A day of dynamic debate about the future of taxonomy - registrations still
being accepted.
Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and
beyond
Friday October 28th 2011, Flett Theatre, The Natural History Museum, London,
UK
Overview: Charles Davies Sherborn provided the bibliographic foundation for
current zoological nomenclature with his magnum opus Index Animalium. In the
43 years he spent working on this extraordinary resource, he anchored our
understanding of animal diversity through the published scientific record.
No work has equalled it since and it is still in current, and critical, use.
Until now, Sherbornıs contribution has been recognised by professional
taxonomists worldwide but he has escaped the celebration of his
accomplishment that is his due. We will hold a symposium in his honour in
the 150th year of his birth here at the NHM, with an international panel of
experts on bibliography and biodiversity bioinformatics, linking a view of
the past with an active debate on the future of the related fields.
Provisional schedule of speakers and registration form can be found at:
http://iczn.org/content/anchoring-biodiversity-information-sherborn-21st-cen
tury-and-beyond
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Note, a recent article in the Telegraph and the NHM house journal evolve
begins the celebration of Sherborn in this anniversary year:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8646534/Charles-Davies-Sherborn-the-Natur
al-History-Museums-magpie-with-a-card-index-mind.html
Anchoring Biodiversity Information:
From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond
Friday October 28th 2011
10:00 Welcome and Logistics / Introduction to the Programme
Ellinor Michel (ICZN) & Graham Higley (BHL & NHM Libraries)
10:15 Opening Keynote: SHNH Annual Ramsbottom Lecture
Neal Evenhuis (Bishop Museum) Sherborn: Work history and impact of
bibliography, dating and zoological informatics
10:55 Gordon McOuat (Univ of Kingıs College, Halifax) Naming and
necessity: Cataloguing nature in the late 19th century
11:15 11:35 Coffee Break - posters & stands
11:35 -12:40 Session 1: History of Taxonomic Literature, Indexing and
Traditional Taxonomic Nomenclature
11:35 Edward Dickinson (Aves Press) Reinforcing the foundations:
Filling in the bibliographic gaps in the historical legacy
11:55 F. Christian Thompson (Smithsonian) and Thomas Pape (Copenhagen)
Systema Dipterorum: Sherbornıs critical influence in getting information
control over a megadiverse group
12:15 Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Suzanne Pilsk, Martin
Kalfatovic, Joel Richard) Unlocking the Index Animalium: From paper slips to
bytes and bits
12:35 Nigel Robinson (Zoological Record) Sherbornıs Index Animalium
integration into ION: access to all
12:55-13:30 Lunch - Pre-paid sandwich lunch in Flett foyer, posters &
stands
13:30 Session 2: Current Taxonomic Practices
13:30 Chris Lyal (NHM) Digitising legacy taxonomic literature:
processes, products and using the output
13:50 Henning Scholz (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) BHL-Europe: Tools
and Services for Legacy Taxonomic Literature
14:10 David Remsen (GBIF) Biodiversity Informatics: GBIFıs role in
linking information through scientific names
14:30 Daphne Fautin (Univ. Kansas/ICZN) & Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga
(MNCN-CSIC/ICZN) LANs: Lists of Available Names a new generation for
stable taxonomic names in zoology?
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break - posters & stands
15:10-16:20 Session 3: Future of Biological Nomenclature
15:10 Chris Freeland (Missouri Botanical Garden) Preserving digitized
taxonomic data: problems and solutions for print, manuscript and specimen
data
15:30 Sandra Knapp (NHM/IAPT/ITZN) New workflows for describing and
naming organisms
15:50 Lyubomir Penev (Pensoft Publishers) ZooKeys: Streamlining the
registration to publication pipeline
16:10 Rod Page (Univ. Glasgow) Towards an open taxonomy
16:30-16:50 Break - posters & stands
16:50 Closing Keynote and wrap-up plenary discussion
Richard Pyle (Bishop Museum, HI, USA) Towards a Global Names
Architecture: The future of indexing scientific names
17:30 18:00 Panel and audience discussion on the history and future of
animal names
18:00-19:30 Drinks reception
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Dr Ellinor Michel
Executive Secretary
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD
+44 (0)207-942-5653
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