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 |
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
The Role of Outreach and Networks in Addressing Capacity Needs in Biodiversity Documentation in East Africa | |
Wanja Kinuthia, Victor Wasonga, Jane Muthoni Macharia |
More data than we know what to do with? Biodiversity informatics skills needs in the research data pipeline | |
Deborah Paul, François Michonneau, Katja Seltmann |
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 |
Role of biodiversity informatics in combating wildlife crime in Kenya | |
Henry Kamau Ndithia, Ann Mwaura, Esther Mwangi |
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 |
Applicability of Audubon Core to Camera Trap Data | |
Robert A Morris, Robert D. Stevenson |
S06 - Semantics for Sustaining Biodiversity
Formulating the knowledge representation requirements to perform high-level reasoning over flower-visiting data | |
Willem Coetzer, Deshendran Moodley, Aurona Gerber |
S07 - Training and Collaboration for Sustained African Engagement in Biodiversity Informatics
Biodiversity Information for Development | |
Siro Masinde, Olaf Bánki, Donald Hobern |
Biodiversity Information : Training and Collaborations across borders | |
Patricia Mergen, Larissa Smirnova, Franck Theeten |
Barcode of wildlife project Kenya (BWPK): Partnership in Combating Wildlife Crime | |
Beatrice Nangami Khayota, Ann Mwaura |
C01 - Genetic Resource Preservation
The World Flora Online Project: Achieving Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation | |
Chuck Miller |
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
A wiki based portal to the biodiversity knowledge graph. | |
Joel Sachs, James Macklin |
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 |
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 |
C05 - Digitization and Data Publishing
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 |
C06 - Citizen Science
TaxaB29: From Taxonomic databases to identifications in the field | |
Kagiso Mangwale |
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 |
Poster
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 |
Population genetic diversity of Somali ostrich in Samburu, Kenya as revealed by microsatellite markers. | |
Mariciano Mutiga Mutiga |
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 |
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 |
The Genetic Diversity of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758), of Lake Baringo, Kenya . | |
Ann Mwaura, Joseph Gathua, Yeremia chuhila |
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 |

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