Keynote Presentation
| The Policy and Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation in Kenya | |
| Wilbur Ottichilo |
| Biodiversity Informatics in Meeting Sustainable Development Challenges in Africa | |
| Tanya Abrahamse |
| Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Programme (BIOPAMA) | |
| Selwyn Willoughby |
| Building Biodiversity Knowledge from the Ground Up! | |
| David Western, Lucy Waruingi |
S01 - Biodiversity Informatics Services and Workflows
| FP-Akka: Experiences and challenges in integrating scientific workflows for data quality control with biodiversity services | |
| Paul J Morris, Lei Dou, James Hanken, Sven Koehler, David Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher, James A. Macklin, Timothy M. McPhillips, Robert A. Morris, Tianhong Song |
| Meeting Requirements – Evolution of the EDIT Platform Service Infrastructure | |
| Andreas Müller, Andreas Kohlbecker, Cherian Mathew, Anton Güntsch |
| Biodiversity Catalogue: First class support for Geographic Web services | |
| Niall Beard |
| Strings to things: a user-friendly framework for data reconciliation | |
| Nicky Nicolson |
| AnnoSys – A Generic Online Annotation System faces new Challenges | |
| Lutz Suhrbier, Wolf-Henning Kusber, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn |
| Data cleaning with the Kurator toolkit: Bridging the gap between conventional scripting and high-performance workflow automation | |
| Timothy McPhillips, David Lowery, James Hanken, Bertram Ludäscher, James A. Macklin, Paul J. Morris, Robert A. Morris, Tianhong Song, John Wieczorek |
S02 - Formal biodiversity informatics training as key for capacity building: state-of-play, challenges and opportunities
| Teaching Biodiversity Data Management to Computer Science and Geography Students – An Experience Report | |
| Roman Gerlach, Birgitta König-Ries, Christiane Schmullius, Sören Hese |
| Engaging and Training iDiv Researchers in Biodiversity Data Management | |
| Jitendra Gaikwad, Birgitta König-Ries |
| The Role of Outreach and Networks in Addressing Capacity Needs in Biodiversity Documentation in East Africa | |
| Wanja Kinuthia, Victor Wasonga, Jane Muthoni Macharia |
| Introducing data training programmes in large natural history museums to tackle their digital challenges | |
| Dimitrios Koureas, Clare Valentine |
| More data than we know what to do with? Biodiversity informatics skills needs in the research data pipeline | |
| Deborah Paul, François Michonneau, Katja Seltmann |
| Discussion on the challenges of biodiversity informatics training | |
| Dimitrios Koureas |
S03 - The Role of Data Standards in Real-World Applications Using Biodiversity Information
| Application of the BARCODE Data Standard: The Barcode of Wildlife Project for Endangered Species | |
| David E. Schindel |
| Barcode of Wildlife Project Kenya Data Standard | |
| Ann Mwaura, Josephine Sarah Kunguni, Daniel Masiga, Beatrice Nangami Khayota, Ruth mwende Mumo |
| Role of biodiversity informatics in combating wildlife crime in Kenya | |
| Henry Kamau Ndithia, Ann Mwaura, Esther Mwangi |
| End of the road for illegal bushmeat trade in East Africa: Transboundary surveillance by high resolution melting analysis of vertebrate molecular barcodes | |
| Lillian Wambua, Jandouwe Villinger, Moses Yongo Otiende, Maamun Jeneby, Morris Kilewo, David Schindel, Miller Scott |
| Open Discussion | |
| David E. Schindel |
S04 - BHL Africa: Assessing and Building Capacity for Global Access to Biodiversity Literature
| 2015 Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Update | |
| Martin Kalfatovic |
| An Overview of the Global Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) | |
| Constance Rinaldo |
| BHL-Africa: scanning locally, collaborating globally to create a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library | |
| Anne-Lise Fourie |
| BHL Workshops for Collaborating Across a Global Consortium | |
| Carolyn Sheffield |
| Engaging the citizen scientist in content enhancement for the Biodiversity Heritage Library | |
| Trish Rose-Sandler, William Ulate, Max Seidman, Mary Flanagan, Geoffrey Belknap, Victoria Van Hyning, Jim O'Donnell |
| Patterns of participation on the India Biodiversity Portal | |
| Prabhakar Rajagopal, Thomas Vattakaven |
S05 - The role of camera traps for biodiversity monitoring and conservation: standards and practices for sharing data
| eMammal citizen science camera trapping – collecting big data to answer wildlife questions | |
| Stephanie Grace Schuttler, William McShea, Robert Costello, Tavis Forrester, Megan Baker, Elizabeth Kalies, Arielle Parsons, Zhihai He, Joshua Millspaugh, Tony Han, Roland Kays |
| An open access Wildlife Conservation Society camera trap database for biodiversity conservation | |
| Timothy Gregory O'Brien, Jonathan Palmer, Liling Choo |
| Determining carnivore distribution and incentivising community conservation through camera-trapping in Tanzania's Ruaha landscape | |
| Amy Jane Dickman |
| The TEAM Network and Wildlife Insights: Providing new tools and solutions to the camera trapping community | |
| Jorge Ahumada, Eric Fegraus, James MacCarthy, Tavis Forrester, Patrick Jansen, William McShea, Beth Stern, Roland Kays, LiLing Choo, Tim O'Brien, Jonathan Palmer, Olivia Needham |
| Applicability of Audubon Core to Camera Trap Data | |
| Robert A Morris, Robert D. Stevenson |
S06 - Semantics for Sustaining Biodiversity
| What do we really measure, when we measure characteristics of organisms? | |
| Ramona L. Walls, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Simon Cox, Robert Guralnick, Matt Jones, Werner Kuhn, Mark Schildhauer, Adam Shepherd |
| Semantics and Tools for Bridging the Gap Between Specimen and Species-based Trait Data Assembly and Use | |
| Rob Penn Guralnick |
| An Ontology-Based System for Querying Life in a Post-Taxonomic Age | |
| Nico Cellinese, Hilmar Lapp |
| Environmental semantics in support of sustaining biodiversity | |
| Pier Luigi Buttigieg |
| Unlocking knowledge in biodiversity legacy literature through automatic semantic metadata extraction | |
| Riza Batista-Navarro, William Ulate, Jennifer Hammock, Georgios Kontonatsios, Trish Rose-Sandler, Sophia Ananiadou |
| Formulating the knowledge representation requirements to perform high-level reasoning over flower-visiting data | |
| Willem Coetzer, Deshendran Moodley, Aurona Gerber |
| Managing Data From Field to Publication: Using a Field Information Management System | |
| John Deck |
S07 - Training and Collaboration for Sustained African Engagement in Biodiversity Informatics
| Africa Rising: Harnessing the Momentum | |
| Russell Galt |
| Biodiversity Information for Development | |
| Siro Masinde, Olaf Bánki, Donald Hobern |
| Biodiversity Information : Training and Collaborations across borders | |
| Patricia Mergen, Larissa Smirnova, Franck Theeten |
| Building capacity via in-person training and online digital materials: The Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum | |
| A. Townsend Peterson |
| Barcode of wildlife project Kenya (BWPK): Partnership in Combating Wildlife Crime | |
| Beatrice Nangami Khayota, Ann Mwaura |
| A roadmap for sustaining African participation in TDWG conferences beyond 2015 | |
| Henry L. Bart |
W01 - Hands-on Cyberinfrastructure Workshop - iPlant Collaborative - Not just for plants!
| Hands-on Cyberinfrastructure Workshop - iPlant Collaborative Part 1 - Not just for plants! | |
| Ramona L. Walls |
| Hands-on Cyberinfrastructure Workshop - iPlant Collaborative Part 2 - Not just for plants! | |
| Ramona L. Walls |
W03 - Scratchpads platform
| W03 - Scratchpads Training | |
| Simon David Rycroft |
W04 - Biodiversity Data Mobilization Models
| Crowdsourcing Biodiversity Data Mobilization | |
| Libby Ellwood |
| OpenHerbarium: filling the gaps in biodiversity data | |
| Mary E Barkworth, Curtis Dyreson, Edward Gilbert |
| Data Carpentry: one comprehensive model for teaching biodiversity informatics data management, research skills, and training instructors | |
| Deborah Paul, Tracy K Teal, Matthew Collins* |
| A simple model for large-scale data mobilization across a diverse organisation | |
| Nicky Nicolson |
| Capacity Building for Biodiversity Informatics: The experience of the National Biodiversity Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan | |
| Sangay Dema |
| Overcoming the main challenges to sustainable biodiversity data mobilization in Benin | |
| Jean Cossi GANGLO |
| Discussion: W04 Biodiversity Data Mobilization Models | |
| Deborah Paul, Libby Ellwood |
C01 - Genetic Resource Preservation
| The World Flora Online Project: Achieving Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation | |
| Chuck Miller |
| Banking on Partnership: Science output and assuring quality seed collections, the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership Data Warehouse | |
| Tim R Pearce, Elinor Breman |
| An Information Management System to Enhance Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources | |
| Joseph Ndungu Kimani, Desterio Ondieki Nyamongo |
| The Global Genome Biodiversity Network: Leveraging DNA and Tissue Collections Globally | |
| Gabriele Droege, Katharine Barker, Walter G. Berendsohn |
| Using Gene Bank and Herbarium Databases to Guide Planning of Collecting Expeditions: A Case study of the Top Five Genera at the Genetic Resources Research Institute, Kenya | |
| Joseph Ireri Kamau, Desterio Ondieki Nyamongo, Patrick Nthusi Muthoka, Paul Muigai Kirika, Joseph Ndungu Kimani |
C02 - Biodiversity Informatics Tools for Systematics
| Automating revisionary systematic studies with Monographia | |
| Damon P Little |
| A participatory taxonomic name curation interface to resolve and aggregate species lists for India | |
| Thomas Vattakaven |
| A Standardized Reference Data Set for Vertebrate Taxon Name Resolution | |
| Paula F. Zermoglio, Robert P. Guralnick, John R. Wieczorek |
| A multiaccess identification key webservice using a learning process | |
| Regine Vignes-Lebbe, Vincent Rolland, René Zaragueta |
| A wiki based portal to the biodiversity knowledge graph. | |
| Joel Sachs, James Macklin |
| BEXIS 2: A platform for managing heterogeneous biodiversity data and projects | |
| Roman Gerlach, David Blaa, Javad Chamanara, Martin Hohmuth, Nafiseh Navabpour, Sven Thiel, Birgitta König-Ries |
C03 - Biodiversity Informatics Tools for Protected Areas Conservation
| Identification of new areas for botanical inventory in Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo | |
| Jean Claude Ithe Mwanga Mwanga, Dumbo Wabika, Balola Kashemwa, Franck Theeten, Patricia Mergen, Ntore Salvator, Steven Dessein |
| Digital Knowledge of Kenyan Succulent Flora and Priorities for Future Inventory and Documentation | |
| Emily Wabuyele |
| Contribution to the Study of the Importance of the Malagasy Flora Conservation by the new Protected Areas Network | |
| Tantely Raminosoa |
| Using Biodiversity Information Systems and Geospatial Applications for Protected Areas Management in Bangladesh | |
| Md. Rahimullah Miah, Alexander Kiew Sayok, Dr Ahi Sarok, Mohammad Belal Uddin |
| Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Flood and Erosion Control: Case of Ibadan North West | |
| Ckukwuka Friday Agbor, John O. Aigbokhan, Idowu S. Adamu |
| Fragmentation and isolation of the endangered Nile Lechwe (Kobus megaceros) in western Ethiopia: Evidence from aerial surveys and GPS collaring data | |
| Kasahun Abera Legesse |
C04 - Using Biodiversity Informatics Tools for Management
| Promoting Snail-borne Disease Control through Bioinformatics Studies in Kenya | |
| Charles Lange |
| The Hunt for Biodiversity Information Gaps | |
| Arturo H. Ariño, Javier Otegui |
| Application of Geo-informatics and Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Conservation and Density Patterns in Shasha Forest Reserve, Nigeria | |
| Ige Peter Oluwagbemiga |
| Sustaining Practical Biodiversity Informatics Initiatives for Decision Support in Natural Resources Management sector, Rwanda | |
| Prosper Karame |
| IndexMed, a consortium charged with the task of indexing Mediterranean biodiversity data, a new way for datamining in ecology | |
| Romain DAVID, Jean-Pierre FERAL |
| East African Community Regional Reference Information System | |
| Selwyn Willoughby, Beryl Nyamgeroh |
C05 - Digitization and Data Publishing
| Digitization of Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI) collections | |
| Peter Edemewe Ugege, Omokafe Alaba Ugbogu |
| Computerization of the National Herbarium and Botanic Garden Specimen Collection | |
| Anthony Mapaura |
| Curating, Digitizing, Sharing and Publishing Biodiversity Data: Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe’s Journey | |
| Kudzai Mafuwe, Dorothy Madamba |
| The scope of African species data published through GBIF | |
| Siro Masinde |
| Atlas of Living Australia: a modular data portal framework for national needs | |
| Marie-Elise Lecoq |
| Ag Data Commons: adding value to open agricultural research data | |
| Cynthia S Parr |
C06 - Citizen Science
| TaxaB29: From Taxonomic databases to identifications in the field | |
| Kagiso Mangwale |
| The architecture of a biodiversity informatics platform | |
| Prabhakar Rajagopal, Balasubramanian Dandapani |
| Mapping Life: Quality Assessment of Novice and Computer Automated vs. Expert Georeferences | |
| Libby Ellwood, Henry Bart, Michael Doosey, Dean Jue, Gil Nelson, Nelson Rios, Austin Mast |
| Notes From Nature: Advancing a next generation citizen science platform for biodiversity transcription | |
| Rob Penn Guralnick, Michael W. Denslow, Austin Mast |
| Citizen Science for weed knowledge in Western Indian Ocean and Southern African region | |
| Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Pierre GRARD, Thomas Le Bourgeois, Ramesh BR, Pascal Marnotte, Azaad Guangoo, Alain Paul Andrianaivo, Jean Augustin Randriamampianina, Yahaya Ibrahaim, Sathish M, Karthik Yeruva |
TDWG Interest Group Meeting
| Biodiversity Services and Clients Interest Group Meeting | |
| James Alexander Macklin |
| Genomic Biodiversity Working Interest Group (GBWG) Meeting | |
| John Deck, Ramona Walls |
Poster
| Fish Species Diversity in Asejire Lake, Ibadan, Nigeria | |
| Dominic Olaniyi Odulate |
| Weed knowledge in Western Indian Ocean and Southern African region | |
| Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Pierre GRARD, Thomas Le Bourgeois, Ramesh BR, Pascal Marnotte, Azaad Guangoo, Alain Paul Andrianaivo, Jean Augustin Randriamampianina, Yahaya Ibrahaim, Sathish M, Karthik Yeruva |
| Access to Information on the Fish Fauna from Lake Albert and its Tributary the River Semuliki (DR Congo) | |
| Jargy Kambale Soheranda, Patricia Mergen |
| Documenting European Agrobiodiversity: EURISCO, the European Search Portal for Plant Genetic Resources | |
| Stephan Weise, Helmut Knüpffer |
| CETAF: Connecting Natural History Collections with Global Biodiversity Research | |
| Jiri Frank, Ana Casino, Michelle Price |
| Assessing the taxonomic and bibliographic coverage of pteridological literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library | |
| Jacqueline Emily Chapman, Robin Everly |
| Synthesys 3: Synthesis of Systematic Resources | |
| Jiri Frank, Jiri Kvaček |
| Application of Remote sensing and GIS for multi-temporal assessment of forest coverage change detection and carbon sequestration: Case of Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda | |
| Evariste Rutebuka, Shiliang Liu, Lixiao Zhang, Apollinaire William |
| Diversity of Wild Palms (Arecaceae) in the Republic of Benin: Finding the Gaps in the National Inventory by Combining Field and Digitally Accessible Knowledge | |
| Rodrigue Idohou, Arturo Ariño |
| Where, when and why are there elephant poaching hotspots in Kenya? | |
| Edward Opiyo Ouko |
| Modeling of the seasonal variability of phytoplankton settlements in the littoral zone of Togo (West Africa) | |
| Raoufou Pierre Radji |
| Avian diversity and responses of feeding guilds to land use change in a Kenyan coastal forest ecosystem | |
| David O. Chiawo |
| Population genetic diversity of Somali ostrich in Samburu, Kenya as revealed by microsatellite markers. | |
| Mariciano Mutiga Mutiga |
| Assessment of Floristic composition of Forest Undergrowth of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Forest Reserve Ibadan, Nigeria. | |
| A.O. Oladoye |
| Publishing historical primary biodiversity information: The good and the bad | |
| Fhatani Ranwashe |
| Improved plant genetic biodiversity through the organization and promotion of agricultural shows and seed fairs | |
| Aimé Kazika Kamosi |
| Biodiversity Information on Plants from Ghana | |
| Anthony Adu-Gyamfi, Patrick K. Ekpe, Alex Asase |
| Towards Automatic Curation of Biodiversity Data: the BLOOM Project | |
| Mélanie Hachet, Haevermans Thomas, Philippe Grandcolas, Frédéric Legendre, Roseli Pellens, Julien Troudet, Visotheary Ung |
| The DINA System | |
| Markus Skyttner, Kevin Cornell Holston, Ingimar Erlingsson, Karin Karlsson, Gregor Hagedorn, Falko Glöcker, Urmas Kõljag, Kessy Aberenkov, Nikolaj Scharff, Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen, James Macklin, Satpal Bilkhu, David Harris, Elspeth Haston, Fredrik Ronquist |
| The GBIF France New Data Portal | |
| Marie-Elise Lecoq, Fabien Caviere, Sophie Pamerlon, Eric Chenin, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Régine Vignes-Lebbe |
| Capacity building for sustaining biodiversity in DR Congo | |
| Papy Nsevolo Miankeba |
| AnnoSys – A sustainable Annotation Management System and Repository for Collection Data | |
| Lutz Suhrbier, Wolf-Henning Kusber, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn |
| Digitization of Kenya’s Hawk Moth Collection and Evaluation of the Potential as Indicator Species for Light Pollution | |
| Esther N. Kioko, Peter Njuru, Eliud Muli, Laban Njoroge, Joseph R. Mugambi |
| Digitization of the Zoological Museum Collections at the National Museums of Kenya | |
| Esther Wangui Mwangi, Esther Kioko, Laban Njoroge, Simon Musila, Peter Njoroge, Patrick Malonza, Ogeto Mwebi, Dorothy Nyingi, Geoffrey Mwachala |
| KeyBase, Teaching Old Keys New Tricks | |
| Niels Klazenga |
| iBDP: A Data Portal for Integrative Biodiversity Research Data Management | |
| Jitendra Gaikwad, Martin Hohmuth, Steffen Dobritz, Birgitta König-Ries |
| Effect of anthropogenic activities on the distribution of the endemic chameleons from the Cameroon volcanic line | |
| Walter Paulin Tapondjou Nkonmeneck, LeGrand Nono Gonwouo |
| The Genetic Diversity of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758), of Lake Baringo, Kenya . | |
| Ann Mwaura, Joseph Gathua, Yeremia chuhila |
| Database creation for the monitoring of wildlife census in Nazinga Game Ranch (Burkina Faso) | |
| Isidore Ogoudje AMAHOWE |
| Zoo-Botanical Samples of the Garoua Wildlife School: Inventory of their digitization | |
| Samuel Christian Tsakem |
| Challenges and opportunities for data mobilization in transboundary ecosystems of the Albertine Rift | |
| Faustin Gashakamba |
| Whole-Dataset Analyses using Apache Spark | |
| Matthew Collins, Jorrit Poelen, Alexander Thompson |
| Towards a Biodiversity Information Management Centre of Excellence in South Africa | |
| Doug Harebottle, Fatima Parker-Allie, Richard Knight |
| Predicting suitable habitats for the puddle frog Phrynobatrachus auritus | |
| Geraud Canis Tasse Taboue |
| Predicting suitable habitats for the puddle frog Phrynobatrachus auritus | |
| Geraud Canis Tasse Taboue, Gabriel L. Fiorini, Courtney A. Miller, Nicola M. Anthony, Eric B. Fokam |
| Collaboration Network for the Protection of Guibourtia tessmannii in Southern Cameroon | |
| Jacques Anselme Massussi, Lordon C. Djieto |
Symposium and Workshop Organizer Abstracts
| S01 - Biodiversity Informatics Services and Workflows | |
| Anton Güntsch |
| S04 - BHL Africa: Assessing and Building Capacity for Global Access to Biodiversity Literature | |
| Martin Kalfatovic, Anne-Lise Fourie, Constance Rinaldo, Carolyn Sheffield |
| S06 - Semantics for Sustaining Biodiversity | |
| Ramona L. Walls, Robert Guralnick, John Deck |
| W04 - Biodiversity Data Mobilization Models | |
| Deborah Paul, Elizabeth Ellwood |
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