EDIT - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy -

Following substantial progress in 2009, in 2010 EDIT plans to hold a 3rd meeting on Scientific Publishing in Natural History Institutions for and with publishing representa tives f rom EDIT and beyond (Work Package 3 “integrating infrastructures”). By way of this writing we call EDIT partners to send in proposals that will built on the outcomes and recommendations from the 2nd meeting while displaying: 1) an attractive theme; 2) logistical arrangements; 3) a budget estimate. We encourage the proposal to (but not limited to):

1st meeting Scientific publishing in natural history institutions
Date: December 8, 2008
Venue: Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
 
2nd meeting Scientific publshing in natural history institutions
Date: 22-23 June, 2009
Venue: SUZA conference centre, Bratislava
 

• PLoS Progress Report 2009 (open)
  
• Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? by Michael Nielsen (open)
• Will a Biological Database Be Different from a Biological Journal? by Philip Bourne (open)
• Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research Article. by David Shotton, Katie Portwin, Graham Klyne, Alistair Miles (open)