European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy EDIT

Taxonomy provides the basis for understanding biodiversity. Overcoming the taxonomic impediment involves both having enough trained taxonomists and having taxonomic information available to those who need to use them. The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy project, EDIT, is a European Commission sponsored Network of Excellence aimed at starting to overcome the taxonomic impediment through collaboration and joint work programme. Through EDIT we hope to build capacity globally and provide information and tools for use by all. The EDIT proposal, which complements the European programme SYNTHESYS in support to infrastructures, is an initiative of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) which since 1996 has been working for better integration of the taxonomic effort in Europe.

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