TDWG has established an online database for tracking meetings and other events within the biodiversity informatics community, together with the existing TDWG databases for biodiversity informatics projects and networks.
The databases are:
WP6 promotional meetings
| Estimate | Date | Who | Priority | Contribution | Audience | Justification | ||||
| Palms2010 | €1,800 | 31/03/10 | R | Palms | RGBK | Bill & Soraya | high | talk & demo | 200 palm scientists | THE 5-yearly palm conference. Essential for us to launch this new resource to the community |
| JuSys Scratchpad training course | £150 | 01/04/10 | T | Scratchpad | NHML | Irina | low | training course | 6-10 Young German Taxonomists | Invited by speaker of JuSys |
| EOL Synthesis Meeting on Compositae, Chicago | 0 (entirely funded by EOL) | 15/04/10 | C | Cichorieae | BGBM | Eckhard | high | talk & demo | 30 Compositae specialists + EOL people | invited; a great opportunity to present EDIT directly to the EOL and discuss possible interaction |
| DrupalCon | £1,170 | 19/04/10 | C | Scratchpad | NHML | Simon | low | |||
| 8th Flora Malesiana Symposium | €2,250 | 15/05/10 | R | Palms | RGBK | Bill | high | talk & demo | 250, botanists interested in SE Asia; many representatives of SE Asian institutions | A great opportunity to present the portals to floristicians, many of whom will be interested in EDIT products. Also a good opportunity to promote EDIT to an Asian/developing country audience |
| Training course, Brussels | £400.00 | 01/06/10 | T | Scratchpad | NHML | |||||
| Fourth International Congress on Phthiraptera, Turkey | £300 | 13/06/10 | CT | Scratchpad | NHML | Vince | low | talk & training | 100-150 specialists on parasitic lice (evol. biologists, ecologists, medical doctors, veterinarians, taxonomists) | All costs except subsistence funded externally by invitation. |
| iEvoBio | £828 | 29/06/10 | C | Scratchpad | NHML | Vince | Med | Talk & demo | 500-1000 Evolutionary biologists inclu. many students (multidisciplinary) and informatians. Mainly North Am. but audience and scope is international. | New and high profile North American event off the back of the Evol. 2010 meeting. |
| ICD7, Costa Rica | £2,230 | 08/08/10 | CT | Diptera | NHML | Irina, ?Vlad | high | cochair of symposium, talk on Scratchpads, talk on CDM+Portal, SP training course | 50-100 Internat. Dipterists | The 4 yearly international Dipterology conference, there are already several Diptera Scratchpads and interest is high |
| Compositae meeting in Canada | €4,000 | 09/08/10 | C | Cichorieae | BGBM | Eckhard & Ralf | high | talk & demo | Compositae specialists, 200? | THE 4-yearly conference of Compositae specialists. Essential to launch our online monograph, to promote CDM&portal and to discuss integration (Global Virtual Key, Global checklist Compositae) |
| China | £1,180 | 20/08/10 | C | Diptera and fossil insects | NHML | Vlad | Talk on publications+ training | palaeontologists, entomologists, Chinese students, | new region for Scratchpad | |
| IX Eur. Ent. Conf. Budapest | £1,000 | 22/08/10 | C | Scratchpad | NHML | Ed? | Med. | Talk in EDIT session | Approx. 1,000? Entomologists | Large European audience and a dedicated session on large scale projects. |
| Flora Malesiana Symposium, Singapore | €2,300 | 25/08/10 | C | Scratchpad | NHML | €1300 fromEDIT WP3 for Scratchpad involvement. | ||||
| Swiss Syst Assoc | £800 | 01/11/10 | T | Scratchpad | NHML | Training course | ||||
| TDWG (USA) | ?? | 02/11/10 | C | Scratchpad | NHML | |||||
| Paris Jamboree | ?? | 10/01/11 | CT | Scratchpad | NHML | |||||
| Int Syst. Conf., Berlin | £400 | 01/02/11 | T | Scratchpad | NHML |
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T Training course (aprox date)
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