[Syrphidae] Unifiying revisionary taxonomy of Syrphidae?

[Frank Dziock]

Dear Irina,

I am very interested in the EDIT NoE and would like to contribute.

As I am an ecologist working with Syrphidae in the field of 
bioindication and conservation biology, I am especially interested in 
the application of databases and I could potentially help in the review 
and testing of the internet content (taxonomic and especially biological 
content).

Best wishes from hot and sunny Potsdam,

Frank

 

Francis Gilbert schrieb:
> I would like to participate in this !
> I am not a taxonomist, so cannot help with any of the nomenclature, but I can contribute to any biological knowledge
>
> Francis
>
> Dr Francis Gilbert
> (on sabbatical in Egypt from 25th Feb 2005)
>
> Info: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biology/gilbert
> Website http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg
> Egyptian-British Biological Society http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/EBBSoc/ebbsoc.html
> Syrphid Email Discussion http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/syrphidae
>
>   
>>>> ibrake at sel.barc.usda.gov 06/12/06 6:11 PM >>>
>>>>         
> Dear syrphid workers,
>
> the European Commission has funded EDIT, the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/science/science/Recherche/rub-recherche/som-recherche/fiche-rech.xsp?ARTICLE_ARTICLE_ID=8599&idx=3&nav=liste ), a network of Excellence, with the aim of better integrating taxonomy across Europe. 
>
> I will be a member of the workpackage "Unifying revisionary taxonomy", the aim of which is to encourage expert taxonomic task groups to migrate taxonomic data to an internet platform (for an explanation of unitary taxonomies see http://www.cate-project.org/unitary_taxonomies.html ).
>
> One of the target taxa is Lepidoptera, but I since I am a dipterist (working on acalyptrate flies) I am pushing for the addition of Diptera.
> Chris Thompson told me that Syrphidae are the ideal target taxon, because there are so many people actively working with Syrphidae and because there is already a lot of information available in digital format.
>
> So my question to you is: Would you like to participate in EDIT? Would you like to work together on an online revision of Syrphidae?
>
> We will need many experts who will populate the webpages with taxonomic, nomenclatural, biological, etc. information. We need people, who review the information. We need "amateurs", who will tell the specialists, what they would like to see online and how the taxonomic information can be put into an "understandable" format.
>
> If you would like to participate in this project, please answer to this mailing list or to me directly at ibrake at sel.barc.usda.gov 
>
> Best wishes, 
> Irina Brake
>
>
>
> Dr. Irina Brake
> BioSystematic Database of World Diptera (BDWD)
> Department of Entomology
> Smithsonian Institution
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>
> Milichiidae online:
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> Carnidae online:
> http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/carnid/ca-home.html
>
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