[Taxacom] Biodiversity Informatics on wikipedia - contributions welcome

[Tony.Rees at csiro.au]

Dear all, (and Roger),

As a "Biodiversity Informatics" and biological data management person myself, I have been somewhat underwhelmed by the treatment of this topic to date on Wikipedia (basically almost nothing on the designated page, plus a competing page "Biodiversity Information" that said even less), so I have made a start at restructuring the relevant page: you can see my efforts at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Informatics

As stated above it is just a start, plenty more to do, so anyone interested is welcome to pitch in. There is also a page for comments and general discussion at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Biodiversity_Informatics

I decided it might also be helpful to create an associated page for taxonomic databases, now done, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_database

Happy wikitinkering/wikiimproving,

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees
Manager, Divisional Data Centre,
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research,
GPO Box 1538,
Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Ph: 0362 325318 (Int: +61 362 325318)
Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000)
e-mail: Tony.Rees at csiro.au
Manager, OBIS Australia regional node, http://www.obis.org.au/ 
Biodiversity informatics research activities: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/biodiversity.htm
Personal info: http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566


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