Wir, die Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik sind ein gemeinnütziger Verein für alle jungen und etablierten, professionellen und in der Freizeit wissenschaftlich tätigen Systematiker, die mitarbeiten und unsere Ziele unterstützen möchten. Die GfBS, gegründet im Dezember 1997 in Berlin, setzt sich vor allem für eine Stärkung der organismischen Biologie, der Taxonomie und der phylogenetischen Systematik ein, und natürlich für den Schutz der Organismen unseres Planeten. Die GfBS ist keine nationale aber überwiegend deutschsprachige Organisation, und die meisten Mitglieder kommen aus Mitteleuropa. Beteiligt sind Spezialisten für alle Organismengruppen. ... [Information des Anbieters]
ViBRANT recognised the need for a bibliography of life, i.e. a freely accessible bibliography of every taxonomic paper ever published. None of the currently available aggregators were satisfactory, so we have chosen to extend the Plazi bibliographic tool, RefBank. There are two primary reasons for this choice, first the original developer, Guido Sautter, is a partner in ViBRANT and second, RefBank contains a parsing tool that will turn Rod Page's "cryptic text strings" into structured references that can be easily transformed into any of the other conventional forms (see the Data Format Report). The bulk of RefBank's growth to date has come from ViBRANT contributed references, with 80,000 references being accumulated in the first six months of operation and another 85,000 references in the second six months. Work continues within ViBRANT to extract bibliographies from published works and parse them to generate more references. This work is to ensure that RefBank is seeded with sufficient references at launch so as to engage users. There was a significant development for RefBank in Autumn 2012 when it was the subject of a presentation and demonstration at TDWG 2013. Since when we have seen the addition of community contributed references. A more formal launch of RefBank, probably in conjunction with related ViBRANT developed tools, is planned for Summer/Autumn 2013. (http://vbrant.eu/content/communal-literature) ... [Miscellaneous as indicated]
The objective of the working group is to foster accessibility of existing and emerging biological collection data banks at the international level by developing proposals for data and metadata standards. The groups long-term objectives:a) Foment standardization of the terminology used to model biological collection information, b) Collect and make public documents providing standards used in - or of potential use for - biological collections and c) Contribute to a general format for data exchange and retrieval for biological collections. ... [Information of the supplier]
