TDWG 2008 Annual Conference Program
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| Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2008 Conference Theme: The Atlas of Living Australia | |||||
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| Saturday 18th October | Chair | Venue | |||
1100-1700 | Executive Committee meeting (committee members only) | Donald Hobern | Notre Dame University Education Centre - Room 36.119 (seats 20) | ||
| Sunday 19th October | Chair | Venue | |||
0900-1700 | Group meetings as required (all welcome) |
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0900-1300 | Observations & Specimens Interest Group | Steve Kelling | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.118 (seats 25) | ||
0900-1300 | Literature Interest Group | Anna Weitzman | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.119 (seats 20) | ||
0900-1300 | Geospatial Interest Group | Reed Beaman | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.102 (seats 35) | ||
0900-1300 | Technical Architecture Group | Roger Hyam | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.103 (seats 45) | ||
0900-1700 | Phylogenetics | Nico Cellinese & Hilmar Lapp | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.117 (seats 32) | ||
1400-1700 | Observations Task Group | Matt Jones | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.118 (seats 25) | ||
1400-1700 | Image & Multimedia Resources Task Group | Bob Morris | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.119 (seats 20) | ||
1400-1700 | Donald Hobern and Éamonn Ó Tuama | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.102 (seats 35) | |||
1400-1700 | Invasive Species Interest Group | Annie Simpson and Jim Graham | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.103 (seats 45) | ||
1800-2000 | Welcome Reception | Hosted by the TDWG 2008 Local Organising Committee | Moores Building Art Gallery: 46 Henry Street Fremantle | ||
| Monday 20 October | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:15 | Welcome by the Chairman and introductions to TDWG | Donald Hobern | |||
0900-0915 | Opening and Welcome | Diana Jones, Acting CEO of the WA Museum and formerly Executive Director, Collection and Content Development | |||
0915-0925 | Adrian Rissone | ||||
0925-0945 | Donald Hobern | ||||
0945-1015 | Roger Hyam | ||||
1015-1045 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1045-1230 | Session 2 - From Small to Big: How to Capitalize on Small Contributions to the Big Dreams of Sharing Biodiversity Information | Gail Kampmeier | Theatre | ||
1045-1050 | Gail Kampmeier | ||||
1050-1115 | Every Datum Counts! Capitalizing on Small Contributions to the Big Dreams of Mobilizing Biodiversity Data (PPT | SWF) | Vishwas Chavan, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Samy Gaiji, David Remsen and Nicholas King | |||
1115-1135 | Experiences in mobilizing biodiversity data - the story of HermesLite (PPT | SWF) | Piers Higgs and Tim Carpenter | |||
1135-1155 | Small pieces loosely joined: Building scientific web communities with Scratchpads (PPT | SWF) | Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Kehan Harman and Vince Smith | |||
1155-1215 | Designing a global network to accommodate contributions from all sources and technical abilities (PPT | SWF) | Tim Robertson | |||
1215-1230 | Discussion | Gail Kampmeier | |||
1230-1400 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1400-1530 | Session 3 - An Introduction to ... | Adrian Rissone | Theatre | ||
1400-1420 | Rich Pyle | ||||
1420-1440 | An Introduction to Data Exchange Protocols in TDWG (PPT | SWF) | Renato De Giovanni | |||
1440-1500 | Kevin Thiele | ||||
1500-1515 | Globally Unique Identifiers in Biodiversity Informatics (PPT | SWF) | Kevin Richards | |||
Session 3 discussion (SWF) | |||||
1515-1545 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1545-1715 | Session 4 - Biodiversity Informatics: Key Organizations and Projects | Lee Belbin | Theatre | ||
1545-1615 | Éamonn Ó Tuama, Vishwas Chavan, Markus Döring, Samy Gaiji, David Remsen and Tim Robertson | ||||
1615-1630 | DataNetOne: A Distributed Environmental Data Archive (PPT | SWF) | Matt Jones | |||
1630-1645 | European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) (PPT | SWF) | Walter Berendsohn | |||
1645-1700 | Roger Hyam | ||||
1700-1715 | Wouter Addink | ||||
| Tuesday 21 October | Sessions 5-8 | Chair | Venue | ||
0900-1030 | Session 5 - Biodiversity Informatics Literature and More | Anna Weitzman | Theatre | ||
0900-0920 | Plazi: Providing access to taxonomic literature through semantic enhancements and exposure of descriptions. An overview (PPT | SWF) | Donat Agosti and Guido Sautter | |||
0920-0940 | The Plazi Markup System (PPT | SWF) Plazi: Prospects for Mark up of Legacy and Prospective Publications (PPT | SWF) | Guido Souttr
Terry Catapano | |||
0940-1000 | An Evaluation of Taxonomic Name Finding and Next Steps in BHL Developments (PPT | SWF) | Chris Freeland | |||
1000-1020 | Precision in Accessing the Descriptions, Keys and Other Contents of Digitized Taxonomic Literature: The INOTAXA prototype (PPT | SWF) | Chris Lyal and Anna Weitzman | |||
1020-1030 | Discussion | Anna Weitzman | |||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1100-1230 | Session 6 - Ontologies | Stan Blum, Hilmar Lapp, and Todd Vision | Theatre | ||
1100-1115 | Development of the Generation Change Program Domain Models and Ontology Management Embedded in the GCP Platform (PPT | SWF) | Rosemary Shrestha, Jeffrey Detraas, Thomas Metz, Martin Senger, Graham Mc Laren, Elizabeth Arnaud, Tom Hazekamp, Adriana Alercia, Guy Davenport, Reinhard Simon, Jayashree Balaji and Richard Bruskiewich | |||
1115-1130 | Taxonomic ontologies: Bridging phylogenetic and taxonomic history (PPT | SWF) | Peter Midford | |||
1130-1145 | Lessons learned from semantic web prototyping in ecology (PPT | SWF) | Cynthia Sims Parr, Joel Sachs, and Tim Finin | |||
1145-1200 | SERONTO: a Socio-Ecological Research and Observation oNTOlogy (PPT | SWF) | D.C. (Bert) van der Werf, Mihai Adamescu, Minu Ayromlou, Nicolas Bertrand, Jakub Borovec, Hugues Boussard, Constatin Cazacu, Toon van Daele, Sabina Datcu, Mark Frenzel, Volker Hammen, Helena Karasti, Miklos Kertesz, Pirjo Kuitunen, Mandy Lane, Juraj Lieskovsky, Barbara Magagna, Johannes Peterseil, Sue Rennie, Herbert Schentz, Katharina Schleidt, and Liisa Tuominen | |||
1200-1215 | SONet (Scientific Observations Network) and OBOE (Extensible Observation Ontology): facilitating data interoperability within the environmental and ecological sciences through advanced semantic approaches (PPT | SWF) | Mark Schildhauer, Shawn Bowers, Matt Jones, and Josh Madin | |||
1215-1230 | A standard information transfer model scopes the ontologies required for observations (PPT | SWF) | Simon Cox and Laurent Lefort | |||
1235-1400 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1400-1530 | Session 7 - Phylogenetics standards | Nico Cellinese & Hilmar Lapp | Theatre | ||
1400-1405 | Introduction: TDWG Interest Group on Phylogenetics Standards (PPT | SWF) | Nico Cellinese | |||
1405-1420 | Obstacles and Avenues Facing Phyloinformatic Research (PPT | SWF) | William H. Piel | |||
1420-1435 | Integrating space, time and form; the challenge of developing standards for geophylogenies (PPT | SWF) | David Kidd | |||
1435-1450 | Data standards in phylogenetics: the NeXML project (PPT | SWF) | Rutger A. Vos | |||
1450-1505 | Emerging Data Standards for Phylogenomics Research (PPT | SWF) | Christian Zmasek | |||
1505-1520 | Nico Cellinese | ||||
1520-1530 | Towards a Simple, Standards-Compliant, and Generic Phylogenetic Database Module (PPT | SWF) | Hilmar Lapp, Todd J. Vision | |||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1600-1800 | Session 8 - Tutorials and Posters 1 | Gail Kampmeier & Arturo Ariño | Function Centre | ||
1600-1800 | TAPIR Tutorial | Renato De Giovanni | Function Centre | ||
1600-1800 | TDWG Architecture Workshop | Roger Hyam | Theatre | ||
1600-1800 | The NCD Toolkit | Wouter Addink | Notre Dame University Room 43.102 | ||
1600-1800 | GoldenGate | Donat Agosti | Notre Dame University Room 43.301 | ||
1630-2200 | Spotlighting trip to Karakamia (tickets in advance) | Karakamia | |||
| Wednesday 22 October | The Atlas of Living Australia | Donald Hobern | Venue | ||
0900-1030 | Session 9 - Atlas of Living Australia - Australian biodiversity informatics | Donald Hobern | Theatre | ||
0900-0915 | Ben Richardson | ||||
0915-0930 | CMKb: Integrating Australian Customary Medicinal Plant Knowledge with the Framework of Atlas of Living Australia (PPT | SWF) | Jitendra Gaikwad and Shoba Ranganathan | |||
0930-0950 | TAXAMATCH, a “fuzzy” matching algorithm for taxon names, and potential applications in taxonomic databases (PPT | SWF) | Tony Rees | |||
0950-1010 | Making Effective Use of the Atlas of Living Australia in Conservation Assessment Through Advances in Spatial Analysis and Modelling (PPT | SWF) | Simon Ferrier | |||
1010-1030 | Linking phylogenetic trees, taxonomy & geography to map phylogeography using Biodiverse (PPT | SWF) | Dan Rosauer and Shawn Laffan | |||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1100-1230 | Session 10 - Atlas of Living Australia - Architecture and deliverables | Dave Martin | Theatre | ||
1100-1130 | Donald Hobern, Nick dos Remedios, Dave Martin, Wolf Wanjura and Lynette Woodburn | ||||
1130-1150 | Taxonomy Research & Information Network (TRIN): Seeking Biodiversity Data Standards (PPT | SWF) | Margaret Cawsey, Gary Jolley-Rogers and Jim Croft | |||
1150-1210 | Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) and Australian Plant Census (APC): Content, Architecture and Services (PPT | SWF) | Greg Whitbread, Helen Thompson and Matthew Hand | |||
1210-1230 | Providing Annotation Services for the Atlas of Living Australia (PPT | SWF) | Ron Chernich | |||
1230-1400 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1400-1530 | Session 11 - Atlas of Living Australia - Exploring user scenarios 1 - John Tann (PPT) | Paul Flemons, Lynda Kelly & John Tann | Function Centre, Theatre & Boardroom | ||
1400-1530 | Breakout 1: Providers | ||||
1400-1530 | Breakout 2: Integrators | ||||
1400-1530 | Breakout 3: Consumers | ||||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1600-1730 | Session 12 - Atlas of Living Australia - Exploring user scenarios 2 | Paul Flemons, Lynda Kelly & John Tann | Function Centre, Theatre & Boardroom | ||
1600-1700 | Breakout 1: Providers | ||||
1600-1700 | Breakout 2: Integrators | ||||
1600-1700 | Breakout 3: Consumers | ||||
1700-1730 | Reports | Breakout Conveners | |||
1800-1900 | Public Lecture by Donald Hobern "Atlas of Living Australia - Sharing Biodiversity Knowledge to Shape Our Future" | Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia | |||
| Thursday 23 October | SESSIONS 13-16 | Chair | Venue | ||
0830-1000 | Session 13 - Tutorials and Posters 2 | Gail Kampmeier & Arturo Ariño | Function Centre | ||
0830-1000 | TAPIR Tutorial | Renato De Giovanni | Function Centre | ||
0830-1000 | TDWG Architecture Workshop | Roger Hyam | Theatre | ||
0830-1000 | The NCD Toolkit | Wouter Addink | Notre Dame University Room 43.301 | ||
0830-1000 | GoldenGate | Donat Agosti | Notre Dame University Room 36.120 | ||
1000-1030 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1030-1200 | Session 14: Keynote Speakers | Kevin Thiele | Theatre | ||
1030-1115 | Blood, Sweat and Tears: Biodiversity Data in the Real World. Dr Neil Burrows is the Director of the Science Division in the Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia. The Division provides expert scientific research and advice to support the Department, which has prime responsibility for managing Western Australia’s conservation estate and biodiversity. Neil has 25 years experience working as a fire scientist and ecologist investigating fire behaviour and impacts in a range of natural ecosystems including Eucalypt forests, woodlands, and hummock grasslands. This has included working with Aboriginal people in the Western Desert to understand their use of fire so that appropriate fire management regimes can be devised to conserve biodiversity and to meet the cultural needs of Aboriginal communities. Neil also has strong research interests in native mammal reintroduction programs in Western Australia, and the control of introduced mammalian herbivores and predators. | Neil Burrows | |||
1115-1200 | Biodiversity Information Standards: are we going wrong, or just not quite right? Jim Croft is Deputy Director Science and information at the the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra and manages the botanical information systems of Australian National Herbarium programme of the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. He has 30 years experience based in herbaria and a personal interest in applying evolving information management technologies to the business and products of scientific biological collections. He is particularly interested large scale national collaborative projects projects including the Australia's Virtual Herbarium, the Atlas of Living Australia and Australia's Taxonomy Research and Information Network as contributors to a global biodiversity knowledge base. (PPT | SWF) | Jim Croft | |||
1200-1330 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1330-1500 | Session 15 - Biodiversity-Related networks and Tools | Greg Whitbread | Theatre | ||
1330-1350 | SpeciesLink and openModeller: Network and Tool Enabling Biodiversity Research (PPT | SWF) | Renato De Giovanni, Alexandre Marino, Sidnei de Souza, Dora Ann Lange Canhos, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, and Vanderlei Perez Canhos | |||
1350-1410 | Andreas Müller, Andreas Kohlbecker, Pepe Ciardelli, Niels Hoffmann and Patricia Kelbert | ||||
1410-1420 | Data Integration Services for Biodiversity Informatics: An Example from Plant Collections and Morphbank (PPT | SWF) | Greg Riccardi and Boyce Tankersley | |||
1420-1440 | Community Building and Collaborative Georeferencing using GEOLocate (PPT | SWF) | Nelson Rios and Henry L. Bart | |||
1440-1500 | Halt the Loss of Biodiversity Data: Towards a New Archiving Infrastructure for Biodiversity Information (PPT | SWF) | Anton Güntsch and Walter G. Berendsohn | |||
1500-1530 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1530-1650 | Session 16 - Species Profile Model | Éamonn Ó Tuama | Theatre | ||
1530-1550 | A Gentle Stroll Through the Species Profile Model (PPT | SWF) | Bob Morris | |||
1550-1610 | Terry Catapano | ||||
1610-1630 | Patrick Leary | ||||
1630-1650 | The Species Profile Model from an Avian Perspective (PPT | SWF) | Jeff Gerbracht and Steve Kelling | |||
1900-late! | Banquet (tickets in advance) | Esplanade Hotel | |||
| Friday 24 October | SESSIONS 17-20 | Chair | Venue | ||
0900-1030 | Session 17 - Multimedia in Biodiversity Informatics | Bob Morris | Theatre | ||
0900-0915 | Introduction to the session: The relationship of the GBIF Multimedia Resource Task Group to the presentations and to the aims of the TDWG Image Interest Group (PPT | SWF | PDF) | Bob Morris and Vishwas Chavan | |||
0915-0930 | The NBII’s Digital Image Library – bringing together diverse images means quality control and standards (PPT | SWF) | Annette L. Olson | |||
0930-0945 | Creative Commons – Have Your Copyright and Share It Too (PPT | SWF) | Chuck Miller | |||
0945-1000 | Using Fedora Commons to create a persistent archive for digital objects (PPT | SWF) | Phil Cryer | |||
1000-1015 | Using the JPEG2000 image format for storage and access in biodiversity collections (PPT | SWF) | Chris Freeland | |||
1015-1030 | OntoMorphBankSter: Image-driven Ontology and/or Ontology-driven Image Annotation (PPT | SWF) | Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast, Daniel Miranker and Ferner Cilloniz | |||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1100-1230 | Session 18 - The Global Invasive Species Information Network | ||||