[Taxacom] Text available for public review: Best practice guide for compiling, maintaining, disseminating national species checklists

[David Remsen [GBIF]]

Dear Taxacom,

GBIF would like to announce that there's a new GBIF text available for public review: Best practice guide for compiling, maintaining, and disseminating national species checklists, by Michelle Hamer, Janine Victor & Gideon Smith.  You can find the text at http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/22498

The main purpose of this best practice document is to provide guidance for policy and procedures relating to accessing and capturing information for national checklists, and to highlight some key issues which should be considered to promote standardisation, quality and use of these products. 

We seek now input from the community on the text, suggestions, identification of potential gaps, innacuracies, etc.

The public review period ends the 6th April 2012. The author will consider all comments received and a final version will be released soon afterwards.  Comments can be sent to dremsen at gbif.org

Please forward this message to any relevant contact or mailing list. Many thanks!

David

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David Remsen, Senior Programme Officer
Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat
Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45-35321472   Fax: +45-35321480
Mobile +45 28751472
Skype: dremsen
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