Lobo, J.

Meganck, B.

Mergen, P.

Ristol, P.R.

Sastre, P.

Theeten, F.

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of each photographer.  This made updating the collage more difficult because changes often required 
a complete overhaul to the collage, particularly when one photograph needed to be replaced with 
another with markedly different dimensions.  Also, our users became interested in using the 
photographs for their own projects and the collage made it more difficult to determine the ownership 
for each photograph. 
 
In future versions we plan to continue to make careful changes to support our users.  An area of 
interest to TDWG members will be data downloads.  Supplying data formatted according to the 
applicable TDWG standards make obvious sense to us, but our users have not yet requested data in 
these formats. 
 
Support is acknowledged from: Department of Environment and Conservation 
19.34.  EDIT mapViewer: a Gegraphic Web Application for Taxonomists 
Pere Roca Ristol1, Pablo Sastre1, Jorge Lobo1, Franck Theeten2, Bart Meganck2, Patricia 
Mergen2  
1 CSIC, 2 Royal Museum for Central Africa  
Geographic information is almost always an important part of biological data.  An easy-to-use web-
application able to manage georeferenced data is currently being developed within the EDIT project 
(European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy), providing taxonomists with a tool for their daily work: 
uploading data, querying, choosing symbols to represent data points, and creating maps by adding 
remote or local geographic data. 
 
Although 72dpi resolution, suitable for viewing on a computer screen is now available, providing a 
higher resolution (printing quality) image from the maps is a priority in the project.  We also expect to 
be able to harvest and display GBIF data and provide spatial analysis tools that allow users to assess 
whether or not the inventory is complete enough for use: Do I have enough data? Which spatial units 
may not yet be thoroughly surveyed? 
 
EDIT mapViewer:  http://edit.csic.es/edit_geo/prototype/edit.html  
 
Support is acknowledged from: EDIT 
19.35.  e-Biosphere 09: International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics 
David E. Schindel, Cynthia Parr  
Smithsonian Institution  
Biodiversity Informatics (BI) has experienced extraordinary growth as an international enterprise over 
the past decade.  Data standards, databases, and networks of interoperating people, data, and software 
tools have appeared, grown, and become integrated to varying degrees.  Information resources have 
grown faster than their user communities, but important applications of and appreciation for these 
resources are growing rapidly. 
 
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL; www.eol.org), the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL; 
www.barcoding.si.edu), and approximately ten other international initiatives in biodiversity 
informatics will be sponsoring “e-Biosphere 09: The International Conference on Biodiversity 
Informatics” in London on 1-5 June 2009 (see Conference website, www.e-biosphere09.org).  The 
goal of the conference will be to highlight the progress made by BI over the past decade, and to begin 
the process of developing a more comprehensive, integrative roadmap for BI’s future directions.  The 
first three days will be an open International Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, 
during which the accomplishments, applications, challenges, and future directions of BI will be 
discussed.  Two sessions during the International Conference have been set aside as free time, during 
which conference participants can visit demonstrations, poster presentations, and commercial exhibits 


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