Links

General

ISIS - International Species Information System

Other organizations:

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/programs/sisindex.htm - IUCN SSC - SIS Species Information System and WESIS
http://www.biodiversity.org/ - BCIS Biodiversity Conservation Information System

Guides to/ organizations/relationships/contacts:

http://www.gbif.org/relations.htm
http://www.gbif.org/links.htm - comprehensive list of biodiversity organizations, links, software, databases
http://www.sp2000.org/aboutsp2000.html#ProjectTeam - Species 2000 Project Team and sponsors

Informatics

http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/sblum/pub/biodiv_informatics.html - An overview of Biodiversity Informatics - lists taxonomic efforts, background for first meeting of All Species Project

http://www.avinformatics.org/ - Association for Veterinary Informatics

http://bdi.cse.ogi.edu/ - Biodiversity Informatics Workshop

http://cbcg.lbl.gov/ssi-csb/Background.html - Computational Structural Biology - workshop

http://www.bio-itworld.com/ - BioIT World

http://doegenomestolife.org/pubs/CompbioVisions-3LR.pdf - Genomes to Life

http://www.all-species.org/ - All Species Foundation

http://biodi.sdsc.edu/ - Advanced computational approaches to environmental and biodiversity information

http://www.cbr.washington.edu/~camel/z/z.html - Overview of Z39.50

http://www.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/biol_inf.htm - Biological Informatics resources

http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ - SEEK

Software

http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/TDWG/acc/Software.htm - Software for biological collections
http://www.biosis.org/free_resources/reviews/software.html - BIOSIS software review
http://tsadev.speciesanalyst.net/Z.X/ - the Species Analyst Technical site
http://splink.cria.org.br/index?setlang=en - speciesLink is a Distributed Information System that integrates biodiversity data from collections around the state of São Paulo in real time
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html GenBank

Glossaries

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is213/s99/Projects/P9/web_site/glossary.htm - Gotcha glossary
http://www.bus.utexas.edu/kman/glossary.htm - knowledge management glossary

Data Standards - general

http://www.cimi.org – Consortium of Museums
http://www.cimi.org/standards.html
http://www.codata.org – Committee on Data for Science and Technology, International Council for Science
http://www.hl7.org/ - links to standards developers
http://www.fws.gov/stand/
http://www.fws.gov/stand/sita/sita.html#DATA - US F&WS - data standards
http://www.epa.gov/edsc/charter.htm - Environmental Data Standards Council
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/ -Museum Informatics Project, UC Berkeley
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/otheract/phdsc/phdsc.htm - Public Health Data Standards Consortium
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/TDWG/acc/Referenc.htm - TDWG Subgroup on biological collection data
http://www.niso.org/world/index.html - National Information Standards Organization
http://www.usobi.org/specify/ - Specify - biodiversity collections management
http://www.itis.usda.gov/whatsnew.html - Interagency Taxonomic Information System
http://www.biodiversity.org/simplify/ev.php - BCIS - Biodiversity Conservation Information System
http://www.medrecinst.com/ - Medical Records Institute
http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Standards/metadata_discovery.html - Metatdata STANDARDS - description of Darwin Core - Darwin Core - Darwin Core (DwC) is a "profile describing the minimum set of standards for search and retrieval of natural history collections and observation databases"¹. Darwin Core is one of a series of tools developed for The Species Analyst, a research project "developing standards and software tools for access to the world's natural history collection and observation databases"² which is based at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center.
http://www.cimi.org/public_docs/meta_bestprac_v1_1_210400.pdf - Guide to best practise - Dublin Core (CIMI)
http://www.mda.org.uk/spectrum.htm - SPECTRUM - UK Museum documentation standard

Veterinary Data Standards Links

http://www.HL7.org - health level 7
http://www.regenstrief.org/loinc - Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes: (system used by state veterinary diagnostic laboratories)
http://www.snomed.org - SNOMED
http://wwwtvmdl.tamu.edu - Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/ojvr/subscribersojvr/petterms1998/petterms1998.htm - Petterms, a standardized nomenclature for companion animal practice
http://snomed.vetmed.vt.edu/presentations/Anatomy2001/presentation.ppt - ..Anatomical Hierarchies in SnoMed.
http://snomed.vetmed.vt.edu -
http://snomed.vetmed.vt.edu/guidelines/default.htm - SNOMED Veterinary Forum - nomenclature discussion forums.

Core Data

http://www.lpzoo.org/conservation/publications.html - Data entry guidelines for ARKS3 and SPARKS

Collection Planning

Environmental Monitoring

Husbandry

AZA members web site - husbandry manuals
http://www.awionline.org/Lab_animals/biblio/iacuc2.htm - IACUC

Behavior

http://www.ethograms.org/ - AZA Behavioral Advisory Group - ethograms

Nutrition

Natural History

Natural History Portal: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/portal/index.html
Sample Fact Sheets : http://www.csew.com/felidtag/default.htm
Developing XML standards for natural history: http://tsadev.speciesanalyst.net/
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WBD.html – World Biodiversity Index
http://www.gbif.org - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/Documents.html - MaNIS Mammal Networked Information System

Population Management

http://www.b22crew.com/pm2000/scrnshots.html - PM2000
http://www.lpzoo.org/conservation/publications.html - data entry guidelines for SPARKS

Regulatory Compliance

Spatial Data

Taxonomy

http://www.nbii.gov/disciplines/systematics.html - National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://www.tdwg.org - International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ - National Center for Biotechnology Information

http://www.fishbase.org/ - fishbase

http://tsadev.speciesanalyst.net/ - The Species Analyst - research project developing standards and software tools for access to the world's natural history collection and observation databases. The Species Analyst is based at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center.
http://www.itis.usda.gov/ - ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System

http://www.sp2000.org – Species 2000

Training and Enrichment