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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