ZooBank Symposium: ESA Annual
Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A meeting to present and discuss
the ZooBank registry and other aspects of animal nomenclature and
taxonomy was held as a late breaking symposium during the 2005 Annual
Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. The meeting was
arranged as a series of six presentations, preceded by an introduction
from Frank Krell, organiser of the symposium, and followed by a panel
discussion.
Click on the links below to view
the PowerPoint presentations.
ZooBank:
ICZN’s open-access web-based register of all new animal names
and original descriptions
Andrew Polaszek (ICZN, London)
ZooBank
and Zoological Record: a partnership for success
Nigel Robinson (Thomson Zoological,
York, U.K.)
ZooBank
and GBIF
Per de Place Bjørn (GBIF,
Copenhagen, Denmark)
Implementing
the Digital Taxonomic Revolution: Strategies for a Successful
Web-Based Registry of Taxonomic Names
Richard Pyle (Bishop Museum, Honolulu):
Copyright:
the new taxonomic impediment
Norman Johnson (Ohio State University,
Columbus) & Donat Agosti (American Museum of Natural History,
New York):
Name
accessibility: one less impediment to taxonomy
James Woolley (Texas A&M University)
ZooBank Symposium, Fort Lauderdale,
18 December 2005; clockwise from top left: Rich Pyle in a live video
link from Honolulu describes the ZooBank Registry proposal; Jim Woolley
(speaker), Luciana Musetti and Norm Johnson (speaker); the audience;
discussion panel: Per de Place Bjørn (GBIF); Jim Woolley (Texas
A&M University); Andrew Polaszek (ICZN); Norm Johnson (Ohio State
University); Frank-Thorsten Krell (Natural History Museum, London).
Photographs: Kate Elliot
