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| Title | A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure |
| Grant Agreement Number | 223806 |
| Funding Programmes | FP7 |
| Dates | 30/04/2008 - 30/04/2011 |
| Project URL | http://www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi |
| Scientific Domain |
e-Infrastructures |
| Activity | Studies, conferences and coordination actions supporting policy development, including international cooperation, for e-infrastructures |
| Action Line | ICT-based e-Infrastructures |
| Transnational Access | Not indicated |
| Type Of Project | CSA |
| Abstract | PESI provides standardised and authoritative taxonomic information by integrating and securing Europe's taxonomically authoritative species name registers and nomenclators (name databases) that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe. PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural components of four major community networks on taxonomic indexing into a joint work programme. This will result in functional knowledge networks of taxonomic experts and regional focal points, which will collaborate on the establishment of standardised and authoritative taxonomic (meta-) data. In addition PESI will coordinate the integration and synchronisation of the European taxonomic information systems into a joint e-infrastructure and the set up of a common user-interface disseminating the pan-European checklists and associated user-services results. The organisation of national and regional focal point networks as projected not only assures the efficient access to local expertise, but is also important for the synergistic promotion of taxonomic standards throughout Europe, for instance to liaison with national governmental bodies on the implementation of European biodiversity legislations. In addition PESI will start with the geographic expansion of the European expertise networks to eventually cover the entire Palaearctic biogeographic region. PESI supports international efforts on the development of a 'Global Names Architecture' by building a common intelligent name-matching device in consultation with the principal initiatives (GBIF, TDWG, EoL, SpeciesBase). PESI contributes the development of a unified cross-reference system and provides of high quality taxonomic standards. PESI will further involve the Europe-based nomenclatural services and link the planned joint European taxonomic e-infrastructures middle-layer to the global e-gateway. |
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Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country) |
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM, Netherlands |
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Partners
(Organisation name and Country) |
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN, Germany NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET, Sweden KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET, Denmark MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE, France A.O. KOVALEVSKIY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERN SEAS, Ukraine NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY, Ireland Gamtos tyrimų centras, Lithuania UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE - LILLE I, France MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, United Kingdom ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Russian Federation INSTYTUT OCEANOLOGII POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK, Poland ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED, Israel University of Latvia, Latvia ASOCIATIA MYNATURE, Romania NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Bulgaria NACIONALNI INSTITUT ZA BIOLOGIJO, Slovenia ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY*ILIAUNI, Georgia SWISS SYSTEMATICS SOCIETY, Switzerland MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY - POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Poland NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET, Norway UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE, Slovakia COMITATO SCIENTIFICO PER LA FAUNA D'ITALIA, Italy VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETO EKOLOGIJOS INSTITUTAS, Lithuania BOTANICKY USTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED, Slovakia UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA, Spain UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO, Italy CAB INTERNATIONAL, United Kingdom ECOLOGICAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED, Ireland VLAAMS INSTITUUT VOOR DE ZEE VZW, Belgium TRAKYA UNIVERSITESI, Turkey HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH, Greece CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, United Kingdom SOCIETY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC BIODIVERSITY DATA LIMITED, Ireland ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL TRUST FOR ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE, United Kingdom STICHTING NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER, Netherlands STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE, Ukraine |
| TA Call | A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure |
