Symposium 00: A Roadmap for Standards-based Data Integration in Biodiversity Science
| A High-altitude View of TDWG Standards: Machine Processing, Graphs, and the Vocabulary Development Process | |
| Steven J Baskauf |
Symposium 01A: Semantics for Biodiversity Science: Challenges & Solutions
| Real use cases for Semantic Information from the Mining Biodiversity project | |
| William Ulate, Riza Batista-Navarro |
Symposium 01B: Semantics for Biodiversity Science: Text mining & semantic role tagging
| Understanding mass flowering of dipterocarps through semantic occurrence information extraction | |
| Roselyn Santos Gabud, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Vladimir Mariano, Eduardo Mendoza, Sandra Yap |
| Enhancing semantic search through the automatic construction of a Biodiversity Terminological Inventory | |
| Nhung T.H. Nguyen, Georgios Kontonatsios, Axel J. Soto, Riza Batista-Navarro, Sophia Ananiadou |
Symposium 01C: Semantics for Biodiversity Science: Taxon names & Traits
| Creature Features: A semantic toolkit for biodiversity trait data | |
| Rob Penn Guralnick, Ramona Walls, John Wieczorek, John Deck, Paula Zermoglio, David Bloom, Laura Russell, Raphael LaFrance |
Symposium 01D: Semantics for Biodiversity Science: Integration & Ecology
| Standardising and integrating metadata associated with remote underwater video recordings | |
| Willem Coetzer, Anthony Bernard, Elodie Heyns |
| BiGAEOn: an ontology for Biogeographic areas | |
| Visotheary Ung, Pier Luigi Buttigieg |
| An Introduction to the Plant Phenology Ontology | |
| Brian J. Stucky, Ramona L. Walls, Kjell Bolmgren, John Deck, Ellen G. Denny, Robert P. Guralnick |
Symposium 03: Interoperability and Data Provenance for Online Crowdsourcing of Biodiversity Specimens
| Biospex—A Basecamp for Launching, Advertising, and Managing Biodiversity Specimen Digitization Expeditions | |
| Austin R. Mast, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Robert Bruhn, Greg Riccardi |
| SERNEC collaborative georeferencing; leveraging the interoperability between GEOLocate and Symbiota for a large scale digitization project. | |
| M W Denslow, H Brown, E Gilbert, N Rios, Z E Murrell |
Symposium 04: Using Data Visualisation for Sustainable Biodiversity: Knowledge and Insights from Heterogeneous Data
| Results of IndexMed GRAIL Days 2016: How to use standards to build GRAphs and mIne data for environmentaL research | |
| Romain David, Jean-Pierre Féral, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, David Auber, Nicolas Bailly, Cyrille Blanpain, Vincent Breton, Alrick Dias, Anna Cohen-Nabeiro, Aurélie Delavaud, Sophie Gachet, Robin Goffaux, Karina Gibert, Manuel Herrera, Dino Ienco, Romain Julliard, Julien Lecubin, Yannick Legre, Grégoire Loïs, Victor Méndez Muñoz, Jean-Charles Meunier, Isabelle Mougenot, Sophie Pamerlon, Geneviève Romier, Alison Specht, Christian Surace, Thierry Tatoni |
Symposium 05: Big Data Analysis Methods and Techniques as Applied to Biocollections
| Large-scale Evaluation of Multimedia Analysis Techniques for the Monitoring of Biodiversity | |
| Alexis Joly, Hervé Goeau, Pierre Bonnet |
Symposium 06A: Biodiversity Data Quality – issues, methods and tools
| TDWG-GBIF Data Quality Interest Group | |
| Arthur Chapman, Antonio Saraiva, Dmitry Schigel, Lee Belbin |
| ‘Data Quality’ Task Group 2: Tools, Services and Workflows | |
| Lee Belbin |
| Improving quality while preserving quantity using OBIS automated QA/QC procedures | |
| Abby Benson, Ward Appeltans, Pieter Provoost, Sky Bristol |
Symposium 06B: Biodiversity Data Quality – issues, methods, and tools
| Defining dataset specifications to communicate data quality characteristics | |
| Peter Desmet, Stijn Van Hoey, Dimitri Brosens |
| AnnoSys – Improving Data Quality by annotating virtual Specimens | |
| Walter Berendsohn, Okka Tschoepe, Lutz Suhrbier, Anton Güntsch |
Symposium 09: Agricultural Biodiversity Standards and Semantics
| Progress in Standardizing Sampling-Event Data | |
| Kyle Braak |
Symposium 10: Citizen Science for Biodiversity Research
| Citizen science and expert community interactions using Wikwio, a weed knowledge portal, focused on southern Africa | |
| Balasubramanian Dhandapani, Thomas le Bourgeois, Pierre Grard, Pascal Marnotte, Azaad Guangoo, Alain Paul Andrianaivo, Jean Augustin Randriamampianina, Yahaya Ibrahim, Prabhakar R, Thomas Vattakkaven, Sathish M, Karthik Yeruva |
| Potential of mobile search logs in citizen science context for biodiversity monitoring | |
| Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly, Hervé Goëau, Samuel Dufour-Kowalski, Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Antoine Affouard, Nozha Boujemaa, Jean-françois Molino, Daniel Barthélémy |
| Identifying biodiversity using citizen science and computer vision: Introducing Visipedia | |
| Jessie Barry |
| Flickr biodiversity data quality: Can Citizen Scientist identify Swallowtail butterflies? | |
| Vijay Barve |
Symposium 12: Globally Unique Identifiers for Names
| Reviewing data integration and mobilisation using name reconciliation and identifier services | |
| Nicky Nicolson, Robert Turner, Abigail Barker |
Workshop 05: How to standardize a dataset to Darwin Core with OpenRefine
| How to standardize a dataset to Darwin Core with OpenRefine | |
| Dimitri Brosens, Peter Desmet |
Workshop 06A: Darwin Core: Tutorials, best practices, current issues, future directions
| Darwin Core Documentation: More (would be) Better | |
| Paula F. Zermoglio, David Bloom, John R. Wieczorek, Robert P. Guralnick, Raphael LaFrance, Laura Russell |
| Darwin Core: Tutorials; best practices; current issues; future directions | |
| Joel Sachs, John Wieczorek, James Macklin, Tim Robertson, Steve Baskauf |
Contributed 01: Past and Future
| COPIS: A Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System | |
| Nelson Rios, Henry L Bart |
| Building Linked Open Data for Zooarchaeological Specimens and Their Context | |
| Laura Brenskelle, Rob Penn Guralnick, John Wieczorek |
Contributed 02: Inventories
| Applying TDWG Standards to assess the Ecosystem Value of UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserves in Africa. | |
| Patricia Mergen, Hans Beeckman, Claire Delvaux, Doriane Desclee, Baudouin Michel, Quentin Groom, Steven Janssens, Henry Engledow, Piet Stoffelen, Filp Vandelook, Jérôme Degreef, André De Kesel, Hidvég Franck, Christine Cocquyt, Steven Dessein, Trefon Théodore, Smirnova Larissa, Cédric Vermeulen, Pascal Boeckx, Hans Verbeeck, Noéline Raondry Rakotoarisoa |
Contributed 03: Plinean Core, Taxon Traits
| Plinian Core profiles: Facilitating the documentation and access to biological information of exotic and invasive species | |
| Leonardo Buitrago, Nestor Beltran, Marcela Delgado, Valerie Dean, Dairo Escobar |
| Mamut: An online web editor to manage biological information of taxa based on the Plinian Core | |
| Maria Fernanda Cubillos, Leonardo Buitrago, Oscar Duque, Nestor Beltran, Camila Plata, Marcela Delgado, Valerie Dean, Valentina Grajales, Daniel Amariles, Dairo Escobar |
| Xper3: a Collaborative Descriptive Data System with Web Services | |
| Regine vignes-lebbe, Sylvain BOUQUIN |
Contributed 04: Catalogs, Checklists, & Collections
| Concept relations in practical use: Taxonomic checklists in the context of Red Lists of endangered species | |
| Patrick Plitzner, Andreas Müller, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn |
Contributed 05: Data Gaps, Trust, Acquisition, Access
| Exploring Data Gaps at the Species Level: Starting with demographic knowledge | |
| Dalia A. Conde, Johanna Stärk, Fernando Colchero, Rita Silva, Jonas Schöley, Hassan Syed, Eelke Jongejans, Lionel Jouvet, Maria Baden, Shai Meiri, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Scott Chamberlain, Ulrich Steiner, Owen R. Jones, Johan Dahlgren, John E. Fa, Zjef Pereboom, Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Jaime Gonzalez Vargas, Kristen Luis, Lucie Bland, Alexander Scheuerlein, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Jonathan Wilcken, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Sebastien Devillard, Dmitry Schigel, Hugh Possingham, Annette Baudisch |
Posters
| German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) | |
| Michaeal Diepenbroek, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Anton Güntsch, Robert Huber, Birgitta König-Ries, Jens Nieschulze, Bernhard Seeger, Dagmar Triebel, Christian Wirth |
| Annotating Scientific Collection data using AnnoSys – A Generic Online Annotation System and Repository | |
| Okka Tschöpe, Lutz Suhrbier, Anton Güntsch, Walter G. Berendsohn |
| Investigating simple database size limits for useably fast ID key apps | |
| Andrew Bewsey, Alastair Culham |
| DOE! Mass digitisation of the BR Herbarium at Botanic Garden Meise | |
| Sofie De Smedt, Ann Bogaerts, Piet Stoffelen, Quentin Groom, Henry Riley Engledow, Marc Sosef, Paul Van Wambeke, Steven Dessein |
| Sampling Event Data – where do they fit in? (or "Everything you always wanted to know about sampling event data, but were afraid to ask") | |
| Kyle Braak, Andrea Hahn |
Lightning Talks
| Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences. | |
| Pieter Provoost, Daphnis De Pooter, Ward Appeltans, Sky Bristol, Philip Goldstein, Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé, Leen Vandepitte, Francisco Hernandez |
| Introducing LepNet - the Lepidoptera of North America Network | |
| Nico Franz, Neil Cobb, Benjamin Brandt, Anne Basham |
| New developments for the Libraries of Life project and app | |
| Nico Franz, Anne Basham, Austin Mast |
| Updates on multiple Neotropical Symbiota portals - STRI, Flora, and Arthropods | |
| Nico Franz, Edward Gilbert, Benjamin Brandt, Rachel Collin |
Interest Group 02: Biodiversity Informatics Curriculum
| Building Digitization and Promoting Collaboration in GBIF Dark countries | |
| Mary E Barkworth, Curtis Dyreson |
Interest Group 08: Vocabulary Management Task Group
| Vocabulary Maintenance Task Group | |
| Steven J Baskauf |
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