Contributed Papers
OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline | |
Walter G. Berendsohn, Anton Guentsch |
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 |
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 |
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) | |
Stinger Guala |
Digitizing North American Lichen and Bryophyte Specimens | |
Corinna Gries, Thomas H. Nash III, Edward Gilbert |
Calbug: A case study of digitization challenges for entomology collections | |
Joan Elizabeth Ball, Peter T. Oboyski, Joyce Gross, Gordon M. Nishida, Rosemary G. Gillespie |
Lightning Talks
Determining best practices for digitizing entomological collections. | |
Katja Chantre Seltmann, Babi Hammond, Jane Greenberg, Andrew Deans |
Posters
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 |
HelpingScience: Online service for processing label data from digital herbarium specimen sheets | |
Michael A Giddens |
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 |
reBIND: Saving endangered data | |
Katja Luther, Agnes Kirchhoff, David Fichtmüller, Anton Guentsch |
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 |
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 |
SilverMeasure: Server-side tiling and HTML 5 annotations of high resolution specimen images | |
Michael A Giddens |
The new BGBM Image Server: Management, Annotation and Publication | |
Dominik Roepert, Walter G. Berendsohn, Anton Guentsch |
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 |
Interest Group
SYMBIOTA: Building Specimen-based Networks for Biodiversity Research | |
Mary E Barkworth, Edward Gilbert, Corinna Gries, Thomas Nash |

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