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Austrian Barcode of Life Initiative – Call for Participation
The ABOL project got into higher gear in 2017 since the HRSM funding was granted for Universities and the NHM was given responsibility for the ABOL co-ordination. We therefore call for participation of all the scientists and experts on biodiversity who are interested in collaborating with the ABOL initiative.
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The ABOL initiative’s goal is to provide a public reference database of barcodes of all animal, plant, and fungi species in Austria. The pilot phase ended in July 2017 and we successfully prepared for the subsequent overall project to start. The Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy granted an important infrastructure project within the framework of the HRSM funding in 2017. Five Austrian Universities take actively part in this HRSM project, thus generating barcodes and feeding the data to the ABOL database. At the same time, many more projects, initiated by or associated with ABOL, are currently under way. On October 17, the Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy confirmed the financing of the ABOL coordination for three years. The most important instruments for the reliable implementation of this project are its taxonomic expertise behind it, as well as the strict quality assurance according to the ABOL guidelines. The framework of ABOL has to ensure great communication as well as the networking of all players on every level, including experts in taxonomy and systematics, ecology, molecular biology, genetics, conservation biology, forensic medicine and many more.
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We therefore call on all of you, who are concerned with biodiversity in the broad sense to actively taking part in the ABOL initiative. The possibilities of collaboration are manifold and range from species identifications, which are the groundwork of DNA barcodes, to new project ideas and networking with existing projects in which barcodes are generated. Communication with the ABOL project management about planned or ongoing projects, which could contribute to ABOL, is of great importance. The ABOL coordination team views itself as contact point to enable professional exchange in technical and biological questions. Please feel free to contact us, and find more information on our webpage, which also gives you the chance to sign up for our newsletter and workshops (e.g. ABOL database workshop)!
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ABOL strives to be a biodiversity initiative and communication platform throughout Austria. The more diverse the ABOL community becomes, the more successful this joint initiative will be.
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ABOL Meeting 2017 – takeoff into the future
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Our this year´s annual meeting ABOL4 took place on October 20th, 2017 under a number of lucky stars! Firstly, good news from the Federal Ministry of Research, Science and Economy came just in time: The coordination of ABOL is going to be funded for the next three years! Thus, co-ordination of the numerous currently running projects, filling of the reference networking among research groups can go on, as well as the acquisition of new funds for DNA barcoding projects. Secondly, looking back at the pilot phase revealed that the vast majority of aims was achieved and even surpassed in many aspects. Thirdly, all contributions and discussions at the meeting were instructive and constructive, inducing all in all an optimistic mood …
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ABOL Database Workshop
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The ABOL coordination team offers workshops to learn how to use the ABOL database. The workshops are designed for beginners, thus previous knowledge about the database software specify or databases in general is not required.
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The first ABOL database workshop took place on the 6th of November. The next workshops will be held at the Natural History Museum Vienna on the 21st of November and the 6th of December. However, both workshops are already fully booked, which is why we look forward to offer more workshops in January! The workshop will take 4 hours with an additional 30 minutes break. More workshops are planned for 2018 and can take place at other institutions by request …
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