TDWG 2008 Annual Conference Program
TDWG meetings are dynamic. This program will be regularly updated as the program evolves. Please be aware that program items may therefore move time and/or date. It is strongly recommended that delegates try to attend the full conference.
| 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) | ||
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| 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) | ||
0900-1700 | 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 & MRT | 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) | ||
0900-1300 | Available | TBA | Notre Dame University Education Centre room 36.103 (seats 45) | ||
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1800 | Welcome Reception |
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| Monday 20 October | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS | Chair | Venue | ||
09:00-10:30 | Welcome by the Chairman and introductions to TDWG | Donald Hobern | Main | ||
0900-0915 | Welcome | TBA | |||
0915-0925 | Housekeeping and Logistics | Adrian Rissone | |||
0925-0945 | TDWG - Looking Back and Looking Forward | Donald Hobern | |||
0945-1015 | TDWG standards architecture | Roger Hyam | |||
1015-1045 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1045-1230 | Session 2 - Session 2 - From Small to Big: How to Capitalize on Small Contributions to the Big Dreams of Sharing Biodiversity Information | Gail Kampmeier | Main | ||
1045-1050 | Introduction: From Small to Big | Gail Kampmeier | |||
1050-1115 | Every Datum Counts! Capitalizing on Small Contributions to the Big Dreams of Mobilizing Biodiversity Data | Vishwas Chavan, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Samy Gaiji, David Remsen and Nicholas King | |||
1115-1125 | Experiences in mobilizing biodiversity data - the story of HermesLite? | Piers Higgs and Tim Carpenter | |||
1125-1155 | Small pieces loosely joined: Building scientific web communities with Scratchpads | Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Kehan Harman and Vince Smith | |||
1155-1215 | Designing a global network to accommodate contributions from all sources and technical abilities | Tim Robertson | |||
1215-1230 | Discussion | Gail Kampmeier | |||
1230-1400 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1400-1530 | Session 3 - An Introduction to ... | Adrian Rissone | Main | ||
1400-1420 | An Introduction to Taxonomic Names of Organisms | Rich Pyle | |||
1420-1440 | An Introduction to Data Exchange Protocols in TDWG | Renato De Giovanni | |||
1440-1500 | An introduction to biological descriptions | Kevin Thiele | |||
1500-1515 | Globally Unique Identifiers in Biodiversity Informatics | Kevin Richards | |||
1515-1600 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1600-1730 | Session 4 - Biodiversity Informatics: Key Organizations and Projects | Lee Belbin | Main | ||
1600-1630 | GBIF: From Prototype Towards Full Operation | Éamonn Ó Tuama, Vishwas Chavan, Markus Döring, Samy Gaiji, David Remsen and Tim Robertson | |||
1630-1645 | DataNetOne?: A Distributed Environmental Data Archive | Matt Jones | |||
1645-1700 | European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) | Walter Berendsohn | |||
1700-1715 | Biological Collections Index (BCI) | Roger Hyam | |||
1715-1730 | Key2Nature? | Wouter Addink | |||
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| Tuesday 21 October | Sessions 5-8 | Chair | Venue | ||
0900-1030 | Session 5 - Biodiversity Informatics Literature and More | Anna Weitzman | Main | ||
0900-09150 | Plazi: Providing access to taxonomic literature through semantic enhancements and exposure of descriptions. An overview | Donat Agosti | |||
0915-0930 | Plazi: The technical set up | Donat Agosti | |||
0930-0945 | Plazi: Prospects for mark up of legacy and prospective publications | Terry Catapano | |||
0945-1000 | An evaluation of taxonomic name finding and next steps in BHL developments | Chris Freeland | |||
1000-1020 | Precision in accessing the descriptions, keys and other contents of digitized taxonomic literature: the INOTAXA prototype | Chris Lyal and Anna Weitzman | |||
1020-1030 | Discussion | Anna Weitzman | |||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1100-1230 | Session 6 - Ontologies | Stan Blum | Main | ||
1105-1120 | Session Full | TBA | |||
1120-1135 | TBA | TBA | |||
1135-1150 | TBA | TBA | |||
1150-1205 | TBA | TBA | |||
1205-1220 | TBA | TBA | |||
1220-1230 | TBA | TBA | |||
1230-1400 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1400-1530 | Session 7 - Phylogenetics standards | Nico Cellinese & Hilmar Lapp | Main | ||
1400-1420 | Session Full | TBA | |||
1420-1435 | TBA | TBA | |||
1435-1455 | TBA | TBA | |||
1455-1510 | TBA | TBA | |||
1510-1530 | TBA | TBA | |||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1600-1800 | Session 8 - Posters and Computer Demonstrations 1 | Gail Kampmeier & Arturo Ariño | Function Centre | ||
1600-1800 | TAPIR Tutorial | Renato De Giovanni | TBA 1 | ||
1600-1800 | TDWG Architecture Workshop | Roger Hyam | TBA 2 | ||
1600-1800 | The NCD Toolkit | Wouter Addink | TBA 3 | ||
1600-1800 | GoldenGate? | Donat Agosti | TBA 4 | ||
1630-2200 | Spotlighting trip to Karakamia (tickets in advance) | Karakamia | |||
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| Wednesday 22 October | The Atlas of Living Australia | Donald Hobern | Venue | ||
0900-1030 | Session 9 - Atlas of Living Australia - Australian biodiversity informatics | Donald Hobern | Main | ||
0900-0915 | Introducing Australia’s Virtual Herbarium (AVH) | Ben Richardson | |||
0915-0930 | CMKb: Integrating Australian Customary Medicinal Plant Knowledge with the Framework of Atlas of Living Australia | Jitendra Gaikwad and Shoba Ranganathan | |||
0930-0950 | TAXAMATCH, a “fuzzy” matching algorithm for taxon names, and potential applications in taxonomic databases | Tony Rees | |||
0950-1010 | Making Effective Use of the Atlas of Living Australia in Conservation Assessment Through Advances in Spatial Analysis and Modelling | Simon Ferrier | |||
1010-1030 | Linking phylogenetic trees, taxonomy & geography to map phylogeography using Biodiverse | Dan Rosauer and Shawn Laffan | |||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1100-1230 | Session 10 - Atlas of Living Australia - Architecture and deliverables | Dave Martin | Main | ||
1100-1130 | Introduction to the ALA | Donald Hobern, Nick dos Remedios, Dave Martin, Wolf Wanjura and Lynette Woodburn | |||
1130-1150 | Taxonomy Research & Information Network (TRIN): Seeking Biodiversity Data Standards | Margaret Cawsey, Gary Jolley-Rogers and Jim Croft | |||
1150-1210 | Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) and Australian Plant Census (APC): Content, Architecture and Services | Greg Whitbread, Helen Thompson and Matthew Hand | |||
1210-1230 | Providing Annotation Services for the Atlas of Living Australia | Ron Chernich | |||
1230-1400 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1400-1530 | Session 11 - Atlas of Living Australia - Exploring user scenarios 1 | Paul Flemons, Lynda Kelly & John Tann | Main | ||
1400-1530 | Breakout 1: Providers | TBA | |||
1400-1530 | Breakout 2: Integrators | TBA | |||
1400-1530 | Breakout 3: Consumers | TBA | |||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1600-1730 | Session 12 - Atlas of Living Australia - Exploring user scenarios 2 | Paul Flemons, Lynda Kelly & John Tann | Main | ||
1600-1700 | Breakout 1: Providers | TBA | |||
1600-1700 | Breakout 2: Integrators | TBA | |||
1600-1700 | Breakout 3: Consumers | TBA | |||
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 | |||
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| Thursday 23 October | SESSIONS 13-16 | Chair | Venue | ||
0830-1000 | Session 13 - Posters and Demonstrations 2 | Gail Kampmeier & Arturo Ariño | Function Centre | ||
0830-1000 | TAPIR Tutorial | Renato De Giovanni | TBA 1 | ||
0830-1000 | TDWG Architecture Workshop | Roger Hyam | TBA 2 | ||
0830-1000 | The NCD Toolkit | Wouter Addink | TBA 3 | ||
0830-1000 | GoldenGate? | Donat Agosti | TBA 4 | ||
1000-1030 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1030-1200 | Session 14: Keynote Speakers | Kevin Thiele | Main | ||
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 | Keynote Address 2 | Jim Croft | |||
1200-1330 | Lunch | High Street | |||
1330-1500 | Session 15 - Biodiversity-Related networks and Tools | Greg Whitbread | Main | ||
1330-1350 | SpeciesLink? and openModeller: Network and Tool Enabling Biodiversity Research | Renato De Giovanni, Alexandre Marino, Sidnei de Souza, Dora Ann Lange Canhos, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, and Vanderlei Perez Canhos | |||
1350-1410 | EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy – An Overview | 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 | Greg Riccardi and Boyce Tankersley | |||
1420-1440 | Community Building and Collaborative Georeferencing using GEOLocate | Nelson Rios and Henry L. Bart | |||
1440-1500 | Halt the Loss of Biodiversity Data: Towards a New Archiving Infrastructure for Biodiversity Information | Anton Güntsch and Walter G. Berendsohn | |||
1500-1530 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1530-1650 | Session 16 - Species Profile Model | Éamonn Ó Tuama | Main | ||
1530-1550 | Plazi: Implementing SPM | Terry Catapano | |||
1550-1610 | A Gentle Stroll Through the Species Profile Model | Bob Morris | |||
1610-1630 | Experiences in Consuming SPM Marked-up Data | Patrick Leary | |||
1630-1650 | The Species Profile Model from an Avian Perspective | Jeff Gerbracht and Steve Kelling | |||
1900-late! | Banquet (tickets in advance) | Esplanade Hotel | |||
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| Friday 24 October | SESSIONS 17-20 | Chair | Venue | ||
0900-1030 | Session 17 - Multimedia in Biodiversity Informatics | Bob Morris | Main | ||
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 | Bob Morris and Vishwas Chavan | |||
0915-0930 | The NBII’s Digital Image Library – bringing together diverse images means quality control and standards | Annette L. Olson | |||
0930-0945 | Creative Commons – Have Your Copyright and Share It Too | Chuck Miller | |||
0945-1000 | Using Fedora Commons to create a persistent archive for digital objects | Phil Cryer | |||
1000-1015 | Using the JPEG2000 image format for storage and access in biodiversity collections | Chris Freeland | |||
1015-1030 | OntoMorphBankSter?: Image-driven Ontology and/or Ontology-driven Image Annotation | Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast, Daniel Miranker and Ferner Cilloniz | |||
1030-1100 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1100-1230 | Session 18 - The Global Invasive Species Information Network | Annie Simpson | Main | ||
1100-1115 | Building a TAPIR-Lite Toolkit for the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) | Jim Graham | |||
1115-1130 | Invasive species information management and exchange in the Americas: the IABIN Invasives Information Network (I3N?) | Fournier | |||
1130-1145 | Ensuring the relevance of invasive species information management tools for policy development and effective management | Judy Fisher | |||
1145-1200 | Data Models to share invasive species information through the Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) | Annie Simpson | |||
1200-1215 | TBA | TBA | |||
1215-1230 | Discussion |
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1230-1400 | TDWG Business Meeting | Adrian Rissone | Main | ||
1400-1530 | Session 19 - Bringing Organism Observations into Bioinformatics Networks | Steve Kelling | Main | ||
1400-1420 | The significance of observations to biodiversity studies | Steve Kelling | |||
1420-1440 | Towards Global Observation Networks: GBIF's plans for mobilizing primary biodiversity data | Vishwas Chavan | |||
1440-1500 | New directions in observational data organization and federation: from EML to observational ontologies | Mathew Jones | |||
1500-1520 | The issues with sensitive species: managing access, issues of data quality, and data ownership | Arthur Chapman | |||
1520-1530 | Domain-centric observation networks: Experiences gained from the Avian Knowledge Network | Denis Lepage | |||
1530-1600 | Coffee | Function Centre | |||
1600-1730 | Session 20 - Wild Ideas!! | Markus Döring and Tim Robertson | Main | ||
1600-1615 | A Hadoop-Based Prototype for the Filtered-Push Project | Zhimin Wang, Hui Dong, Maureen Kelly, James A. Macklin, Paul J. Morris and Morris A. Robert | |||
1615-1630 | Data Exchange Standards – The Case for Being Stupidly Simple | Chuck Miller | |||
1630-1645 | 3D for a demanding audience (General Processing Graphical Processing Unit GPGPU) | Bart Meganck and Patricia Mergen | |||
1645-1700 | SpeciesIndex?: A Practical Alternative to Fantasy Mashups? | Roger Hyam | |||
1700 | Close | Donald Hobern | Main | ||
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| Saturday 25 October | EXCURSIONS | Meeting Location | |||
Sunday 26 | 0900-1730 | Scenery, wine, beer, chocolate | Maritime Museum | ||
Sunday 26-30 | 4 nights - 5 days | An amazing area of endemism | Esplanade Hotel | ||
Anytime | Day Trip | Cycle round a scenic island off Perth with unique flora and fauna | Rottnest ferry terminal | ||
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| Monday - Friday | POSTERS | Chair | Venue | ||
0900-1730 | Authors | Title | Gail Kampmeier and Arturo Ariño | Function Centre | |
Dave Watts | The SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Database of terrestrial and limnetic data | ||||
Bruno Danis | The Register of Antarctic Marine Species: towards a comprehensive inventory of the Southern Ocean biodiversity | ||||
Bruno Danis | SCAR-MarBIN: free and open access to Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Data | ||||
Wouter Addink, Peter Schalk | ETI BioPortals?: customizable common access system to distributed heterogeneous data sources | ||||
Jörg Holetschek | How to Reduce Your Coffee Consumption – Performance Investigations on Large Occurrence Databases | ||||
Chuck Miller | tropicos.org - A New Look | ||||
Walter G. Berendsohn, Marie Gebhardt | LifeWatch? – e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for Biodiversity Research | ||||
Aaron Wilton, Kevin Richards, Jerry Cooper and Christina Flann | The Global Compositae Checklist – integration of nomenclature and taxonomic concepts from multiple data sources | ||||
Ben Richardson, Alex Chapman | Ten Years of FloraBase? | ||||
Qin Wei, Chris Freeland, P. Bryan Heidorn | An Evaluation of Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR) in the Biodiversity Heritage Library | ||||
Pere Roca Ristol, Pablo Sastre, Jorge Lobo, Franck Theeten, Bart Meganck, Patricia Mergen | EDIT mapViewer: a Gegraphic Web Application for Taxonomists | ||||
Christine Fournier | Invasive Species Tools for Risk Assessment in the Americas: IABIN Invasive Information Network (I3N?) | ||||
Walter G. Berendsohn, Marie Gebhardt | LifeWatch? – e-Science and Technology Infrastructure for Biodiversity Research | ||||
Éamonn Ó Tuama, Vishwas Chavan, Samy Gaiji, Tim Robertson | GBIF's Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System | ||||
Éamonn Ó Tuama, Vishwas Chavan, Samy Gaiji, Alberto Gonzalez-Talaván, Nicholas King, Tim Robertson | The GBIF Work Programme 2009-2010: From Prototype towards Full Operation | ||||
Yde de Jong, Charles Hussey, Mark Costello, Thierry Bourgin, Anton Guentsch, Ward Appeltans, Walter Berendsohn | A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI) | ||||
David Remsen | The Global Names Architecture: an integrated and federated approach to enabling discovery and access to biodiversity information. | ||||
Arturo H. Ariño | Sampling Biodiversity Sampling | ||||
Visotheary Ung, Régine Vignes-Lebbe | Xper²: an open tool to manage descriptive data | ||||
Cynthia Parr | The Encyclopedia of Life: Status report on species pages, contributions, and curators | ||||
David E. Schindel, Cynthia Parr | e-Biosphere 09: International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics | ||||
Elizabeth Arnaud, Michael Mackay, Sonia Dias, Rajesh Sood, Kiran Viparthi, Milko Skofic, Adriana Alercia, Tito Franco, Frederick Atieno, Xavier Scheldeman, Anzar Shamsie, Selim Louafi, Pete Cyr | A Global Information System for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) | ||||
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| Monday-Friday | COMPUTER DEMONSTRATIONS | Chair | Venue | ||
0900-1730 | Authors | Title | Time | Gail Kampmeier and Arturo Ariño | Function Centre |
Karl-Heinz Steinke, Robert Dzido, Martin Gehrke, Klaus Prätel | Feature recognition mechanism for herbarium specimens (Herbar-Digital) | TBA | |||
Michael Giddens | SilverCollection?: A Standardized Web Portal for Biological Collections | TBA | |||
Tony Rees | IRMNG – The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera | TBA | |||
Gail E. Kampmeier | Mandala 8: A Database System that Can Start Out Small and End Up Big | TBA | |||
Giri Palanisamy, Vivian Hutchison, Mike Frame | NBII Clearinghouse (Mercury)-Distributed Metadata Management, Data Discovery and Access System | TBA | |||
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