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C O D A T A

Summary of Joint Workshop of
2^nd International Workshop of Species 2000,
CODATA '99 DSAO Workshop and
14^th 'Global Environment Tsukuba'  

Date: July 14^th -16^th 1999

Venue: Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan  

Workshop Local Organizing Committee
Chairman: Makoto M. Watanabe (NIES)
Vice-chairman: Akira Tsugita (Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), Data
Sources in Asian-Oceanic Countries (DSAO))
Vice-chairman: Hideyuki Shimizu (Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER) /NIES)
Secretary: Junko Shimura (Species 2000)
Hiroya Kawanabe (Diversitas Western Pacific and Asia (DIWPA))
Haruo Katakura (Gaialist 21)
Kazutoshi Tanabe (CODATA, DSAO)
Hideaki Sugawara (World Data Center Micro-organisms (WDCM))
Kunio Iwatsuki (International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI))
Tatsuo Sasaoka (Biodiversity Center Japan (BiodiC-J))
Yoshiyuki Maeda (Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST))  

Sponsors
Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (CGER/NIES)
Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU/CODATA)

Endorsed by:

Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
Japan Society of Culture Collections (to be confirmed)
Delegation of European Commission in Japan
Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

Registered participants
180 from 32 countries, total estimated participants for 3 days were Ca. 200.  

The Theme was "Biological Diversity :Value of Information for 21^st Century. " On day 1, 14^th of July, the opening address was made by Yoichi Gohshi, Vice president of National Institute for Environmental Studies of Environmental Agency of Japanese Government. It was followed by the speech of Mr Hisao Shikano from Environmental Agency of Japan.

Following speakers made plenary lecture on Global Biodiversity and its information.

Makoto M. Watanabe	Species 2000, National Institute for Environmental Studies	Japan	Network apprach to make biodiveristy information accessible world wide
Frank A. Bisby	Species 2000 , University of Reading	UK	Species 2000: a global architecture for the Catalogue of Life
Jhon Rumble Jr.	National Institute of Standards	USA	Developing Data and Database Standards in Science: Some challenges and how CODATA can help meet them.
Motonori Hoshi	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	Towards an Integrative Biology.-A new programme for better understanding of living beings.
Takuya Abe	Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University	Japan	DIWPA activity and Informational Biodiversity Observation
Haruo Katakura	Hokkaido University	Japan	The "GaiaList 21" Project
Ebbie Nielsen	Australian National Insect Collection	Australia	The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Two sessions were held after lunch break

The first session was on "Distributed nature of biodiversity information with following speakers and titles.

Joan Thorne	Species 2000, BIOSIS UK	UK	Zoological Record -a bibliographic service and names resource
Gary Waggoner	U.S. Geographical Survey	USA	The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (IT IS)
Motomi Ito	Chiba University	Japan	Flora of Japan Database for Integrated Information of Japanese Native Vacular Plants
Nicolas Bailly	Museum national d'historie naturelle	France	Systematic databases, taxonomic referential, and validation of data in the museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN)
Satoru Miyazaki	WDCM	Japan	From Linking to Integration of Biological Databases

Second session was on "Accessibility of catalog of names" with following speakers and tiltles.

Catalina Ranola	Species 2000, ICLARM	Philippines	Species 2000 Annual Checklist in
Richard White	Species 2000, University of Southampton	UK	Species 2000 Dynamic Checklist with Added SPICE
William Piel	Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University	Netherland	TreeBASE: A database of phylogenetic information.

Poster presentations by 35 papers were carried on after the two sessions.

On day 2, July 15^th, third session on "Global species databases" was held with following speakers and titles.

Karen Wilson	Species 2000, Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney	Australia	A Master List of the World's Plant Species
Kwang-Tsao Shao	Academia Sinica	Taiwan	Current Status of Fishdatabase in Taiwan and its Future Perspective
Ashok Kolaskar (as	Species 2000, ATCC	USA	Universal Virus Database ICTVdB
Dicky Yu	Species 2000, TAXA-Information System	Canada	Ichneumonidae database (tentative title)
Jiri Komarek	University of South Bohemia	Czech Republic	Global Cyanobacteria Information (tentative)

Fourth session on " Regional Biodiversity Information and Related Studies" was held with following speakers and titles.

Dennis Gordon	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research	New Zealand	Species 2000: NEW ZEALAND
David Boufford	Harvard University Herbaria	USA	Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountain Region, China
Richard H. Ree	Harvard University Herbaria	USA	Diversity of Pedicularis in the Hengduan Mountains Region, China
Barbara Becker	ZADI- Info Centre Genetic Resources	Germany	Federal Information System Genetic Resources (BundesInformationsystem Genetische Ressourcen, BIG)
Endang Rahayu	FNCC Gadja Mada University	Indonesia	Culture Collections of Microorganisms Networking in Indonesia
Juncai Ma	Inst. Microbiol., Chinese Academy of Science	China	Microbial Information Network of China (MICRO-NET)
Marakot Tanticharoen	National Center for Genetic Eng. Biotech.	Thailand	Biotec [Thailand] Culture Collection : Microbial Resources
Lillian Swee Lian Chua	Forest Research Institute Malaysia	Malaysia	Conservation of Biological Diversity in Malaysia-Current Status of Plant Resource
Susono Saono	Indonesian Research Institutes -LIPI	Indonesia	Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Study on the Biodiversity of Lactic Aid and Acetic Acid Bacteria in
Ashok Kolaskar	University of Pune	India	Diversity in Animal Virurses-Virus Identification

Poster session with the previously mentioned 35 papers and computer demonstration followed the day 2 sessions.

On day 3, July 16^th, oral sessions were focused on Asian Oceanic Scene. The parallel two sessions was carried on in the two separate rooms. Session A was for the topics on Biodiversity and Session B was for the topics on material sciences and other information sciences. The speakers and titles of two parallel sessions were as follows.
 

Session A : National and regional reports from Asian Oceanic counties.

Tatsuo Sasaoka	Biodiversity Center Japan	Japan	The National Survey on the Natural Environment in Japan
Shang-Shyng Yang	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	How the Biodiversity Issue is
Asep Sunjaya Adhikerana	Center for Research and Development of Biology, National Institute of	Indonesia	Empowerment of Indonesian Biodiveristy Information Resources
Salim Javed	Centre for Wildlife& Ornithology, Alighrh Muslim University	India	Developing Natural Resource Information Network for Planning and Prioritizing Biodiversity Conservation: Avian Database Perspective
Yaruo Hu / JunCai Ma (as proxy)	Chinese Academy of Science	China	An Introduction to the Chinese Biodiversity Information System (CBIS)
Sun-Hwa Hahn	KORDIC	Korea	Biodivesity in Korea and KORDIC
Othman Sahir		Malaysia	Will be announced
Junko Nehashi	Japan Science and Technol. Corp. (JST)	Japan	Constructing Informational Infrastructure for Bio-Resource --Prototyping Bio-Resource
Ebbie Nielsen	CSIRO	Astralia	The Global Workprogram of the Major Systematic Entomology Facility Group : An Introduction

Session B: CODATA/DSAO Task group session regarding to other than biodiversity.

Jhon Rumble Jr.	National Institute of Standards	USA
Jong Ching Su	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
Tetsuya Maeshiro	ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs.	Japan	The Structure for Self Organized Knowledge inHyper Brain Computers with Learning and Thinking Functions
Takashi Kunisawa	Science University of Tokyo	Japan	Patentability of Discovery in the EU Patent Directive
Tsuguchika Kaminuma	National Institute of Health Sciences	Japan	Linkage of Data on Chemicals, Life and Environment
Krishan Lal	National Physical Laboratory	India	Precise and Accurate Data in Advanced Areas of Materials Science:Biaxial Stress in Thin Film-Substrate Single Crystals
Mitsutane Fujita	National Research Institute for Metals (NRIM) etc.	Japan	Material Data System and Data-Free-Way on Internet
Yuri Kotliarov	Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)	Japan	Crystallographic data quality control -- application of graph theory
Yoshiyuki Kaji	Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute	Japan	JAERI Material Performance Database (JMPD) - Present Status and Examples of Utilization -
Toshihiro Ashino	RACE The University of Tokyo	Japan	Knowledge Sharing with Modular Simulation Technique
Jing-Zhi Yu	Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku	Japan	Factual Materials Database for Non-Equilibrium and Metastable
Ying Chen	Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)	Japan	A web-based data system for electronic structures from first principles approach
Hiroyuki Sato	Japan Science and Technol. Corp. (JST)	Japan	Directory Database of Reserch and Development Activities (ReaD)
Kazutoshi Tanabe	National Inst Material Chemical Res	Japan	Development of Chemical Safety Database
Chieko Nakabasami	Faculty of Regional Development Studies, Toyo University	Japan	Knowledge Representation of Technical Papers in Metallurgy from Various Perspectives in
Edger F. Westrum Jr.	University of Michigan	USA	CODATA/DSAO from a privileged perspective-Quo Vadis?
Suthat Fucharoen	Mahidol University	Thailand	Thalassemia in the Next
Akira Tsugita	JIPID Science University of	Japan	Proteome Today and Future

Closing remarks were made by the president of the National Institute of Environmental Studies of Environmental Agency of Japanese Government with special thanks to CODATA and all participants from the different parts of the world.  

A Business meeting of DSAO Task Group was held after the session B. Prof. Edgar Westrum Jr took the minutes.