Contents

INTRODUCTION

Publisher information

Acknowledgements and Citation
Foreword
Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables
Executive Summary
Baltimore Declaration
Meeting Process

PLENARY PROCEEDINGS

Databasing Invasions: A Review in the Context of the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) (Sellers)
GISIN Survey Results – Participants’ Information Needs (Curd-Hetrick)
Web Services: Who, What, Why, Where, and When? (Morris)
Online Alien Species Database: Experience of Regional Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Area (Olenin)
NISbase: A Distributed Database System for Non-indigenous Species Information (Steves)
European Research Network on Aquatic Invasive Species (ERNAIS) (Panov & Gollasch)
FishBase: A Global Information System on Fishes (Casal)
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility and GISIN (Saarenmaa)
Discover Life -- Translating Across Standards (Pickering)
Web-accessible Information on Invasive Species in the Americas: A Multinational Invasives Information Network (Grosse)
I3N Argentina (InBiAr) (Zalba)
Brazilian Invasive Alien Species Database (Ziller)
Information Management for Invasive Alien Species in China (Xie)
NatureServe Explorer (Killeffer & Muir)
An IAS Database in the Colombian Biodiversity Framework (Suarez-Mayorga)
CONABIO: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity, Invasive Species Programme, Mexico (Koleff)
The Global Invasive Species Programme: Achievements and changes in the past year (Ziller)

BREAKOUT GROUP REPORTS

Database Infrastructure
Database Content
Developing Databases and Capacity Building
Aquatic IAS & NISbase Collaboration
Organizational Framework

Selection of an Interim Steering Committee

APPENDICES

AppA Acronyms and Abbreviations
AppB Databasing Invasions (Sellers)
AppC List of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Online Databases
AppD1 (1-4) Online Databases Survey
AppD2 Database Content Survey
AppD3 Database Development & Technology Survey
AppD4 Evaluation of Surveys
AppE Electronic Poster Abstracts

AppF Organization Committee/Planning team

AppG Meeting Participants

AppH Interim Steering Committee

AppI Technical Framework for a GISIN

AppJ NISbase: Information for Developers

AppK GISIN Draft Framework Document