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EU_nomen

  1. PESI selected as incrEAST "Project of the Month - March 2012". bit.ly/AqOGV4
  2. the PESI portal now includes deeplinks to GBIF species distributions. eu-nomen.eu
  3. Frank Bisby unexpectedly passed away. He was a much respected pioneers and leaders in what is now called biodiversity informatics.
  4. The EU Commission recommends our permanent IDs for species names in species distributions metadata, tinyurl.com/69ymk43
  5. The PESI portal has officially been launched on 18 April 2011 at the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam: http://bit.ly/mSdryV
  6. European species portal (PESI) launched! 211,638 species; 442,383 scientific names; 139,167 common names: http://www.eu-nomen.eu
  7. 3028 common species names added to PESI (languages: Turkish and Bulgarian), makes a total of 137,940 vernaculars!
  8. Our much respected Fauna Europaea specialist on Noctuidae, Michael Fibiger, passed away last month (http://bit.ly/g1xHhP)
  9. Successful PESI seminar in Sofia (Bulgaria) organised by the PESI Bulgarian Focal Point. See: http://bit.ly/fA5zrP
  10. ERMS now has 33,771 valid species. 2,300 added and 8,000 updated by the EU FP7 PESI project.
  11. 10,000 common species names added to PESI (languages: Norwegian, Greek, Welsh, English). In total now over 130,000 vernaculars!