Georeferencing Natural History Collections Workshop to be held Fall 2003 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

耶鲁大学已获得资助，在收藏界举办了一个关于参考文献的讲习班。它将汇集一个由20 - 25名参与者组成的跨学科小组，包括策展人，馆藏经理，应用程序开发人员，数字图书馆科学家，地理信息系统专家和地理参考项目经理。 2003年9月的讲习班将提供机会，讨论生物多样性社区在地理参照和分析满足这些需要的功能要求方面的具体需要。 这将有助于建立一个进一步发展地理参照服务的架构框架，并将为一些国家和国际地理参照项目提供技术工具。 研讨会的主题包括在分布式环境中为自然历史收藏提供自动化和半自动化地理参考解决方案，制定战略以促进地理参考应用程序，数字图书馆地名录和分布式生物多样性信息检索协议之间的互操作性。 讲习班的产品将通过一份白色会议记录和建议的白皮书提供给更广泛的社区，白皮书将在网上公布。

Yale University has been funded to have a workshop on biogeoreferencing in the collections community. It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of 20 - 25 participants including curators, collection managers, application developers, digital library scientists, geographical information system specialists, and georeferencing project managers. The September, 2003 workshop will provide the opportunity for discussion of specific biodiversity community needs for georeferencing and analysis of functional requirements to meet those needs. This will help establish an architectural framework for further development of georeferencing services, and will address providing technology tools for a number of national and international georeferencing projects. Topics of the workshop include issues pertinent to providing automated and semi-automated georeferencing solutions for natural history collections in a distributed environment, formulation of strategies to promote interoperability between georeferencing applications, digital library gazetteers, and distributed biodiversity information retrieval protocols. Workshop products will be made available to a broader community via a white paper of the proceedings and recommendations which will be posted online.