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8. Nomina VIII. November 2010, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:41

Exploring the integration of IPNI with GNA.

 

Location: Christchurch November 2010

 

Delegates (final list to be determined)

  • - Richard Pyle (Bishop Museum)
  • - James Macklin (Harvard University)
  • - Robert Whitton - David Remsen (GBIF)
  • - Greg Whitbread (Atlas of Living Australia)
  • - Jim Croft (Atlas of Living Australia)
  • - Nicky Nicolson (Kew Gardens)
  • - Paul Morris (Harvard University)
  • - Markus Döring (GBIF)
  • - Jerry Cooper (Landcare New Zealand)
  • - Paul Kirk (Index Fungorum, CABI, UK)

Meeting notes

This account taken from Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 68: 6 (2011) Richard L Pyle (ZooBank Developer) ... Commissioner Richard Pyle attended a meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, in late November 2010 to discuss the data model for the Global names Usage Bank (GNUB), which is planned to serve as the backbone for ZooBank. Attendees included representatives of the three major partners of International Plant Names Index (IPNI) -including the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University, and the Australian Plant Names Index (APNI) - as well as representatives for Index Fungorum (IF) and the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). The purpose of the meeting was to review, in detail, the data model that had emerged from previous meetings involving architects of ZooBank and Index Fungorum, and determine its suitability for use in the next generation of IPNI. The meeting was intensive, and extremely productive. The consensus data model that emerged from the meeting is being implemented now, and will serve as the live data backbone for a revised ZooBank website, scheduled for release later this year. Meanwhile, ZooBank continues to grow with, as of this writing (15 February 2011), 73633 registered nomenclatural acts, 29,522 registered puiblished works, and 11,955 registered authors. This represents an average rate of nearly 100 new name registrations within nearly 33 published works per month during the past six months.

 

Deliverable: Draft ontology of taxonomic and nomenclatural status terms

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