[Taxacom] i4Life Call for Pilot Projects

[Chris Thompson]

Wonderful,

i4Life is providing funds to local taxonomic checklists , etc., so they can 
supply information to GSDs,

BUT no funding for the GSDs.

Apparently the assumption is that GSDs are free, no cost services available 
to all!

As a developer and the sole maintainer of a GSD for about 15% of the known 
world Biodiversity (that is, Insecta: Diptera or flies), I continue to find 
this amazing. I am expected to build and maintain the Systema Dipterorum 
(formerly the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera) for FREE. And then 
GBIF, IUCN Red List, BOLD, EMBL, ENA, IT IS, EoL) can freely help themselves 
to a global names database of flies. And to ensure that I am doing my job, 
i4Life Pilot projects will now fund others to add to my free 
responsibilities!

Oh, well ...

Sincerely,

Chris Thompson
Systema Dipterorum (see us at diptera.org)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Thierry Bourgoin
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 11:51 AM
To: TAXACOM
Subject: [Taxacom] i4Life Call for Pilot Projects

Dear Taxacomers,

For your information...

Best wishes,
Thierry Bourgoin


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i4Life Call for Pilot Projects – Building content for the Catalogue of Life

The i4Life project is offering funding to establish and implement i4Life 
Pilot Projects to enhance taxonomic content of GSDs that will check and 
incorporate in their databases new scientific names and taxa, harvested from 
Global Partners (GBIF, IUCN Red List, BOLD, EMBL ENA and Encyclopedia of 
Life).

The Pilot Projects objective is to place as many new scientific names from 
Global Partners as possible in taxonomic checklists and, then, supply them 
to the Catalogue of Life during routine updates.
Unincorporated names will be returned to i4Life with annotations to show 
their status.

The i4Life budget commits approximately €200k plus overheads for this 
purpose and the duration of Pilot Projects will be 5 months.
Eligibility criteria are governed by European Commission rules.
Deadline: 31 August 2012 - 12:00 am (midnight) (Paris local time).

If you are interested you will find all information and documents on the 
i4Life webpage: http://i4life.eu/pilots.php


Contact for the call:
Aurélie Delavaud
aurelie.delavaud at mnhn.fr
Programmes européens /  European Programs - i4Life
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle / National  Museum of Natural History
Direction des collections / Collections directorate - 45 rue Buffon - CP50 
Entomo - 75005 Paris, Fr.
+ 33 (0)1 40 79 53 92

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