TDWG 2007 Schedule
Latest Version: Wednesday 12th September 1257 UTC (ar), corrected Thu 20th September 0912 UTC (ar).
Whilst reasonable effort will be made to keep to this published schedule please be aware that TDWG meetings are responsive and that some rearrangement before or even during the meeting is likely.
Session content and timing is subject to change. Schedule changes will be posted at the Registration Desk as soon as they are known. Please check frequently for the latest information.
All delegates are welcome at all sessions except the TDWG Executive Meeting.
| Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2007 Conference Overall Theme: Integrating Biodiversity Data | |||||
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| Sunday 16 Sep | Chair | Venue | |||
09:00-17:00 | Executive Committee meeting (closed meeting) |
| Hotel 16 | ||
09:00-17:00 | Group meetings as required, including: |
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12:00-14:00 | Invasive Species | Annie Simpson | Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University | ||
14:00-17:00 | Technical Architecture Group (TAG) | Roger Hyam | Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University | ||
14:30-17:00 | Literature Group | Anna Weitzman | Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University | ||
19:00 | Welcome Reception |
| Botel "Fairway" - on the bank of the Danube River - www.botelfairway.sk | ||
| Monday 17 Sep | INTRODUCTIONS & CLIENT PERSPECTIVES | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:30 | Welcome by Chair, Convener's introductions to groups | Walter Berendsohn | SÚZA main | ||
09:00-09:10 | Welcome | Walter Berendsohn | |||
09:10-09:20 | Housekeeping and Logistics | Adrian Rissone | |||
09:20-09:25 | TDWG Infrastructure Project | Lee Belbin | |||
09:25-09:30 | TNC Interest Group | Jessie Kennedy (presented by Roger Hyam) | |||
09:30-09:35 | TAG Interest Group | Roger Hyam | |||
09:35-09:40 | TAPIR Task Group | Renato De Giovanni | |||
09:40-09:45 | Invasive Species Information Systems (ISIS) Interest Group | Annie Simpson | |||
09:45-09:50 | Observations and Specimens Interest Group | Steve Kelling | |||
09:50-09:55 | Literature Interest Group | Anna Weitzman | |||
09:55-10:00 | NCD Interest Group | Neil Thomson | |||
10:00-10:05 | Geospatial Interest Group | Reed Beaman | |||
10:05-10:15 | Consortium for the Barcode of Life | Donald Hobern | |||
10:15-10:20 | ILTER | Katharina Schleidt | |||
10:20-10:25 | Descriptive Data (SDD) | Gregor Hagedorn | |||
10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
11:00-12:30 | Client's perspectives: User needs | Adrian Rissone | SÚZA main | ||
11:00-11:20 | EDIT needs Biodiversity Information Standards (Towards a European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy | Walter G. Berendsohn, Markus Döring, Malte C. Ebach | |||
11:20-11:35 | Biodiversity Heritage Library: Progress & Potential | Chris Freeland | |||
11:35-11:50 | One million species in the Catalogue of Life – a triumph for Species 2000 and ITIS, or for TDWG standards? | Frank Bisby | |||
11:50-12:05 | User Needs - The alpha and omega of system design | Charles Copp | |||
12:05-12:20 | Exploring the Brave New World of eTaxonomy | Chuck Miller | |||
12:20-12:30 | Session Summary | Adrian Rissone | |||
12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
14:00-15:30 | Client's perspectives: - examples of TDWG standards in use | Annie Simpson | SÚZA main | ||
14:00-14:15 | TDWG standards in use within the Global Biodiversity Information Network (GBIF) Data Portal | Tim Robertson | |||
14:15-14:30 | Assessing the Threat of Invasive Species in South America: an ensemble modeling approach in support of data standards, integration, and dissemination | M Fernández, W Tejeda, G Duran, A Rico, C Arias, M Quintanilla, B Pareja, J C Chive, M Rivera & H Hamilton | |||
14:30-15:45 | Results of a Needs Assessment Survey of the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) | Annie Simpson, Jim Graham, Michael Browne, Hannu Saarenmaa, Elizabeth Sellers | |||
15:45-15:00 | When Taxonomies Meet Observations: An Examination of Taxonomic Concepts Used by the Observation Systems eBird and the Avian Knowledge Network | Paul Edward Allen | |||
15:00-15:15 | Taxonomists at Work: Relationships of Process and Data | Anna Weitzman & Chris Lyal | |||
15:15-15:30 | Questions/Summary | All | |||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
16:00-17:30 | Needed technologies: High-level introduction and demo of key enabling technologies | Lee Belbin | SÚZA main | ||
16:00-16:20 | TDWG standards architecture - what and why | Roger Hyam | |||
16:20-16:40 | Life Science Identifiers | Ricardo Pereira | |||
16:40-17:00 | Nala: A Semantic Data Capture Extension for Mozilla Firefox | Ben Szekely, Ricardo Pereira | |||
17:00-17:20 | Key Enabling Technologies: Transfer Protocols | Donald Hobern | |||
17:20-17:30 | Discussion |
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19:00- | Wine tasting (tickets in advance) |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
| Tuesday 18 Sep | TDWG's KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:30 | Ontologies and vocabularies: Atomizing biodiversity information | Roger Hyam | SÚZA main | ||
09:05-09:25 | The Role of Ontologies in the TDWG Architecture | Roger Hyam | |||
09:25-09:45 | Integrating TDWG standards with EDIT’s Common Data Model | Markus Döring, Andreas Müller, Ben Clark & Marc Geoffroy | |||
09:45-10:05 | ALTER-Net: A Data Ontology for LTER Observations and Measurements | Katharina Schleidt | |||
10:05-10:25 | An ontological approach to describing and synthesizing ecological data, using a generalized model for “scientific observations” | Mark Schildhauer, Matthew Jones, Joshua Madin & Shawn Bowers | |||
10:25-10:30 | Session summary | Roger Hyam? | |||
10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
11:00-12:30 | LSIDs: Gluing it together to meet users' needs | Ricardo Pereira | SÚZA main | ||
11:05-11:20 | LSIDs for Taxon Names: The ZooBank Experience | Richard Pyle | |||
11:20-11:35 | LSID and TCS deployment in the Catalogue of Life | Richard John White, Andrew C Jones & Ewen R Orme | |||
11:35-11:50 | An LSID authority for specimens and an LSID browsing client | Kevin Richards | |||
11:50-12:05 | LSID policy and implementation in Australia | Greg Whitbread, Alex R. Chapman & Ben Richardson | |||
12:05-12:20 | LSID Mashup | Daniel Miranker | |||
12:20-12:30 | Session summary and questions | Ricardo Pereira & audience | |||
12:30-14:00 | Lunch & Business Meeting |
| SÚZA Vestibule/SÚZA small | ||
14:00-15:30 | Protocols: Unifying the data, wrapping it up, and sending it back | Donald Hobern | SÚZA main | ||
14:00-14:20 | TapirLink: Facilitating the transition to TAPIR | Renato De Giovanni | |||
14:20-14:35 | RDF over TAPIR | Roger Hyam | |||
14:35-14:55 | TAPIR networks in Australia’s Virtual Herbarium and the Atlas of Living Australia | Greg Whitbread, Shunde Zhang & Paul Coddington | |||
14:55-15:10 | Checklist Provider Tool: a GBIF Application for Sharing Taxonomic Checklists Using TAPIR and TCS | Wouter Addink & Jorrit van Hertum | |||
15:10-15:30 | Shibboleth, a potential security framework for the TDWG architecture | Lutz Suhrbier & Andreas Kohlbecker | |||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
16:00-18:00 | Group meetings: a block of time for interest and task or joint group meetings (TBA by Conveners), including: | ||||
16:00-18:00 | Combined SPM and SDD session | Éamonn & Gregor | SÚZA (room to be announced) | ||
16:00-18:00 | Observation and Specimen Records Interest Group | Steve Kelling | SÚZA (room to be announced) | ||
16:00-18:00 | GIG Interest Group and via Intenet with the OGC EONRE WG | Reed Beaman | SÚZA (room to be announced) | ||
19:30-21:30 | Task group: "Structured descriptions and RDF" | Gregor Hagedorn | SÚZA (room to be announced) | ||
20:30-23:15 | Live Teaching Session (Private): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Bryan Heidorn | SÚZA (room to be announced) | ||
| Wednesday 19 Sep | MODELS FOR INTEGRATING TDWG | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:30 | Species Profile Model: a model for describing species in "species pages" | Éamonn O Tuama | SÚZA main | ||
09:00-09:20 | Main aspects of the Species Profile Model and the TDWG architecture | Andreas Kohlbecker, Markus Döring & Andreas Müller | |||
09:20-09:40 | Species Profile Model: Data integration lessons from GBIF | Donald Hobern | |||
09:40-10:00 | SPM from an SDD perspective: Generality and extensibility | Gregor Hagedorn | |||
10:0-10:20 | Coming to Terms with SPM | Bob Morris | |||
10:20-10:30 | Discussion |
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
11:00-12:30 | Literature model | Anna Weitzman | SÚZA main | ||
11:00-11:05 | Introduction | Anna Weitzman | |||
11:05-11:20 | Linking Bibliographic Data to Library Content | Julius Welby | |||
11:20-11:35 | Use cases from taxonomists, conservationists, and others | Cynthia Sims Parr & Christopher Lyal | |||
11:35-11:50 | Progress in making literature easily accessible: schemas and marking up | Terry Catapano & Anna Weitzman | |||
11:50-12:05 | Literature & interoperability: a working example using Ants | Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano & Guido Sautter | |||
12:05-12:20 | Taxonomic Literature: What Next? | Anna Weitzman & Christopher Lyal | |||
12:20-12:30 | Questions & Discussion | All Participants | |||
12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
14:00-15:30 | Geospatial integration with the TDWG model | Reed Beaman | SÚZA main | ||
14:00-14:15 | Species distribution modelling and phylogenetics | Stephen Smith | |||
14:15-14:30 | Lifemapper: Using and Creating Geospatial Data and Open Source Tools for the Biological Community | Aimee Stewart, C.J. Grady, James Beach | |||
14:30-14:45 | A pilot project for biodiversity and climate change interoperability in the GEOSS framework | Stefano Nativi, Paolo Mazzetti, Lorenzo Bigagli, Valerio Angelini, Enrico Boldrini, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Hannu Saarenmaa, Jeremy Kerr & Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa | |||
14:45-15:00 | Advances at the OGC, and Opportunities for Harmonization with TDWG Standards and Models | Phillip "Flip" Dibner | |||
15:00-15:15 | The BiogeoSDI workshop: Demonstrating the use of TDWG and OGC standards together | Javier de la Torre, Tim Sutton, Bart Meganck, Dave Vieglais, Aimee Stewart, Peter Brewer & Renato de Giovanni | |||
15:15-15:30 | Questions and discussion | Reed Beaman | |||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
16:00-17:30 | Descriptive model for analysis, identification, description markup, and taxon pages | Gregor Hagedorn | SÚZA main | ||
16:00-16:15 | From Xper to Xper2: Twenty years of taxonomic applications with descriptive and identification tools | Régine Vignes Lebbe & Guillaume Dubus | |||
16:15-16:30 | GrassBase - integrating structured descriptions, taxonomy and content management | Kehan Harman | |||
16:30-16:45 | Mechanisms for coordination and delivery of taxon profiles in Australia | Alex Chapman | |||
16:45-17:00 | Automatic extraction of character information from botanical text | Xiaoya Tang & P Bryan Heidorn | |||
17:00-16:15 | Capturing structured data to facilitate web revisions | Dave Roberts, Julius Welby & Markus Döring | |||
17:15-17:30 | General discussion: Needs and actions (new task groups?) | All | |||
19:00- | Banquet (tickets in advance) |
| Restaurant "Leberfinger" | ||
| Thursday 20 Sep | DISCOVERY, INTEGRATION AND USE OF BIODIVERSITY DATA - 1 | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:30 | Integration of Biodiversity data | Walter Berendsohn | SÚZA main | ||
09:00-10:00 | Keynote Address: Removing Taxonomic Impediments: How the Encyclopedia of Life and Biodiversity Heritage Library projects can help | Graham Higley (NHM) | |||
10:00-10:30 | Data Integration Issues in Biodiversity Research | Jessie Kennedy, Shawn Bowers, Matthew Jones, Josh Madin, Robert Peet, Deana Pennington, Mark Schildhauer & Aimee Stewart | |||
10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
11:00-12:30 | Integrating biodiversity data | Jessie Kennedy & Renato De Giovanni | SÚZA main | ||
11:00-11:15 | Using TAPIR as an asynchronous caching protocol | Aaron Steele | |||
11:15-11:30 | How to handle duplication in large datasets and import scenarios | Andreas Müller, Markus Döring, Walter G. Berendsohn | |||
11:30-11:45 | ALIS's adventures in the Wonderland | Samy Gaiji, Sonia Dias | |||
11:45-12:00 | Illustrating Relationships among Images, Specimens, Taxa, Ontologies and Character Matrices in the Morphbank Image Repository | Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast, Fredrik Ronquist, Neelima Jammingumpula, Katja Seltmann, Karolina Maneva-Jakimoska, Steve Winters, Deborah Paul, Andrew Deans | |||
12:00-12:15 | A Pollinators Thematic Network for the Americas | Michael Ruggiero, Antonio Saraiva | |||
12:15-12:30 | Applying a Wiki system in the integration of biodiversity databases in Taiwan | Burke Chih-jen Ko, Kun-Chi Lai, Jack Lin, Han Lee, Hsin-Hua Lin, Ching-I Peng & Kwang-Tsao Shao | |||
12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
14:00-15:30 | Applications of TDWG standards - 1 | Stinger Guala | SÚZA main | ||
14:00-14:30 | Scaling up The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) | James A Macklin, Paul J Morris | |||
14:30-14:45 | What have George Bush, John Howard and TDWG have in Common? | Paul Flemons, Michael Elliott, Lynda Kelly & Lee Belbin | |||
14:45-15:00 | Developing an Observational Data Model to Facilitate Data Interoperability | Steve Kelling | |||
15:00-15:15 | Moving to Fully Distributed, Interoperable Repositories for Biodiversity | Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast, Fredrik Ronquist, Katja Seltmann, Neelima Jammingumpula, Karolina Maneva-Jakimoska, Steve Winner, Deborah Paul & Andrew Deans | |||
15:15-15:30 | Building the German DNA bank network using TDWG standards | Gabriele Dröge, Jörg Holetschek | |||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
16:00-17:30 | Applications of TDWG standards - 2 | Stan Blum | SÚZA main | ||
16:00-16:15 | Development of a TAPIR-based protocol for the GISIN | Jim Graham, Thomas J Stohlgren, Greg Newman, Catherine Jarnevich, Alicia W Crall | |||
16:15-16:30 | Marking and Exploring Taxonomic Concept Data | Paul Craig, Martin Graham and Jessie Kennedy | |||
16:30-16:45 | From National Plant Checklist to Chinese Virtual Herbarium (CVH) | Keping Ma, Haining Qin, and Lisong Wang | |||
16:45-17:00 | The Central African Biodiversity Information Network (CABIN), a contribution to the Sub-Saharan African Biodiversity Information Network (SABIN) | Patricia Mergen, Charles Kahindo Muzusa-Ngabo, Michel Louette, Franck Theeten, Bart Meganck | |||
17:00-17:15 | The potential key role for promoting the use of Biodiversity Information Standards by a consortium of research institutions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa | Charles Kahindo, Dudu Akaibe, Upoki Agenong’a, Ulyel Ali-Pato, Patricia Mergen, Michel Louette, Erik Verheyen, Jérôme Degreef | |||
17:15-17:30 | An anthropology extension to the ABCDEFG schema | Charles Copp | |||
Time to be announced | Oldtimer City Train (and optional dinner) |
| Meeting place to be announced | ||
| Friday 21 Sep | DISCOVERY, INTEGRATION AND USE OF BIODIVERSITY DATA - 2 | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:30 | Communication, education and outreach | Neil Thomson | SÚZA main | ||
09:00-09:15 | TDWG Communication | Lee Belbin | |||
09:15-09:30 | EDIT Scratchpads as a vehicle for community building and outreach | Dave Roberts, Vince Smith and Simon Rycroft | |||
09:30-09:45 | KeyToNature: a European project for teaching biodiversity | Pier Luigi Nimis & Stefano Martellos | |||
09:45-10:00 | Using new technologies for education | P. Bryan Heidorn | |||
10:00-10:15 | Communications tools | Lutz Suhrbier | |||
10:15-10:30 | Mapping biodiversity specimen data: opportunities for collaboration | Gail Kampmeier and John Pickering | |||
10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| SÚZA Vestibule | ||
11:00-12:30 | Building biodiversity data content | Adrian Rissone | SÚZA main | ||
11:00-11:15 | Integrating the catalogue of Mexican biota: different approaches for different client perspectives | Diana Hernandez, Susana Ocegueda, Patricia Koleff, Sofia Escoto & Rocio Montiel | |||
11:15-11:30 | Moving Targets: Integrating semistructured data | Pepe Ciardelli & Marc Geoffroy | |||
11:30-11:45 | Global Compositae Checklist: Integrating, Editing and Tracking Multiple Datasets | Christina Flann, Aaron Wilton, Kevin Richards & Jerry Cooper | |||