ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 06 Jan 1990 00:00:01 GMT"> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1250" http-equiv=Content-Type> <TITLE>Department of Taxonomy of Vascular Plants</TITLE> <STYLE> A:link{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:active{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:visited{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:hover{COLOR:#cc0066;TEXT-DECORATION:none} </STYLE> </head> <body link=#527D49 vlink=#527D49 alink=#527D49 topmargin=5 background=bcg2.gif> <table width="90%"align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="20%" height="150"> <p><a href="http://www.biocase.org/" name="biocase"> <img src="logo_BioCase.gif" width="150" height="105" border="1"></a></p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="80%"> <blockquote> <p><font color="#333366" size="2" face="Verdana"> <font color="#709B63" size="4"> A Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASE)</font><br> <br> <strong> Financial support: </strong>5th Framework Programme of the European Union, project no. EVR-CT-2001-40017<BR> <strong>Period of time:</strong> 2001-2004 <br> <strong>Scientific person in charge at the IB SAS: </strong> <a href="http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Karol01.html"><font color="#333366"> Karol Marhold</font></a><br> <strong>Participants: </strong> <a href="http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Tana/Tana.html"><font color="#333366"> Tatiana Miháliková</font></a> </strong> </blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="20%" height="50"> <p> <a href="http://www.snm.sk/"><img src="optimlogoSNM.jpg" border="1"></a> </p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="80%"> <blockquote> <strong> <p><font color="#333366" size="2" face="Verdana"> Our contribution to the BioCASE project is carried out <br> in a close cooperation with the <a href="http://www.snm.sk/"><font color="#333366">Slovak National Museum</font></a><br> (<a href="mailto:uhlirova@snm.sk"><font color="#333366">Jana Uhlirova</font></a>, <a href="mailto:zoolog@snm.sk"><font color="#333366">Jan Kautman</font></a>) </strong> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> <blockquote> <p><font color="#333366" size="2" face="Verdana"> The aim is to enhance the over-all value of biological collections as an essential, but presently fragmented and under-exploited European research infrastructure for environmental sciences, systematics, and life sciences in general, by means of implementing a sustainable and expandable information service, which provides researchers with unified access to all European collections, while leaving the control over the information supply in the hands of the information providers.<br><br> </p> </blockquote> </td> </table> </BODY> </HTML>