Developing and Integrating Online Taxonomic Databases for 21st Century Paleobiology; Durham North Carolina; August 24-26, 2006

开发和集成21世纪的在线分类数据库，作者Patricia G.Gensel北卡罗来纳州大学，Chapel HillEAR-0622695.提议举办一个研讨会，将生物学家、古生物学家和信息技术专家聚集在一起，促进关于开发分类数据库的最佳当前实践的信息交流，包括讨论许多不同数据库之间的互操作性标准。具有分类学组成部分的在线生物和古生物数据库已经存在或正在开发中，尽管很少将活生物和化石生物一起记录下来。正在制定不同分类数据库之间的互操作性标准，特别是在新生物学家之间。将化石和活生物的分类学名称、等级和意见纳入可搜索的数据库，无论是作为分类词典或地图册，还是作为更广泛的数据库的一部分，都将极大地促进综合古生物学和/或生物学研究，包括记录生物多样性，改进分类鉴定，评估生物之间或生物与其环境之间的关系或相互作用，或研究生物随时间的变化。因此，拟议的讲习班的目标是促进这些小组之间的交流和合作，以便最大限度地提高效率和最大限度地减少重复工作，并在开发此类数据库时处理古生物学(时间)所特有的问题。

Developing and integrating online taxonomic databases for 21st centuryby Patricia G. GenselUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillEAR-0622695A workshop is proposed that will bring together biologists, paleontologists, and information technology specialists to promote information exchange about best current practices in developing taxonomic databases, including discussion of standards for interoperability among many different databases. Online biological and paleontological databases with a taxonomic component exist or are being developed, although rarely are living and fossil organisms recorded together. Standards for interoperability among different taxonomic databases are being developed, particularly among neobiologists. Including taxonomic names, hierarchies and opinions of fossil and living organisms in searchable databases, either as taxonomic dictionaries or atlases or as part of broader databases will greatly facilitate integrated paleontological and/or biological studies, including documenting biodiversity, improving taxon identification, assessing relationships or interactions among organisms or between organisms and their environment, or studying change in organisms through time. Thus the goal of the proposed workshop is to promote interchange and collaboration among these groups in order to maximize efficiency and minimize redundancy of effort, and to address issues unique to paleontology (time) in developing such databases.