BioNET is an international not-for-profit initiative dedicated to promoting taxonomy, especially in the biodiversity rich but economically poorer countries of the world. Working via local partnerships (LOOPs), BioNET strives to provide a forum for collaboration that is equally open to all taxonomists and to the other users of taxonomy. Working with partners locally and internationally, our work contributes to raising awareness of the importance of taxonomy to society, building and sharing of capacity, and meeting taxonomic needs via innovative tools and approaches. ... [Information of the supplier]
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]
The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It has been adopted by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) as a standard for data exchange. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems. ... [Information of the supplier]
Der schleichende und unbemerkte Verlust an Arten von Tieren, Pflanzen und anderen Organismen durch Umweltzerstörung, Übernutzung, invasive Arten und mangelnde Wertschätzung ist eine globale Katastrophe. Um den Verlust überhaupt bemerken zu können, bedarf es zunächst einer genauen Kenntnis der noch vorhandenen Vielfalt. Genaue Kenntnis kann Schutz- und Nutzungsoptionen eröffnen. Das zuständige biologische Fachgebiet ist die Taxonomie. Es besteht jedoch ein Engpass an taxonomischer Expertise; zu konstatieren ist das Fehlen von ausreichenden taxonomischen Kapazitäten und Kompetenzen, d.h. von Referenz- und Forschungssammlungen, frei zugänglichen Datenbanken mit relevanten Informationen und vor allem von ausgebildeten Fachleuten, also von Taxonomen. Als Folge der Verpflichtungen, die Deutschland mit der Ratifizierung der Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) im Jahre 1993 einging, ist der Staat verantwortlich für einen gut ausgebauten Forschungsbereich der Fachgebiete Taxonomie und Systematik. Die Unterstützung dieses Bereiches ist somit als eine nationale Aufgabe zu betrachten. Starke und bedeutende Stiftungsprofessuren an herausragenden Universitäten sind erforderlich, um eine den neuen Anforderungen gewachsene Taxonomie in die Ausbildung der Studenten einzubringen und damit in ausreichendem Maße aktiven und vorwärtsstrebenden Nachwuchs für dieses Fachgebiet zu rekrutieren. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
This site brings together the past editions of the botanical Code, presented as web-files, hyperlinked horizontally and vertically. By now, there is over a century worth of editions of the botanical Code. Since mid-2011 it is named the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, but it is best known as the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), a name it has borne from the 1950, Stockholm Congress to the 2011, Melbourne Congress. The history of the Code that governs scientific names of algae, fungi, and plants (traditionally named the botanical Code) may be taken to have started in 1867, although nomenclature itself obviously is considerably older. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Danish Taxonomic Facility (DK-TAF) is a large infrastructure consisting of collections, expertise and equipment for the advanced study of biosystematics/taxonomy and earth sciences. The collections of DK-TAF are, quantitatively as well as qualitatively, in an international top class. They comprise a total of about 20 million specimens of preserved animals, preserved human remains, preserved and living plants, tissues, fossils, minerals and rocks. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 1994 CBE (Council of Biology Editors) manual, Scientific Style and Format, describes two systems of documentation, the citation-sequence system and the name-year system. This handout provides guidelines for each system. (For a class paper, check to see if your instructor prefers one of these systems or another. For a journal article, check the journal's instructions to authors to find out which system to use.) The CBE manual specifies that journal titles should be abbreviated, and it provides rules for abbreviation and a list of standard abbreviations of words commonly used in titles. Although this handout focuses on documentation style, you should be aware that the manual also contains information on many other aspects of scientific style, from prose style to handling of numbers, tables and figures, and conventions in a variety of scientific areas. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Global Names Architecture (GNA) is a system of databases, programs, and web services - a cyberinfrastructure - that can be used to discover, index, organize and interconnect on-line information about organisms and their names. When a thing has a name, that name becomes an anchor around which we can collect our observations and knowledge. The use of names as a framework for knowledge of biology began with the system of scientific names introduced by Linnaeus about 250 years ago. His approach was to use latin binomials, such as Ba humbugi (it's a snail), Pompholyxophrys punicea (a microbe) or Homo sapiens (a self-aware biped). This system is still used for almost all organisms. Names are included in almost every statement and database about organisms. In the e-world, names are metadata which can be used to discover and organize information about organisms. The Global Names Architecture is a communal open environment that manages names so that we can manage information about organisms and serve the needs of biologists. ... [Information of the supplier]
The intention of the GoldenGATE editor is to build a bridge between NLP components and XML markup of natural language text according to arbitrary XML schemas. It allows the deployment of NLP components to marking up the bodies of literature they were designed for. In this way, it enables transforming the texts into XML content according to an XML schema that was designed to gain maximum benefit from the knowledge provided in them. The GoldenGATE editor picks up the ideas of plug-in processing resources and pipelined processing implemented in the GATE framework (http://www.gate.co.uk), which has been widely used in many areas of NLP research. At the same time, it provides a full XML editor including assistance for manipulation of both text and markup, thus allowing users to improve data quality by manual intervention. In order to achieve maximum flexibility and extensibility, the GoldenGATE editor provides plug-and-play interfaces on many levels: Individual automated components for markup creation and manipulation, entire groups of functionalities, components accessing documents in arbitrary storage locations, and arbitrary document data formats. ... [Information of the supplier]
GONUTS is a Gene Ontology Normal Usage Tracking System. The GONUTS wiki has been set up to provide third-party documentation for users of the Gene Ontology Project. The GO wiki is not an official product of the GO consortium. It was built by users at TAMU for newcomers to GO who want to explore GO usage. The rationale for this wiki is described in "About GONUTS". To enter the ontology pages, go to the GO page, or search for a term. For more information about how this wiki is automatically updated, see GO wiki scripts. For Help using the system, see Help: Contents, which is available in the navigation links from all pages. See Current events for what's new with the GONUTS wiki. Leave comments and suggestions on our Known Issues page. ... [Information of the supplier]
