1996 TDWG Annual Meeting and Symposium

[Tim Dickinson]

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                PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT:

1996 TDWG Annual Meeting and Symposium
13-14 October, Vascular Plant Herbarium (TRT),
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, CANADA

For additional program information contact either:

Timothy Dickinson
Vascular Plant Herbarium (TRT)
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, CANADA M5S 2C6
e-mail: timd at rom.on.ca
fax: +1 416 586 5516

or

TDWG Secretariat
Real Jardin Botanico - CSIC
Plaza de Murillo 2
28014 Madrid, SPAIN
e-mail: pando at ma-rjb.csic.es
fax: +34 1 420 0157

Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TWDG):

Begun in 1985 as an international working group to explore ideas on
standardization and collaboration between major plant taxonomic
database projects, TDWG has since expanded its scope to include all
taxonomic database projects from all biological disciplines.  TDWG
is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences
(IUBS) as the Commission on Taxonomic Databases and members include
institutions and individuals responsible for biological databases
with taxonomic components.  Membership in TDWG is open to
institutions, projects and individuals interested in participating
in TDWG activities.

The mission of TDWG is:
        1) to provide an international forum for biological database
        projects;
        2) to develop and promote the use of standards; and
        3) to facilitate data exchange

     TDWG annual meetings and symposia provide a forum for discussing
     technical aspects of taxonomic databases, discussing the form and
     content of proposed standards, voting on the adoption of standards,
     and sharing information on current developments in taxonomic
     databases.

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