Conference Schedule

2013-10-27

09:00 AM

• TDWG Executive Committee meeting: The Annual Meeting of the TDWG Executive will take place in the America del Nord (note room change) of Il Globo at the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo.
• ViBRANT meeting (closed): The ViBRANT team will meet in closed session in the Giardino d'Inverno in Il Globo at the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo.

03:00 PM

• Registration - Sunday: If you have registered for the conference, pick up your badge and conference materials.  If you have not yet registered, do this now before the Welcome Reception.

03:30 PM

• Technical Architecture Group (TAG) meeting: This meeting includes all conveners of Interest and Task Groups and will be held in the America del Sud (note room change) in Il Globo at the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo.

07:00 PM

• Reception at "La Specola": 

  Welcome Cocktail

  Sunday, October 27th, 2013
  
  The conference welcome cocktail will be hosted at

  The Section of Zoology "La Specola"
  Museum of Natural History
  University of Florence
  via Romana 17
  50125 Firenze

  see http://www.tdwg.org/conference-2013/#c1507

2013-10-28

08:00 AM

• Registration - Day 1: 
  If you have registered for the conference, pick up your badge and conference materials. Walk-up registrations also welcome.

09:00 AM

• Chairman's Welcome and Address: Sala dei Continenti

09:30 AM

• Eric T. Meyer, Long Live the Data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:30 AM

• AM Break and Poster Session - Day 1: AM Break and Poster Session, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

11:00 AM

• Deborah Paul, Gail Kampmeier, Reed Beaman, Introduction: Empowering International eCollaboration for Sustainability
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:05 AM

• Anne Maglia, Strategies and partnerships for enabling infrastructure sustainability
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:25 AM

• Antonio Mauro Saraiva, We can foster collaboration and improve the results of biodiversity informatics
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:45 AM

• Fredrik Ronquist, Building sustainable biodiversity information systems
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:05 PM

• Henry L. Bart, Patricia Mergen, Expanding and Sustaining Sub-Saharan African Participation and Collaboration with TDWG
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:30 PM

• Lunch - Day 1: Catered lunch

02:00 PM

• Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Biodiversity Data Quality - issues, methods and tools: Introduction
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• David E. Schindel, Potential Refinement of the BARCODE Data Standard for Forensic Application: The Barcode of Wildlife Project
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• John Wieczorek, What is a Darwin Core Occurrence? (Part 1)
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Sud (Theatre II)

02:10 PM

• Allan Koch Veiga, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Etienne Americo Cartolano Jr., Proposal of a methodology for dealing with Biodiversity Data Quality
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:20 PM

• Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis, Pankaj Jaiwal, Laurel Cooper, Selim Louafi, Pierre Larmande, Caterina Caraciolo, Johannes Keizer, Richard Bruskiewich, Creating a semantic framework for cultivated plants for the international e-collaboration on agrobiodiversity
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:30 PM

• Arthur Chapman, Biodiversity Data: Domains, richness, uses and Data Quality dimensions
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:40 PM

• Deborah Paul, Success in broadening participation and engagement in digitization
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:50 PM

• Paul Kenneth Flemons, Data Quality processes used in the Atlas of Living Australia
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

03:00 PM

• Dimitrios Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Vincent Smith, Use it or lose it: Crowdsourcing support and outreach activities in a hybrid sustainability model for e-infrastructures – The ViBRANT project case studies
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:10 PM

• 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, Collaborative validation of visual data through the Pl@ntNet identification system
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

03:30 PM

• PM Break and Poster Session - Day 1: Break and Poster Session, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

04:00 PM

• Javier Otegui, Robert Guralnick, Linking systems to improve data quality
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Michael W. Denslow, NEON’s collections program: Developing a collaborative network of museums and a resource in support of biodiversity research
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Richard L. Pyle, What is a Darwin Core Occurrence? (Part 2)
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Sud (Theatre II)
• Nicky Nicolson, The Economic Botany data collection standard
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

04:05 PM

• Michael Owonibi, Roman Gerlach, Andreas Ostrowski, Eleonora Petzold, Birgitta König-Ries, A Data Quality Management Module for BExIS
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

04:20 PM

• Stanley Blum, The elements of collaboration in TDWG
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Allan Koch Veiga, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão, Etienne Americo Cartolano Jr., Proposal of a metadata schema for biodiversity data quality
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

04:40 PM

• Éamonn Ó Tuama, Andrea Hahn, Samy Gaiji, Documenting data quality in a global network: the challenge for GBIF
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Reed S. Beaman, Deborah Paul, Gail Kampmeier, Panel Discussion: Empowering International eCollaboration for Sustainability
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

05:00 PM

• Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Discussion
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

05:30 PM

• Adjourn Day 1

2013-10-29

08:00 AM

• Registration - Day 2: 
  If you have registered for the conference, pick up your badge and conference materials. Walk-up registrations also welcome.

09:00 AM

• Pre-election Buzz: Sala dei Continenti

09:30 AM

• Andrew Cottam, Gregoire Dubois, Web services and workflows: The Digital Observatory of Protected Areas
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:30 AM

• AM Break and Poster Session - Day 2: AM Break and Poster Sessions - Day 2, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

11:00 AM

• Nelson Rios, Henry Bart, Georeferencing Fishes: a Community-Based Model
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Martin R. Kalfatovic, A Current Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Joel Sachs, Clarifying the relationship between dwc:basisOfRecord, rdf:type, and the DwC Type Vocabulary
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Paul J Morris, Annotations Interest Group
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

11:10 AM

• Austin Mast, Elizabeth Ellwood, Robert Bruhn, Greg Riccardi, iDigBio's Public Participation in Digitization Management System
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:14 AM

• Trish Rose-Sandler, Finding a goldmine of natural history illustrations within BHL texts: the Art of Life project
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:20 AM

• Rob Penn Guralnick, Citizen Science, Opportunity Costs and Growing Pains: Notes from Nature Turns 4 Months Old
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:28 AM

• Jiri Frank, Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe - past, present and future
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:30 AM

• Simon Chagnoux, Recruiting the general public : results after 10 months of herbarium labels transcription
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:40 AM

• Barbara Mary Thiers, Engaging Citizens in Specimen Digitization at the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Specimens
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:42 AM

• Lucy Waruingi, Discovering African biodiversity literature collections
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:50 AM

• Elizabeth Ellwood, Richard Primack, Peter Everill, Jane Marsching, Matthew Shanley, Crowd sourcing climate change research
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:56 AM

• William Ulate, Expanding the Biodiversity Heritage Library
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

12:00 PM

• Nico Franz, Corinna Gries, Edward Gilbert, Crowd Sourcing and Community Management Capabilities Available within Symbiota Data Portals
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:10 PM

• Constance Rinaldo, Please phrase your question in the form of feedback...
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Paul Kenneth Flemons, Panel Discussion: Building & Maintaining Crowd Sourcing Websites & their Communities
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:20 PM

• Martin Kalfatovic, Questions & Discussion: Crafting the future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for diverse community’s needs: the case of scientists.
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

12:30 PM

• Lunch - Day 2

02:00 PM

• David Fichtmueller, The Data Quality Initiative at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Norman Morrison, Using the Taverna Workflow Tool Suite for Biodiversity Research in the BioVeL Project.
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Patricia Mergen, Workshop: Biodiversity for Cooperation and Development
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Sud (Theatre II)
• Robert A Morris, Image Interest Group, Multimedia Resources Task Group (MRTG) Report and Discussion
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

02:15 PM

• Christian Gendreau, David P. Shorthouse, Peter Desmet, Data quality challenges in the Canadensys network of occurrence records: examples, tools, and solutions
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:18 PM

• Cherian Mathew, Biodiversity Informatics Services: Fit for Use?
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:30 PM

• Martin Graham, Jessie Kennedy, VESpeR - Visual Exploration of Species-referenced Repositories
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:36 PM

• Bertram Ludaescher, Paolo Missier, David Lowery, Tianhong Song, Maureen Kelly, Sven Koehler, James Macklin, Paul Morris, Robert Morris, James Hanken, Provenance in Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity Informatics
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:45 PM

• Nico Franz, SCAN - Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network: Leveraging Filtered Push Technology to Enhance Remote Taxonomic Identifications
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:50 PM

• Arturo H. Ariño, Francisco Pando, Javier Otegui, Beyond Barriers: Exporting data quality assessments from Spain
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:54 PM

• James A Macklin, James Hanken, Maureen Kelly, Sven Koehler, David B Lowery, Bertram Ludaescher, Paul J Morris, Robert A Morris, Tianhong Song, Improving Natural Science Collections Data through Quality Control for Research using Workflows Embedded in a FilteredPush network
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:05 PM

• Raúl Jiménez, Data quality assessment at CONABIO
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

03:12 PM

• Gianpaolo Coro, Pasquale Pagano, Leonardo Candela, Providing Statistical Algorithms as-a-Service
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:20 PM

• Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Discussion
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

03:30 PM

• PM Break and Poster Session - Day 2: PM Break and Poster Session - Day 2, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

04:00 PM

• Sarfaraz Ahmed Soomro, Andrea Matsunaga, José A. B. Fortes, iDigBio Data Integration with Self-Referential Schemas
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Cynthia Parr, Patrick Leary, Jennifer Hammock, Katja Schulz, Nathan Wilson, Using and Extending Darwin Core for structured attribute data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Steve Baskauf, Mark Schildhauer, Primer on Semantic Technologies
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

04:15 PM

• Silvia Scheunemann, Fabiana Soares Santana, Anarosa Alves Franco Brandao, FOBioS: a functional ontology for biodiversity standards interoperability
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

04:20 PM

• Chuck Miller, World Flora Online
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

04:30 PM

• Elspeth M Haston, Robyn E Drinkwater, Robert Cubey, The use of optical character recognition (OCR) in the digitisation of herbarium specimens
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

04:40 PM

• Gregor Hagedorn, Stable identifiers and then quickly BEYOND
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

04:45 PM

• Christian Köhler, Peter Grobe, Streamlining material- and data flow within the German Barcode of Life Project, GBOL
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

05:00 PM

• Ben Scott, The Natural History Museum Data Portal
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Wouter Addink, Maarten Schermer, Ruud Altenburg, Huub Veldhuijzen, Edwin van Spronsen, Peter Schalk, Linnaeus Next Generation for species information and identification
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Greg Riccardi, Strategies and Vocabularies for Representing Interactions among Biodiversity Objects
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

05:05 PM

• David King, A taxonomist's guide to Homo sapiens computans
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

05:10 PM

• Jiri Frank, Pavel Mlcoch, Natural History collections as valuable sources of biodiversity data; solution by MUSEION
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

05:15 PM

• Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, BIH 2013: a goal to unite communities
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Greg Riccardi, Discussion - Beyond Darwin Core
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

05:30 PM

• Adjourn - Day 2
• Gregor Hagedorn, Biological Descriptions & Identification methods
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

2013-10-30

08:00 AM

• Registration - Day 3: 
  If you have registered for the conference, pick up your badge and conference materials. Walk-up registrations also welcome.

09:00 AM

• Interest & Task Group Reports: Sala dei Continenti

09:30 AM

• Stefano Nativi, Max Graglia, The Common Infrastructure of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) applying a brokering approach
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:30 AM

• AM Break and Poster Session - Day 3: AM Break and Poster Session - Day 3, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

11:00 AM

• Walter G. Berendsohn, Sustaining a biodiversity data infrastructure: OpenUp!, BioCASE, and GBIF
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Paolo Mazzetti, Stefano Nativi, Mattia Santoro, Fabrizio Papeschi, The GEOSS Brokering System
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• James Alexander Macklin, Development of proposals and documentation; Future Directions
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• John Deck, Genomic Biodiversity Working Interest Group (GBWG)
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

11:10 AM

• Falko Gloeckler, BioCASe Provider Software & BioCASe Monitor Service
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:15 AM

• Tim Robertson, Éamonn Ó Tuama, GBIF's Role in the Earth Observation System
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:20 AM

• Anton Güntsch, Data Quality Toolkit (DQT)
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:30 AM

• Heimo Rainer, Koller Wolfgang, Natural History Meets Culture
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Andréa Matsunaga, Renato Figueiredo, Alex Thompson, Gregory Traub, Reed Beaman, José A. B. Fortes, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) Cyberinfrastructure Status and Futures
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:40 AM

• Falko Gloeckler, ABCDEFG schema overview
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:45 AM

• Boris Jacob, IPR in the biodiversity information and natural history domain
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Wim Hugo, Establishing a Systems Infrastructure for GEO BON
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:55 AM

• Boris Jacob, Europeana API Services
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

12:00 PM

• Jiri Frank, OpenUp! mobilised data overview / Benefits and possibilities for content providers
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Hannu Saarenmaa, Integrating observation and survey data for production of essential biodiversity variables – the EU BON approach
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:10 PM

• Gabriele Dröge, Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Portal & ABCDDNA
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

12:30 PM

• Lunch - Day 3

01:45 PM

• Business Meeting: Sala dei Continenti - all conference attendees are TDWG members and are encouraged to attend.

02:30 PM

• Olivier Rovellotti, Julie Chabalier, Amandine Sahl, Crowd sourcing in an attention economy
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Vishwas Chavan, Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Incentivising Biodiversity Data Publishing: GBIF-Pensoft Partnership
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:32 PM

• Steven Baskauf, John Wieczorek, John Deck, Campbell Webb, Mark Schildhauer, An RDF Guide for the TDWG Darwin Core Standard
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:41 PM

• John Deck, Robert Guralnick, John Kunze, Building a Biodiversity Information Network using Persistent, Resolvable Identifiers
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:45 PM

• Thomas Hawkes Nash III, Corinna Gries, Edward Gilbert, Benjamin Brandt, Alfonso Doucette, Mark Allen Wetter, Ken M Cameron, Towards a Collaborative Virtual Arctic Lichen Flora Project
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• 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, 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
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

02:50 PM

• Falko Glöckler, Alexander Kroupa, Anton Güntsch, Gregor Hagedorn, Semantic approach for collection data via open data webs instead of closed systems
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

02:59 PM

• Brian Stucky, Robert Guralnick, John Deck, Tom Conlin, The BiSciCol Triplifier: bringing legacy biodiversity data to the Semantic Web
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:00 PM

• John Kunze, Jane Greenberg, Sarah Callaghan, Robert Guralnick, Greg Janee, Angela Murillo, Nassib Nassar, Christopher Patton, Karthik Ram, Jim Regetz, Tim Robertson, SeaIce: a Cross-Domain Crowd-Sourced Metadata Vocabulary
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Susanna Sansone, Vishwas Chavan, NPG-GBIF Roadmap for Biodiversity Data Publishing through Scientific Data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

03:08 PM

• Bryan Heidorn, Steven Chong, The ingest and uses of specimen label data into semantic knowledge stores
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:15 PM

• Vishwas Chavan, Exploring the future of scholarly publishing of biodiversity data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Thomas Burguiere, Florian Causse, Antoine Bergamaschi, Nils Paulhe, Anais Grand, Frederic Lison, Visotheary Ung, Regine Vignes-Lebbe, Xper3: Introducing Social Taxonomy
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

03:17 PM

• Patrice Seyed, Katherine Chastain, Brendan Ashby, Yue Liu, Timothy Lebo, Evan Patton, Deborah McGuinness, SemantEco Annotator for Linked Data Generation and Generalized Semantic Mapping
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:26 PM

• Robert A. Morris, Modeling Property Values: Is SKOS Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? Knowledge Representation Issues.
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:30 PM

• Tanja Weibulat, Georg Rollinger, Wolfgang Reichert, Markus Weiss, Dieter Neubacher, Bernhard Volz, Gerhard Rambold, Dagmar Triebel, DiversityMobile as part of the Diversity Workbench platform – a data pipeline from smartphone recording up to GBIF access
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Lyubomir Penev, Susanna Sansone, Vishwas Chavan, Panel Discussion - Scholarly Data Publishing
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

03:35 PM

• Paul J Morris, James Hanken, Maureen Kelly, David Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher, James A. Macklin, Robert A Morris, Tianhong Song, Semantic matching of interests to annotations with SPARQL queries on reasoned triples
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

03:44 PM

• Marie-Angélique Laporte, Eric Garnier, Isabelle Mougenot, A faceted search system for facilitating the understanding and the prediction of ecosystem changes
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

04:00 PM

• PM Break and Poster Session - Day 3: PM Break and Poster Session - Day 3, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

04:30 PM

• Patricia Mergen, Henry L. Bart, Opening Remarks
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Vince Smith, Dave Roberts, ViBRANT: progress towards an integrated framework
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Elizabeth Arnaud, Semantics4Biodiversity
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

04:35 PM

• Alexander Thompson, Jose Fortes, Andrea Matsunaga, An iDigBio perspective on Darwin Core Archives
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

04:40 PM

• Franck Theeten, Coping with the technical and institutional changing context in cooperation development projects.
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

04:45 PM

• Gabriele Droege, Katharine Barker, Paul Flemons, Darwin Core Archive and the Global Genome Biodiversity Network
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Annapaola Santarsiero, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Kelly, Charles Godfray, eMonocot - A successful virtual community
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

04:55 PM

• Patrick Leary, Darwin Core Archives and the Encyclopedia of Life
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Kudzai Mafuwe, OPENING UP THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

05:00 PM

• Christian Gendreau, Marie-Elise Lecoq, David P. Shorthouse, Luc Brouillet, Using ElasticSearch as a fast, flexible, and scalable solution to search occurrence records and checklists
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

05:05 PM

• Gabriele Droege, Patrick Leary, Discussion - Darwin Core Archives: beyond star schema
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

05:10 PM

• Tantely Raminosoa, The Use of Plants Database to Identify Gaps in Biodiversity Conservation Network in Madagascar.
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

05:15 PM

• Alex Hardisty, Dave Roberts, A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

05:25 PM

• Prosper Karame, A bioinformatics journey towards biodiversity information availability and use in Rwanda
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

05:30 PM

• Cyndy Parr, Encyclopedia of Life TraitBank demonstration
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

05:40 PM

• Wim Hugo, A Biodiversity Network Data Centre for Africa
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

06:00 PM

• Adjourn - Day 3

2013-10-31

08:00 AM

• Registration - Day 4: 
  If you have registered for the conference, pick up your badge and conference materials. Walk-up registrations also welcome.

09:00 AM

• Éamonn Ó Tuama, Introduction to VoMaG
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Richard L. Pyle, Towards a Global Names Architecture: A Names-Based Backbone for Integrating Global Biodiversity Data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Ross Mounce, Sharing phylogenetic data: even more vital for morphological data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Francisco Pando, Species Information Interest Group - Approved!
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

09:05 AM

• Steve Baskauf, The TDWG Ontologies
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

09:15 AM

• Jonathan A Rees, Assembling a draft overall tree of life from phylogenetic trees and taxonomic databases
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Nicky Nicolson, A names backbone – a graph of taxonomy
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:20 AM

• Dag Endresen, A framework for managing vocabularies
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

09:25 AM

• Rutger Vos, PhyloTastic - names-based phyloinformatic data integration
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

09:30 AM

• Oskar Kindvall, Dynamics of taxon concepts: How to handle changes of taxonomic information, and why?
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:35 AM

• Gregor Hagedorn, Semantic MediaWiki - a community platform for vocabulary development
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Saverio Vicario, Numerical tree representations and their application to MCMC phylogenetic inference, phylogenetic signal, and ... database query
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

09:45 AM

• Alexandre Antonelli, SUPERSMART: Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages and Relationships of Taxa
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Julie Chataigner, Laurent Poncet, Developing a vocabulary: the SINP use case
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Nico Franz, David Patterson, Sudhir Kumar, Edward Gilbert, Concepts and Tools Needed to Increase Bottom-Up Taxonomic Expert Participation in a Global Names-Based Infrastructure
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:55 AM

• Robert A Morris, Modeling Property Values: is SKOS part of the solution or part of the problem?
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Suzanna Lewis, Quest for Orthologs Consortium, Quest for Orthologs: anchoring comparative biology research
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

10:00 AM

• Akihiro Kameda, Fumihiro Kato, Utsugi Jimbo, Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda, Design of "LODAC Species" as a Names-based Linked Open Data architecture
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:05 AM

• Hilmar Lapp, Panel Discussion: Sharing & Delivery of Reusable Phylogenetic Knowledge
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Éamonn Ó Tuama, General Discussion - Outcomes of the TDWG Vocabulary Management Task Group
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

10:15 AM

• Donat Agosti, Gregor Hagedorn, Willi Egloff, David Patterson, What Taxonomic information is 'Open Access'?
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:30 AM

• AM Break and Poster Session - Day 4: AM Break and Poster Session - Day 4, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

11:00 AM

• Edward Baker, Towards a data citation metric
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
• Edward Vanden Berghe, Nicolas Bailly, Caselyn Aldemita, Fabio Fiorellato, Gianpaolo Coro, Anton Ellenbroek, Pasquale Pagano, BiOnym – a flexible workflow approach to taxon name matching
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Rutger Vos, Nico Cellinese, Hilmar Lapp, Workshop: Sharing & Delivery of Reusable Phylogenetic Knowledge
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Gregor Hagedorn, Dag Endresen, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Use of Semantic MediaWiki for vocabulary management (Hackathon)
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Giardino d'Inverno (Theatre III)

11:15 AM

• Andreas Kohlbecker, Yde de Jong, Cherian Mathew, Lorna Morris, Andreas Müller, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn, The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Alice Heaton, Simon Rycroft, Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton, Ben Scott, Koureas Dimitris, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith, Assisted restructure of web content for paper-based presentation: a look at work flows and data representations
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

11:30 AM

• Simon Rycroft, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith, Alice Heaton, Katherine Bouton, Laurence Livermore, Dimitris Koureas, Ed Baker, Scratchpads: The virtual research environment for biodiversity data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Guido Sautter, Jordan Biserkov, Bibliography of Life (RefBank and ReFinder): A tool to discover, download, correct, and format bibliographic references
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

11:45 AM

• Dmitry Schigel, Hanna Koivula, Esko Piirainen, Eija-Leena Laiho, In the hot seat: managing data- and workflows between biologists and computers
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti
• Teodor Georgiev, Jordan Biserkov, Lyubomir Penev, Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT) and Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) integrate data and narrative (text) publishing
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

11:50 AM

• Simon Claus, Yde de Jong, Klaas Deneudt, Bart Vanhoorne, Francisco Hernandez, Development of a dataportal providing European taxonomic information: past activities and future plans
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:55 AM

• 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, A pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:00 PM

• Richard L. Pyle, Taxonomic Names-related Poster Introductions
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:30 PM

• Lunch and Business Meeting - Day 4: Business Meeting and Lunch

02:00 PM

• Adjourn - Day 4: Afternoon break - Free afternoon for tours

07:00 PM

• Banquet at Osteria dei Baroncelli: 

  The Social Dinner will be on Thursday, October 31st at the Osteria dei Baroncelli at Chiasso dei Baroncelli, 1. Ph.055 288219. Banquet tickets are 55 Euros and are not part of your registration fee. Tickets may be available for purchase before the event from the Registration Desk.

  It is located behind Piazza della Signoria, in the oldest heart of the city, a stunning frame for an unforgettable evening.
  
  see also http://www.tdwg.org/conference-2013/#c1507 for map and further description.

2013-11-01

08:00 AM

• Registration - Day 5: 
  If you have registered for the conference, pick up your badge and conference materials. Walk-up registrations also welcome.

09:00 AM

• Anaïs Grand, Régine Vignes Lebbe, Eduardo Miranda, André Santanchè, Coupling phenotype descriptions and phylogenetic trees: from SDD to ontologies via graph databases
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
• Paul Kenneth Flemons, Katharine Barker, Gabrielle Dröge, Workshop: Darwin Core DNA and Tissue Data Standard for the Global Genome Biodiversity Network
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)

09:02 AM

• Joel Sachs, Using Darwin Core as a Model: An Ontologically Minimalist Approach to Publishing Occurrence Data in RDF
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:11 AM

• Steven Baskauf, Campbell Webb, Using Darwin-SW to Answer Questions About Biodiversity Resources
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:15 AM

• Julie Chataigner, Laurent Poncet, Marie-Elise Lecoq, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Thierry Bourgoin, The French standard "Occurrence of taxon" : issues, organization and results
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

09:20 AM

• Ramona Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, John Wieczorek, Linking Biodiversity Data with the Biological Collections Ontology
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:30 AM

• Julie Chabalier, Amandine Sahl, Olivier Rovellotti, Lost in annotation? A publish-subscribe extension for Semantic MediaWiki vocabulary management system
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

09:33 AM

• Rob Guralnick, Ramona Walls, Walter Jetz, A New Metadata Checklist For Describing Species Inventory Completeness
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:39 AM

• Willem Coetzer, Deshendran Moodley, Aurona Gerber, Implementing a semantic mediator to integrate flower-visiting records from South African natural history museums
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

09:45 AM

• Okka Tschoepe, Lutz Suhrbier, Anton Güntsch, Walter G. Berendsohn, Online Annotation of Biodiversity Data – the AnnoSys Approach
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

09:52 AM

• Nico Franz, Mingmin Chen, Shizhuo Yu, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher, A Toolkit for Reconciling Multiple Taxonomic Perspectives: Euler/X and the Perelleschus Use Case
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:00 AM

• Lutz Suhrbier, Okka Tschöpe, Hands-On AnnoSys – Managing Annotations Online
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

10:03 AM

• Nico Franz, Joohyung Lee, Using Answer Set Programming to Simulate the Interplay of Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Change
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:11 AM

• Mark Schildhauer, Benjamin Adams, Text Mining for Biodiversity Ontologies
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:24 AM

• Daniele Cristina Palazzi Krempser, Ana Maria Moura, Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Luiz Gadelha, Ontology Extraction from Unstructured Text in the Biodiversity Domain
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

10:30 AM

• AM Break - Day 5: AM Break, posters need to be removed after this break - Day 5, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

11:00 AM

• Aaron Steele, John Wieczorek, From archives to apps, the story of VertNet
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:02 AM

• Rob Guralnick, Tom Conlin, Nico Cellinese, John Deck, Linking Data For Real: How and Why The Current Situation Stinks Big Time
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:11 AM

• Sean Gibbons, Jack Gilbert, Rob Knight, Janet Jansson, Jai Rideout, Antonio Gonzales, Emmanuel Prestat, J Gregory Caporaso, The Earth Microbiome Project: Planetary-scale systems ecology.
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:15 AM

• Heimo Rainer, Wolfgang Koller, Miss the forest for the trees: bringing together multiple classifications
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:20 AM

• Evangelos Pafilis, Sune Frankild, Umer Ijaz, Lucia Fanini, Sarah Faulwetter, Christina Pavloudi, Julia Schnetzer, Aikaterini Vasileiadou, Christos Arvanitidis, Christopher Quince, Lars Juhl Jensen, Identification of Environment Ontology terms in Text and Annotation of Biodiversity (ENVIRONMENTS-EOL) and Genomics (SEQenv) Information
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:29 AM

• James Balhoff, Alex Dececchi, Paula Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, Semantic tools for aggregation of morphological characters across studies
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:30 AM

• Bilassé ZONGO, Perspectives for better conservation of diversity information in microalgae communities in Burkina Faso
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:36 AM

• Cynthia Parr, Practical interoperability across semantic stores of data for ecological, taxonomic, phylogenetic, and metagenomics research
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:43 AM

• Nathan Wilson, Collaboratively Creating Computable Species Descriptions
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

11:45 AM

• Dmitry Dmitriev, Cybertaxonomy and revisionary systematics
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)

11:52 AM

• James Macklin, Joel Sachs, Hong Cui, Heather Cole, Prototyping a botanical knowledge portal
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:01 PM

• Elizabeth Arnaud, Luca Matteis, Pierre-Yves Chibon, Milko Skofic, Pankaj Jaiswal, Laurel Cooper, Rosemary Shrestha, Mark Wilkinson, Richard Bruskiewich, Graham McLaren, The Crop Ontology: towards the semantic integration of open plant trait data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:10 PM

• Patrice Seyed, Evan Patton, Deborah McGuinness, Hierarchical Search in SemantEco Supporting Varied Ontology Design Patterns
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:19 PM

• Dennis Heimann, Birgitta König-Ries, User-Based Sub-Ontology Extraction – A Means to Support Semantic Annotation of Biodiversity Data
  Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
  Room: Sala dei Continenti

12:30 PM

• Remove all posters: Please remove all posters from the Salone degli Oceani before lunch on Friday.
• Lunch - Day 5

02:00 PM

• Preview of TDWG 2014 & Closing Session: Sala dei Continenti

03:30 PM

• PM Break - Day 5: PM Break - Day 5, Main Building 1st floor, Salone degli Oceani

04:00 PM

• Birds-of-a-feather: Semantics in Biodiversity: In the Salone degli Oceani, after the Friday afternoon break, join us as we summarize the Semantics in Biodiversity mega-symposium and discuss the next steps.
• 2013 & 2014 TDWG Executive Meeting: Sala dei Continenti

06:00 PM

• Adjourn - Day 5

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