General Papers
The Bouchout Declaration for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management | |
Donat Agosti |
Need for Controlled Vocabularies on Intellectual Property Right statements ? | |
Patricia Mergen, Larissa Smirnova, Jiri Frank |
Keynote Speakers
eBird: Monitoring Biodiversity Globally- Challenges, Lessons Learned, and the Contribution of Volunteers in Research and Conservation | |
Steve Kelling |
Shades of Grey: Yet Another role for BIS-TDWG | |
Arturo H. Ariño |
Searching for traits of resistance to crop diseases and pests in plant genetic resources | |
Dag Endresen |
Posters
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for the Biodiversity Heritage Library | |
Martin Kalfatovic, Carolyn Sheffield, William Ulate, Connie Rinaldo, Grace Costantino |
LifeWatch INBO: building a terrestrial and freshwater observatory in Flanders, Belgium | |
Bart Aelterman, Kevin Azijn, Peter Desmet |
Rendering value to over 350 years of natural history collections: e-ReColNat a digital platform for the environment and society | |
Julien Husson |
DaRWIN (Data Research Warehouse Information Network) | |
Franck Theeten, Marielle Adam, Paul-André Duchesne, Yann Chambert, Cathy Emery, Philippe Vignaux, Son Du, didier Van den Spiegel |
Linnaeus Next Generation for species information and identification | |
Wouter Addink, Maarten Schermer, Huub Veldhuijzen, Peter Schalk, Maarten van der Velde |
Helpdesk and training facilities at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, now EU BON oriented. | |
Larissa Smirnova, Kim Jacobsen, Patricia Mergen, Franck Theeten, Hannu Saarenmaa |
DigiWeb – quality driven workflow environment for digitisation of natural history specimens | |
Tero Mononen, Riitta Tegelberg, Mira Sääskilahti, Markku A. Huttunen, Marko Tähtinen, Hannu Saarenmaa |
The DINA consortium | |
Markus Skyttner, Kevin Holston, Ida Li, Ingimar Erlingsson, Stefan Daume, Karin Karlsson, Fredrik Ronquist |
Crowdsourcing going open source, an opportunity for sister websites | |
Marie-Elise Lecoq |
The generic citizen science biodiversity data application ‘anymals + plants’ | |
Falko Glöckler, Alexander Kroupa, Daniel Zitterbart, Thomas Uher, Marco Uher, Gregor Hagedorn |
Predicting local species lists: an example and a challenge | |
Robert D. Stevenson, Rafer Dannenhauer |
eBiodiversity – web portal for Estonian biodiversity data | |
Marko Peterson, Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov, Veljo Runnel, Allan Zirk |
Crowdsourcing portal for transcription of label information for Norwegian natural history collections | |
Dag Endresen, Christian Svindseth, Einar Timdal, Eirik Rindal |
The Crop Ontology: Integrating the Participatory Variety Selection (PVS) | |
Léo Valette, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Ramaiah Bhavanasi, Antonio Lopez-Montez, Sidibe Mamourou, Praveen Reddy Teegala, Trushar Shah, Gilles Trouche, Kirsten vom Brocke, Jean-François Rami, Eva Weltzien, Karthika Rajendran, Harold Durufle, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Luca Matteis, Elizabeth Arnaud |
Centralising thematic (freshwater) biodiversity data using the Darwin Core standard and GBIF’s Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) | |
Aaike De Wever, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Sylvain Renaudier, Michel Kapel, Robert Vogl, Koen Martens |
Biodiversity documentation with global sharing standards | |
Sunil Thorat |
Project Bio-API | |
Jeroen Snijders, Wouter Addink, Daphne Duin, Ayco Holleman, Wilfred Gerritsen, Ruud Alternburg, Maarten van der Velde |
Mitigation of data positioning errors in the modelling of ecological opportunity for the occurrence of diseases in the Wildlife Health Information System – SISS-Geo | |
Marcia Chame, Livia Abdalla, Eduardo Krempser, Edmar Moretti |
Biodiversity of Jumping plant-lice of Psyllidae family from Cameroon. | |
Joseph Lebel Tamesse, Mveyo Ndankeu Yves Patric, Dzokou Victor Joly, Yana Wenceslas, Eliane De Coninck |
Citizen Science, biodiversity and data management – EU BON perspective | |
Veljo Runnel |
Towards a learning process to improve a free access key in a citizen science program | |
Vincent Rolland, Aurélie Froger, Frédéric Lison, Florian Causse, Grégoire Lois, Mathieu de Flores, Visotheary Ung, Régine Vignes Lebbe |
Preliminary notes on the bat fauna of the floodplain of the far north region of Cameroon. | |
Eric Moise Bakwo Fils, Jean Michel Takouo, Joseph LeDoux Diffo |
Biodiversity and sustainable conservation of the fish fauna and fisheries of the Congolese waters of Lake Albert | |
Jargy Kambale Soheranda |
Abundance and habitat use by gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Lobeke National Park (Cameroon) and Implications for conservation | |
SAMUEL CHRISTIAN TSAKEM, Martin TCHAMBA, Robert Bertrand WELADJI |
Collecting ideas: We are making an e-book | |
Soili Stenroos, Vanamo Salo, Hanna Koivula, Dmitry Schigel |
Interest Group
Literature Interest Group | |
Martin Kalfatovic |
Genomic Biodiversity Working Interest Group (GBWG) Meeting | |
John Deck |
Interest and Task Group Convener Discussion with the Executive Committee | |
Cyndy Parr |
Annotations Interest Group | |
Paul J Morris |
Traits in RDF Task Group working session | |
Cyndy Parr, Anaïs Grand |
(Proposed) Interest Group on Data Quality | |
Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Arthur D. Chapman, Allan Koch Veiga |
S01. Symposium: Biodiversity Informatics workflows and services
Introduction to S01 Biodiversity Informatics workflows and services | |
James Alexander Macklin |
BioVeL - Approach and outcome of the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory project | |
Matthias Obst |
Biodiversity needs Web Service registration system | |
Andreas Müller, Niall Beard, Carole Goble, Anton Güntsch, Alexandra Nenadic |
Analytical Workflows for Large Data | |
Christian Authmann, Christian Beilschmidt, Johannes Drönner, Michael Mattig, Bernhard Seeger |
Workflow Support for Continuous Data Quality Control in a FilteredPush Network | |
Bertram Ludaescher, James Hanken, David Lowery, James Macklin, Paul J Morris, Robert Morris, Tianhong Song |
Scalable and Provenance-Enabled Scientific Workflows for Species Distribution Modeling | |
Luiz Gadelha, Guilherme Gall, Andrea Sanchez-Tapia, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Jorge Velásquez, Daniel Lopez |
Biodiversity Data Quality tailored for Scientific Workflows | |
Christian Gendreau, Allan Koch Veiga, David P. Shorthouse, Antonio Mauro Saraiva |
Summary and Discussion | |
James A Macklin |
S02. Symposium: Biodiversity Data Quality - issues, methods and tools
Data Quality Symposium: introduction and review of activities | |
Antonio Mauro Saraiva |
Risk, Data Quality and Truth in Labelling | |
Arthur Chapman |
Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Assessment and Management of the Fitness-for-Use of Biodiversity Data | |
Allan Koch Veiga, Antonio Mauro Saraiva |
Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) validation: A New Collaborative Effort | |
Christian Gendreau, David P. Shorthouse, Tim Robertson, Marie-Élise Lecoq |
Workflows for improving taxonomic data quality: a showcase from the Swedish west coast | |
Matthias Obst |
Occurrence data at the INBO: opening up our data publication workflow | |
Peter Desmet, Dimitri Brosens |
Biodiversity Data Quality: A new approach from SiB Colombia | |
Nestor Beltran, Dairo Escobar, Camila Plata, Marcela Delgado, Leonardo Buitrago, Juan Bello |
The Spatio-Taxonomic Data Quality API: Rationale, Development and Examples | |
Javier Otegui, Robert Guralnick, John Wieczorek, David Bloom, Laura Russell |
Two approaches to finding botanical duplicate occurrences (and other relations among specimens) in the face of noisy data | |
Robert A Morris, James Hanken, David B. Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher, James A. Macklin, Chuck McCallum, Paul J. Morris, Tianhong Song |
Discussion | |
Antonio Mauro Saraiva |
S03. Standards for mobilising and integrating sample-based data
Introduction | |
Hannu Saarenmaa |
Publishing sample data using the GBIF IPT | |
Éamonn Ó Tuama, Markus Döring, Kyle Braak, Tim Robertson, Olaf Bánki |
The GGBN Data Standard and its Darwin Core Archive implementation | |
Gabriele Droege, Katharine Barker, Paul Flemons, Tom Orrell, Jamie Whitacre |
Complex Data Modeling for Simpler Data Access | |
Ramona Walls, Robert Guralnick |
Discussion | |
Éamonn Ó Tuama |
S04. Names-based Architecture for Linking Biodiversity Data
Towards a names-based component of the infrastructure for biodiversity sciences: status and next steps | |
David Patterson |
Connecting the taxonomic community and the names infrastructure community | |
Christina Flann |
Fauna Europaea – future perspectives | |
Florian Tobias Wetzel, Yde de Jong, Falko Glöckler, Günther Korb, Anton Güntsch, Andreas Kohlbecker, Andreas Müller, Christoph Häuser, Gregor Hagedorn |
A curation interface for reconciliation of species names for India. | |
Thomas Vattakaven, R. Prabhakar |
Taxonomic Tree Tool - a platform for classification analysis | |
Liqiang Ji |
Identifying funding and collaboration opportunities to support the global names e-infrastructure | |
Dimitris Koureas, Vince Smith |
S05. Access to digitisation tools and methods
Discovery and access to digitisation tools and methods | |
Elspeth M Haston, Robert Cubey |
The Open Drawer Project - Providing free access to high resolution images of entomological collection drawers | |
Alexander Kroupa, Falko Glöckler, Bernhard Schurian, Felix Maier, Stefan Schmidt, Gregor Hagedorn, Christoph Häuser |
StanDAP-Herb develops a standard process for extracting metadata from digitised herbarium specimens | |
Agnes Kirchhoff, Walter G. Berendsohn, Ulrich Bügel, Fernando Chaves, Cailin Guan, Markus Lindhorst, Dominik Röpert, Eduard Santamaria, Karl-Heinz Steinke, Hangyan Zheng |
Moving beyond the box: automating the digitisation of insect collections | |
Pieter Holtzhausen, Stéfan van der Walt, Alice Heaton, Laurence Livermore, Vladimir Blagoderov, Ben Price, Lawrence Hudson, Vincent Smith |
ZooSphere - Development of a software for automated spheric image capturing and interactive 3D visualization of biological collection objects | |
Martin Pluta, Falko Glöckler, Alexander Kroupa, Bernhard Schurian |
Capturing Inventory level information about collections as a step in object to image to data workflows | |
Paul J Morris, James Hanken, David Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher, James A. Macklin, Robert A Morris, Tianhong Song, Patrick Sweeney |
Data Discovery and Doer Happiness: Uses for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Output | |
Deborah Paul, Andrea Matsunaga, Miao Chen, Jason Best, Sylvia Orli, William Ulate, Reed Beaman |
Enriching the legacy literature with OCR corrections and text-mined semantic metadata | |
Riza Batista-Navarro, Aminul Islam, William Ulate, Jennifer Hammock, Axel Soto, Sophia Ananiadou, Evangelos Milios |
Managing Digitization Projects with Biospex | |
Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast, Elizabeth Ellwood, Robert Bruhn, Jeremy Spinks |
Discussion: Access to Digitisation Tools and Methods (data) | |
Elspeth M Haston, Deborah Paul, Vincent Smith |
Optical character recognition (OCR) in linking entomological labels with field notebook data | |
Tero Mononen, Riitta Tegelberg, Janne Karppinen, Mira Sääskilahti, Hannu Saarenmaa, Tommi Koskinen, Jyrki Muona |
What do you do when your Network Manager tells you there is no more space and they mean it? | |
Sharon Grant, Kate Webbink, Marc Lambruschi, Mike Yoshida |
ENVIRONMENTS-EOL: identification of Environment Ontology terms in text and the annotation of the Encyclopedia of Life | |
Evangelos Pafilis, Sune Frankild, Lucia Fanini, Sarah Faulwetter, Christina Pavloudi, Julia Schnetzer, Aikaterini Vasileiadou, Umer Ijaz, Christos Arvanitidis, Robert Stevenson, Lars Juhl Jensen |
Case study of reuse of digitised content by creative industry in games: Europeana Creative | |
Jiri Frank |
Discussion: Access to Digitisation Tools and Methods (linking and management) | |
Elspeth M Haston, Deborah Paul, Vincent Smith |
S06. Distributed Open-Source Development of Collection Management Systems (DINA-Consortium)
Distributed open-source development in the DINA consortium | |
Fredrik Ronquist, Karin Karlsson |
Standards-based management of specimen-derived DNA sequences | |
James A Macklin, Satpal Bilkhu, Nazir El-Kayssi, Chris T Lewis |
Digital representations of the collection objects in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin | |
Falko Glöckler, Jana Hoffmann, Gregor Hagedorn |
Valorization over 350 years of natural history collections: e-ReColNat a digital platform for the environment and society | |
Julien Husson |
NoSQL and Linked Data for collection and taxonomic data | |
Anaïs Grand, Mohamed Berkani |
The DINA Web API | |
Markus Skyttner, Ingimar Erlingsson, Ida Li, Karin Karlsson, Stefan Daume, Fredrik Ronquist |
Demonstration of a DINA compliant MediaServer | |
Karin Karlsson |
Discussion for S06 DINA Consortium | |
Fredrik Ronquist |
S07. ABCD 3: Which Way to Go?
BioCASe, ABCD and its extensions | |
Joerg Holetschek |
A community platform for the development and documentation of the ABCD standard | |
Jana Hoffmann |
Semantic MediaWiki as a potential tool for ABCD 3.0 development | |
David Fichtmüller |
Using the Harvesting and Indexing Toolkit in Special Interest Networks | |
Patricia Kelbert, Gabriele Droege, Jörg Holetschek, Anton Güntsch |
Discussion | |
Joerg Holetschek, Gabriele Dröge |
S08. Expanding the Usefulness of Literature in Sustaining Biodiversity
The Biodiversity Literature and Natural History Collections: The State of the BHL | |
Martin Kalfatovic |
Improving discovery of biodiversity literature through integrated services | |
Carolyn Sheffield |
Unlocking biodiversity knowledge through Text Mining and Crowdsourced Tagging of Legacy Literature | |
William Ulate |
“Making Links in the BHL: primary source material as a window to a scientist’s methods” | |
Constance Rinaldo |
Botanical Specimens, Field Notes, and Biodiversity Literature: Connections and Data Mining | |
Rusty Russell |
Discussion | |
Carolyn Sheffield |
S09. Biodiversity data synthesis and discovery at a Tree of Life scale
Synthesizing phylogenetic and taxonomic data into a comprehensive tree of life | |
Karen Cranston |
Arbor: Comparative Analysis Workflows for the Tree of Life | |
Luke J Harmon |
Next-generation phenomics for the Tree of Life | |
Carmen Lorena Endara, Carrine E. Blank, John Gordon Burleigh, Andrea Cirranello, Hong Cui, Marymegan Daly, Gail Gasparich, Mariangeles Arce Hernandez, Jed Irvine, Lisa Moore, Thomas G. Dietterich, Jing Liu, Seth Kaufman, Michael Lam, Maureen O'Leary, Maria Passaroti, Javier Robalino, Nancy Simmons, Joan Slonczewski, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, Robert W. Thacker, Edward Theriot, Sinisa Todorovic, Ramona Walls, Paul M. Velazco, Elvis H. Wu, Anna Yu |
TraitBank: Integrating Trait Data Across The Tree of Life | |
Katja Sabine Schulz, Jennifer Hammock, Cynthia Parr |
Map of Life and Integrating Big Data in Ecology and Evolution | |
Rob Penn Guralnick |
Linking Diverse Data in Studies of Plant Evolution: Case Studies in Progress | |
Pamela S. Soltis |
S11. Citizen science: a growing approach to biodiversity monitoring
CyberTracker and Citizen Science | |
Louis Wilhelm Liebenberg, Justin Steventon |
Butterfly monitoring in North America: impacts on science and opportunities for the future | |
Leslie Ries |
A UK view on the breadth and depth of citizens reporting biodiversity observations | |
Michael Pocock |
Citizen Science and the India Biodiversity Portal | |
Thomas Vattakaven |
Artportalen – citizen science data contributing to biodiversity research and conservation | |
Ulf Gärdenfors, Anna Maria Wremp |
Citizen Science and the Atlas of Living Australia | |
Paul Kenneth Flemons |
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department uses iNaturalist to collect natural heritage data | |
Cullen Keaton Hanks |
Making Dives That Count: ocean citizen science monitoring | |
Christy V Pattengill-Semmens |
CitSci.org: a comprehensive, rigorous, web-based data management platform for citizen science | |
Nicole E. Kaplan |
Swedish LifeWatch – a research infrastructure for biodiversity data | |
Oskar Kindvall, Anna Maria Wremp |
Are biodiversity data gaps in urban areas a social justice issue? | |
Angelique Greer Hjarding |
Tuning the Citizen Science “Instrument” for Gathering Biodiversity Data and Maintaining Data Quality | |
Robert D. Stevenson, Yurong He, HeeJun Kim, Todd E Suomela |
IG/TG01. Biodiversity informatics curriculum/teaching
Biodiversity Informatics Curriculum Interest Group | |
Hanna Koivula |
IG/TG02. Literature Interest Group
Literature Interest Group Meeting | |
Martin Kalfatovic |
IG/TG03. Genomic Biodiversity Working Interest Group (GBWG) meeting
Genomic Biodiversity Working Interest Group Meeting | |
John Deck |
IG/TG04. Interest and Task Group Convener Discussion with the Executive
Interest and Task Group Convener Discussion with the Executive | |
Cyndy Parr |
IG/TG05. Annotations Interest Group
Annotations Interest Group | |
Paul J Morris |
IG/TG06. Traits in RDF Task Group
Traits in RDF Task Group Meeting | |
Anaïs Grand, Cynthia Parr |
IG/TG07. (Proposed) Interest Group on Data Quality
(Proposed) Interest Group on Data Quality | |
Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Arthur Chapman |
W01. Audubon Core Implementations
An RDF representation of the TDWG Audubon Core data model for multimedia resource metadata | |
Robert A Morris |
Audubon Core at iDigBio | |
Greg Riccardi, Shiva Krishna Imminni |
Implementation of Audubon Core in ABCD with proposal of new terms for audio and video facts | |
Gabriele Droege, Peter Grobe |
Discussion | |
Gabriele Droege, Robert Morris |
W02. Effective Biodiversity Data Management Training
Data Management (Training) Workshop | |
Roman Gerlach, Jitendra Gaikwad, Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Town Peterson |
Data Carpentry: Filling a data literacy and computational literacy gap. | |
Deborah Paul |
Publishing biodiversity data under a new training scheme from SiB Colombia | |
Nestor Beltran, Dairo Escobar, Camila Plata, Marcela Delgado, Leonardo Buitrago, Juan Bello |
General Discussion for W02 Effective Biodiversity Data Management Training | |
Jitendra Gaikwad, Roman Gerlach |
W03. Software Solutions for Data Management
Introduction to W03 Software Solutions for Data Management | |
Roman Gerlach |
Biocode Field Information Management System | |
John Deck |
Diversity Workbench – Import Wizards | |
Markus Weiss, Anton Link, Wolfgang Reichert, Veronica Sanz, Gerhard Rambold, Dagmar Triebel |
StrainsBook pipepline based on the BioloMICS software | |
Vincent Robert |
RightField - Spreadsheets with meaning | |
Niall Beard, Alan Robert Williams, Stuart David Owen, Carole Anne Goble |
Handling Terminology Data within GFBio | |
David Fichtmueller, Maren Gleisberg, Naouel Karam, Robert Tolksdorf, Anton Güntsch |
The Taxonomina application | |
Mohamed Berkani, Anaïs Grand, Annemarie Ohler, Alain Dubois |
The BioCASe Monitor Service - A tool for monitoring progress and quality of data provision through distributed data networks | |
Jana Hoffmann, Falko Glöckler |
The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy | |
Andreas Müller, Andreas Kohlbecker, Katja Luther, Cherian Mathew, Alexander Oppermann, Patrick Plitzner |
Edaphobase: a new online soil zoological data warehouse | |
Ulrich Burkhardt, David J. Russell, Hubert Höfer, Stephan Lesch, Sebastian Rick, Jörg Römbke, Willi E.R. Xylander |
TRY – solutions for incentives driven data sharing | |
Jens Kattge, Gerhard Bönisch, Sandra Diaz, Sandra Lavorel, Paul Leadley, Colin Prentice, Christian Wirth |
IPT Demo & Presentation | |
Kyle Braak |
ETC: From description to matrix and beyond in a web-based toolbox | |
Thomas Rodenhausen, Hong Cui, Fengqiong Huang, Bertram Ludäscher, James Macklin, Bob Morris, Shizhuo Yu |
SEEK for Science | |
Niall Beard, Alan Robert Williams, Stuart David Owen, Carole Anne Goble |
BExIS 2 – a flexible data management platform for Biodiversity | |
Roman Gerlach, David Blaa, Javad Chamanara, Martin Hohmuth, Nafiseh Navabpour, Sven Thiel, Birgitta König-Ries |
Roundup and Discussion of W03 Software Solutions for Data Management | |
Dagmar Triebel, Jitendra Gaikwad |
Demo Session for W03 Software Solutions for Data Management | |
Roman Gerlach, Jitendra Gaikwad, Dagmar Triebel |
W04. Darwin Core Tutorial and Workshop
Darwin Core: Overview and Future Directions | |
James Alexander Macklin |
Typing in Darwin Core: Do we need dwc:basisOfRecord? | |
Markus Döring |
Nomenclature in Darwin Core | |
Richard L. Pyle |
Genomics and Metagenomics: What is the role of the Darwin Core? | |
Robert Robbins |
W05. Building Biodiversity Informatics Standards and Capacity for Citizen Science
Building Biodiversity Informatics Standards and Capacity for Citizen Science | |
Robert D. Stevenson |
W06. TDWG Newcomers Chat
TDWG Newcomers Chat | |
Cyndy Parr |
LT. Lightning Talks
Article Semanticizer - stitching data mining services into a standalone search appliance | |
David Peter Shorthouse, Dmitry Mozzherin |
There is No Place Like Home: Defining “Habitat” for Biodiversity and Conservation science - Can we develop a research agenda for Habitat Informatics ? | |
Robert D. Stevenson, Evangelos Pafilis, Carl Nordman, Lesley Sneddon |
C01. Contributed Papers Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing
Building the historical biodiversity baseline: Emerging iDigBio resources for onsite and online public participation in the digitization of biodiversity research specimens | |
Libby Ellwood, Robert Bruhn, Jeremy Spinks, Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast |
Citizen Science: an alternative for monitoring emergent diseases arising from biodiversity in Brazil | |
Marcia Chame, Rita Braune, Felipe Brasil, Lazaro Oliveira, Paulo Werdt, Jurandir Junior, Livia Abdalla, Eduardo Kremper, Marianna Cavalheiro, Maira Poltosi, Luciana Imbert |
CROWD SOURCING INITIATIVES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN | |
Emmanouela Panteri, Sarah Faulwetter, Christos Arvanitidis, Thanos Dailianis, George Chatzigeorgiou, Eva Chatzinikolaou, Evangelos Pafilis, Christina Pavloudi, Thomas Uher, Simon D Rycroft, Alexander Kroupa, Vincent Smith, Lyubomir Penev, Edward Baker, Jean-Pierre Feral, David Romain |
Lessons learned - The generic citizen science biodiversity data application ‘anymals + plants’ | |
Falko Glöckler, Daniel Zitterbart, Thomas Uher, Marco Uher, Alexander Kroupa, Gregor Hagedorn |
Pl@ntNet, a citizen science platform dedicated to plant identification and botanical monitoring | |
Pierre Bonnet, Hervé Goëau, Alexis Joly, Vera Bakić, Souheil Selmi, Julien Champ, Jennifer Carré, Mathias Chouet, Aurélien Peronnet, Samuel Dufour-Kowalski, Antoine Affouard, Julien Barbe, Jean-François Molino, Nozha Boujemaa, Daniel Barthélémy |
The 1 Million Treatment Goal: How to create access to taxonomic treatments | |
Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano, Guido Sautter |
C02. Contributed Papers Trait & Ecology & Conservation Informatics
The development of a community agreed thesaurus of plant traits | |
Marie-Angélique Laporte, Ulrike Stahl, Stefan Klotz, Ingolf Kühn, Lutz Maicher, Eric Garnier, Isabelle Mougenot, Jens Kattge |
Crop Ontology: A web tool for managing plant breeders’ traits | |
Luca Matteis, Marie-Angélique LAPORTE, Harold Duruflé, Léo Valette, Elizabeth Arnaud |
Edible insects and food security in DR Congo | |
Papy Miankeba Nsevolo, Rudy Caparros Megido, Christophe Blecker, Sabine Danthine, Paul Aman, Eric Haubruge, Taofic Alabi, Frederic Francis |
The Use of Plants Database to Identify New Botanical Inventory Zones in Madagascar. | |
Tantely Raminosoa |
Using GBIF data to test niche vs. neutrality theories at a continental scale, and the value of data cleaning | |
Tomer Gueta, Avi Bar-Massada, Yohay Carmel |
Biodiversity Quality Assessment | |
Alan Feest |
C03. Contributed Papers Digitization & Capacity Building
Rapid Data Entry – supporting high-throughput digitisation workflows in EMu | |
Laurence Livermore, Alex Fell, Muhammad Nadat, Andrew Brown |
The present state of the digitalization in Democratic Republic of Congo: Case of the Herbarium of Lwiro | |
Mwanga Mwanga Ithe, Wabika Dumbo, Patricia Mergen, Franck Theeten, Salvator Ntore, Steven Dessein |
Capacity Building in Biodiversity Informatics in the Biodiversity-Rich Tropics | |
Prabhakar Rajagopal, D. Balasubramanian, Thomas Vattakaven, Sangay Dema |
Mobilising Biodiversity Information in Support of Science and Policy in South African National Biodiversity Institute | |
Fatima Parker-Allie |
“Bioinformatics-led Solutions For sustainable Natural Resources management in Rwanda (BS4NR)” | |
Prosper Karame |
Publishing model and data papers: A synergy between a Latin American journal and SiB Colombia | |
Dairo Escobar, Daniel Amariles, María Fernanda Gómez, Danny Vélez, Néstor Beltrán, Camila Plata, Oscar Duque, Carlos Cubillos, Karen Soacha, Juan Bello |
C04. Contributed Papers Emerging Platforms
Linking data, services and communities using Virtual Research Environments (VRE); The Scratchpads example | |
Dimitrios Koureas, Simon Rycroft, Vince Smith |
BiNHum: powerful access to Natural History Collections | |
Christian Köhler, Peter Grobe, Maik Röder, Joachim Holstein, Jörg Lange, Anita Roth-Nebelsick, Christopher Traiser, Hubert Höfer, Florian Raub, Anton Güntsch, Gabriele Dröge, Patricia Kelbert, Dagmar Triebel, Anton Link, Markus Weiss, Dieter Neubacher, Tanja Weibulat |
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON): The First 18 Months | |
Stinger Guala |
A Biodiversity Platform for Weed Identification and Knowledge System in the Western Indian Ocean | |
Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Pierre Grard, Thomas Le Bourgeois, Ramesh Ranganna Brahmasamudra |
SiB Colombia: Sharing and accessing biodiversity data | |
Dairo Escobar, Daniel Amariles, María Fernanda Gómez, Karen Soacha, Néstor Beltrán, Camila Plata, Marcela Delgado, Leonardo Buitrago, Valentina Grajales, Oscar Duque, María Fernanda Cubillos, Hugo Escobar, Carlos Cubillos, Juan Bello |
Brazilian Information System in Wildlife Health - SISS-Geo | |
Eduardo Krempser, Douglas Adriano Augusto, Livia Abdalla, Marcia Chame |
C05. Contributed Papers Technical Topics
Simplifying the mechanics toward building a Biodiversity Knowledge Graph | |
David Peter Shorthouse, Christian Gendreau |
Mapping the Darwin Core with a national data exchange standard: feedback and issues | |
Julie Chataigner |
Using the Biological Collections Ontology to Advance Biodiversity Science | |
Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, John Wieczorek |
Persistent identifiers for museum specimens in Norway | |
Dag Endresen, Christian Svindseth |
Database tools for decision support in Kajiado County, Kenya | |
Victor Mose, David Western |
ecoRelevé: Data made simple | |
Rovellotti Olivier, Julie Chabalier, Yves Hingrat |

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