An international biodiversity meeting in New Zealand is hoping to find a way to catalogue the information held in museums and research institutes around the world.
Pacific delegates will be among those attending the Global Biodiversity Information Facility or GBIF meeting, which is being hosted for the first time in New Zealand.
An organiser, David Penman of Landcare Research, says the Pacific countries will become associate members of GBIF.
"We particularly want to sort of showcase the opportunities in the Pacific and so aligned to the GBIF meeting is going to be side meetings from around the Pacific to try to develop a system that gets information out to the developing Pacific world from the great collections that are held in both in the UK, the US, NZ Australia and Japan."
David Penman says they hope to form a computer network enabling information relevant to the Pacific, be more readily available.
The biodiversity meeting begins tomorrow and ends on Friday.
