General Papers
The use of optical character recognition (OCR) in the digitisation of herbarium specimens | |
Elspeth M Haston, Robyn E Drinkwater, Robert Cubey |
eMonocot - A successful virtual community | |
Annapaola Santarsiero, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Kelly, Charles Godfray |
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 |
Microbial Biodiversity Conservation : Not to be Ignored | |
Anurag Chaurasia |
Crowd sourcing in an attention economy | |
Olivier Rovellotti, Julie Chabalier, Amandine Sahl |
Lost in annotation? A publish-subscribe extension for Semantic MediaWiki vocabulary management system | |
Julie Chabalier, Amandine Sahl, Olivier Rovellotti |
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 |
Keynote Speakers
Web services and workflows: The Digital Observatory of Protected Areas | |
Andrew Cottam, Gregoire Dubois |
Posters
#biobr – Citizen Science from social network | |
Etienne Americo Cartolano, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Allan Koch Veiga |
Xper3: Introducing Social Taxonomy | |
Thomas Burguiere, Florian Causse, Antoine Bergamaschi, Nils Paulhe, Anais Grand, Frederic Lison, Visotheary Ung, Regine Vignes-Lebbe |
M-EOL: biodiversity awareness for gamers | |
Julie Chabalier, Céline Vidal, Amandine Sahl, Olivier Rovellotti |
Biodiversity Vocabulary Management at BCO-DMO | |
Nancy J. Copley, M. Dickson Allison, Robert C. Groman, Cynthia L. Chandler, Peter H. Wiebe, David M. Glover |
Symposium: Empowering International e-Collaboration for Sustainability
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 |
Symposium Biodiversity informatics services and workflows
Providing Statistical Algorithms as-a-Service | |
Gianpaolo Coro, Pasquale Pagano, Leonardo Candela |
Symposium: Biodiversity Data Quality – issues, methods and tools
Biodiversity Data: Domains, richness, uses and Data Quality dimensions | |
Arthur Chapman |
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 |
Symposium: Building and maintaining crowd sourcing Websites and their Communities
Recruiting the general public : results after 10 months of herbarium labels transcription | |
Simon Chagnoux |
Semantics for Biodiversity - Technologies, Reasoning and Annotation
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 |
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 |
A Toolkit for Reconciling Multiple Taxonomic Perspectives: Euler/X and the Perelleschus Use Case | |
Nico Franz, Mingmin Chen, Shizhuo Yu, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher |
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 |
Prototyping a botanical knowledge portal | |
James Macklin, Joel Sachs, Hong Cui, Heather Cole |
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 |
Symposium: Developing a Names-based Architecture for Linking Biodiversity Data
BiOnym – a flexible workflow approach to taxon name matching | |
Edward Vanden Berghe, Nicolas Bailly, Caselyn Aldemita, Fabio Fiorellato, Gianpaolo Coro, Anton Ellenbroek, Pasquale Pagano |
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 |
Workshop: Sharing and delivery of reusable phylogenetic knowledge
Quest for Orthologs: anchoring comparative biology research | |
Suzanna Lewis, Quest for Orthologs Consortium |
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 |
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 |
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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