News The LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone supports the WoRMS Amphipoda editors Added on: 2013-10-22 14:46:13 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie The taxonomic data management task force at VLIZ will process 250 publications to help complete the Amphipoda information in WoRMS ... [Read more] The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and the Catalogue of Life (CoL) intensify their collaboration Added on: 2013-10-18 11:14:06 by Fockedey, Nancy The Catalogue of Life (CoL) has the ambitious objective to list all species that occur worldwide, on land and at sea. There was already a contribution to this initiative from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), but recently Leen Vandepitte and Wim Decock– both working in the VLIZ data centre for the WoRMS data management team – became member of the ' CoL Global Team ' and the ' CoL Editorial Board’, repsectively. This enables them to actively participate in the scientific basis and products of this grand biodiversity initiative. ... [Read more] WoRMS, represented by Dr Mark Costello is an Award finalist for the ASAP award Added on: 2013-10-02 09:44:07 by Vandepitte, Leen PLOS has announced the finalists for the Accelarating Science Award Program and WoRMS has made it to the final six! ... [Read more] New webpage on meetings and congresses focussed on echinoderms launched Added on: 2013-08-05 10:37:13 by Vandepitte, Leen The Echinoderm Files website provides information on all articles and abstracts published in the proceedings of the International Echinoderm Conferences and the European Conferences on Echinoderms ... [Read more] Marine Regions Webservices launched Added on: 2013-08-02 11:48:33 by Claus, Simon As a user or developer you can now use the Marine Gazetteer webservices to feed your own application with the Marine Gazetteer standardized list of georeferenced marine place names and marine areas. Currently, we support both Restful and SOAP methods for accessing the services. [Read more] WoRMS included in data management software product Added on: 2013-07-10 14:04:20 by Costello, Mark Thomson Ecology will soon include and distribute WoRMS within their data management software. This is the first formal agreement with a commercial company by WoRMS even though many users may be from commercial organisations. ... [Read more] [Add] [Older news... ]

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