[Coral-List] Termination of the National Biological Information Infrastructure program

RainbowWarriorsInternational southern_caribbean at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 31 17:47:05 EDT 2011


I just learned last week from a NY state based university librarian that some 200 projects like NBII are all going to get axed in the USA.

Can anyone provide more information about this wide-scale elimination of scientific datasets and databases?

 
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From: David M. Lawrence <dave at fuzzo.com>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2011 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Termination of the National Biological Information Infrastructure program

The program cost a whopping $7 million -- obviously a budget buster.  
Allegedly all the data are available elsewhere, but I doubt the data 
will be as easy to find scattered around the Netiverse.  I will be 
filing FOIAs next week to see if I can get an accurate accounting of 
that.  Frankly, I'm skeptical of OMB's claim.

Dave

On 10/7/2011 5:44 PM, RainbowWarriorsInternational wrote:
> This is indeed very bad news. How do we compensate for this loss?
> Milton Ponson, President
> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
> (Rainbow Warriors International)
> Tel. +297 568 5908
> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
> Email: southern_caribbean at yahoo.com <mailto:southern_caribbean at yahoo.com>
> http://www.rainbowwarriors.net <http://www.rainbowwarriors.net/>
>
> *To unite humanity in a global society dedicated to a sustainable way 
> of life*
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* David M. Lawrence <dave at fuzzo.com>
> *To:* coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 6, 2011 11:53 PM
> *Subject:* [Coral-List] Termination of the National Biological 
> Information Infrastructure program
>
> Dear all:
>
> I just heard of this from David Inouye, moderator of the ECOLOG-L list.
> According to the NBII Web site (http://www.nbii.gov):
>
> "In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological
> Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all
> resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will
> be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to
> the NBII Program Termination page."
>
> The termination page is at http://1.usa.gov/ok8BgX
>
> I doubt the programmatic savings is worth the loss of access to the
> information contained.  More important, how will the closure of this
> program affect the coral research and conservation communities?
>
> Later,
>
> Dave
>
>
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