A society aiming to make biodiversity data available for the benefit of science and environmental management.
This includes the archiving of electronic biodiversity data and encouraging and facilitating data being given an 'added value' by being combined and linked with other data.

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BYSE 2010, the Biodiversity Year Schedule of Events for 2010 Added on: 2009-11-13 18:38:00 by Appeltans, Ward BYSE 2010 is a search tool to find all events happening during the International Year of Biodiversity and beyond. The calendar contains all biodiversity-related activities scheduled for 2010 organized by museums, zoos, science centres, research institutes, NGOs, local and national governments, businesses, etc. from all over the world! ... [Read more]

ZooKeys is now data provider to GBIF Added on: 2009-06-22 14:01:00 by Costello, Mark SMEBD endorsed the "ZooKeys" publisher as a GBIF data provider on 21st June 2009. It is part of GBIF quality control that new data providers are so endorsed by an existing GBIF participant.

GBIF welcomes SMEBD Added on: 2009-03-06 13:55:00 by Costello, Mark The Society for the Management of Electronic Data (SMEBD) was pleased to become an Associate Participant of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) on 6 March 2009. The SMEBD Chair, Mark J. Costello, and a member of SMEBD Council, Dr Thomas Pape, are the SMEBD representatives to the GBIF Governing Board.

Euro+Med PlantBase joining SMEBD Added on: 2009-02-07 00:00:00 by de Jong, Yde On behalf of the Euro+Med PlantBase (E+M) coordinator Eckhard von Raab-Straube, I am pleased to announce the membership of E+M in SMEBD. ... [Read more]

WoRMS grows as more experts from all over the world contribute Added on: 2009-01-28 16:49:00 by Mark J. Costello As of today 142 taxonomists from 92 institutions in 26 countries are contributing data to WoRMS (list below). The main goal in 2009 for the new WoRMS Steering Committee will be to fill the few gaps in the WoRMS Editorial board. I welcome suggestions for editors, whether to cover a taxon globally or regionally, and whether they provide nomenclatural, distribution images, or other information on species. In time, I expect our editors leading large taxa will have an increasing number of Associate Editors which they coordinate, as this will share the work of keeping the database up to date. ... [Read more]

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