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7. Nomina VII: September 2010, Woods Hole, USA.

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September 2010, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
As part of the TDWG meeting. (Meeting report)

ABSTRACT
The names of organisms label almost every piece of information about organisms and so have the potential to be used to index and organize biological information. They are used to provide a tally of living and extinct species. The vision of a names-based cyberinfrastructure is of a virtual layer that interconnects expert sources of names information and their services, to better meet the needs of nomenclaturalists, taxonomists and managers of biodiversity information. The goal has been pursued through a series of Nomina workshops that created a road map roadmap for the ‘Global Names Architecture’, and a number of initial components. These include CiteBank and a Global Names Index as repositories of raw name strings and citations (respectively). Through reconciliation, these are mapped into clean forms that can be stored by the central data store – the global names usage bank (GNUB). GNUB is being developed to also serve the functions of animal and fungal nomenclators. The initial components share information via DWCA, and include an interface to allow experts to view and improve the underlying infrastructure. This workshop (Nomina VII) seeks input on the overall architecture, priorities, functional, and technical requirements.

PURPOSE
To promote discussion that will supplement the plenary session on names and concepts, and CheckListBank / DWCA session. The aim is to get reactions to the current activities and priorities relating to the development of a names-based cyberinfrastructure (just expanding from GNA in case we have any new voices), to identify folk working in complementary areas, and to promote dialogue that will help us to prioritize activities or to form new alliances.

DRAFT SCHEDULE

Chair (D Patterson), Opening comments
Presentations (5 mins and 2 slides)
  • Dave Remsen: GBIF’s take on GNA
  • Tim Robertson: Data cleaning
  • Tom Orell: ITIS / CoL
  • Markus Döring: ChecklistBank / DWCA
  • Rich Pyle: ZooBank: status and relationship to GNUB
  • Jerry Cooper: Index Fungorum, registration and GNUB
  • Dimitry Mozzherin: GNITE
  • Postbox: David Shorthouse
  • Options for a distributed architecture: Stan Blum
  • Reconciliation: Stan Blum / Dimitry Mozzherin
  • Mike Giddens
  • Dean Pentcheff: Citations, references, and papers in a taxon name context
  • Patrick Leary: Name-linking (services built on top of GNA)
  • Brad Boyle: iPlant Use case
  • Pete de Vries: Semantic data linking

    • DISCUSSION