Preprints of the Metadiversity Conference Proceedings

  Preface

Richard T. Kaser, Background on 'Metadiversity"
 

  Introduction

Dennis Fenn, Metadiversity: Welcome and Charge to the Participants
 

  Session 1: The Nation's Call to Action

Beatriz Torres, The Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity: Biodiversity Metadata and Information
 
Geoffrey Bowker et al., Teaming with Life: The PCAST Report on Biodiversity and Its Implications for Biodiversity Informatics

James L. Edwards, The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Framework Plan–A Roadmap for Interoperable Sharing of Biodiversity Information

Stuart Weibel, The Metadata Landscape: Conventions for Semantics, Syntax, and Structure in the Internet Commons
 

  Session 2: The Challenge in Species Discovery and Taxonomic Information

Frank Bisby, Doing the Impossible: Creating a Stable Species Index and Operating a Common Access System on the Internet

Peter Stevens, Conventions, Standards, and Consensus in Systematic Practice: How Far Can (or Should) We Go?

John Pickering, Discover Life in America & the Database Needs of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Hugh Wilson, Taxonomic Information Systems–Stability through Diversity

Bruce Collette, ITIS, The Integrated Taxonomic Information System
 

  Session 3: The Challenge in Earth Observation, Ecosystem Monitoring, and Environmental Information

Roberta Balstad Miller, The Challenge in Earth Observation, Ecosystem Monitoring, and Environmental Information

Lola Olsen, Locating Biodiversity Data through the Global Change Master Directory

Gerald Barton, The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Working Group on Information Systems and Services

Eliot Christian, The Global Information Locator Service

Jeffrey Frithsen and Robert F. Shepanek, Beyond Metadata: Scientific Information Management Approaches Supporting Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment Activities

Stefan Jensen, Environmental Metainformation in the Work Program of the European Environmental Agency
 

  Session 4: Building the Infrastructure

Anne Frondorf, The Metadata Challenge for NBII

John Moeller, The National Spatial Data Infrastructure: Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access

Stephen Griffin, Digital Libraries Research and Infrastructure
 

  Session 5: The Metadata Challenge for Libraries

Clifford Lynch, Building Digital Libraries for Metadiversity: Federation across Disciplines

Michael Day, The Metadata Challenge for Libraries: A View from Europe

Linda Hill, Gazetteer and Collection-Level Metadata Development

Carl Lagoze, Metadata Challenges for Libraries
 

  Special Presentation

Wayne Moore, Perspectives on Information Management on the Internet
 

  Session 6: The Metadata Challenge for Museums

Julian Humphries, Museum Informatics: Where We Have Been and Where We Need to Go

Ray Lester, Museum Metadata: Who Pays?
 

  Session 7: Working Groups

Richard T. Kaser, "Reports from the Working Group"

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