A Workshop on the Development, Management, and Dissemination of Taxonomic Authority Files, June 1998, Reston, Virginia

9726045 Blum本次研讨会将汇集几个领域的专家，制定合理的协议，以处理有效地计算机化自然历史数据所需的权威文件。协议的缺失和文件本身的缺失阻碍了生物多样性信息学的发展。国内和国际的决策者和科学家都迫切需要通过万维网获取这些数据。这个研讨会项目代表了毕晓普博物馆、美国地质勘探局/生物资源部门、综合分类信息系统项目、数字图书馆和自然历史收藏社区之间强有力的伙伴关系。有关各方将进行周密的规划，使研讨会的成果具体化，并将进一步发展美国的生物多样性信息基础设施，这将反过来成为全球生物多样性信息基础设施的一部分。

9726045 Blum This workshop would bring together experts from several fields to develop reasonable protocols for handling authority files that are needed to efficiently computerize natural history data. The absence of the protocols and therefore the files themselves has hampered the development of biodiversity informatics. WWW access to such data is critically needed by decision-makers and scientists both nationally and internationally. This workshop project represents a strong partnership among the Bishop Museum, the USGS/Biological Resources Division, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System project, and the digital libraries and natural history collections communities. Careful planning will be undertaken by all concerned parties so that the results of the workshop will be concrete and will further the development of a biodiversity informatics infrastructure for the U.S., which will in turn be part of a global biodiversity informatics infrastructure.