Taxonomic Databases Working Group / Knowledge Organisation Systems / KOS / TDWG Subgroup / /
Country
United States / United Kingdom / / /
Facility
Global Biodiversity Information Facility / Biodiversity Heritage Library / Interchange Tag Suite / University of Massachusetts/Boston / U.S. National Library of Medicine / OBO Foundry / The University of Manchester / /
IndustryTerm
online data / software engineering / biodiversity applications / social organization systems / software tools / online data aggregators / biodiversity data management / important web-accessible authority files / web-based biodiversity data resources / data gathering protocols / knowledge organization systems / authoritative online databases / online community sites / social and technical ontology lifecycle-management tools / generic tools / prototype-level applications / online biodiversity knowledge / dual velocity problem / Web technologies / online community / science informatics tools / /
Organization
Columbia University / University of Massachusetts / Harvard University / U.S. National Science Foundation / Natural Environment Research Council / Biodiversity Information Standards Organization / National Center for Biomedical Ontology / National Center for Biotechnology Information / National Evolutionary Synthesis Center / Environmental Bioinformatics Centre / University of Manchester / American Society for Information Science and Technology / Medicine and National Center for Biotechnology Information / /
Person
Donald Hobern / Norman Morrison / Terry Catapano / Plazi / Carl Linnaeus / Robert A. Morris / Hilmar Lapp / Darwin Core / /
Position
librarian / assistant director of informatics / director / Atlas / EDITOR / vice president / botanist / ontologies and data standards manager / Corresponding author / professor emeritus / chair / professor emeritus of computer science / /
Special Section Organizing Our Knowledge of Biodiversity Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology – April/May 2011 – Volume 37, Number 4