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Taxonomy's stakeholders

Taxonomy is not produced by scientists in a vacuum. This is the rationale behind several activities in EDIT. To create the most favorable environment for taxonomy, EDIT promotes integration of excellence among its members, the taxonomic community in general and its social partners. Partners will profit from an integrated taxonomy on the level of quantity a quality of the data. In parallel EDIT encourages collaboration with and consultation of partners in taxonomy as this is seen as most valuable to the progress of science. Stakeholder activities within EDIT aim to create awareness of the diversity of stakeholder needs and the potential of partnerships. EDIT offers an environment where taxonomists and stakeholders can meet, where they can experiment with joint research and outreach activities and, if proven successful, where a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) can be signed to formalise future collaboration. Everyone who uses taxonomyor who comes into contact with it is a possible partner. This makes the list of potential affiliations between taxonomy and partners almost infinite. Concrete examples of taxonomic stakeholders include:

  • Scientific users of taxonomic knowledge (professional and amateur taxonomists, agriculture, archeology, conservation science, ecologists, environmental studies, genomics, genetics, molecular sciences, medicine etc.)
  • Professional users (conservation management, environmental assessment industry, custom services, pest management, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry, national governments, international governance bodies etc.)
  • Taxonomic facilitators (funding bodies, educational facilitators, developers of research tools, taxonomic information facilities etc)
  • The general public (nature lovers and anyone using vernacularor scientific names)
  • Other networks and projects in taxonomy and biodiversity science.

Stakeholder activities include:

  • User survey among taxonomists about online publication of scholarly research
  • Public awareness and communication activities on taxonomy towards the general public, professional user communities and to others networks and projects in biodiversity research and policy.