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Sherborn Symposium Oct 28th - Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond 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, Sherborn’s 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-century-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-Natural-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 King’s 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: Sherborn’s 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) Sherborn’s 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: GBIF’s 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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