PROJECT AND PROGRESS

State Key Project - Data Sharing for Sustainable Development

Data Sharing for Sustainable Development is a State Key Project in the period of  ninth-five-year-plan, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The Goal of this project is to implement data sharing for national sustainable development, which includes data of biological species, vegetation, agricultural germplasm, forest, weather, earthquake, geology, atmosphere, etc.

In this project, Zoological Division collects data of species and specimen, builds database and makes networking for data sharing. Up to now, all objectives of the project are fulfilled and the project has passed its final assessment by the Ministry of Science and Technology at December, 2000.

Biodiversity Information System of CAS

This project is co-managed by the Bureau of Life Sciences and Biological Technology and the BRIM Committee, CAS, and lasts 4 years. There are 15 Institutes of CAS jointly work in the project.

The tasks of the Zoological Division in the project are reconstruction databases, linking them with the Internet and setting up code system for some databases. Up to now, home page of the division has been put on the Internet and be linked with Species Inventory Database of Chinese Animals, Taxonomic codes of the Chinese fauna - Vertebrates, Endangered and Protected Species of Chinese Animals, Database of Medicinal Animal in China, Catalogue Database of Chinese Biodiversity Reference, Database of Expert on Biodiversity Study in China.

Species and Specimen Information System

The project is a key project of the Ninth-Five-Year Plan of CAS and there 10 institutes take part in it. It has complete by December of 1999, and passed the final assessment by the Bureau of Life Sciences and Biological Technology, CAS.

In this project, the division is responsible for transformation the specimen database onto network to provide data sharing with others. A website for museum has been set up, which covers information of museums and their collection in 5 institutes in CAS: Institute of Zoology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Institute of Oceanology and Chengdu Institute of Biology). The specimen data covers information of mammal, fish, bird, amphibian, reptile, insect and invertebrate animal.

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