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Darwin Information Project milestone - categorical analysis

A major component of the Darwin Information Project has today gone "live" on the Darwin website.

All projects active during 2008 have been categorised according to a customised classification scheme and the data made available via the navigation menu on the right hand side of the website. All future projects will be added to this data set on an ongoing basis.

The classification will prove to be an invaluable tool for anyone who needs to understand the work that Darwin undertakes. This will include potential applicants researching previous work in related areas, organisations searching for suitable partners, and active projects (whether funded by Darwin or not) researching best practice in their field, to name just three.

Together with the online document repository, which provides a rich set of documents produced by individual projects, the classification scheme provides an efficient mechanism for mining the unique knowledge base built up by Darwin projects over the years.

The classification is very broadly based on the CBD, but has been designed to encompass the diversity of Darwin projects without becoming unmanageably exhaustive - no small task! We hope that a wide variety of users will find the data useful, and we invite your comments (to dave@zerofive.co.uk) about using the system.

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