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Workshop "Access to Biological Collection Information in Poland - a European Perspective"

Dziwnówek,"Róza Wiatrów". November 26th-27th, 1999

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Participants [address list]

Local organizer (Witkowski), representatives of Polish biological collections, members of the BioCISE Concerted Action Project (Berendsohn, Olsvig-Whittaker) and of the BioCISE secretariat (Güntsch, Hahn, Steinmann).

Introduction

The participants were received at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Szczecin, by the local organizer of the meeting, Andrzej Witkowski. The meeting was officially opened with an address from the Vice-Chancellor of the Szczecin University, Prof. Dr Waldemar Tarczynski. Walter Berendsohn thanked the hosts for making the meeting possible, and accentuated the opportunities offered by a national meeting of biological collection holders. He particularly emphasized the importance of biodiversity informatics in relation to political aspects of collection funding and publicity as well as the possibilities for the Polish participation in projects on a European level. Finally, the workshop was to provide a forum for an exchange within the Polish collection holders’ community.

For the remainder of the workshop, the meeting transferred to Dziwnówek at the Baltic coast.

Introduction to the BioCISE project (Walter Berendsohn)

[Slide show] An overview of the BioCISE project, past and present. The projected implementation phase of the BioCISE was introduced, it is to provide a metadata-mediated general umbrella for collection access at different levels.

Presentation of the Israeli initiative MedBioCISE (Linda Olsvig-Whittaker)

[Slide show] An outline of necessities of the environmental community in Israel and project plans for a mediterranean Prototype system to directly access object level information. The project will focus on geographical access and on joint inclusion of both survey and physical collection data..

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The workshop was organized by Prof. Dr. Andrzej Witkowski, Uniwersytet Szczecinski, witkowsk@univ.szczecin.pl

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