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General Papers

Towards a data citation metric
Edward Baker
The use of optical character recognition (OCR) in the digitisation of herbarium specimens
Elspeth M Haston, Robyn E Drinkwater, Robert Cubey
Online Annotation of Biodiversity Data – the AnnoSys Approach
Okka Tschoepe, Lutz Suhrbier, Anton Güntsch, Walter G. Berendsohn
Hands-On AnnoSys – Managing Annotations Online
Lutz Suhrbier, Okka Tschöpe
Perspectives for better conservation of diversity information in microalgae communities in Burkina Faso
Bilassé ZONGO
eMonocot - A successful virtual community
Annapaola Santarsiero, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Kelly, Charles Godfray
Using ElasticSearch as a fast, flexible, and scalable solution to search occurrence records and checklists
Christian Gendreau, Marie-Elise Lecoq, David P. Shorthouse, Luc Brouillet
FOBioS: a functional ontology for biodiversity standards interoperability
Silvia Scheunemann, Fabiana Soares Santana, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandao
Assisted restructure of web content for paper-based presentation: a look at work flows and data representations
Alice Heaton, Simon Rycroft, Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton, Ben Scott, Koureas Dimitris, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith
Xper3: Introducing Social Taxonomy
Thomas Burguiere, Florian Causse, Antoine Bergamaschi, Nils Paulhe, Anais Grand, Frederic Lison, Visotheary Ung, Regine Vignes-Lebbe
The French standard "Occurrence of taxon" : issues, organization and results
Julie Chataigner, Laurent Poncet, Marie-Elise Lecoq, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Thierry Bourgoin
Towards a Collaborative Virtual Arctic Lichen Flora Project
Thomas Hawkes Nash III, Corinna Gries, Edward Gilbert, Benjamin Brandt, Alfonso Doucette, Mark Allen Wetter, Ken M Cameron
A taxonomist's guide to Homo sapiens computans
David King
BIH 2013: a goal to unite communities
Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts
The Natural History Museum Data Portal
Ben Scott
Microbial Biodiversity Conservation : Not to be Ignored
Anurag Chaurasia
Bibliography of Life (RefBank and ReFinder): A tool to discover, download, correct, and format bibliographic references
Guido Sautter, Jordan Biserkov
iDigBio Data Integration with Self-Referential Schemas
Sarfaraz Ahmed Soomro, Andrea Matsunaga, José A. B. Fortes
Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT) and Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) integrate data and narrative (text) publishing
Teodor Georgiev, Jordan Biserkov, Lyubomir Penev
Natural History collections as valuable sources of biodiversity data; solution by MUSEION
Jiri Frank, Pavel Mlcoch
Coupling phenotype descriptions and phylogenetic trees: from SDD to ontologies via graph databases
Anaïs Grand, Régine Vignes Lebbe, Eduardo Miranda, André Santanchè
A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities
Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts
Streamlining material- and data flow within the German Barcode of Life Project, GBOL
Christian Köhler, Peter Grobe
Miss the forest for the trees: bringing together multiple classifications
Heimo Rainer, Wolfgang Koller
Crowd sourcing in an attention economy
Olivier Rovellotti, Julie Chabalier, Amandine Sahl
DiversityMobile as part of the Diversity Workbench platform – a data pipeline from smartphone recording up to GBIF access
Tanja Weibulat, Georg Rollinger, Wolfgang Reichert, Markus Weiss, Dieter Neubacher, Bernhard Volz, Gerhard Rambold, Dagmar Triebel
Encyclopedia of Life TraitBank demonstration
Cyndy Parr
Linnaeus Next Generation for species information and identification
Wouter Addink, Maarten Schermer, Ruud Altenburg, Huub Veldhuijzen, Edwin van Spronsen, Peter Schalk
Lost in annotation? A publish-subscribe extension for Semantic MediaWiki vocabulary management system
Julie Chabalier, Amandine Sahl, Olivier Rovellotti
ViBRANT: progress towards an integrated framework
Vince Smith, Dave Roberts
SeaIce: a Cross-Domain Crowd-Sourced Metadata Vocabulary
John Kunze, Jane Greenberg, Sarah Callaghan, Robert Guralnick, Greg Janee, Angela Murillo, Nassib Nassar, Christopher Patton, Karthik Ram, Jim Regetz, Tim Robertson
From archives to apps, the story of VertNet
Aaron Steele, John Wieczorek
Cybertaxonomy and revisionary systematics
Dmitry Dmitriev

Keynote Speakers

Web services and workflows: The Digital Observatory of Protected Areas
Andrew Cottam, Gregoire Dubois

Posters

Bibliography of Life: Comprehensive services for biodiversity bibliographic references
David King, Guido Sautter, David Morse, Lyubomir Penev, Jordan Biserkov, Teodor Georgiev, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith
PlutoF – multifunctional workbench for taxonomical and ecological research, biodiversity data collection and analysis
Kessy Abarenkov, Urmas Kõljalg, Marko Peterson, Siim Halapuu, Janno Jõgeva, Karl Ranna, Henrik Nilsson
eBiodiversity – web portal for Estonian biodiversity data
Marko Peterson, Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov, Veljo Runnel, Siim Halapuu, Janno Jõgeva, Karl Ranna
iDigBio as a Resource for the Digitization of a Billion Biodiversity Research Specimens
Deborah Paul, Austin R Mast, Greg Riccardi, Gil Nelson
Practical Use and Database Quality Control of the Korea National Biospecies Information System
Sangyong KIM, Jae-Hyeun KIM, You-Mi LEE, Joon-Hwan SHIN
Afromoths: An online database of Afrotropical moth species
Nicolas Noé, André Heughebaert, Jurate De Prins
Enhancing Data Quality using AnnoSys – An Annotation System for Biodiversity Data
Lutz Suhrbier, Okka Tschöpe
From Dendrœca blackburniæ to Dendrceca blackburniae: what's in a name?
David King
Agora 3D: Evaluating the Digitisation of Scientific Collections
Jonathan Brecko, Mathys Aurore, Patricia Mergen, Emmanuel Gilissen, Franck Theeten, Chris Vastenhoud, Erik Buelincks
#biobr – Citizen Science from social network
Etienne Americo Cartolano, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Allan Koch Veiga
Fauna Europaea; all European animal species on the web
Yde de Jong, Florian Wetzel, Falko Gloeckler, Alexander Kroupa, Andreas Kohlbecker, Andreas Müller, Anton Guentsch, Gregor Hagendorn, Christoph Haueser
PaleoCore: An ontology and data standard for paleoanthropology
Denne Reed
The Catalogue of Life Virtual Community
Peter Schalk, Wouter Addink, Yuri Roskov
Lets talk: technical infrastructure and workflows for the OpenUp! Common Names Service
Wolfgang Koller, Heimo Rainer
FADA: Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment
Aaike De Wever, Hendrik Segers, Koen Martens
agINFRA - where agriculture, biodiversity and information technology meet
David Morse, Jane Bromley, David King
Linking taxon names with DNA-based species
Urmas Kõljalg
Plinian Core: integrating information about species
Santiago Martínez de la Riva, Carmen Quesada, Francisco Pando de la Hoz, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco, Ángela M. Suárez-Mayorga, María Mora, Danny Vélez, Jose Trinidad Mendoza Gaytan, Daniel Lins da Silva, Patricia Koleff, Maria Esther Quintero Rivero, Aurelio Sanabria
A strategy for integration of big (phenotype) data
Suzanna Lewis, Paula Mabee, Andy Deans, Eva Huala, Chris Mungall
Xper3: Introducing Social Taxonomy
Thomas Burguiere, Florian Causse, Antoine Bergamaschi, Nils Paulhe, Anais Grand, Frederic Lison, Visotheary Ung, Regine Vignes-Lebbe
Lets talk: accessing scientific content through their vernacular names representations
Heimo Rainer, Wolfgang Koller
Building a mass-digitisation service infrastructure and user communities
Hannu Saarenmaa, Tero Mononen, Janne Karppinen, Mira Sääskilahti, Riitta Tegelberg
BioFresh: building a collaborative global freshwater biodiversity data hub
Aaike De Wever, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Nicolas Bailly, Vanessa Bremerich, Paul Jepson, Jörg Freyhof, Koen Martens, Klement Tockner
ComTax: Community-driven Curation for Taxonomic Databases
David Morse, Hui Yang, Alistair Willis, Anne de Roeck, David King
M-EOL: biodiversity awareness for gamers
Julie Chabalier, Céline Vidal, Amandine Sahl, Olivier Rovellotti
The DINA-Specify Consortium
Fredrik Ronquist, Markus Englund, Karin Karlsson, Kevin Holston, Ida Li
A High Volume Media Library using TDWG Audubon Core
Wouter Addink, Ayco Holleman, Adrie Berg, Joost van Leusen, Atze de Vries, David Heijkamp
Biodiversity Network of the Humboldt-Ring (BiNHum): Access to high-quality object data, extension of established database systems and set-up of a joint data portal
Joerg Lange, Joachim Holstein, Anita Roth-Nebelsick, Christopher Traiser, Florian Raub, Hubert Höfer, Klaus Riede, Peter Grobe, Maik Röder, Christian Köhler, Anton Güntsch, Gabriele Dröge, Patricia Kelbert, Dagmar Triebel, Anton Link, Markus Weiss, Dieter Neubacher, Tanja Weibulat
Biodiversity Vocabulary Management at BCO-DMO
Nancy J. Copley, M. Dickson Allison, Robert C. Groman, Cynthia L. Chandler, Peter H. Wiebe, David M. Glover
Miss the forest for the trees: technical infrastructure for handling multiple classifications
Wolfgang Koller, Heimo Rainer
Anymals + plants – Biodiversity in your pocket
Falko Glöckler, Alexander Krupa, Daniel Zitterbart, M. Uher, Tom Uher

Interest Group

Annotations Interest Group
Paul J Morris
Biological Descriptions & Identification methods
Gregor Hagedorn
Semantics4Biodiversity
Elizabeth Arnaud
Genomic Biodiversity Working Interest Group (GBWG)
John Deck
The Economic Botany data collection standard
Nicky Nicolson
Species Information Interest Group - Approved!
Francisco Pando
Image Interest Group, Multimedia Resources Task Group (MRTG) Report and Discussion
Robert A Morris

Symposium: Empowering International e-Collaboration for Sustainability

Long Live the Data
Eric T. Meyer
Introduction: Empowering International eCollaboration for Sustainability
Deborah Paul, Gail Kampmeier, Reed Beaman
Strategies and partnerships for enabling infrastructure sustainability
Anne Maglia
Expanding and Sustaining Sub-Saharan African Participation and Collaboration with TDWG
Henry L. Bart, Patricia Mergen
Use it or lose it: Crowdsourcing support and outreach activities in a hybrid sustainability model for e-infrastructures – The ViBRANT project case studies
Dimitrios Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Vincent Smith
Success in broadening participation and engagement in digitization
Deborah Paul
Building sustainable biodiversity information systems
Fredrik Ronquist
Potential Refinement of the BARCODE Data Standard for Forensic Application: The Barcode of Wildlife Project
David E. Schindel
We can foster collaboration and improve the results of biodiversity informatics
Antonio Mauro Saraiva
Creating a semantic framework for cultivated plants for the international e-collaboration on agrobiodiversity
Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis, Pankaj Jaiwal, Laurel Cooper, Selim Louafi, Pierre Larmande, Caterina Caraciolo, Johannes Keizer, Richard Bruskiewich
NEON’s collections program: Developing a collaborative network of museums and a resource in support of biodiversity research
Michael W. Denslow
Panel Discussion: Empowering International eCollaboration for Sustainability
Reed S. Beaman, Deborah Paul, Gail Kampmeier
The elements of collaboration in TDWG
Stanley Blum

Symposium Biodiversity informatics services and workflows

Provenance in Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity Informatics
Bertram Ludaescher, Paolo Missier, David Lowery, Tianhong Song, Maureen Kelly, Sven Koehler, James Macklin, Paul Morris, Robert Morris, James Hanken
Providing Statistical Algorithms as-a-Service
Gianpaolo Coro, Pasquale Pagano, Leonardo Candela
Biodiversity Informatics Services: Fit for Use?
Cherian Mathew
Improving Natural Science Collections Data through Quality Control for Research using Workflows Embedded in a FilteredPush network
James A Macklin, James Hanken, Maureen Kelly, Sven Koehler, David B Lowery, Bertram Ludaescher, Paul J Morris, Robert A Morris, Tianhong Song
Using the Taverna Workflow Tool Suite for Biodiversity Research in the BioVeL Project.
Norman Morrison

Symposium: Big Data coming from Earth Observation Networks

GBIF's Role in the Earth Observation System
Tim Robertson, Éamonn Ó Tuama
The Common Infrastructure of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) applying a brokering approach
Stefano Nativi, Max Graglia
Establishing a Systems Infrastructure for GEO BON
Wim Hugo
The GEOSS Brokering System
Paolo Mazzetti, Stefano Nativi, Mattia Santoro, Fabrizio Papeschi
Integrating observation and survey data for production of essential biodiversity variables – the EU BON approach
Hannu Saarenmaa
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) Cyberinfrastructure Status and Futures
Andréa Matsunaga, Renato Figueiredo, Alex Thompson, Gregory Traub, Reed Beaman, José A. B. Fortes

Symposium: Biodiversity Data Quality – issues, methods and tools

Biodiversity Data: Domains, richness, uses and Data Quality dimensions
Arthur Chapman
Data Quality processes used in the Atlas of Living Australia
Paul Kenneth Flemons
Documenting data quality in a global network: the challenge for GBIF
Éamonn Ó Tuama, Andrea Hahn, Samy Gaiji
Data quality challenges in the Canadensys network of occurrence records: examples, tools, and solutions
Christian Gendreau, David P. Shorthouse, Peter Desmet
The Data Quality Initiative at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
David Fichtmueller
VESpeR - Visual Exploration of Species-referenced Repositories
Martin Graham, Jessie Kennedy
A Data Quality Management Module for BExIS
Michael Owonibi, Roman Gerlach, Andreas Ostrowski, Eleonora Petzold, Birgitta König-Ries
Linking systems to improve data quality
Javier Otegui, Robert Guralnick
SCAN - Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network: Leveraging Filtered Push Technology to Enhance Remote Taxonomic Identifications
Nico Franz
Proposal of a metadata schema for biodiversity data quality
Allan Koch Veiga, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão, Etienne Americo Cartolano Jr.
Proposal of a methodology for dealing with Biodiversity Data Quality
Allan Koch Veiga, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Etienne Americo Cartolano Jr.
Collaborative validation of visual data through the Pl@ntNet identification system
Samuel Dufour-Kowalski, Jeremy Salinier, Aurelien Peronnet, Jennifer Carré, Jean-Pascal Milcent, Hervé Goëau, Alexis Joly, Nozha Boujemaa, Pierre Bonnet, Julien Barbe, Jean-Francois Molino, Daniel Barthélémy
Biodiversity Data Quality - issues, methods and tools: Introduction
Antonio Mauro Saraiva
Discussion
Antonio Mauro Saraiva
Discussion
Antonio Mauro Saraiva
Beyond Barriers: Exporting data quality assessments from Spain
Arturo H. Ariño, Francisco Pando, Javier Otegui
Data quality assessment at CONABIO
Raúl Jiménez

Symposium: Crafting the future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for diverse community’s needs

A Current Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Finding a goldmine of natural history illustrations within BHL texts: the Art of Life project
Trish Rose-Sandler
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe - past, present and future
Jiri Frank
Discovering African biodiversity literature collections
Lucy Waruingi
Expanding the Biodiversity Heritage Library
William Ulate
Please phrase your question in the form of feedback...
Constance Rinaldo
Questions & Discussion: Crafting the future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for diverse community’s needs: the case of scientists.
Martin Kalfatovic

Workshop: Content provision workshop using BioCASe and OpenUp! infrastructure

OpenUp! mobilised data overview / Benefits and possibilities for content providers
Jiri Frank
ABCDEFG schema overview
Falko Gloeckler
BioCASe Provider Software & BioCASe Monitor Service
Falko Gloeckler
Sustaining a biodiversity data infrastructure: OpenUp!, BioCASE, and GBIF
Walter G. Berendsohn
Data Quality Toolkit (DQT)
Anton Güntsch
IPR in the biodiversity information and natural history domain
Boris Jacob
Europeana API Services
Boris Jacob
Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Portal & ABCDDNA
Gabriele Dröge
Natural History Meets Culture
Heimo Rainer, Koller Wolfgang

Workshop: Documenting the Darwin Core

What is a Darwin Core Occurrence? (Part 1)
John Wieczorek
What is a Darwin Core Occurrence? (Part 2)
Richard L. Pyle
Clarifying the relationship between dwc:basisOfRecord, rdf:type, and the DwC Type Vocabulary
Joel Sachs
Development of proposals and documentation; Future Directions
James Alexander Macklin

Symposium: Minimum Information Standards for Biological Collections: Beyond Darwin Core

Stable identifiers and then quickly BEYOND
Gregor Hagedorn
Using and Extending Darwin Core for structured attribute data
Cynthia Parr, Patrick Leary, Jennifer Hammock, Katja Schulz, Nathan Wilson
Strategies and Vocabularies for Representing Interactions among Biodiversity Objects
Greg Riccardi
World Flora Online
Chuck Miller
Discussion - Beyond Darwin Core
Greg Riccardi

Symposium: Building and maintaining crowd sourcing Websites and their Communities

Georeferencing Fishes: a Community-Based Model
Nelson Rios, Henry Bart
Engaging Citizens in Specimen Digitization at the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Specimens
Barbara Mary Thiers
Recruiting the general public : results after 10 months of herbarium labels transcription
Simon Chagnoux
Citizen Science, Opportunity Costs and Growing Pains: Notes from Nature Turns 4 Months Old
Rob Penn Guralnick
Crowd sourcing climate change research
Elizabeth Ellwood, Richard Primack, Peter Everill, Jane Marsching, Matthew Shanley
iDigBio's Public Participation in Digitization Management System
Austin Mast, Elizabeth Ellwood, Robert Bruhn, Greg Riccardi
Crowd Sourcing and Community Management Capabilities Available within Symbiota Data Portals
Nico Franz, Corinna Gries, Edward Gilbert
Panel Discussion: Building & Maintaining Crowd Sourcing Websites & their Communities
Paul Kenneth Flemons

Semantics for Biodiversity - Primer on Semantic Technologies

Primer on Semantic Technologies
Steve Baskauf, Mark Schildhauer

Semantics for Biodiversity - Technologies, Reasoning and Annotation

A faceted search system for facilitating the understanding and the prediction of ecosystem changes
Marie-Angélique Laporte, Eric Garnier, Isabelle Mougenot
Building a Biodiversity Information Network using Persistent, Resolvable Identifiers
John Deck, Robert Guralnick, John Kunze
Semantic matching of interests to annotations with SPARQL queries on reasoned triples
Paul J Morris, James Hanken, Maureen Kelly, David Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher, James A. Macklin, Robert A Morris, Tianhong Song
Modeling Property Values: Is SKOS Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? Knowledge Representation Issues.
Robert A. Morris
The ingest and uses of specimen label data into semantic knowledge stores
Bryan Heidorn, Steven Chong
SemantEco Annotator for Linked Data Generation and Generalized Semantic Mapping
Patrice Seyed, Katherine Chastain, Brendan Ashby, Yue Liu, Timothy Lebo, Evan Patton, Deborah McGuinness
The BiSciCol Triplifier: bringing legacy biodiversity data to the Semantic Web
Brian Stucky, Robert Guralnick, John Deck, Tom Conlin
An RDF Guide for the TDWG Darwin Core Standard
Steven Baskauf, John Wieczorek, John Deck, Campbell Webb, Mark Schildhauer
Semantic approach for collection data via open data webs instead of closed systems
Falko Glöckler, Alexander Kroupa, Anton Güntsch, Gregor Hagedorn

Semantics for Biodiversity - Formal Models and Ontologies

Implementing a semantic mediator to integrate flower-visiting records from South African natural history museums
Willem Coetzer, Deshendran Moodley, Aurona Gerber
Using Answer Set Programming to Simulate the Interplay of Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Change
Nico Franz, Joohyung Lee
A Toolkit for Reconciling Multiple Taxonomic Perspectives: Euler/X and the Perelleschus Use Case
Nico Franz, Mingmin Chen, Shizhuo Yu, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher
Using Darwin-SW to Answer Questions About Biodiversity Resources
Steven Baskauf, Campbell Webb
Using Darwin Core as a Model: An Ontologically Minimalist Approach to Publishing Occurrence Data in RDF
Joel Sachs
A New Metadata Checklist For Describing Species Inventory Completeness
Rob Guralnick, Ramona Walls, Walter Jetz
Text Mining for Biodiversity Ontologies
Mark Schildhauer, Benjamin Adams
Linking Biodiversity Data with the Biological Collections Ontology
Ramona Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, John Wieczorek
Ontology Extraction from Unstructured Text in the Biodiversity Domain
Daniele Cristina Palazzi Krempser, Ana Maria Moura, Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Luiz Gadelha

Semantics for Biodiversity - Interoperability with Genomic and Environmental semantics

The Crop Ontology: towards the semantic integration of open plant trait data
Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis, Pierre-Yves Chibon, Milko Skofic, Pankaj Jaiswal, Laurel Cooper, Rosemary Shrestha, Mark Wilkinson, Richard Bruskiewich, Graham McLaren
User-Based Sub-Ontology Extraction – A Means to Support Semantic Annotation of Biodiversity Data
Dennis Heimann, Birgitta König-Ries
Identification of Environment Ontology terms in Text and Annotation of Biodiversity (ENVIRONMENTS-EOL) and Genomics (SEQenv) Information
Evangelos Pafilis, Sune Frankild, Umer Ijaz, Lucia Fanini, Sarah Faulwetter, Christina Pavloudi, Julia Schnetzer, Aikaterini Vasileiadou, Christos Arvanitidis, Christopher Quince, Lars Juhl Jensen
Hierarchical Search in SemantEco Supporting Varied Ontology Design Patterns
Patrice Seyed, Evan Patton, Deborah McGuinness
Semantic tools for aggregation of morphological characters across studies
James Balhoff, Alex Dececchi, Paula Mabee, Hilmar Lapp
Prototyping a botanical knowledge portal
James Macklin, Joel Sachs, Hong Cui, Heather Cole
Collaboratively Creating Computable Species Descriptions
Nathan Wilson
Linking Data For Real: How and Why The Current Situation Stinks Big Time
Rob Guralnick, Tom Conlin, Nico Cellinese, John Deck
The Earth Microbiome Project: Planetary-scale systems ecology.
Sean Gibbons, Jack Gilbert, Rob Knight, Janet Jansson, Jai Rideout, Antonio Gonzales, Emmanuel Prestat, J Gregory Caporaso
Practical interoperability across semantic stores of data for ecological, taxonomic, phylogenetic, and metagenomics research
Cynthia Parr

Workshop: Biodiversity for Cooperation and Development

Workshop: Biodiversity for Cooperation and Development
Patricia Mergen

Symposium: Mobilizing biodiversity information in Sub-Saharan Africa

OPENING UP THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION Untitled () reviewed Abstract _Patricia Merg
Kudzai Mafuwe
Coping with the technical and institutional changing context in cooperation development projects. reviewed Abstract _Patricia Merg
Franck Theeten
The Use of Plants Database to Identify Gaps in Biodiversity Conservation Network in Madagascar. reviewed Abstract _Patricia Merg
Tantely Raminosoa
A Biodiversity Network Data Centre for Africa reviewed Abstract _Patricia Merg
Wim Hugo
A bioinformatics journey towards biodiversity information availability and use in Rwanda
Prosper Karame
Opening Remarks
Patricia Mergen, Henry L. Bart

Workshop Darwin Core Archives: beyond star schema

Darwin Core Archives and the Encyclopedia of Life
Patrick Leary
Darwin Core Archive and the Global Genome Biodiversity Network
Gabriele Droege, Katharine Barker, Paul Flemons
An iDigBio perspective on Darwin Core Archives
Alexander Thompson, Jose Fortes, Andrea Matsunaga
Discussion - Darwin Core Archives: beyond star schema
Gabriele Droege, Patrick Leary

Symposium: Developing a Names-based Architecture for Linking Biodiversity Data

Towards a Global Names Architecture: A Names-Based Backbone for Integrating Global Biodiversity Data
Richard L. Pyle
A names backbone – a graph of taxonomy
Nicky Nicolson
Dynamics of taxon concepts: How to handle changes of taxonomic information, and why?
Oskar Kindvall
Concepts and Tools Needed to Increase Bottom-Up Taxonomic Expert Participation in a Global Names-Based Infrastructure
Nico Franz, David Patterson, Sudhir Kumar, Edward Gilbert
Design of "LODAC Species" as a Names-based Linked Open Data architecture
Akihiro Kameda, Fumihiro Kato, Utsugi Jimbo, Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda
What Taxonomic information is 'Open Access'?
Donat Agosti, Gregor Hagedorn, Willi Egloff, David Patterson
BiOnym – a flexible workflow approach to taxon name matching
Edward Vanden Berghe, Nicolas Bailly, Caselyn Aldemita, Fabio Fiorellato, Gianpaolo Coro, Anton Ellenbroek, Pasquale Pagano
The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
Andreas Kohlbecker, Yde de Jong, Cherian Mathew, Lorna Morris, Andreas Müller, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn
Scratchpads: The virtual research environment for biodiversity data
Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith, Alice Heaton, Katherine Bouton, Laurence Livermore, Dimitris Koureas, Ed Baker
Development of a dataportal providing European taxonomic information: past activities and future plans
Simon Claus, Yde de Jong, Klaas Deneudt, Bart Vanhoorne, Francisco Hernandez
A pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)
Yde de Jong, Florian Wetzel, Gregor Hagendorn, Falko Gloeckler, Christoph Haeuser, Marc Geoffroy, Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Anton Guentsch, Walter Berendsohn, Nicola Nicolson, Alan Paton, Paul Kirk, Bart Vanhoorne, Simon Claus, Francisco (Tjess) Hernandez, Jan Mees, Christos Arvanitidis, Hannu Saarenmaa, Valerio Sbordoni, Aaike De Wever, Hendrik Segers, Ulf Gärdenfors, David King
In the hot seat: managing data- and workflows between biologists and computers
Dmitry Schigel, Hanna Koivula, Esko Piirainen, Eija-Leena Laiho
Taxonomic Names-related Poster Introductions
Richard L. Pyle

Workshop: Sharing and delivery of reusable phylogenetic knowledge

SUPERSMART: Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages and Relationships of Taxa
Alexandre Antonelli
Numerical tree representations and their application to MCMC phylogenetic inference, phylogenetic signal, and ... database query
Saverio Vicario
Quest for Orthologs: anchoring comparative biology research
Suzanna Lewis, Quest for Orthologs Consortium
Assembling a draft overall tree of life from phylogenetic trees and taxonomic databases
Jonathan A Rees
Sharing phylogenetic data: even more vital for morphological data
Ross Mounce
PhyloTastic - names-based phyloinformatic data integration
Rutger Vos
Panel Discussion: Sharing & Delivery of Reusable Phylogenetic Knowledge
Hilmar Lapp
Workshop: Sharing & Delivery of Reusable Phylogenetic Knowledge
Rutger Vos, Nico Cellinese, Hilmar Lapp

Symposium: Biodiversity vocabulary management - outcomes of the VoMaG Task Group

Developing a vocabulary: the SINP use case
Julie Chataigner, Laurent Poncet
Semantic MediaWiki - a community platform for vocabulary development
Gregor Hagedorn
Introduction to VoMaG
Éamonn Ó Tuama
The TDWG Ontologies
Steve Baskauf
A framework for managing vocabularies
Dag Endresen
Modeling Property Values: is SKOS part of the solution or part of the problem?
Robert A Morris
General Discussion - Outcomes of the TDWG Vocabulary Management Task Group
Éamonn Ó Tuama

Hackathon: Use of Semantic MediaWiki for vocabulary management

Use of Semantic MediaWiki for vocabulary management (Hackathon)
Gregor Hagedorn, Dag Endresen, Éamonn Ó Tuama

Workshop: Darwin Core DNA and Tissue Data Standard for the Global Genome Biodiversity Network

Workshop: Darwin Core DNA and Tissue Data Standard for the Global Genome Biodiversity Network
Paul Kenneth Flemons, Katharine Barker, Gabrielle Dröge

Symposium: Scholarly Data Publishing in Biodiversity: Challenges and Potentials

NPG-GBIF Roadmap for Biodiversity Data Publishing through Scientific Data
Susanna Sansone, Vishwas Chavan
Incentivising Biodiversity Data Publishing: GBIF-Pensoft Partnership
Vishwas Chavan, Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev
Next generation sequencing requires next generation publishing: The Biodiversity Data Journal published the first Eukaryotic new species with a fully sequenced transcriptome, DNA barcode and microcomputed tomography
Lyubomir Penev, Pavel Stoev, Ana Komericki, Nesrine Akkari, Shalini Li, Xin Zhou, Scott Edmunds, Chris Hunter, Alexander Weigand, David Porco, Marzio Zapparoli, Teodor Georgiev, Daniel Mietchen, Dave Roberts, Vincent Smith
Exploring the future of scholarly publishing of biodiversity data
Vishwas Chavan
Panel Discussion - Scholarly Data Publishing
Lyubomir Penev, Susanna Sansone, Vishwas Chavan


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