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 |
AnnoSys – A Generic Online Annotation System faces new Challenges | |
Lutz Suhrbier, Wolf-Henning Kusber, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn |
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 |
Discussion on the challenges of biodiversity informatics training | |
Dimitrios Koureas |
S03 - The Role of Data Standards in Real-World Applications Using Biodiversity Information
Barcode of Wildlife Project Kenya Data Standard | |
Ann Mwaura, Josephine Sarah Kunguni, Daniel Masiga, Beatrice Nangami Khayota, Ruth mwende Mumo |
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 |
S04 - BHL Africa: Assessing and Building Capacity for Global Access to Biodiversity Literature
2015 Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Update | |
Martin Kalfatovic |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
S07 - Training and Collaboration for Sustained African Engagement in Biodiversity Informatics
Barcode of wildlife project Kenya (BWPK): Partnership in Combating Wildlife Crime | |
Beatrice Nangami Khayota, Ann Mwaura |
C01 - Genetic Resource Preservation
An Information Management System to Enhance Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources | |
Joseph Ndungu Kimani, Desterio Ondieki Nyamongo |
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
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 |
C04 - Using Biodiversity Informatics Tools for Management
Sustaining Practical Biodiversity Informatics Initiatives for Decision Support in Natural Resources Management sector, Rwanda | |
Prosper Karame |
Poster
Documenting European Agrobiodiversity: EURISCO, the European Search Portal for Plant Genetic Resources | |
Stephan Weise, Helmut Knüpffer |
Synthesys 3: Synthesis of Systematic Resources | |
Jiri Frank, Jiri Kvaček |
Improved plant genetic biodiversity through the organization and promotion of agricultural shows and seed fairs | |
Aimé Kazika Kamosi |
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 |
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 |
Towards a Biodiversity Information Management Centre of Excellence in South Africa | |
Doug Harebottle, Fatima Parker-Allie, Richard Knight |
Symposium and Workshop Organizer Abstracts
S04 - BHL Africa: Assessing and Building Capacity for Global Access to Biodiversity Literature | |
Martin Kalfatovic, Anne-Lise Fourie, Constance Rinaldo, Carolyn Sheffield |

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