EDIT WP5 Platform for Cybertaxonomy

In order to insure a long term document recovery, the participants
will use the ISO Open Document Format (O.D.F.) for common texts,
presentations and spreadsheets.

An automatic conversion of proprietary formats (Word, Excel and
Power Point) will be provided as a front-end towards the long term
storage.

O.D.F. is designed as a XML format, allowing subsequent data mining by future independent applications.

MEETINGS and REPORTS

The ISTC meets once a year to ensure timely input for the planning of the next period of the EDIT project.

6 ISTC Meeting will take place 19 January 2011 as side event of the EDIT year 5 event in Paris

WP5 Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy: tools, sharing, networking, and integration
WP5 Leader: Walter G. Berendsohn (BGBM)
WP5 Scientific Coordinator: Agnes Kirchhoff (BGBM)
WP5 Administrator: Karola Stemmer (BGBM)

(10.12.2010)

Description of work (Months 36 - 53)
5.1 Integration of IST departments; over-all WP5 coordination. Leader: Agnes Kirchhoff (BGBM).

The Common Data Model (CDM) is at the heart of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy – based on the hard-won lessons from more than 10 years of modeling taxonomic data, it describes the information taxonomists process within the Platform.

The EDIT developer wiki now contains a new introduction to the planned Community Websites that allow webpublication of taxonomic data.
http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/CommunityWebsites

The agenda and directions for the First EDIT Developer meeting in Berlin September 6-7th , 2007 is available here: http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/DeveloperMeeting2007

We are delighted to welcome Dorottya Varsányi from the Hungarian Natural History Museum, London, to the WP5 team!

Dorottya Varsányi will be compiling test datasets from the book of Fauna of Aggtelek National Park and georeferencing that data. She is working together with Andras Gubanyi.

We are delighted to welcome Julius Welby from the Natural History Museum, London, to the WP5 team!

Julius is part of the WP5.3 "Virtual Library of Taxonomic Literature and Documentation" team lead by Jane Smith (NHML).

For further information on the WP5 work plan please visit: http://cybertaxonomy.eu/blog/2007/04/04/workplan