Elaine Hoagland, May 15, 1996: The Assoc. of Systematics Collections would like to listen in on your discussion. .... Note that Stan Blum and Allen Allison (Bishop Museum) are talking about an extension of the ASC data model, and ASC supports their effort. Please get in contact with them.
W. Berendsohn, 2 Oct. 1996: This proposal ("An Interdisciplinary Information Model for Biological Collections") was funded and I will participate in a workshop to be held in San Diego in November.
Stuart G. Poss, 15 May 1996: see under ASIH
Gary Rosenberg, 15 May 1996: I am interested in participating in the working group. I was a participant in the 1992 ASC Workshop, the 1996 Species 2000 conference in Manila and will attend the NAPC invertebrate paleontology database workshop next month. I maintain databases of mollusks on Internet, gopher://erato.acnatsci.org.
Stuart G. Poss, 15 May 1996: My own interest in seeing
that such standards become a reality in the relatively near term
are substantial. I serve as chair of the American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists subcommittee on data standards
and am a member of the Association of Systematics Collections
Computer Networking Committee. Efforts of both groups are
directed toward standardiztion, issues fundamental to exchange of
information. Although I should not attempt to speak for either
committee at this time, ..... In both groups we are using various
modeling methodologies to implement our ideas, in particular
Object Role Modeling and Entity Relation Modeling, the former
being particularly useful in conceptual design, while the latter
is more widely known within the community. I would be interested
to learn what approaches do you anticipate using to further
discuss specific standardization issues.
Thank you for your initiative. I suspect we will be in further
discussion through our respective committees.
Liaison is maintained by the convener. See http://www.bgbm.org/biocise/ for further information.
The project is essentially concluded and most of its results referring to our subject have been published (see Berendsohn & al. in References).
June 19, 1996: The head of the working group, D. Walossek (Ulm) agreed that Liaison is to be maintained by David Lazarus (Berlin).
Liaison is maintained by the convener. See http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/sb/Research_Services/Pl-Id/EuroMed/Euro+Med.html for further information.
Konstantin Savov, 21 May 1996 I'm a botanist and one of
the authors of FLORIN Information System designed to deal with
information about plants.
... Here at DataX/FLORIN we have a team of botanists and
professional software developers working with FLORIN. We try to
implement FLORIN as rather universal information system. So, we
had to establish data structure for botanical information, which
can be applicable for different tasks. Our basic ideas are often
similar to those described in CDEFD. ... I'm very interested in
joining the discussion on standards.... You may also find more
information about FLORIN Project at http://www.florin.ru/florin/
... This year, we've transferred FLORIN project from Yourdon
structured method to Object Modelling Technique published by
Rumbaugh (both methods are supported at our site by CASE system
from former Westmount Technology, B.V.). So, we're going to
publish FLORIN data model described in OMT terms (classes,
associations, objects, etc.). ...
John Edmondson, 17 May 1996:... I am very interested to participate in the TDWG discussion on this subject, particularly from the point of view of wider compatibility. Working in a museum environment which ranges from systematic biology collections to ethnology and archaeology, we are involved in developing 'broad-brush' collections management systems to handle our 1.5 million biological specimens and artefacts. The current system, known as LASSI, was developed by a consortium of ten UK museums ....
Berendsohn, 19 June 1996: Information request sent to S. Keene, who forwarded it to Alice Grant. No response up to date (June.14, 98)
Tom Duncan, 15 May 1996:I am writing in response to your message about the TDWG Collection Data Standard. As you may know, the SMASCH project has been developing a relational database for botanical collections in California. In addition, the Museum Informatics Project (http://www.mip.berkeley.edu) has worked on data models for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. I believe that Berkeley has much to offer in the upcoming TDWG discussion and therefore I am very intersted in participating in the discussions about the TDWG Collection Data Standard.
Jessica Theodor, 23 June 1996: You already have a link to the UCMP data model on your pages, which is the one I have been working on, and we are in the process of making changes to our model which we will update on the WWW site when we've finished.
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