Conference Schedule

2016-12-04

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

• TDWG Executive Meeting: At Arenal Manoa.

10:00 AM - 04:00 PM

• Data Quality IG planning meeting (by invitation only): Arenal Manoa. This meeting is by invitation only.

05:30 PM - 05:30 PM

• Buses leave for Arenal Manoa Hotel: Buses begin departing from conference hotels and the Central Square in La Fortuna. Each bus will start from a conference hotel then stop and pick up those waiting in the Central Square (near the Church) in La Fortuna.

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

• Sunday Registration: Registration will be available on Sunday, December 4th at the Arenal Manoa Hotel in conjunction with the Welcome Reception.
• Welcome Reception: The Welcome Reception will be held Sunday evening before the official start of the conference at the Arenal Manoa Hotel, La Fortuna, Costa Rica.

08:00 PM - 08:00 PM

• Buses depart from Arenal Manoa for conference hotels

2016-12-05

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

• Monday Registration: Please make every effort to pick up your registration materials on Sunday during the Welcome Reception. Registration will only be available during breaks.

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM

• Opening Session: Welcome and announcements in Auditorium of CTEC. Featured speakers: Dr. Cynthia Parr, Chair TDWG; Dr Edgardo Vargas, Director of TEC; Dr. Julio Calvo, President of TEC or Dr. Paola Vega, Vice President for Research and Extension; and welcome video by naturalist, Alvaro Cuberto.

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

• Keynote: Dr. Rodrigo Gámez Lobo: Dr. Rodrigo Gámez Lobo was founder and former Director General and President of the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). "Our real goal is to make the society come to the understanding that, because of being something that directly affects quality of life, materially, intellectually and spiritually, we must preserve at all costs the rich biodiversity of the country", he says in his book "On Biodiversity, People and Utopias" (1999). Dr. Erick Mata Montero will introduce Dr. Gámez.

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

• Monday AM Break & Registration: Lobby of CTEC
• Poster Setup: Please set up your poster at this time. Posters should remain available for view throughout the week.

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

• Donald Hobern, Andrea Hahn, A Standards Architecture for Integrating Information in Biodiversity Science
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

• Tim Robertson, Biodiversity Data Integration from an Aggregator’s Perspective
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM

• Steven J Baskauf, A High-altitude View of TDWG Standards: Machine Processing, Graphs, and the Vocabulary Development Process
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:55 AM - 12:10 PM

• Peter Desmet, GitHub for TDWG standards and Interest Groups
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

• Monday Registration: CTEC Lobby
• Monday Lunch: 

  For Monday only, please allow those attending the 1PM Newcomer's Chat priority in the lunch line. Lunch is served in the Cafeteria (also known as "Soda").

   

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

• Newcomer's Chat: Computer Science 1

02:00 PM - 02:15 PM

• William Ulate, Riza Batista-Navarro, Real use cases for Semantic Information from the Mining Biodiversity project
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:15 PM - 02:30 PM

• Anton Güntsch, David Fichtmüller, Mareike Petersen, Jana Hoffmann, Jörg Holetschek, Gabi Droege, Towards the next-generation ABCD
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:30 PM - 02:45 PM

• Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano, Guido Sautter, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Nico Franz, Kiril Simov, Lyubomir Penev, The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System: A Semantic Suite Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:45 PM - 03:00 PM

• John Deck, Semantic Annotation for Tabular Data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

03:00 PM - 03:15 PM

• Joel Sachs, James Macklin, Hong Cui, Some Challenges in Working with Biodiversity Ontologies
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

03:15 PM - 03:30 PM

• Hong Cui, James Macklin, Joel Sachs, Thomas Rodenhausen, Steven Chong, Dongfang Xu, Bottom-up Phenotype Ontology Building from Character Descriptions
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM

• Monday PM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

04:00 PM - 04:15 PM

• Arthur Chapman, Antonio Saraiva, Dmitry Schigel, Lee Belbin, TDWG-GBIF Data Quality Interest Group
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:15 PM - 04:30 PM

• Allan Koch Veiga, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Conceptual Framework for Assessment and Management of Fitness for Use - A Contextualization in Biodiversity Informatics Scenario
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:30 PM - 04:45 PM

• Lee Belbin, ‘Data Quality’ Task Group 2: Tools, Services and Workflows
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:45 PM - 05:00 PM

• John Richard Wieczorek, James Hanken, David Lowery, Bertram Ludäscher, James Macklin, Timothy McPhillips, Paul J Morris, Robert A Morris, Laura A Russell, Qian Zhang, Data Quality Workflows using Akka
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

05:00 PM - 05:15 PM

• Alexander Thompson, Matthew Collins, IDQ: Integrating Data Quality into Biodiversity Workflows
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

05:15 PM - 05:30 PM

• Abby Benson, Ward Appeltans, Pieter Provoost, Sky Bristol, Improving quality while preserving quantity using OBIS automated QA/QC procedures
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

2016-12-06

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

• Tuesday Registration: CTEC Lobby

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM

• Cyndy Parr, Biodiversity informatics and the agricultural data management landscape
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Moisés Alberto Acuña-Chaves, Geographic entities extraction from biological textual sources
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Denne Reed, Biodiversity Through Deep Time: Data standards and best practices for paleobiology
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 1

09:15 AM - 09:30 AM

• Jose E Araya-Monge, Semi-automatical classification and structuring of text fragments from biological documents
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Kyle Braak, Progress in Standardizing Sampling-Event Data
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM

• Gail Kampmeier, Recognizing the Data Gap of Arthropods in Agricultural Biodiversity
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Maria Mora, José Enrique Araya, Semi-Automatic Extraction of Plants Morphological Characters from Taxonomic Descriptions
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

09:45 AM - 10:00 AM

• Nicole E. Kaplan, Justin D. Derner, David J. Augustine, Bruce C. Vandenberg, LTAR Research: Aspiring to meet production and conservation objectives on the USDA-ARS Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Roselyn Santos Gabud, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Vladimir Mariano, Eduardo Mendoza, Sandra Yap, Understanding mass flowering of dipterocarps through semantic occurrence information extraction
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM

• Ramona L. Walls, Petra ten Hoopen, Ethalinda K.S. Cannon, Plant Specimen Contextual Data Consensus
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Nhung T.H. Nguyen, Georgios Kontonatsios, Axel J. Soto, Riza Batista-Navarro, Sophia Ananiadou, Enhancing semantic search through the automatic construction of a Biodiversity Terminological Inventory
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:05 AM - 10:30 AM

• Cyndy Parr, Gail E. Kampmeier, S09: Panel Discussion
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

• Tuesday AM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

• Elizabeth Ellwood, Paul Kimberly, Simon Chagnoux, Paul Flemons, Edward Gilbert, Robert Guralnick, Kevin Love, Austin Mast, Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio)—Our Biocollections Community's Citizen Science Space on the Calendar
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

• Austin R. Mast, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Robert Bruhn, Greg Riccardi, Biospex—A Basecamp for Launching, Advertising, and Managing Biodiversity Specimen Digitization Expeditions
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Joakim Philipson, What's in a name? Sense and reference in digital biodiversity information
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

• M W Denslow, H Brown, E Gilbert, N Rios, Z E Murrell, SERNEC collaborative georeferencing; leveraging the interoperability between GEOLocate and Symbiota for a large scale digitization project.
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Gaurav Vaidya, Hilmar Lapp, Nico Cellinese, Creating computable definitions for clades using the Web Ontology Language (OWL)
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

• Simon Chagnoux, Widening a label transcription website community and activity
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Rob Penn Guralnick, Ramona Walls, John Wieczorek, John Deck, Paula Zermoglio, David Bloom, Laura Russell, Raphael LaFrance, Creature Features: A semantic toolkit for biodiversity trait data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

• Rob Penn Guralnick, Notes from Nature 2.0: Standardization for citizen science at scale
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Nico Franz, Bertram Ludäscher, Logic that embraces systematic progress and persistent conflict - an update on taxonomic concept reasoning
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

• Tuesday Lunch: 

  Lunch is served in the Cafeteria (also known as "Soda").

   

• Tuesday Registration: CTEC Lobby

02:00 PM - 02:15 PM

• Willem Coetzer, Deshendran Moodley, Aurona Gerber, Semantics to standardise the interpretation of flower-visiting data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Etienne Cartolano, Robert D. Stevenson, Antonio M. Saraiva, How do managers and scientists decide if Citizen Science data are trustworthy?: Modeling data quality and trust together.
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Dimitri Brosens, Peter Desmet, How to standardize a dataset to Darwin Core with OpenRefine
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2
• Paul J Morris, Annotations Interest Group Meeting
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 1

02:15 PM - 02:30 PM

• Willem Coetzer, Anthony Bernard, Elodie Heyns, Standardising and integrating metadata associated with remote underwater video recordings
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• 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, Citizen science and expert community interactions using Wikwio, a weed knowledge portal, focused on southern Africa
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

02:30 PM - 02:45 PM

• Visotheary Ung, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, BiGAEOn: an ontology for Biogeographic areas
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly, Hervé Goëau, Samuel Dufour-Kowalski, Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Antoine Affouard, Nozha Boujemaa, Jean-françois Molino, Daniel Barthélémy, Potential of mobile search logs in citizen science context for biodiversity monitoring
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

02:45 PM - 03:00 PM

• Andréa Corrêa Flôres Albuquerque, José Laurindo Campos dos Santos, Alberto Nogueira de Castro Júnior, A Conceptual Framework Developed to Integrate Scientific Tacit Knowledge into OntoBio
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Jessie Barry, Identifying biodiversity using citizen science and computer vision: Introducing Visipedia
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

03:00 PM - 03:15 PM

• Brian J. Stucky, Ramona L. Walls, Kjell Bolmgren, John Deck, Ellen G. Denny, Robert P. Guralnick, An Introduction to the Plant Phenology Ontology
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Vijay Barve, Flickr biodiversity data quality: Can Citizen Scientist identify Swallowtail butterflies?
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

03:15 PM - 03:30 PM

• Dana Campbell, Anne E Thessen, Leslie Ries, Bridging discrepancies across North American butterfly naming authorities: supporting citizen science data integration
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM

• Tuesday PM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

04:00 PM - 04:15 PM

• Peter Desmet, Stijn Van Hoey, Dimitri Brosens, Defining dataset specifications to communicate data quality characteristics
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Robert D Stevenson, Etienne A Cartolano, Citizen Science in Biodiversity Research: Defining infrastructure needs and standards to increase global monitoring
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

04:15 PM - 04:30 PM

• Walter Berendsohn, Okka Tschoepe, Lutz Suhrbier, Anton Güntsch, AnnoSys – Improving Data Quality by annotating virtual Specimens
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:30 PM - 04:45 PM

• Dmitry Y Mozzherin, Alexander A Myltsev, David J Patterson, New Scientific names finding, parsing and resolution tools from Global Names.
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:45 PM - 05:00 PM

• Stephan Weise, Helmut Knüpffer, Markus Oppermann, Checking scientific plant names in European germplasm holdings as documented in EURISCO
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

05:00 PM - 05:15 PM

• Tomer Gueta, Yohay Carmel, Why you must clean your big-data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

05:15 PM - 05:30 PM

• Falko Glöckler, Quasi-F – An Infrastructure for the Quality Assurance of Citizen Science Data in Germany
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

2016-12-07

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

• Wednesday Registration: Lobby of CTEC

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM

• Arturo H. Ariño, Anabel Pérez de Zabalza, TDWG Then and Now
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Arthur Chapman, Antonio Saraiva, Workshop of TDWG-GBIF Data Quality Interest Group
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2
• Anton Güntsch, James Macklin, Paul J. Morris, Towards Best Practices for the Implementation and Documentation of Biodiversity Informatics Services
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

09:15 AM - 09:30 AM

• Lyubomir Penev, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Viktor Senderov, Pavel Stoev, Teodor Georgiev, Nanopublications for biodiversity: concept, formats and implementation
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM

• Nelson Rios, Henry L Bart, COPIS: A Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

09:45 AM - 10:00 AM

• Holly Little, The Digital Object Lifecycle of Paleo Data: Concepts of Digital Curation in a Natural History Context
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

• Laura Brenskelle, Rob Penn Guralnick, John Wieczorek, Building Linked Open Data for Zooarchaeological Specimens and Their Context
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

• Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Lyubomir Penev, Demonstrating the Prototype of the Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

• Wednesday AM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

• Martin Kalfatovic, BHL - 10 Years and More!
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Paula F. Zermoglio, David Bloom, John R. Wieczorek, Robert P. Guralnick, Raphael LaFrance, Laura Russell, Darwin Core Documentation: More (would be) Better
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Arthur Chapman, Antonio Saraiva, Workshop of TDWG-GBIF Data Quality Interest Group
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

• Constance Rinaldo, BHL: Grants and Growth
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

• Abel Packer, Henrique Rodrigues, Denise Peres, BHL-SciELO Network
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Joel Sachs, John Wieczorek, James Macklin, Tim Robertson, Steve Baskauf, Darwin Core: Tutorials; best practices; current issues; future directions
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

• Dmitry Schigel, Towards extracting occurrence data from biodiversity literature
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

• Jiri Frank, Biodiversity Heritage Library as official electronic information source for Biodiversity and Taxonomy studies curriculum
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

• Constance Rinaldo, Questions: BHL - 10 years of innovation & growth
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

• Wednesday Lunch: 

  Lunch is served in the Cafeteria (also known as "Soda").  Please allow TDWG Exec members priority in the serving line today so that they can attend an Exec meeting at 1 PM.

   

• Wednesday Registration: CTEC Lobby

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

• TDWG Exec Meeting in TecnoAula 1

02:00 PM - 02:15 PM

• Lyubomir Penev, Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Next Generation Publishing for Biodiversity using Pensoft's Arpha Writing Tool and Publishing System
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Anne E Thessen, Meeting of the Joint RDA/TDWG Interest Group on Metadata Standards for attribution of physical and digital collections stewardship
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2
• Quentin John Groom, Peter Desmet, Proposed changes to Darwin Core to improve the flow of alien species data
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

02:15 PM - 02:30 PM

• Teodor Georgiev, Viktor Senderov, Lyubomir Penev, Novel article formats in the ARPHA* Writing Tool and Biodiversity Data Journal
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:30 PM - 02:45 PM

• Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Lyubomir Penev, Online Import of Occurrence Records into Manuscripts from Taxonomic Databases using Pensoft’s ARPHA* Writing Tool
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:45 PM - 03:00 PM

• Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Lyubomir Penev, Creation of Data Paper Manuscripts from Ecological Metadata Language (EML)
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM

• Wednesday PM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

04:00 PM - 04:15 PM

• Nicky Nicolson, Allan Tucker, Clustering botanical collections data with a minimised set of features drawn from aggregated specimen data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Annie Simpson, Catherine S Jarnevich, Jim Graham, W03A: Darwin Core Invasive Species Extension Hackathon: Six schemas for GitHub
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2
• Martin Kalfatovic, Literature Interest Group
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 1

04:15 PM - 04:30 PM

• Steven Kelling, Taking a Big Data Approach to Estimating Species Abundance
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:30 PM - 04:45 PM

• Alexis Joly, Hervé Goeau, Pierre Bonnet, Large-scale Evaluation of Multimedia Analysis Techniques for the Monitoring of Biodiversity
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

04:45 PM - 05:00 PM

• Matthew Collins, Alexander Thompson, Jorrit Poelen, Jennifer Hammock, GUODA: A Unified Platform for Large-Scale Computational Research on Open-Access Biodiversity Data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

05:00 PM - 05:15 PM

• Alexander Thompson, Matthew Collins, Data Quality at Scale: Bridging the Gap between Datum and Data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

05:15 PM - 05:30 PM

• Jennifer Hammock, Jorrit Poelen, Fresh Data: what's new and what's interesting?
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

2016-12-08

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

• Thursday Registration: Lobby of CTEC

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM

• 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, Applying TDWG Standards to assess the Ecosystem Value of UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserves in Africa.
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Nicky Nicolson, Robert Turner, Abigail Barker, Reviewing data integration and mobilisation using name reconciliation and identifier services
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Annie Simpson, Catherine S Jarnevich, Jim Graham, W03B: Darwin Core Invasive Species Extension Hackathon: Six schemas for GitHub
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2
• Steven J Baskauf, Vocabulary Maintenance Task Group
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 1

09:15 AM - 09:30 AM

• Chuck Miller, Implementing Name Identifiers for the World Flora Online
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Thomas Vattakaven, Sandeep Tandekar, Rahul Kumar Sinha, Sathish M, Prabhakar Rajagopal, A participatory module to curate species lists for generating a dynamically updating taxonomic backbone for the India Biodiversity Portal
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM

• Dmitry Y Mozzherin, Richard Pyle, Identifiers for Biodiversity Informatics: The Global Names Approach
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Marie-Elise Lecoq, Fabien Cavière, Sophie Pamerlon, Eric Chenin, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Régine Vignes-Lebbe, www.gbif.fr : French National Portal of GBIF
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

09:45 AM - 10:00 AM

• Yuri Roskov, The Catalogue of Life Editor's View on Globally Unique Identifiers for Names
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Md Rahimullah Miah, Alexander K. Sayok, Ahi Sarok, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Biodiversity Information Systems in Geospatial Applications for Protected Areas in Bangladesh
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

• Ramona L. Walls, Names and identifiers in the CyVerse cyberinfrastucture
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

• Jeff Gerbracht, Utilizing Unique Identifiers for Taxonomic Concepts
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

• Thursday AM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

• Steven Kelling, Daniel Fink, Frank La Sorte, The Significance of Data Visualizations for Dynamically Occurring Species
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Mary E Barkworth, Curtis Dyreson, Building Digitization and Promoting Collaboration in GBIF Dark countries
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Annie Simpson, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Jim Graham, W03C: Darwin Core Invasive Species Extension Hackathon: Six schemas for GitHub
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

• Lilliana Sancho-Chavarria, Erick Mata-Montero, Visual Comparison of Biological Taxonomies
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Hanna Koivula, Biodiversity Informatics Curriculum Interest Group – BDI Curriculum IG
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

• 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, Results of IndexMed GRAIL Days 2016: How to use standards to build GRAphs and mIne data for environmentaL research
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

• Pawandeep Kaur, Towards Recommending Visualization for Biodiversity Data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

• Jitendra Gaikwad, Pawandeep Kaur, Friederike Klan, Discussion: Application of Data Visualisation for Sustainable Biodiversity: Deriving Useful Knowledge and Insights from Heterogeneous Data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

• Thursday Lunch: 

  Lunch is served in the Cafeteria (also known as "Soda"). Those leaving for the Soltis Center should pick up a bag lunch to carry on bus.

12:45 PM - 12:45 PM

• Buses leave for Soltis Center & Mini-Bioblitz: Sign up for this event ($20) by Monday 5 December in RegOnline so we may estimate the number of buses and bagged lunches needed.

01:30 PM - 01:30 PM

• Buses leave CTEC for La Fortuna hotels: Those not attending the mini-bioblitz may elect to return to hotels for the afternoon.

04:15 PM - 04:15 PM

• Buses leave Soltis Center for La Fortuna hotels

05:00 PM - 05:00 PM

• First bus leaves hotels for EcoTermales: Participants who did not go to the Soltis Center for the bioblitz need to take this bus. Chance to soak in the resort's hot springs http://ecotermalesfortuna.cr/ before attending the Gala Dinner.

05:30 PM - 07:30 PM

• Enjoy Hot Springs at EcoTermales before the Gala Dinner: Change, enjoy the hot springs, then change back and enjoy the surroundings, have something at the bar, until dinner http://ecotermalesfortuna.cr/

06:00 PM - 06:00 PM

• Last bus travels from hotels to EcoTermales: All participants returning from the Soltis Center Bioblitz should be on this bus.

07:30 PM - 09:30 PM

• Gala Dinner at EcoTermales: A special Gala Dinner is at EcoTermales http://ecotermalesfortuna.cr/ is included as part of your registration.

09:30 PM - 09:30 PM

• Buses return to hotels from Gala Dinner at EcoTermales

2016-12-09

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

• Friday Registration: CTEC lobby

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM

• Prabhakar Rajagopal, Thomas Vattakaven, Pierre Grad, Thomas Le Bourgeois, Balasubramanian D, Sathish M, Maheswaran T, Sandeep Tandekar, Sravanthi M, An open participatory species traits infrastructure to organize and discover species information.
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Viktor Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Lyubomir Penev, Streamlining the Flow of Taxon Occurrence Data Between a Manuscript and Biological Databases
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Deborah Paul, IG09: Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD)
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2

09:15 AM - 09:30 AM

• Dmitry Schigel, Molecular and morphological biodiversity: survey of data access, use and publishing
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Leonardo Buitrago, Nestor Beltran, Marcela Delgado, Valerie Dean, Dairo Escobar, Plinian Core profiles: Facilitating the documentation and access to biological information of exotic and invasive species
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM

• Maria Fernanda Cubillos, Leonardo Buitrago, Oscar Duque, Nestor Beltran, Camila Plata, Marcela Delgado, Valerie Dean, Valentina Grajales, Daniel Amariles, Dairo Escobar, Mamut: An online web editor to manage biological information of taxa based on the Plinian Core
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

09:45 AM - 10:00 AM

• Alexander M. Weigand, Florian Leese, Use of molecular data for aquatic biomonitoring – future potential and challenges from a European perspective
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Kristjan Adojaan, Kessy Abarenkov, Urmas Kõljalg, TraitMan - an Online Management System for Biological Traits.
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

• Urmas Kõljalg, High-Throughput Sequencing and Taxon Occurrence Databases
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Regine vignes-lebbe, Sylvain BOUQUIN, Xper3: a Collaborative Descriptive Data System with Web Services
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

• Friday AM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration: CTEC Lobby

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

• Vincent S Smith, Dimitrios Koureas, DiSSCo: Building the future of Europe’s Natural History Collections
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• 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, Exploring Data Gaps at the Species Level: Starting with demographic knowledge
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Francisco Pando, TDWG Species Information Interest Group
  Building: CTEC
  Room: TecnoAula 2

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

• Patrick Plitzner, Andreas Müller, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn, Concept relations in practical use: Taxonomic checklists in the context of Red Lists of endangered species
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3
• Etienne Cartolano, Robert D. Stevenson, Antonio M. Saraiva, Trust Management Approaches Applied to Biodiversity Data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

• Nico Franz, Beckett Sterner, A new power balance is needed for trustworthy biodiversity data
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Bruno de Carvalho Albertini, Online Pollen Catalogue Network (RCPol)
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

• Andréa Côrrea Flôres Albuquerque, José Laurindo Campos dos Santos, Alberto Nogueira de Castro Júnior, Elicitation Techniques for Acquiring Biodiversity Knowledge
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium
• Remy Jomier, Sophie Pamerlon, French national standards for biodiversity: interoperability on an international level
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

• Liqiang Ji, Catalogue of Life, China and Taxonomic Tree Tool
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

• Thomas Pfuhl, Falko Glöckler, Jana Hoffmann, The BioCASe Monitor Service 2 – New Features for Monitoring Progress and Quality of Data Provision through Distributed Data Networks
  Building: Computer Science
  Room: Computer Science 3

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM

• Friday Lunch: 

  Lunch is served in the Cafeteria (also known as "Soda").

02:00 PM - 02:30 PM

• Closing Session: CTEC Auditorium

02:30 PM - 02:35 PM

• Michael W. Denslow, Julie Allen, Rob P Guralnick, Examining citizen scientist engagement and transcription rates through site content and social media activity on the Notes from Nature platform
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:35 PM - 02:40 PM

• Pieter Provoost, Daphnis De Pooter, Ward Appeltans, Sky Bristol, Philip Goldstein, Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé, Leen Vandepitte, Francisco Hernandez, Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences.
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:40 PM - 02:45 PM

• Nico Franz, Neil Cobb, Benjamin Brandt, Anne Basham, Introducing LepNet - the Lepidoptera of North America Network
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:45 PM - 02:50 PM

• Nico Franz, Anne Basham, Austin Mast, New developments for the Libraries of Life project and app
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:50 PM - 02:55 PM

• Nico Franz, Edward Gilbert, Benjamin Brandt, Rachel Collin, Updates on multiple Neotropical Symbiota portals - STRI, Flora, and Arthropods
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

02:55 PM - 03:00 PM

• Rukaya Johaadien, Fhatani Ranwashe, A New Georeferencing Tool
  Building: CTEC
  Room: Auditorium

03:00 PM - 03:30 PM

• Closing Session (continued): CTEC Auditorium

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM

• Friday PM Break & Remove Posters

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