Work package 5. Co-operation of pan-European checklist and 'Species bank' database projects

General objectives:

1. To establish the feasibility of providing an integrated gateway to the European Taxonomic Databases and European 'Species Banks' systems,
2. Identify the gaps in taxonomic coverage, associated core data, and associated descriptive data, and identify ways of filling them,
3. Establish the feasibility of introducing cultivated plant taxonomy to the databases dealing with European and Mediterranean plants.
   

Work package leader: The University of Reading (P5)
Other partners involved: Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (P24), Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd. (P34), National University of Ireland, Galway (P36), CAB International (P60) and Species 2000 (P61).
Results:
	Report on the assessment of existing electronic rich data sources (’Species Bank’): http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/enbi_ver1_editch/_EN_1.0_&a=i

Work package 6. Co-operation of pan-European databases on biological collections and specimens

General objectives:

1. Organize and integrate networks of European natural history specimen databases and develop strategies to update and maintain key European specimen databases.
2. Materially broaden the network of European specimen databases
3. Develop standards and best practice for the databasing and digital imaging of reference ('type') specimens.
   

Work package leader: The Natural History Museum, London (P6)
Other partners involved: Freie Universitaet Berlin (Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem) (P21) and Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, (P26).
Results:
	The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex): http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex/
	First Workshop ENBI WP6: " Techniques and challenges for digital imaging of biological type specimens –contributions for a manual of current best practices and standards: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_workshops/enbiwp6_workshop/_EN_1.0_&a=i
	Demostrator type-specimen database. Butterflies model (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): http://www.s2you.com/platform/projects/globis/home/index.do

Work package 7. Observational survey data

The focus of this work package is on the design and promotion of common standards (survey, representation, geographical) for access and operability of observational data. A second task is to define methodologies linking taxonomic, collection and specimen databases with the observational data.

Work package leader: University of Turku (Centre for Biodiversity, Department of Biology) (P7).
Other partners involved: Universiteit van Amsterdam (P1), University of Reading (P5), The Natural History Museum, London (P6), Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (P8) , Oberoesterreichisches Landesmuseum (P9), University of Helsinki, Natural History Museum (P19), Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris (P20) and Uniwersytet Warszawski (P46).
Results:
	WP-7 web-site: http://enbi.utu.fi/
	Observations on observational data: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/enbi_wp7_draft1/_EN_1.0_&a=i
	Review on databasing standards of biological databases – how are observational databases treated?: http://circa.gbif.net/Public/irc/enbi/comm/library?l=/enbi_reports/enbi_wp7_d7_2a_pdf/_EN_1.0_&a=i