Responsable: Benito Valdés Castrillón
Tipo de Proyecto/Ayuda: 7º Programa Marco de la U.E.
Referencia: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-2-223806
Web: http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/86662_en.html
Fecha de Inicio: 01-05-2008
Fecha de Finalización: 30-04-2011

Empresa/Organismo financiador/es:

• Comisión Europea

Socios:

• Universiteit Van Amsterdam (Divyam Steneker)
• KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITEIT (Marianne Roennebaek)
• TRAKYA UNIVERSITESI (Enver Duran)
• NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (Alan Carr)
• Free University of Berlin (Peter Lange)
• VLAAMS INSTITUUT VOOR DE ZEE VZW (Jan Mees)
• ECOLOGICAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED (Roisin Nash)
• SOCIETY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF EUROPEAN BIODIVERSITY DATA (Mark Costello)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW (Eimear Nic Lughadha)
• International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature (Andrew Polaszek)
• Cab International (Ian Barry)
• National University of Ireland (Daniel O'Mahony)
• Helsingin Yliopisto (Pertti Uotila)
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO (Francesco Maria Raimondo)
• BOTANICKY USTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED (Ivan Jarolímek)
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Anastasios Legakis)
• Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis (Leo Kriegsman)
• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETO EKOLOGIIJOS INSTITUTAS (Mecislovas Zalakevicius)
• COMITATO SCIENTIFICO PER LA FAUNA DE ITALIA (Taglianti Vigna)
• Museum National D Historire Naturelle (Bertrand Pierre Galey)
• NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET (Lennart Sandberg)
• UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE (Eduard Stloukal)
• NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITEIT (Solveig Bakken)
• National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Jury Chornobay)
• Museum and Institute of Zoology (Wieslaw Bogdanowicz)
• Swiss Systematics Society (Jean Mariaux)
• Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum (Klaus Winkler)
• Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (David Tarkhnishvili)
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Marian Ramos)
• National Institute of Biology (Tamara Lah Turnsek)
• National Museum of Natural History - Sofia (Alexi Popov)
• Mynature Association (Adorian Ardelean)
• Latvijas Universitate (Voldemars Spungis)
• Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) (Georgios Chronis)
• Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Limited (Sarah-Bella Galil)
• Instytut Podstawowych Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Stanislaw Massel)
• Zoological Institute (Oleg Pugachev)

Contratados:

• Investigadores:
  • Francisco José Pina Gata

Resumen del proyecto:

PESI provides standardised and authoritative taxonomic information by integrating and securing Europe's taxonomically authoritative species name registers and nomenclators (name databases) that underpin the management of biodiversity in Europe.

PESI defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information by integrating the infrastructural components of four major community networks on taxonomic indexing into a joint work programme. This will result in functional knowledge networks of taxonomic experts and regional focal points, which will collaborate on the establishment of standardised and authoritative taxonomic (meta-) data. In addition PESI will coordinate the integration and synchronisation of the European taxonomic information systems into a joint e-infrastructure and the set up of a common user-interface disseminating the pan-European checklists and associated user-services results.

The organisation of national and regional focal point networks as projected not only assures the efficient access to local expertise, but is also important for the synergistic promotion of taxonomic standards throughout Europe, for instance to liaison with national governmental bodies on the implementation of European biodiversity legislations. In addition PESI will start with the geographic expansion of the European expertise networks to eventually cover the entire Palaearctic biogeographic region.

PESI supports international efforts on the development of a 'Global Names Architecture' by building a common intelligent name-matching device in consultation with the principal initiatives (GBIF, TDWG, EoL, SpeciesBase). PESI contributes the development of a unified cross-reference system and provides of high quality taxonomic standards. PESI will further involve the Europe-based nomenclatural services and link the planned joint European taxonomic e-infrastructures middle-layer to the global e-gateway.