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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Dr. Irina</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> excuse me for the long delay; I
hope it is not too much late for partecipate to the project. I'm available
for any help. I'm particularly involved with taxonomy and faunistic record in
Italy</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your sincerely</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Daniele Sommaggio</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=i.brake@nhm.ac.uk href="mailto:i.brake@nhm.ac.uk">Irina Brake</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
href="mailto:syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">syrphidae@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:58
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Syrphidae] Syrphidae revisions
in EDIT</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear
collegues,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best
wishes,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Irina<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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(0)20 8871 4941 fax<BR></SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:i.brake@nhm.ac.uk"><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Milichiidae
online:<BR></SPAN></FONT><A
href="http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/milichid/mi-home.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/milichid/mi-home.html</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>Carnidae
online:<BR></SPAN></FONT><A
href="http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/carnid/ca-home.html"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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