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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear collegues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks to everyone who responded to my email in June about
the participation of Syrphidae in the EDIT project (European Distributed
Institute of Taxonomy). The amount of responses encouraged us to add Syrphidae
as one of the target taxa in EDIT.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am now established in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place> and have started to work on EDIT. One
of my first aims is to establish a syrphid network, which is quite easy thanks
to this mailing list. In future I will send most emails concerning EDIT only to
the collegues who expressed an interest in EDIT and just general information to
this mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The aim of EDIT is to enhance cooperation between
taxonomists and to migrate taxonomic data to an internet platform. There are
several workpackages and as member of WP6, “Unifying revisonary
taxonomy”, I coordinate the taxonomic side, while another workpackage is
responsible for developing the tools necessary for online revisions. Since the
project runs for 4.5 years, it will take some time before those tools are ready
for use. So to start getting some information online we are now looking for papers
of revisions, which are unpublished but peer-reviewed and accepted by a
journal. We intend to mark these manuscripts up in xml and make the content and
figures available on the Syrphidae site (with appropriate acknowledgements). We
will not make the original pdfs available. In order for this to work, the
authors must retain the copyright for the paper and give the journal only the
exclusive right to publish. Does anyone have a suitable paper available?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In October our IT person will start his job and develop the
EDIT portal and necessary web structures. After that we can hopefully start to
put the first data online. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As a backbone for information retrieval at the portal we
will use the syrphid names of the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera. Thanks
to <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Chris Thompson</st1:PersonName> for developing
such a great tool for us all!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Irina<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr. Irina Brake<br>
European Distributed <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Taxonomy</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> (EDIT)
Department of Entomology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Natural</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
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w:st="on">History</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'>+44 (0)20 7942 5244 voice<br>
+44 (0)20 8871 4941 fax<br>
</span></font><a href="mailto:i.brake@nhm.ac.uk"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>i.brake@nhm.ac.uk</span></font></a><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Milichiidae online:<br>
</span></font><a
href="http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/milichid/mi-home.html"><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/milichid/mi-home.html</span></font></a><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Carnidae online:<br>
</span></font><a href="http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/carnid/ca-home.html"><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/carnid/ca-home.html</span></font></a><span
lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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