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You are cordially invited to the following ISKO UK afternoon event:
RECORDING THE LIVING WORLD
30 March 2010 - 15.30-19.00
VENUE: University College London, Roberts Building, Torrington Place,
WC1E 7JE
FEE: £5 (ISKO members and students FREE)
Creepy-crawlies, mammoths and lotus blossom, all have a place at the
Natural History Museum. Today the data painstakingly collected over
centuries by naturalists and other scientists are being liberated from
their institutional archives, made available in rejuvenated catalogues
and published on the Web.
Diane Tough & Rita Dockery will talk about recent developments in the methods of
collection description at the Museum whose library is one of the
foremost resources for researchers in molecular biology, biodiversity,
systematics, taxonomy, and the history of science, and consists of over
one million books and half a million artworks.
Graham Higley will tell us about the Encyclopaedia of Life - an ambitious project that aims to
build an online resource in which every species on earth will have its
own web page. This international enterprise consists of five major
projects: the Species Pages Group, the Biodiversity Informatics Group,
the Scanning and Digitization Group, the Learning and Education Group,
and the Biodiversity Synthesis Group. Together they are creating an
unparalleled resource for the life sciences that covers every aspect of
the study, research, recording and documentation of living creatures.
This ISKO UK Seminar is organized in cooperation with the UCL Department
for Information Studies.
To read more and to book your place go to the event page
http://www.iskouk.org/living_world_mar2010.htm
We look forward to seeing you on 30 March!
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Aida Slavic, Hon. Secretary ISKO UK
British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
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