Revision of Symposium: ViBRANT tools for the DNA taxonomist from Fri, 2013-04-26 08:32

<p class="rtejustify"><img align="right" alt="" class="Image img__fid__95 img__view_mode__media_large attr__format__media_large" height="117" src="http://bebol.myspecies.info/sites/bebol.myspecies.info/files/styles/larg... typeof="Image" width="148" /><img align="right" class="Image img__fid__76 img__view_mode__file_styles_medium attr__format__file_styles_medium" height="97" id="5" src="/files/styles/medium/public/ViBRANT%20Logo%20BLACK%20TEXT%20MEDIUM_0.png?itok=Pq7754vQ" title="ViBRANT Logo BLACK TEXT MEDIUM.png" typeof="Image" width="220" />A one-day workshop on the promotion of ViBRANT tools is going to take place on Tuesday 11 June 2013 as part of the ViBRANT technical workshops, RBINS (WP3 Training, outreach and community support). The workshop is focused on how Scratchpads and other ViBRANT tools may be of interest and be useful for the DNA taxonomists.</p>
<p class="rtejustify"><strong>Topics:</strong></p>
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ViBRANT project overview - Isabella Van de Velde, <a href="http://www.naturalsciences.be/">Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences</a>, Brussels</li>
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Scratchpads, a social networking tool to build, share and publish information on the Web - Dimitris Koureas, <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ /">Natural History Museum London</a></li>
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Scratchpads tools for the DNA taxonomist: which tools are needed? - Dimitris Koureas and Ed Baker, <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ /">Natural History Museum London</a></li>
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Manipulating sequence data and <a href="https://oboe.oerc.ox.ac.uk/">OBOE</a> - Neil Caithness, <a href="http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/">Oxford e-Research Centre</a></li>
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Literature Mining and Markup using <a href="https://oboe.oerc.ox.ac.uk/">OBOE</a> - David Morse and David King, <a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/">Open University</a></li>
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<a href="http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/">ZooKeys</a> related publishing environment relevant for the DNA barcoding community &ndash; Lyubomir Penev, <a href="http://www.pensoft.net/">Pensoft Publishers</a></li>
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<p class="rtejustify"><strong><img align="left" class="Image img__fid__80 img__view_mode__file_styles_medium attr__format__file_styles_medium" height="165" id="5" src="http://bebol.myspecies.info/sites/bebol.myspecies.info/files/styles/medi... title="Slide6.PNG" typeof="Image" width="220" /></strong><strong>Date: Tuesday 11 June 2013, from 10:00 to 17:00.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Symposium venue: <a href="http://www.naturalsciences.be/">Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences</a>, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Registration is free but mandatory in order to arrange coffee &amp; lunch.</strong> Free coffee &amp; sandwich lunch will be offered.<br />
Save this date and register now by filling in <a href="http://bebol.myspecies.info/node/81">this form</a>! This workshop is sponsored by ViBRANT, BeBoL and FWO.</p>
<p class="rtejustify"><strong>Here are a few open access articles on the subject:</strong></p>
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Riedel et al. (2013)<a href="http://bebol.myspecies.info/sites/bebol.myspecies.info/files/Riedel-2013... Integrative taxonomy on the fast track -towards more sustainability in biodiversity research</a>. Frontiers in Zoology 10:15.</li>
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Penev et al. (2010) <a href="http://bebol.myspecies.info/sites/bebol.myspecies.info/files/Penev-2010-... tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples</a>. ZooKeys 50: 1&ndash;16.</li>
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Smith et al. (2011) <a href="http://bebol.myspecies.info/sites/bebol.myspecies.info/files/Smith-2011-... 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science</a>. In: Smith &amp; Penev (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150:53&ndash;70.</li>
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King et al. (2011) <a href="http://bebol.myspecies.info/sites/bebol.myspecies.info/files/King-2011-Z... the bibliography of life</a>. In: Smith &amp; Penev (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150: 151&ndash;166.</li>
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<p class="rtejustify"><a href="http://vbrant.eu">Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy (ViBRANT)</a> is a European Union FP7 funded project starting in December 2010 that will support the development of virtual research communities involved in biodiversity science. The goal is to provide a more integrated and effective framework for those managing biodiversity data on the Web. <a href="http://vbrant.eu">Read more...</a></p>