Staff Profile:Professor Frank Bisby

Name:

Professor Frank Bisby

Job Title:

Academic, Harborne Building

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Species diversity & taxonomic information systems including  Catalogue of Life and Species 2000
• The Internet & GRID as a global biodiversity information network.
• Taxonomically intelligent systems: Legume Taxonomy - gorses & brooms (Genisteae) and vetches & peas (Vicieae). International Legume Database and Infomation Service - ILDIS

Research groups / Centres:

Centre for Plant Diversity and Sytematics

Publications:

Bisby, F.A., Froese, R., Ruggiero, M.A. and Wilson, K.L. (eds) Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life, Annual Checklist 2004: Indexing the world's known species. CD-ROM, Species 2000: Los Baños, Philippines ISSN 1473-009X (electronic publication also available on the web at www.sp2000.org and as the index to the world's biodiversity data at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, www.gbif.org ) 2004.

Bisby, F.A. Species 2000: an architecture and strategy for creating the Catalogue of Life. Abstracts: Proceedings of the fourth biennial meeting of the Systematics Association, Dublin, Ireland 18-23 August, 2003, 2003, 8.

Bisby, F.A. The Species 2000 europa (EuroCat) project. Abstracts: The European Commission Marine Biodiversity Cluster Meeting, Brussels, Belgium 2-4 July 2003, 2003, 20.

Bisby, F.A. The Consortium Approach. In: All Living Things Online (Nature News Feature). (Gewin V., ed.) Nature, 418, 2002, 362-363.

Bisby, F.A. Preface. In: To the interoperable 'Catalog of Life' with partners - Species 2000 Asia Oceania (Shimura J., Wilson K.L., & Gordon D., eds.), NIES: Tsukuba, Japan, 2002, p. i. Bisby F.A. The Quiet Revolution: Biodiversity Informatics on the Internet. Science, 289, 2000, 2309 - 2312.

Bisby F.A. Species 2000. In: Proceedings from Workshop on Bioinformatics (ed. B.A.Tommeras), 1999, pp 12 - 17. The Research Council of Norway (NINA/NIKU), Trondheim.

Bisby F.A. Putting Names to Things and Keeping Track: the Species 2000 Programme for a Coordinated Catalogue of Life. In: Information Technology, Plant Pathology and Biodiversity (eds. P Bridge, D R Morse & P R Scott), 1997, pp. 59 - 68, CAB International, Wallingford.

Bisby, F.A. and Brandt, S. Species 2000: A global architecture for the Catalogue of Life. In: To the interoperable 'Catalog of Life' with partners - Species 2000 Asia Oceania (Shimura J., Wilson K.L. & Gordon D., eds.), NIES: Tsukuba Japan, 2002, 3-8.

Bisby, F.A. and Roskov, Y.R. Species 2000: an architecture and strategy for creating the Catalogue of the World's Plants. In: Species Plantarum 250 years: Programme & Abstracts, Uppsala, 2003, 20.

Bisby, F.A. and Roskov, Y.R. European project 'Species 2000 europa' and the species catalogue of the World. In: Information Systems on Biodiversity of Species & Ecosystems: Scientific Program & Abstracts, St.Petersburg, 2003, 84-85.

Bisby, F.A. and Roskov, Y.R. Species 2000: an architecture and strategy for creating the Catalogue of the World's Plants: abstract & Power Point Presentation. Species Plantarum 250 years: Symposium Abstracts. Uppsala, 22-24 August 2003. www.systbot.uu.se/sp.pl/abstract.html#bisby; http://sp2000europa.org/presentations.php

Bisby, F.A., Shimura, J., Ruggiero, M., Edwards, J. and Haeuser, C. Taxonomy, at the click of a mouse (Nature Correspondence). Nature, 418, 2002 p 367.

Bisby F.A., Zarucchi J L, Schrire B D, Roskov Y R & White R J (eds.) ILDIS World Database of Legumes (edition 5). Electronic publication available on the Internet (LegumeWeb service at www.ildis.org) and on disc (LegumeDisc service). International Legume Database & Information Service, Reading, 2000.

Bisby, F.A. The Species 2000 europa (EuroCat) project. Abstracts: The European Commission Marine Biodiversity Cluster Meeting, Brussels, Belgium 2-4 July 2003, 2003, 20.

Bisby, F.A. The Consortium Approach. In: All Living Things Online (Nature News Feature). (Gewin V., ed.) Nature, 418, 2002, 362-363. Bisby, F.A. Preface. In: To the interoperable 'Catalog of Life' with partners - Species 2000 Asia Oceania (Shimura J., Wilson K.L., & Gordon D., eds.), NIES: Tsukuba, Japan, 2002, p. i.

Bisby F.A. The Quiet Revolution: Biodiversity Informatics on the Internet. Science, 289, 2000, 2309 - 2312.

Bisby F.A. Species 2000. In: Proceedings from Workshop on Bioinformatics (ed. B.A.Tommeras), 1999, pp 12 - 17. The Research Council of Norway (NINA/NIKU),.Trondheim.

Bisby F.A. Putting Names to Things and Keeping Track: the Species 2000 Programme for a Coordinated Catalogue of Life. In: Information Technology, Plant Pathology and Biodiversity (eds. P Bridge, D R Morse & P R Scott), 1997, pp. 59 - 68. CAB International, Wallingford.

Bisby, F.A. and Brandt, S. Species 2000: A global architecture for the Catalogue of Life. In: To the interoperable 'Catalog of Life' with partners - Species 2000 Asia Oceania (Shimura J., Wilson K.L. & Gordon D., eds.), NIES: Tsukuba Japan, 2002, 3-8.

Bisby, F.A. and Roskov, Y.R. Species 2000: an architecture and strategy for creating the Catalogue of the World's Plants. In: Species Plantarum 250 years: Programme & Abstracts, Uppsala, 2003, 20.

Bisby, F.A. and Roskov, Y.R. European project 'Species 2000 europa' and the species catalogue of the World. In: Information Systems on Biodiversity of Species & Ecosystems: Scientific Program & Abstracts, St.Petersburg, 2003, 84-85.

Bisby, F.A. and Roskov, Y.R. Species 2000: an architecture and strategy for creating the Catalogue of the World's Plants: abstract & Power Point Presentation. Species Plantarum 250 years: Symposium Abstracts. Uppsala, 22-24 August 2003. www.systbot.uu.se/sp.pl/abstract.html#bisby; http://sp2000europa.org/presentations.php

Bisby, F.A., Shimura, J., Ruggiero, M., Edwards, J. and Haeuser, C. Taxonomy, at the click of a mouse (Nature Correspondence). Nature, 418, 2002 p 367.

Bisby F.A., Zarucchi J L, Schrire B D, Roskov Y R & White R J (eds.) ILDIS World Database of Legumes (edition 5). Electronic publication available on the Internet (LegumeWeb service at www.ildis.org) and on disc (LegumeDisc service). International Legume Database & Information Service, Reading, 2000.

Embury S.M., Jones A.C., Sutherland I., Gray W.A., White R.J., Robinson, J.S., Bisby F.A. & Brandt S. Conflict detection for Integration of Taxonomic Sources. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (eds. Z.M. Ozsoyoglu, G. Ozsoyoglu & W-C. Hou), 1999, pp. 204 - 213, IEEE Computer Society Press, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Froese, R. and Bisby, F.A. (eds.). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: Indexing the world's known species (Year 2002 Annual Checklist). (issn 1473-009X) CD-ROM, Species 2000; Los Baños, Philippines. (see also on-line versions at http://www.sp2000.org, http://www.usa.sp2000.org/sp2000/,http://www.japan.sp2000.org, and http://www.usa.sp2000.org/sp2000/), 2002.

Froese R, and Bisby F.A. (eds.) Species 2000 Catalogue of Life: Indexing the world's known species. (issn 1473-009X) CD-ROM, Species 2000; Los Baños, Philippines, 2000.(see also on-line versions at www.sp2000.org, http://www-sp2000.nies.go.jp, and www.usa.sp2000.org/sp2000/).

Jones, A.C., White, R.J., Gray, W.A., Bisby, F.A., Caithness, N., Pittas, N., Xu, X., Sutton, T., Fiddian, N.J., Culham, A., Scoble, M., Williams, P., Bromley, O., Brewer, P., Yesson, C. and Bhagwat, S. Building a Biodiversity GRID. In: Konagaya, A. and Satou, K. (eds.) LSGRID 2004, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005, 140-151.

Roskov, Y.R., Bisby, F.A., Zarucchi, J.L., Schrire, B.D. and White, R.J. World database of Legumes - results from the first twenty years of the ILDIS project. In: Information Systems on Biodiversity of Species & Ecosystems: Scientific Program & Abstracts, St. Petersburg, 2003, 6-7.

Roskov, Y.R., Jury, S.L. and Bisby, F.A. ILDIS, Euro+Med and Species 2000 europa: contribution to a taxonomic infrastructure for European plant genetic resources. Power Point Presentation in EPGRIS Final Conference. Prague, 11-13 September 2003. http://sp2000europa.org/presentations.php; http://web.ipgri.cgiar.org/epgris/MeetingReports/FinalMeetingReports.htm

White, R.J., Jones, A.C., Gray, W.A. and Bisby, F.A. Creating frameworks to support interoperability of biodiversity data. In: Proc BNCOD21 Bioinformatics Workshop, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 2004, 92-105.

White, R.J., Jones, A.C., Pittas, N., Gray, W.A., Xu, X., Sutton, T., Bromley, O., Caithness, N., Fiddian, N.J., Culham, A., Bisby, F.A., Bhagwat, S., Brewer, P., Yesson, C. and Williams, P. Building a Biodiversity Problem-Solving Environment. In: Proc UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2004, EPSRC, Nottingham, 2004, 776-783.

Xu X., Jones A.C., Gray W.A., Fiddian N.J., White R.J. and Bisby F.A. Design and performance evaluation of a web-based multi-tier federated system for a catalogue of life. Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2002, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management). ACM Press: New York, 2002, 104-107 (available electronically at: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=584931.584954).