been produced by the Natural History Museum London and covers the user requirements for the European Virtual Library of Taxonomic Literature (E-ViTaL). It includes the results of an online user survey conducted at the beginning of June. The report can be downloaded here.

2nd ISTC Meeting 13-14 September in Berlin (BGBM)

The second ISTC Meeting is scheduled to take place in the Botanical Museum and Botanical Gardens (BGBM) in Berlin during September 13 – 14, 2007 to ensure timely input for the planning of the third period of the EDIT project.

For more information on the ISTC please visit the ISTC Page.

WP5 Workplan (Description of Work)

A detailed EDIT WP5 Workplan (Description of Work) can be downloaded here. For a short summary of the workplan, please refer to the WP5 Workplan and Components and Milestones page.

WP5 Meeting in Paris

A meeting was organized in Paris the 13th of june with WP5 partners in order to discuss on criterias to evaluate the taxonomic tools and to determine a list of taxonomists that could be interviewed about the descriptive tools concerned by the platform of cybertaxonomy.

We also spoke about the content of these coming interviews.

You can download the meeting report here

C5.09 Work process model for taxonomic inventories

This document describes the ATBI modeling details of the EDIT project, with special focus on inventorying activities. The description comprises two packages: the Targets package describes the structure of research target descriptions; the Inventory package describes the inventorying activities, first in a general viewpoint, then also for different branches (Algology, Bryophytology, Colepterology, Lepidopterology, Lichenology, Malacology). The report can be downloaded here .

C5.51 Draft list of suitable communication/ workgroup tools for platform environment

The task of EDIT work package 5.7 is to “Identify suitable communication tools as platform components and provide test implementations for perusal of work package 6 and (in close cooperation with Operation 7.3.) WP7”. The aim of this component is to draft a list of suitable communication tools for platform environment first. Second, requirements for a suitable platform environment have to be researched and defined. Third, a selection of suitable platform has to be investigated and evaluated regarding the formerly defined requirements.

C5.52 Open review environment for software tools and resources available

The Application and Service Tracker (BDTracker) has been established at http://www.bdtracker.net to document and review applications, services, and resources (e.g. authority files or maps that can be used as GIS layers). It will be used to review the most important and promising software tools for taxonomists (download the report below).

EDIT Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker

The EDIT Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker (BDTracker) is now available online www.bdtracker.net

C5.47 List (website) of identified and to-be-tested descriptive tools

Component C5.47 gives an idea of the large number of taxonomic descriptive tools available on internet. Most of the time, these applications are very useful for a large public but don't provide enough specificities to be include as components of an IT cybertaxonomic platform. The component includes a short list of selected tools to be tested in the context of EDIT.
To download the component please click here

WP5.6 & IdentifyLife Meeting in Paris

WP5.4 (MNHN) met with Kevin Thiele (Western Australian Herbarium) to discuss IdentifyLife and Lucid, a programme designed to manage descriptive data for identification.

In the context of EDIT, WP5.6 will start testing a range of descriptive programmes (e.g. Delta-Access, Delta-Intkey, EFG2, IKBS, Linnaeus II, Lucid, Navikey, Xper2 etc.) as well as having at least two knowledge databases that are accessible on these different systems. It appears that CSV files could be a possible way to exchange data between Lucid and Xper2 (i.e. SDD schema would be preferable in the future). WP5.6 results will appear on the WP5 blog.

 

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