MARBENA Creating a long-term infrastructure for MARine Biodiversity research in the European economic area and the Newly Associated states

Newly Associated States and Marine Biodiversity Research

I. What is the Baltic contribution to the European marine biodiversity?

What is the knowledge of marine biodiversity  in NAS countries?
Chaired by: Prof. Krzysztof Jazdzewski and Dr Evald Ojaveer

The paleontologist's solution

The paleontologists have a sort of solution that seems to work well by “building bridges” – the organiser recognised that many papers get translated, as Jan says, at considerable personal effort and cost, but because many of these translations are used by just a few people, then filed, they tend to remain “grey”.  The polyglot paleontologist site http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/anatomicalsci/paleo/ was created to be a translations library.  It works in both directions – scientists can download or request translations, or add their own translations to the data base.   It’s not just a language problem, though – our current searching mechanisms with their 15-20 year databases mean that we tend to repeat science that was done well, and published (put into the public domain!!) 25-30 years ago…  The costs of reinventing the wheel may start to add up. Best regards – Sarah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Sarah Cornell   Tyndall Centre UEA - Norwich Tel 01603 593905 www.uea.ac.uk/~e136

Posted by Sarah Cornell on 2003-06-02 18:17:17.190

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