Welcome to the Helpdesk Facility of the Biodiversity Information and Cybertaxonomy Services of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA).
Our services are involved in several advisory, helpdesk and training programs. A lot of material and expertise has been collected during the implementation of these projects and activities.
They concerns biodiversity information, Geographic Information Services, Taxonomy, Collection management, digitalisation and much more. Most of this valuable information has cross domain and cross project scope.
The aim of this platform is to provide an easy access and exchange of knowledge facility to reduce duplication of efforts and enhance synergies between related projects.
Please see the "Projects" menu item for the links to the Helpdesk and Advisory facilities of associated projects.
What: the concept behind this course is to take some next steps in combining the content and ideas of several previous BITC courses: data capture, data cleaning, data analysis, etc. The idea is to analyze a set of data sets in parallel as regards a series of questions of interest. The data sets will be significant, original, regional summaries of the occurrence and diversity of major taxa: e.g., "birds of Zimbabwe," "plants of the Ethiopian Highlands," "frogs of the Congo Basin," etc.
Belgium hosts important natural history collections, libraries, well-equipped research facilities and well-trained scientific and curatorial staff.
To ensure that this rich taxonomic patrimony can also serve taxonomists from the developing world, the Belgian GTI NFP annually issues two types of grants.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) announces the Public Review of the proposed Audubon Core Multimedia Resources Metadata Standard. Audubon Core is designed to provide a controlled vocabulary to address the management, acquisition, and content descriptions of biodiversity multimedia. It is a product of the Joint GBIF- TDWG Multimedia Resources Task Group (MRTG) and has undergone peer review, several revisions, and review by the TDWG Executive Committee. If you are a potential producer or consumer of metadata for biodiversity-related multimedia, we would like your input on this proposed TDWG Technical Specification Standard.
The National Museum of Natural science of Lviv (Ukraine) will organize 14-16 May 2013 a conference on "Modern Phytomorphology".
The deadline to apply is 31/12/2012 but it will be probably be extended to Mid-January.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its annual conference in Florence, Italy on October 28 – November 1. We are issuing a call for symposia or workshop proposals for the conference. The theme of the meeting is Virtual Communities for Biodiversity Science and we are particularly interested in adding eScience topics to the program. Please send symposium/workshop proposals to the Programme Chair, Heimo Rainer (heimo.rainer(at)nhm-wien.ac.at) and General Secretary (secretary(at)tdwg.org) by January 15, 2013.