Meeting Abstract

27.4  Monday, Jan. 5  How can we best make authoritative biological information available online? COSTELLO, MJ*; BOXSHALL, GA; BOYKO, CB; HOEG, JT; MARKHAM, J; APPLETANS, W; University of Auckland; Natural History Museum, London; American Museum of Natural History; University of Copenhagen; Arch Cape Marine Laboratory; Flanders Marine Institute m.costello@auckland.ac.nz

Following on from the presentation on Development of a sustainable authoritative online species databases, we propose an open discussion on how our community can best communicate and publish content on the internet. Several scientists currently involved as Taxonomic Editors of the World Register of Marine Species (www.marinespecies.org) will be at the Symposium on Parasitic Crustacea, namely Geoff A. Boxshall, Mark J. Costello, Christopher B. Boyko, Jens T Hoeg, and John Markham. Others may also be speaking at parallel symposia, and delegates may also know of authoritative online resources that should be linked to, that need a more permanent host institution, or that could easily be created from content at hand. In principle, experts should only have to publish the content online once, and from there it can be linked and accessed by other resources, with appropriate attribution and citation. We propose a short open forum to invite comments on the current online resources and how these can be developed to best communicate quality-assured content online.