GBIF Participant Node Regular Report

Choose the GBIF Participant that your represent:
Argentina Australia Belgium Canada Costa Rica Denmark Equatorial Guinea Estonia Finland France Germany Iceland Ireland Japan Korea, Republic of Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Peru Portugal Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sweden Tanzania UK USA Austria Benin Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cameroon Colombia Cuba Ghana Guinea India Indonesia Kenya Luxembourg Madagascar Morocco Nicaragua Pakistan Philippines Poland Switzerland AndinoNET BioNET-ASEANET BioNET-EASIANET BioNET-INTERNATIONAL BioNET-SAFRINET Bioversity International Botanic Gardens Conservation International CABI Bioscience Chinese Taipei Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarollo Consortium for the Barcode of Life Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) DIVERSITAS Discover Life ETI Bioinformatics Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) Finding Species Freshwater Biological Association - FreshwaterLife Integrated Taxonomic Information System Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) International Species Information System Major Systematic Entomology Facilities Natural Science Collections Alliance NatureServe Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NORDGEN) Ocean Biogeographic Information System Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Species 2000 Taxonomic Databases Working Group United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre Wildscreen World Data Center for Biodiversity and Ecology World Federation for Culture Collections

1. Significant events in the past 6 months, since the previous report. The form is pre-filled with some headlines that you may use to structure your answer, or delete as appropriate:

A) Participant node and national portal implementation B) Improvement in infrastructure, software and standards C) Provide more data to the GBIF network (digitization efforts, establishment of data nodes) D) Publications, meetings, workshops, training, coordination activities, promotion to users E) Support activities to data nodes or users of data F) Other activities including developing user understanding, applications of the data

2. Plans for the next 6 months, including new data to be made available. The form is pre-filled with some headlines that you may use to structure your answer, or delete as appropriate:

A) Participant node and national portal implementation B) Improvement in infrastructure, software and standards C) Provide more data to the GBIF network (digitization efforts, establishment of data nodes) D) Publications, meetings, workshops, training, coordination activities, promotion to users E) Support activities to data nodes or users of data F) Other activities including developing user understanding, applications of the data

3. Specific issues that need to be discussed in the next meeting (Wellington, New Zealand, 8 October 2004):

4. Please enter your full name:
(It will be displayed as the author of the report in the CIRCA folder 6 - September 2004).

After you have completed the report, just click and your report will be will be submitted to CIRCA and sent via email to the Nodes Chairpersons and GBIF Secretariat.