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Dear colleague:

The team listed below is charged by the Global Biodiversity  
Information Facility (GBIF, http://gbif.org) with developing a  
position paper about its future needs for Knowledge Organization  
Systems (KOS), a rubric which includes thesauri, controlled  
vocabularies, ontologies, gazetteers, linked data, and other such  
resources. The paper will cover tools, impediments to deployment,  
training requirements, etc. After we draft it, the position paper will  
be put forth for a period of public comment before final  
recommendations to GBIF.

In order to put together the position paper, we solicit your opinions,
experiences, needs, and information on resources you already in place
about Knowledge Organization for biodiversity research. Please go to
http://surveymonkey.com/GBIFKOSurvey to participate in the survey.

We especially value your input about points you feel the survey  
doesn't cover.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to mailing lists or  
colleagues you feel appropriate,  hopefully to people who may not have  
seen it already.

Thanks
GBIF KOS position paper team
Bob Morris, Convenor.
Terry Catapano, Donald Hobern, Hilmar Lapp, Norman Morrison, Natasha  
Noy, Mark Schildhauer, Dave Thau

hlapp@nescent.org

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