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i4Life Year 2 reports submitted!
Some 300 pages of deliverables produced by i4Life partners at Reading, Cardiff, ETI, Cambridge, Utrecht, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Paris were posted to Brussels today as part of the end of year 2...
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An introduction to the Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life project has been based at Reading University for around 15 years now. It delivers a taxonomically edited and reviewed view of the list of species on Earth under their scientific...
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Catalogue of Life cited in Science 25th January 2013
In a wide ranging review Mark Costello and co-authors review the efforts needed to be able to name the earth’s species before they go extinct. Catalogue of Life is cited as the first reference in this...
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Catalogue of Life website is updated
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) website has been updated using a custom Drupal design to provide a more user friendly navigation system and better compatibility with mobile devices. This redesign by...
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I4Life and Species 2000 meetings, Leiden 2013
On Friday 17th May the i4Life team met up in Leiden, first at the botanic garden in the city centre for the workpackage 2 meeting and then at Naturalis for the management committee meeting. Leiden...
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Pro iBiosphere meeting Berlin, May 2013
Group 2 at work producing a processes list. This pro iBiosphere meeting aims to establish a system of collaboration among taxonomic infrastructures. Workshop 2, today, is evaluating the costs of...
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Taking i4Life to IST Africa 2013
Thomas Kunze and I are currently attending the IST Africa 2013 meeting, Nairobi based in the Safari Park Hotel on the outskirts of the city. The meeting brings together more than 400 people from...
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Biodiversity Horizons 2013
Last week five members of the Reading i4Life team joined our other i4Life partners at the Biodiversity Horizons 2013 conference in Rome to share ideas on a Biodiversity research roadmap for the Horizon...
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Sundews in Britain
Left to right: Drosera anglica, D. x obovata and D. rotundifolia leaves (Photo by Dr M.) Some years ago I wrote an account for the BSBI Plant Crib on how to distinguish the three Drosera species that...
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