3GTW
the 3rd Global Taxonomy Workshop
Pretoria 2002
Paris 2003

Implementing the Global Taxonomy Initiative


Plan of Action and Resource Kit for
Taxonomic Capacity Building





Technology Fair
3GTW-Pretoria featured a session for developers of technologies and tools to demonstrate their products and interact with taxonomists.
Below are links to relevant web sites or presentations.

BCIS
Piotr Naskrecki, Conservation International
Biodiversity Conservation Information System
http://www.biodiversity.org/simplify/ev.php
CABI
Christiaan Kooyman
http://www.cabi.org
CARINET
Ronald Barrow
The Caribbean Network for Taxonomy
http://carinet.ecoport.org
DAISY
Mark O'Neill
Digital Automated Identification System
http://chasseur.usc.edu/pups/projects/daisy.html
Discoverlife
John Pickering
Web-based identification and reporting and databases for the public
http://www.discoverlife.org/
EcoPort
Tonie Putter
The Ecology Knowledge Processor
http://www.ecoport.org
EuroLOOP
Sandrine Ullenburg
A Proposal: Regional keys on Arthropods of Economic Importance
VIEW POWERPOINT SLIDES
Fishbase
Rainer Froese &
Rudolfo Reyes
http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm
Insectariumvirtual
Jean-Michel Maes
http://www.insectariumvirtual.com
Japan GTI Web Site
Junko Shimura
http://www-gti.nies.go.jp/
LUCID
Michael Stiller
http://www.lucidcentral.com/
SAMPADA
Vishwas Chavan
http://www.ncbi.org.in/sampada/index1.htm
Taxonlan
Tim Deprez et al.
WORD FILES: Towards Digital Taxonomy... | Taxonomical Databases: more then just dubious species lists
French Institute, Pondicherry
Pierre Grard
A Multimedia Approach to Computer Aided Identification for Capacity Building in Taxonomy
Contact: Pierre Grard
pierre.grard@ifpindia.org

Posters
Some exhibitors provided electronic versions of their presentations.

Sas. Biswas
Inter-institutional and interdisciplinary support and networking for herbarium development in India and neighbouring countries: Taxonomic studies and capacity building
Xavier Domingo-Roura et al.
What kind of data are needed for Conservation Biology?
Connal Eardley
The African Pollinator Initiative  
Grace Njeri Njoroge
Some challeges facing trainers and trainees in systematic botany in Kenya 
Julio Mena Portales
Conservation of fungal diversity in Cuba
A K Sarbhoy
India’s recognition and response to the Taxonomic Impediment