TDWG 2009 Annual Conference Program
This is an outline of the proposed programme that is being updated regularly by the TDWG 2009 Programme Committee.
Please be sure to look at the Working Sessions page to see details of the sessions planned for Tuesday, Wednesday (in parallel with Presentation Sessions) and Thursday.
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| Sunday 8th November | Chair | Venue | ||||||||||||
1300-1700 | 1300-1800 | Executive Committee (closed) | Donald Hobern | Joffre 4 | ||||||||||
1600-1800 | Registration | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
| Monday 9th November | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS | Chair | Venue | |||||||||||
08:00-09:00 | Registration |
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09:00-09:45 | Session 1 - Welcome and introductions to TDWG | Donald Hobern | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
0900-0910 | Opening and Welcome | Donald Hobern | ||||||||||||
0910-0920 | Housekeeping and Logistics | Adrian Rissoné | ||||||||||||
0920-0930 | The Agropolis platform and the Montpellier biodiversity research community: overview (TBC) | Bernard Hubert | ||||||||||||
0930-0945 | Biodiversity research and informatics in Bioversity International | Elizabeth Arnaud / Stephan Weise | ||||||||||||
0945-1045 | Session 2 - Report from Working Sessions e-biosphere | Cynthia Parr | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
0945-1005 | Introduction | Walter Berendsohn | ||||||||||||
0955-1005 | Action taken: GBIF’s Position | Nick King | ||||||||||||
1005-1015 | Spin-off: the British Roadmap | Frank Bisby | ||||||||||||
1015-1045 | Discussion: Role of TDWG in the e-Biosphere Roadmap process | Walter Berendsohn et al | ||||||||||||
1045-1115 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1115-1215 | Session 3 - Sharing e-knowledge on agricultural diversity worldwide | Theo van Hintum | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
1115-1130 | Landscape of the information standards for plant genebanks | Theo van Hintum | ||||||||||||
1130-1145 | Agropolis global presentation of Pl@ntNet | Daniel Barthelemy | ||||||||||||
1145-1200 | Value of a coordinate: geographic analysis of agricultural biodiversity | Andy Jarvis | ||||||||||||
1200-1215 | CONABIO experience: Sharing e-knowledge, solutions and lessons learned | Patricia Koleff | ||||||||||||
1215-1415 | Lunch & Registration | |||||||||||||
1415-1515 | Session 4a - Developing Global Networks | Éamonn Ó Tuama | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
1415-1430 | The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): strategic objectives and perspectives | Nick King | ||||||||||||
1430-1445 | The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF ): The decentralized architecture | Samy Gaiji | ||||||||||||
1445-1500 | The Global Invasive Species Information Network: Advances and Barriers | Michael Browne | ||||||||||||
1500-1515 | EDIT: experience and impact | Dave Roberts | ||||||||||||
1515-1530 | The GBIF Global Names Architecture | David Remsen, Markus Döring | ||||||||||||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1600-1730 | Session 4b - Ontology and Life Science Identifiers: The state of the play | Éamonn Ó Tuama | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
1600-1615 | Linked Data and the Semantic Web | Roger Hyam | ||||||||||||
1615-1630 | Vocabularies - managing them | Kehan Harman | ||||||||||||
1630-1645 | Outcomes of the GBIF LSID-GUID Task Group | Greg Riccardi | ||||||||||||
1645-1700 | The Life Sciences Identifiers Applicability Statement | Ben Richardson | ||||||||||||
1700-1730 | Discussion and roadmap for Workgroup Sessions | Adrian Rissone | ||||||||||||
1800-2000 | Welcome Reception |
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| Tuesday 10th November | Sessions 5-8 - Themed Working Groups (up to 6 in parallel) Please look at the Working Sessions page for details of proposed sessions | Venue | ||||||||||||
0900-1030 | Session 5 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1100-1230 | Session 6 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1230-1400 | Lunch | |||||||||||||
1400-1530 | Session 7 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1600-1730 | Session 8 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1730-1900 | Local touristic visits (See pages on Montpellier) |
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| Wednesday 11th November | Sessions 9 - Conferences Theatre Einstein | Sessions 13-16 - Working Sessions see Working Sessions page for details | ||||||||||||
0900-1030 | Session 9 - Presentations on the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) Platform for Cybertaxonomy | Rooms Joffre - see the timetable of working sessions | ||||||||||||
Chair: Patricia Mergen |
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0900-0910 | Taxonomic workflow in the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy | Andreas Kohlbecker |
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0910-0920 | Introducing community single sign-on in EDIT | Lutz Suhrbier |
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0920-0930 | The Taxonomic Editor – more features less code | Pepe Ciardelli: |
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0930-0940 | Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI): Using the Common Data Model (CDM) to build Europe's largest species data base | Marc Geoffroy |
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0940-0950 | Crossmedia publishing with the CDM | Niels Hoffmann |
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0950-1000 | Integrating two major projects: Creating A Taxonomic E-Science (CATE) and the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) | Ben Clark |
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1000-1010 | GeoSpatial? Components | Pere Roca |
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1010-1020 | Fieldwork today with data acquisition tools | Alexander Kroupa |
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1020-1030 | Discussion | Patricia Mergen |
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1030-1100 | Coffee |
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| Sessions 10-12 - Conferences | Sessions 14 - Parallel Working Sessions | |||||||||||||
| Joffre A | Theatre Einstein and Joffre rooms - see the timetable of working sessions | |||||||||||||
1100-1230 | Session 10 - Miscellaneous Presentations (including Biocuration, Disease) |
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Chair: Annie Simpson |
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1100-1115 | Semantic Web for Ecosystem Approach applied to Fisheries | Julien Barde |
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1115-1125 | Semantic Web discussion | (all participants) |
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1125-1140 | Catalogue of Life Phase 2 and the new 4D4Life Project | Richard White |
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1140-1150 | 4D4Life discussion | (all participants) |
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1150-1220 | Integrating Animal Health and Biodiversity Informatics Standards | Jim Case |
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1220-1230 | Animal Health Standards discussion | (all participants) |
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1230-1400 | Lunch - Restaurants in Montpellier Centre (not provided) | |||||||||||||
1400-1530 | Session 11 - Identifying Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture | Session 15 - Parallel Working Sessions | ||||||||||||
Chair: Doyle McKey? | Theatre Einstein and Joffre rooms - see the timetable of working sessions | |||||||||||||
1400-1415 | Sketches from an anthropologist’s fieldnotes on local knowledge about agrobiodiversity: a primer for biodiversity information specialists | Eric de Garine |
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1415-1430 | Data integration and its impact on genebanks' databases | Richards, Volk |
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1430-1445 | Impact of Citizen Science projects on biodiversity policies: Tela Botanica conference results | Elise Mouysset |
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1445-1500 | New challenges for visual information retrieval in biodiversity applications | Raffi Enficiaud |
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1500-1515 | Semantic Standards for Genomic Analyses of Tropical Plants: the Generation Challenge Program Use Case | Manuel Ruiz |
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1515-1530 | The concept of "Networked collection" or "Virtual collection": revisiting the classical delineation between "in situ" and "ex situ" conservation and its consequences for database management | Roland Bourdeix |
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1530-1600 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1600-1730 | Session 12 - Accessing information on Agricultural genetic resources and crop wild relatives | Session 16 - Working Sessions | ||||||||||||
Chair: Anne Zanetto | Theatre Einstein and Joffre rooms - see the timetable of working sessions | |||||||||||||
1600-1615 | A Global germplasm information system to unlock genebank information for use | Michael Mackay |
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1615-1630 | Online international genebanks' catalogues: SINGER and EURISCO | Elizabeth Arnaud and Sonia Dias |
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1630-1645 | The Crop Wild relative Portal: conservation and utilization of crop wild relatives - project with Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan | Imke Thormann |
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1645-1700 | Fishbase and Sealife base, standards to go beyond the species level | Nicolas Bailly |
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1700-1715 | Accessing information on domestic animal diversity | Beate Sherf |
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1715-1730 | Integrating the monitoring of agricultural pests into biodiversity assessments | Gail Kampmeier |
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1900-late! | Banquet (tickets in advance) Mas du Ministre information Banquet menu | Mas du Ministre | ||||||||||||
| Thursday 12th November | Sessions 17-20 - Themed Working Groups (up to 6 in parallel) | Venue | ||||||||||||
0900-1030 | Session 17 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1100-1230 | Session 18 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1235-1400 | Lunch - Restaurants in Montpellier Centre (not provided) | |||||||||||||
1400-1530 | Session 19 - Parallel Working Sessions | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1600-1730 | Session 20 - Themes | Salles Joffre | ||||||||||||
1800-1900 | Lecture for students by Andy Jarvis, CIAT, Ebbe Nielsen Prize Climate change and agriculture: how models can guide our adaptation strategies | Montpellier SupAgro? | ||||||||||||
| Friday 13th November | Sessions 17-20 Auditorium Einstein | Chair |
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0900-1045 | Session 21 - Reports from Working Sessions | Adrian Rissoné | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
0900-0915 | Phylogenetics VoCamp | Hilmar Lapp | ||||||||||||
0915-0930 | Theme #2 - Agriculture | Elizabeth Arnaud | ||||||||||||
0930-0955 | Theme #1 - TDWG and e-Biosphere | Cynthia Parr | ||||||||||||
0955-1010 | Theme #3 - Data Integration | Roger Hyam | ||||||||||||
1010-1045 | Roundtable Discussion | Donald Hobern | ||||||||||||
1045-1115 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1115-1300 | Session 22 - Agriculture Information for development | Jean-Louis Pham | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
1115-1145 | ARCAD project: Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity | Jean-Louis Pham | ||||||||||||
1145-1200 | Sud Expert Plantes | Eric Chenin | ||||||||||||
1200-1215 | Biodiversity Networks in Africa: from Knowledge Management to Technical and Institutional Implementation | Charles Kahindo | ||||||||||||
1215-1230 | Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA): a tool for sustainable development | Michel Chauvet | ||||||||||||
1230-1245 | Biodiversity informatics: key institutions, research and on-going projects in France | Gilles Boeuf | ||||||||||||
1245-1300 | 2010 - The Year of Biodiversity - outcomes of the round table | Lee Belbin | ||||||||||||
1300-1430 | Lunch & Business Session - Proposals for events in 2010- Year of Biodiversity | Theatre Einstein | ||||||||||||
1430-1515 | Session 23 - Wild Ideas | Joel Sachs | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
1430-1445 | Have Standards Enhanced Biodiversity Data? Global correction and acquisition patterns | Arturo Ariño | ||||||||||||
1445-1500 | Late Semantic Binding in the SADI Semantic Web Services Framework | Mark Wilkinson and Rutger Vos | ||||||||||||
1500-1515 | Moving Biodiversity to the Cloud | Javier de la Torre | ||||||||||||
1515-1530 | Do LSIDs Need to Resolve? | Joel Sachs | ||||||||||||
1530-1545 | iCinema - Putting the WOW in biodiversity education and outreach | Paul Flemons | ||||||||||||
1545-1615 | Coffee | Joffre 1 | ||||||||||||
1615-1700 | Session 24 - Taking Data Integration forward & Wrap-up | Donald Hobern | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
1615-1630 | [reserved] | [reserved] | ||||||||||||
1630-1700 | Roundtable Discussion | Donald Hobern | ||||||||||||
1700 | Close | Donald Hobern | Theatre Einstein | |||||||||||
| Conference Week | RELATED MEETINGS | TBA | ||||||||||||
7/8 November | NESCent Phyloinformatics VoCamp - Session 1 | Contact: Nico Cellinese | University of Montpellier | |||||||||||
10/11 November | NESCent Phyloinformatics VoCamp - Session 2 | Contact: Nico Cellinese | TBA | |||||||||||
| Saturday 14th November | EXCURSIONS and POST-CONFERENCE MEETINGS (See the Montpellier page in the Main Menu for details) | Meeting Location | ||||||||||||
Saturday 14 | 0930-1300 | A walk in the Botanic Gardens | Michel Chauvet | Leaving from the Corum | ||||||||||
Saturday 14 | 0915-1715 | In the heart of Camargue | Maxime Thibon | Leaving from the Corum | ||||||||||
| Monday - Friday | POSTERS | |||||||||||||
0830-1730 | Senior Author | Title | Location | # | ||||||||||
Addink | 4D4Life Integrated Development and Documentation Infrastructure for Sustainable Software Production | Joffre 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Appeltans | PESI: A European web portal for all species in Europe | Joffre 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Arnaud | Crop Ontology: knowledge modeling for traits description and ontology application for maize, wheat, chickpea, sorghum, Musa, potato and rice | Joffre 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Arnaud | SINGER, WEB CATALOGUE OF THE CGIAR SYSTEM WIDE INFORMATION NETWORK ON GENETIC RESOURCES | Joffre 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
Azard | TaxoBrowser?: a visual mashup for taxonomic browsing | Joffre 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
Beach | The Specify Collections Software: Cross-Platform, Open-Source, Collaborative, Robust, Localizable, Multi-disciplinary, Mature, Portable, and Free | Joffre 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
Braak | The GBIF Harvesting and Indexing Toolkit (HIT) | Joffre 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
Cartolano, Jr. | The Biodiversity Data Digitizer (BDD) tool | Joffre 1 | 8 | |||||||||||
Chavan | Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System | Joffre 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
Cooleman | STERNA Semantic Web-based integration of digital resources on birds | Joffre 1 | 10 | |||||||||||
Cryer | Building a scalable, open source storage solution for biodiversity data | Joffre 1 | 11 | |||||||||||
Cuadra | The GBIF Data Portal | Joffre 1 | 12 | |||||||||||
Deshayes | Development of open source software for the management of observational data | Joffre 1 | 13 | |||||||||||
Desmet | Canadensys : unlocking Canada's biological collection information | Joffre 1 | 14 | |||||||||||
Doring | The GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit | Joffre 1 | 15 | |||||||||||
Durand | Siregal: the INRA Plant Genetic Resources Information System, a GnpIS? module | Joffre 1 | 16 | |||||||||||
Engledow | Repatriating the Botany of Tropical Africa | Joffre 1 | 17 | |||||||||||
Fichtner | How to make the TDWG Ontology understandable for experts of other scientific and scholarly domains? | Joffre 1 | 18 | |||||||||||
Gaisberger | Scanning and Passport Data Extraction from Bioversity - Collecting Mission Reports and Related Documents | Joffre 1 | 19 | |||||||||||
Heintz | Ca-SIF: A SHARED AND STANDARDIZED CATALOGUE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS | Joffre 1 | 20 | |||||||||||
Jameson | The Biofinity Project: Transforming Biodiversity Research | Joffre 1 | 21 | |||||||||||
Jongman | EBONE? a project to design and test a European biodiversity observing system, integrated in time and space | Joffre 1 | 22 | |||||||||||
Julien | Semantic data integration for the analysis of the genetic diversity of plants | Joffre 1 | 23 | |||||||||||
King | Automatic Biodiversity Literature Enhancement | Joffre 1 | 24 | |||||||||||
Laporte | TermForm? : an online Web application to define and share concepts for the development of a trait-based ontology | Joffre 1 | 25 | |||||||||||
Larmande | Orylink | Joffre 1 | 26 | |||||||||||
Laurenne | LSIDs for managing biological names in data integration | Joffre 1 | 27 | |||||||||||
Maiocco | Guideline to edit online keys | Joffre 1 | 28 | |||||||||||
McIver? | Composition Assistance for Multiple Existing Scientific Workflow Systems | Joffre 1 | 29 | |||||||||||
Mergen | The importance of a good balance between physical collection management and digitisation. How SYNTHESYS aims for a benchmark standard throughout Europe | Joffre 1 | 30 | |||||||||||
Moen | An Application Profile Using Darwin Core Rendered in the New Dublin Core Application Profile Framework | Joffre 1 | 31 | |||||||||||
Ó Tuama | GBIF – helping to build a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure | Joffre 1 | 32 | |||||||||||
Parr | The Future of EOL: Phase II Implementation | Joffre 1 | 33 | |||||||||||
Penev | At the frontline of publishing in systematic zoology: ZooKeys? | Joffre 1 | 34 | |||||||||||
Pommier | Ephesis : Environment and Phenotypes Information System, a GnpIS? module | Joffre 1 | 35 | |||||||||||
Remsen | The Global Names Architecture: an integrated and federated approach to enabling discovery and access to biodiversity information. | Joffre 1 | 36 | |||||||||||
Ruas | The Musa Germplasm Information System Enhancing knowledge on the Musa diversity | Joffre 1 | 37 | |||||||||||
Sahl | eRelevé: a suite of solutions for biodiversity data management | Joffre 1 | 38 | |||||||||||
Saraiva | Interaction Extension, a Darwin Core Extension to interaction between specimens | Joffre 1 | 39 | |||||||||||
Sarmiento | Pl@ntWood: A computer-assisted identification tool for 110 species of Amazon trees based on wood anatomy | Joffre 1 | 40 | |||||||||||
Schneider | The Diversity Workbench Framework: The Synchronization Process in DiversityMobile? | Joffre 1 | 41 | |||||||||||
Sherf | Domestic Animal Diveristy Information System - A clearing house mechanism | Joffre 1 | 42 | |||||||||||
Smales | Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – Interoperability of European biodiversity digital libraries | Joffre 1 | 43 | |||||||||||
Stevenson | Using the Electronic Field Guide Project’s software to make digital guides | Joffre 1 | 44 | |||||||||||
Stewart | Lifemapper: Finding the Good Life | Joffre 1 | 45 | |||||||||||
Suhrbier | EDIT Community Single Sign-On | Joffre 1 | 46 | |||||||||||
Theeten | ENHANCING THE ACCESS AND PUBLICATION OF BIODIVERSTY DATA IN CENTRAL AFRICA: THE CABIN TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE | Joffre 1 | 47 | |||||||||||
Thibon | AfriBes?-Towards a social network of scientific and technical information for Africa | Joffre 1 | 48 | |||||||||||
van Strien | Crop science and breeding: contributions in the fields of bioinformatics by the Generation Challenge Programme for the resource poor | Joffre 1 | 49 | |||||||||||
Wang | Capabilities and interfaces of a prototype Filtered Push network | Joffre 1 | 50 | |||||||||||
Weiss | The Diversity Workbench framework as data repository for biological data | Joffre 1 | 51 | |||||||||||
White | 4D4Life Work Package 7: Serving user needs with a new system architecture for the Catalogue of Life | Joffre 1 | 52 | |||||||||||
| Monday-Wednesday | COMPUTER DEMONSTRATIONS | |||||||||||||
0900-1730 | Authors | Title | Location | # | ||||||||||
Best, Moen, Neill | A Framework and Workflow for... | Joffre 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Caballier | TaxoBrowser?: a visual mashup for taxonomic browsing | Joffre 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
Deck | The Moorea Biocode Project: Tracking Barcoded Specimens From Collecting Event to Sequence | Joffre 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Duche | eFlore: An Electronic Flora | Joffre 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
Giddens | Using Citizen Science to Process Digital Herbarium Labels | Joffre 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
Grard, Bonnet, Prosperi, Le... | A graphical system for computer-assisted plant identification | Joffre 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
Lyal, Weitzman | Maximising the potential of digitised literature-INOTAXA prototype and TDWG standards | Joffre 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
Parr, Leary | The Encyclopedia of Life: Pathways to contribution | Joffre 1 | 8 | |||||||||||
Sautter, Agosti, Catapano, Morris | Plazi: Building Communities and Software for Increasing the Utility of Digitized Biodiversity Publications | Joffre 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
Scott, Soh, Moriyama, Ocampo,... | The Biofinity Project: An Extensible Semantic Bridge between Biodiversity and Genomics | Joffre 1 | 10 | |||||||||||
Senger, Shrestha, Arnaud | GCP Crop Ontology Browser | Joffre 1 | 11 | |||||||||||
Škofič, Dias | EURISCO - The European Plant Genetic Resources Search Catalogue | Joffre 1 | 12 | |||||||||||
Thau, Bowers, Ludäscher | CleanTax?: An Integrated Framework for Mapping Biological Taxonomies and Merging Taxonomically Organized Presence/Absence Data Sets | Joffre 1 | 13 | |||||||||||
Tobler, Janovec, Best, Neill, Webber | The Atrium Biodiversity Information System: sharing, managing, analyzing, and disseminating biodiversity data | Joffre 1 | 14 | |||||||||||
Ung, Vignes-Lebbe | Become an e-Taxonomist with Xper² | Joffre 1 | 15 | |||||||||||
Walisch, Colling, van Breda | A biodiversity cartography portal for nature conservationists, scientists, and naturalists | Joffre 1 | 16 | |||||||||||
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