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

耶鲁大学已经得到资助，在藏书界举办了一个关于生物地理参考的研讨会。它将汇集一个由20至25名参与者组成的跨学科小组，其中包括馆长、藏品管理员、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考方面的具体需求，并分析满足这些需求的功能需求。这将有助于建立进一步发展地理参考服务的架构框架，并将解决为一些国家和国际地理参考项目提供技术工具的问题。讲习班的主题包括与在分布式环境中为自然历史收藏提供自动和半自动地理参考解决方案有关的问题，制订促进地理参考应用程序、数字图书馆地名索引和分布式生物多样性信息检索协议之间互操作性的战略。讲习班的产品将通过会议记录和建议的白皮书向更广泛的社区提供，并将在网上公布。

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.