Digital Government: Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics

EIA-0084541Maier，David俄勒冈科学与技术研究生院数字政府：生物多样性信息学研讨会许多联邦机构都参与了生物多样性的研究、监测和管理。这些机构与州和地方政府机构、学术界和非营利组织以及私营企业中的合作伙伴和合作者一道，需要推动国家数据和信息基础设施的发展，以更好地支持生物多样性数据和信息的收集、管理、传播和应用。在很大程度上，这一增强的21世纪生物多样性数据和信息系统的愿景在1998年与总统科学技术咨询委员会(PCAST)的LIFE报告中描述了，该报告呼吁开发NBII国家生物信息基础设施的“下一代”。这种下一代NBII的开发也得到了科学和技术政策办公室环境和自然资源委员会(CERR)的支持，作为名为“应对生态系统挑战的综合科学”的多机构科学战略的关键组成部分。现在的需要是向学术界、工业界和政府实验室的计算机科学和信息技术研究人员和开发人员传达开发下一代NBII所涉及的信息学研究问题和要求。这次研讨会将汇聚来自计算机科学/信息技术界的广泛人士，共同探讨研究议程并应用这项技术。

EIA-0084541Maier, DavidOregon Graduate Institute of Science & TechnologyDigital Government: Workshop on Biodiversity InformaticsMany Federal agencies are involved in research, monitoring, and management of biodiversity. Together with partners and cooperators in state and local government agencies, academia and non-profit organizations, and private industry, these agencies have a need for advancing the development of a national data and information infrastructure to better support the collection, management, dissemination and application of biodiversity data and information. To a great extent, the vision of this enhanced 21st century biodiversity data and information system is described in the 1998 Teaming with Life report of the President's Committee of Advisory in Science and Technology (PCAST) which called for developing the "Next Generation" of the National Biological Information Infrastructure of NBII. The development of this next generation NBII has also been endorsed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) as a key component of the multi-agency science strategy called "Integrated Science for Ecosystem Challenges." The need now is to convey the informatics research issues and requirements involved in developing the next generation NBII to computer science and information technology researchers and developers in academia, industry and government laboratories. This workshop will bring together a broad spectrum of people from the CS/IT community in pursuing the research agenda and applying that technology.