[Geowanking] Fwd: Big step forward for geo-referencing

[Allan Doyle]

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> From: Roger Longhorn <ral at alum.mit.edu>
> Date: January 14, 2005 11:32:57 EST
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> Subject: Big step forward for geo-referencing
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>  From: Luigi Guarino [mailto:LuigiG at spc.int]
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:15 AM
>  To: Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and 
> Technologies
>  Subject: Big step forward for geo-referencing
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>  The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded a team of 
> institutions, led by the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, a 
> $1.6 million grant to build an online automated georeferencing tool. 
> The tool, referred to as BioGeoMancer, addresses the crucial need of 
> natural history museums to assign accurate and verifiable coordinates 
> to over 2 billion specimens worldwide that contain text location data 
> but no spatial coordinates. Coupling the geographic scope of specimens 
> with the rich historical record of natural history museum collections 
> yields a source of data of enormous significance, useful in 
> conservation planning, reserve  selection, and examining the potential 
> effects of climate change on biodiversity.
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> http://www.biogeomancer.org/
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>  Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, IICD, 
> OneWorld, UNAIDS
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>  Roger A. Longhorn
>  Director, Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd
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