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Preliminary Perth bid for TDWG 2008 successful |
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Written by Alex Chapman
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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The Perth bid to host TDWG 2008 has been accepted by the TDWG Executive at their meeting prior to the Annual Conference, on proviso that a satisfactory budget can be locked in by the end of the calendar year. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 12 December 2007 )
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HISCOM well-represented at TDWG 2007 |
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Written by Alex Chapman
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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HISCOM was well-represented at this years Taxonomic Databases Working Group meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, held between the 16-22 September 2007. Papers were presented or co-authored by Alex Chapman, Peter Neish, Ben Richardson, Kevin Richards and Greg Whitbread and honorary HISCOMite Lee Belbin. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 12 December 2007 )
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Australia's Virtual Herbarium |
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Written by Ben Richardson
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is an on-line botanical information resource accessible via the web. It provides immediate access to the wealth of data associated with scientific plant specimens in each Australian herbarium. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 July 2007 )
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Written by Ben Richardson
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
HISCOM is holding its annual conference in Darwin this year. The HISCOM Annual General Meeting is set down for 17–19 September, 2007. The CHAH AGM (21–22 September) and the Australian Systematic Botany Society 2007 conference (24–28 September) follow the HISCOM AGM. The venue for the meeting is the Palmerston Library meeting room which is just across from the Herbarium. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 July 2007 )
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AVH and EWS Interface Design Subcommittee |
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Written by Ben Richardson
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
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A subcommittee has been formed to look at the current AVH and EWS web interface and recommend how the interface should be changed for the launch. The subcommittee, comprising Ben Richardson, Kevin Thiele, Peter Neish, and Bill Barker, is now accepting comments. The proposed design presented by Ben Richardson at last year's AGM was intended: The proposed design was never intended to be a completed design, especially in terms of colour and the more minor considerations in a design such as spacing. The focus of the discussion document is the current AVH design, particularly the Simple Query and AVH Map Display pages. It is hoped that the general ideas presented might inform a redesign of the current EWS.Please read the subcommittee's AVH and EWS Interface Design discussion paper and make comment using the associated talk page. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 July 2007 )
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Written by Peter Neish
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
A workshop took place at the State Herbarium of South Australia in Adelaide, 6–8 June 2007 to develop a mapping between ABCD and HISPID. The output of this work will be an xml schema that both extends and restricts ABCD using the extension mechanism of ABCD. This is a work in progress and members are invited to have a look at the notes on the mappings and make any suggestions. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 16 August 2007 )
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