Contributed Papers
Navikey - a Java-based Application for Multi-access Taxon Identification | |
Dagmar Triebel, Dieter Neubacher, Wolfgang Reichert, Gerhard Rambold |
OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline | |
Walter G. Berendsohn, Anton Guentsch |
BExIS - Biodiversity Exploratories Information System | |
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Andreas Ostrowski, Eleonora Petzold, Jens Nieschulze |
Image workflow for the digitisation of herbarium specimens | |
Elspeth M Haston, Robert Cubey, David J Harris, Martin Pullan |
Switching to the fast track: rapid digitization of the world's largest herbarium | |
Henri Michiels |
Comparison of performance in different data models for taxonomic databases | |
Joern Vorwald, Sebastian Rick |
The US Virtual Herbarium Project: building a national digital collection resource from the ground up | |
Mary E Barkworth, Ben Legler, Zack Murrell |
Whole-drawer imaging for virtual management and curation of the Australian National Insect Collection | |
Beth Louise Mantle, Nicole Fisher, John La Salle |
Standardized Digital Imaging and Archiving Procedures - The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium | |
Michael Bevans |
Data Quality Resources in Species Occurrence Digitization | |
Allan Koch Veiga, Etienne Americo Cartolano Junior, Antonio Mauro Saraiva |
Update on the Central African Biodiversity Information Network (CABIN): A taste of Cyber-insects from Africa | |
Garin Cael, Charles Kahindo, Sévérin Tchibozo, Franck Theeten, Patricia Mergen |
Enlisting the Use of Educated Volunteers at a Distance: Or, Why Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Will NOT Create Nightmare Zombies That Will Destroy Us All | |
Andrea Thomer, Robert Guralnick |
The Value and Challenge of Digitized Biological Media Specimens | |
Michael S Webster, Greg Budney, Edwin Scholes |
Pl@ntNote v2 - a new generation of software for storage and exchange of heterogeneous botanical data | |
Benjamin LIENS, Samuel Dufour, Philippe BIRNBAUM, Pierre Bonnet, Daniel Barthelemy, Jean-François Molino |
New Methods for Streamlining Digitization at the New York Botanical Garden | |
Melissa Tulig, Nicole Tarnowsky |
Crowd sourcing record transcription to unlock historical species data from natural history collections | |
Andrew W Hill, Robert Guralnick, Mark W Westneat, Robert Prys-Jones, J Patrick Kociolek, Javier de la Torre |
New developments in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) | |
Stinger Guala |
SYNTHESYS II: Updating the BioCASe Technology Suite | |
Joerg Holetschek, Johan Dunfalk, Anton Guentsch, Walter G. Berendsohn |
GPS data collection methods for Paleoanthropology: Examples from the Dikika Research Project geodatabase. | |
Denne Reed, Shannon McPherron, William Andrew Barr, Zeresenay Alemseged, Rene Bobe, Denis Geraads, Jonathan Wynn |
Virtual Herbaria | |
heimo rainer |
The US Virtual Herbarium Project and iDigBio: Maximizing the benefits of digitizing herbaria | |
Mary E Barkworth, Zack Murrell, Austin Mast |
ENVIROFI - Bringing Biodiversity to the Future Internet | |
Kathi Schleidt, Nina Laurenne |
Crowd-sourcing: perpetual valuable resource or a passing shower of dubious worth? | |
Paul Kenneth Flemons |
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) | |
Stinger Guala |
EDDMapS: Aggregating and delivering distribution data to combat invasive species | |
Joseph LaForest, Charles T Bargeron, Rebekah Wallace, Karan Rawlins, David J Moorhead, G. Keith Douce |
A continuously updated All Genera Index: an achievable goal for Biodiversity Informatics? | |
Tony Rees |
Bugwood Images: 17 years of archiving and leveraging digital imagery | |
Joseph LaForest, Charles T. Bargeron, David Moorhead, G. Keith Douce |
Image based Digitisation of Entomology Collections: Leveraging volunteers can significantly increase digitisation capacity. | |
Paul Kenneth Flemons |
SANBI's in promoting biodiversity information standards in South Africa | |
Sediqa Khatieb |
FishNet2 Deconstructed: An Overview of the Architecture and Features behind the FishNet2 Search Engine | |
Nelson Rios, Hank L. Bart, Djihbrihou Abibou, Patrick Bingham |
Georeferencing Integration: The GEOLocate Project | |
Nelson Rios, Hank L. Bart, Djihbrihou Abibou |
Darwin Core Engine | |
Aaron Steele, John Wieczorek |
Taking TL-2 online: A Linked Data Resource | |
Martin Kalfatovic, Joel Richard |
Digitizing North American Lichen and Bryophyte Specimens | |
Corinna Gries, Thomas H. Nash III, Edward Gilbert |
Data publishing from the viewpoint of a biodiversity publisher | |
Lyubomir Penev |
Common Names Services in OpenUp! | |
heimo rainer, wolfgang koller, eveline wandl-vogt |
Collecting quantitative metadata by counting all specimens in a herbarium | |
Peter Desmet, Luc Brouillet |
Calbug: A case study of digitization challenges for entomology collections | |
Joan Elizabeth Ball, Peter T. Oboyski, Joyce Gross, Gordon M. Nishida, Rosemary G. Gillespie |
Species-level versus Specimen-level Digitisation. Alternative Approaches to Digitise a Large Natural History Collection. | |
Adrian Thomas Hine |
From fisheries studies to biodiversity data sharing | |
julien barde |
Supporting red list threat assessments with GeoCAT: Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool | |
Javier de la Torre |
Database Interoperability: The Global Invasive Species Information Network, providing the backbone for invasive species information sharing | |
Annie Simpson |
Reflora - Historic Repatriation of Brazilian Flora | |
Kleto Michel Zan, Eduardo Dalcin |
TaxPub: An extension to the NLM/NCBI Journal Archiving DTD | |
Terry Catapano |
Title: Lifemapper: Utilizing Specimen Data for Biodiversity Analysis in a Web-Services Architecture. | |
Aimee Stewart |
Reconciling Non-Overlapping Coverage Among Downloadable Plant Names | |
William Halliday Piel |
The Catalogue of Life - building a taxonomic backbone for the world biota | |
Frank A. Bisby |
Darwin-SW: Darwin Core data for the Semantic Web | |
Campbell Webb, Steve Baskauf |
TraitNet Semantic Data Registry - Leveraging ontologies for smart data discovery | |
Farshid Ahrestani |
Data integrity tools and metadata harmonisation in BHL-Europe | |
wolfgang koller, heimo rainer |
ecoQuery: a Semantic extension to the ecoReleve platform | |
Julie Chabalier, Olivier Coullet, Amandine Sahl, Olivier Rovellotti |
Evolution of the Darwin Core Archive and its use in the GBIF Network | |
Oliver Meyn, Tim Robertson |
Islandora: a digital data repository for biodiversity resources | |
Mark Leggott, Thornton Staples |
Symposia
The Biofinity Project - Open Source Tools and the Data Lifecycle | |
Stephen Scott |
Annotations: No longer just a slip of paper... | |
James Alexander Macklin, Greg Riccardi, Chris Freeland, Donald Hobern, Robert Morris |
Building a Network of Genomic Observatories to Study the Role of Biodiversity in Local and Global Change | |
Neil Davies, Dawn Field |
Digitization Portals and Information Interoperability | |
Greg Riccardi, Nico Cellinese |
Global biodiversity informatics initiatives update | |
Cynthia Parr |
Not as easy as ABCD: The ADBC challenges | |
Nico Cellinese, Greg Riccardi |
Dimensions of Digitization Workflows and Collaborative Cataloging | |
James Henry Beach |
Establishing a support infrastructure for Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS) in biodiversity informatics | |
Eamonn O Tuama, Dag Terje Filip Endresen, David Remsen |
Towards biodiversity data citation mechanism and services: Challenges and Potentials | |
Vishwas Chavan |
Integrating Collections Data with Broader Geospatial Data Communities and Research | |
James Henry Beach |
Lightning Talks
The Need for a Biological Images Archiving Site | |
Arthur Chapman |
Determining best practices for digitizing entomological collections. | |
Katja Chantre Seltmann, Babi Hammond, Jane Greenberg, Andrew Deans |
The final frontier of taxonomic standards- descriptive content | |
Matthew Yoder |
Advances in Biodiversity Modeling: Development of Algorithms and Predictive Performance Analysis | |
Pedro Pizzigatti Correa, Fabricio Augusto Rodrigues, Elisangela Rodrigues, Ricardo Rocha, Antonio Mauro Saraiva |
Apple Core: Darwin Core guidelines for herbaria | |
James Alexander Macklin, Peter Desmet, Patrick Sweeney |
Providing Digital Access to NatureServe's Biodiversity Reference Database: Report on a Project in Early Stages of Design | |
Donna J Reynolds, Robert A Morris |
Geomancer | |
Aaron Steele, John Wieczorek, Peter Desmet |
Spatial Data Library | |
John Wieczorek, Aaron Steele, Dave Vieglais |
Standards for a Superlative XML Schema | |
A. Gaylon Cook |
PlutoF - cloud database and computing services for the biologist | |
Kessy Abarenkov, Urmas Kõljalg |
Posters
IndExs - an Online Thesaurus for Standard Bibliographic Data on Exsiccatae in Botany and Mycology | |
Dagmar Triebel, Peter Scholz, Tanja Weibulat, Markus Weiss |
VertNet: Distributed databases with backbone | |
David Bloom, Carol Spencer, Michelle Koo, Carla Cicero, John Wieczorek, Robert Guralnick, Town Peterson, Laura Russell, Dave Vieglais, Nelson Rios, Hank Bart |
ezDBDB: an easy-to-use Distributed Biodiversity DataBase for the Semantic Web | |
Campbell Webb |
Afrotropical bird content digitization at the RMCA: via LifeDesk to EOL | |
Stijn Cooleman, Patricia Mergen, Michel Louette |
A new open source identification key generation webservice | |
Thomas Burguiere, Visotheary Ung, Florian Causse, Régine Vignes Lebbe |
Xper2: new features for an improved flexibility | |
Visotheary Ung, Florian Causse, Thomas Burguière, Régine Vignes-Lebbe |
The BioDiscovery Smartphone App | |
Helka Folch, Louise Allcock |
Cybertaxonomic approach to revision of larger groups: 3i experience | |
Dmitry A. Dmitriev, Christopher H. Dietrich |
HelpingScience: Online service for processing label data from digital herbarium specimen sheets | |
Michael A Giddens |
Radiation of beetles into cyberspace - two case studies of modelling taxonomic information | |
Nina Laurenne, Jouni Tuominen, Eero Hyvönen |
The BHL-Europe system architecture | |
wolfgang koller, andreas kohlbecker, lee namba, chris sleep |
Answering specific needs by adapting existant GBIF tools | |
Michael Akbaraly, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Éric Chenin, Delphine Gasc, Pere Roca Ristol, Régine Vignes-Lebbe, Tim Robertson |
Observing observations - an ontology-based approach for improving the reliability of biodiversity data | |
Nina Laurenne, Jouni Tuominen, Katharina Schleidt, Eero Hyvönen |
reBIND: Saving endangered data | |
Katja Luther, Agnes Kirchhoff, David Fichtmüller, Anton Guentsch |
Digitarium's Digitisation Process Used for the Natural History Collection Specimens | |
Juha Lehtonen, Susanne Heiska, Mika Pajari, Riitta Tegelberg, Hannu Saarenmaa |
GBIF France links with national programs : architecture and roadmap | |
Nicolas Lebas, Michael Akbaraly, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Éric Chenin, Delphine Gasc, Pere Roca Ristol, Régine Vignes-Lebbe |
Biological collection data capture processes | |
Elspeth M Haston, Robert Cubey, David J Harris |
Implementation of a metadata catalogue system for the GBIF network | |
Tim Robertson, Eamonn O Tuama, Federico Mendez |
Linking semantic phenotypes to character matrices and specimens | |
James P. Balhoff, Matthew J. Yoder, Andrew R. Deans |
Integrating Biodiversity Heritage Literature into the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy | |
Andreas Kohlbecker, Boris Jacob, Niels Hoffmann, Walter G. Berendsohn |
Glanville fritillary butterfly survey: database and software infrastructure | |
Evgeniy Meyke, Sami Ojanen, Ilkka Hanski |
The NEON Challenge: The Collection & Management of Continental-Scale Ecological Data and Biological Samples | |
Katherine M Thibault |
Encyclopedia of Life Version 2: A Vision for a Global Collaborative Project | |
Katja Sabine Schulz, Jennifer Hammock, Cynthia Parr |
Pollinator Information Network of the Americas: Vital Information for a Vital Ecological Service | |
Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa, Laurie Davies Adams, Michael Ruggiero, Elisabeth Sellers |
The Current Status and Management of the Korean National Biospecies Information System | |
Sangyong Kim, Dong-Gwang Jo, You-Mi Lee, Yong-Ha Kim |
The Field Book Project: An Implementation of Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD) and Library Standards | |
Carolyn Sheffield, Rusty Russell |
Computer Demos
Cooking Class: Boiling Down ABCD to DarwinCore Archives | |
Joerg Holetschek, Johan Dunfalk, Anton Guentsch, Walter G. Berendsohn |
Georeferencing botanical data using text analysis tools | |
Clare A Llewellyn, Elspeth M Haston, Claire Grover |
Xper2: new features for an improved flexibility | |
Visotheary Ung, Florian Causse, Thomas Burguière, Régine Vignes-Lebbe |
SilverMeasure: Server-side tiling and HTML 5 annotations of high resolution specimen images | |
Michael A Giddens |
Chapter One: I am at the Mercy of the Crowd, in Which I am Forced to Build a Crowdsourcing Web Application Using Ruby on Rails in 15 Minutes | |
Anthony P. Kirchgessner |
The Royal Museum for Central Africa Cybertaxonomy portal and its subdomains: an interconnected helpdesk system and information management tool. | |
Garin Cael, James Davy, Boris Jacob, Patricia Mergen |
The new BGBM Image Server: Management, Annotation and Publication | |
Dominik Roepert, Walter G. Berendsohn, Anton Guentsch |
Encyclopedia of Life Version 2: Demo of New Tools & Features | |
Katja Sabine Schulz |
BHL-E / Schema Mapping Tool | |
wolfgang koller |
Biodiversity Data Digitizer - A tool for a richer biodiversity data content digitization | |
Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Allan Koch Veiga, Etienne Americo Cartolano Junior |
Correcting and Standardizing Taxonomic Names with the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service | |
Naim Matasci, Bradley Boyd, Zhenyuan Lu, Nicole Hopkins, William H. Piel, Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay, Steven Gregory, Sonya Lowry, Sheldon J McKay, Martha L Narro, Edwin Skidmore, Brian J Enquist |
Map of Life | |
John Wieczorek, Aaron Steele, Walter Jetz, Rob Guralnick, Andrew Hill, Gaurav Vaidya, Dan Rosauer |
TapirDotNETXml - TAPIR compliant interface for XML data structure mapping | |
David Blaa, Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Andreas Ostrowski, Eleonora Petzold, Jens Nieschulze |
Islandora: a digital data repository for biodiversity resources | |
Mark Leggott, Thornton Staples |
Interest Group
Annotations Interest Group | |
Paul J Morris |
Steps toward a standard of Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA) | |
Hilmar Lapp, Nico Cellinese, Jim Leebens-Mack, Enrico Pontelli, Arlin Stoltzfus |
Sharing information on species interactions, phenology, identification, and checklists. | |
John Pickering, Gerry Cassis, Malcolm Storey |
Interest Group Abstract: Biodiversity Genomics Interest (BGIG) Group | |
John Deck |
(Future) Interest Group : Biodiversity Information for Cooperation and Development | |
Patricia Mergen, Garin Cael, Innocent Akampurira |
Invasive Species Information Systems Interest and Task Group Meeting | |
Annie Simpson |
Taxonomic Names and Concepts (TNC) Interest Group: annual open meeting. | |
Richard L. Pyle, Stanley D. Blum |
SYMBIOTA: Building Specimen-based Networks for Biodiversity Research | |
Mary E Barkworth, Edward Gilbert, Corinna Gries, Thomas Nash |
Islandora: a digital data repository for biodiversity resources | |
Mark Leggott, Thornton Staples |
IG Task Group
The Audubon Core Multimedia Resources Metadata Vocabulary | |
Robert A Morris |
RDF/OWL Best Practices Task Group | |
Joel Sachs, Steve Baskauf |
Keynote presentation
Collections, Cooperation, Collaboration, Consequences | |
Judith Skog |
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