Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The International Species Information System (ISIS) is an international non-profit organization serving more than 800 zoos and aquariums in 80 countries worldwide. ISIS provides its members with zoological data collection and sharing software called ZIMS - the Zoological Information Management System. As of April 2013, the ZIMS database contains information on 12,490 taxonomies at species level, 393,641 living individuals and 3,170,281 reported individuals in groups. ISIS members use the basic biologic information (age, sex, parentage, place of birth, circumstance of death, etc.) collected in the ISIS system to care for and manage their animal collections (including demographic and genetic management in many cases).Since its founding almost 40 years ago, ISIS has been a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) pursuing wide animal conservation goals. Operating independently from any government, it is not a conventional for-profit business and has no political goals. ISIS works in partnership with zoo associations around the world, adding new institutional and regional associations frequently.Regional association members include: Asociación Colombiana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ACOPAZOA) Asociación Latinoamericana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ALPZA) Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) Sociedade de Zoológicos do Brasil (SZB) Australian Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA)ISIS and the Central Zoo Authority of India (CZA) have a five-year memorandum of understanding with a primary goal of migrating the majority of the zoos in India into the ZIMS database.The CEO of ISIS is Roger Stonecipher. Currently, ISIS has staff and representatives in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Bogota (Colombia), Tokyo (Japan), New Delhi (India) with headquarters in Minnesota (USA).. }
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- International_Species_Information_System abstract "The International Species Information System (ISIS) is an international non-profit organization serving more than 800 zoos and aquariums in 80 countries worldwide. ISIS provides its members with zoological data collection and sharing software called ZIMS - the Zoological Information Management System. As of April 2013, the ZIMS database contains information on 12,490 taxonomies at species level, 393,641 living individuals and 3,170,281 reported individuals in groups. ISIS members use the basic biologic information (age, sex, parentage, place of birth, circumstance of death, etc.) collected in the ISIS system to care for and manage their animal collections (including demographic and genetic management in many cases).Since its founding almost 40 years ago, ISIS has been a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) pursuing wide animal conservation goals. Operating independently from any government, it is not a conventional for-profit business and has no political goals. ISIS works in partnership with zoo associations around the world, adding new institutional and regional associations frequently.Regional association members include: Asociación Colombiana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ACOPAZOA) Asociación Latinoamericana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ALPZA) Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) Sociedade de Zoológicos do Brasil (SZB) Australian Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA)ISIS and the Central Zoo Authority of India (CZA) have a five-year memorandum of understanding with a primary goal of migrating the majority of the zoos in India into the ZIMS database.The CEO of ISIS is Roger Stonecipher. Currently, ISIS has staff and representatives in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Bogota (Colombia), Tokyo (Japan), New Delhi (India) with headquarters in Minnesota (USA).".