Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics

GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility 19 October 2002, Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil (19:00-22:00) "Priorities for the Digitization of Natural History Collections"

Venue Coordination Programme Documents

Coordination
Larry Speers, GBIF

Venue

Vitória Hotel
Av. Presidente Vargas, 3041
13330-000 Indaiatuba SP Brazil
phone/fax: +55 19 3801-8000
email: vitoria@vitoriahotel.com.br

Programme: Priorities for the Digitization of Natural History Collections

19:00	Introduction to GBIF, TBD
19:15	Introduction to the Meeting, Larry Speers The objective of the meeting is to highlight to GBIF the key questions and main tasks to be taken into account to develop a prioritization plan will be developed for digitization Natural History Collection Data Criteria for prioritization. Balance between conceptual (theoretical, biological) and practical (size, money, willingness, capabilities, likelihood of non-taxonomy users) criteria. Keep in mind the extremely ambitious targets. Deliverable: List and ranking of operational criteria.
19:25	Questions and Answers, Larry Speers
19:30	Break into Groups Group I: Criteria for identifying projects that will result in rapid progress. Moderator TBD. Raporteur TBD Group II: Criteria for identifying projects with a high probability of success Moderator TBD. Raporteur TBD Group III: Criteria for identifying projects with high scientific impact Moderator TBD. Raporteur TBD Group IV: Criteria for identifying projects that have a high potential for capacity building Moderator TBD. Raporteur TBD
20:45	Plenary: presentation of each group Moderators will present to plenary the results achieved, to outline the report.
21:45	Summary Discussion
22:00	Closure

Documents

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