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TDWG 2017

Annie Simpson

U.S. Geological Survey
biologist and information scientist
Reston, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8338-5134

I'm currently working on version 4 of a comprehensive list of introduced (non-native) species for the United States (for Alaska, Hawaii, and the L48 conterminous states). I'm also active in the DOI Invasive Species Task Force and the Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds (FICMNEW).

17:30 EDT

Registration in the Penthouse Panorama

18:00 EDT

[Social Event] Welcome Reception in the Penthouse Panorama

09:00 EDT

Welcoming remarks and guide to the meeting Ballroom A

09:40 EDT

[Keynote] Roderic D.M. Page - Towards a Biodiversity Knowledge Graph Ballroom ARoderic D.M. Page

10:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

11:00 EDT

[Contributed - Topic] What do People, DiSSCo, Brazil, Symbiota, BISON and Google have in common? Ballroom AGail Kampmeier

11:30 EDT

[W19] Building Your Own Big Data Analysis Infrastructure for Biodiversity Science CapitaleMatthew Collins

11:45 EDT

[W19] Argo as a platform for integrating distinct biodiversity analytics tools into workflows for building graph databases CapitaleRiza Batista-Navarro

12:00 EDT

[Contributed] Taxonomy and Distribution in Big Data Use Cases from BISON and ITIS Ballroom AGerald Guala

12:15 EDT

[W19] Panel Discussion CapitaleRiza Batista-Navarro • Sophia Ananiadou • Teodor Georgiev • Evangelos Pafilis • Lyubomir Penev • Viktor Senderov • Axel J. Soto • William Ulate

12:30 EDT

Lunch provided Ballroom C

13:30 EDT

[Social Event] Newcomers Meet & Greet CapitaleDimitris Koureas • James A. Macklin • Cyndy Parr

14:00 EDT

[W03 - Topic] Towards robust interoperability in multi-omic approaches to biodiversity monitoring CapitalePier Luigi Buttigieg • Robert Hanner • Luke Thompson

14:15 EDT

[S04] Cookbooks and Curriculum ChaudiereMary Kennedy

14:30 EDT

[S04] Expanding the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) beyond species occurrences ChaudiereDaphnis De Pooter

14:45 EDT

[S04] Improving data availability with “OBIS-ENV-DATA”: Examples from OBIS-USA ChaudiereAbby Benson

15:00 EDT

[S28] Sustaining Software for Biological Collections Computing Ballroom AJames H. Beach

15:15 EDT

[W03] Panel Discussion CapitaleRobert Hanner • Pier Luigi Buttigieg • Luke Thompson

15:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

16:00 EDT

[Contributed] Use of Online Species Occurrence Databases in Published Research since 2010 Ballroom AJoan E Ball-Damerow

16:15 EDT

[Contributed] Extending Darwin Core to incorporate data about material condition and absolute deep time Ballroom ALaura Brenskelle

16:30 EDT

[Contributed] Pipedream or pipeline: delivering regular, reliable, up-to-date information on biodiversity through repeatable workflows Ballroom APeter Desmet

16:45 EDT

[Contributed] Development of a National Repository for Aquatic Biodiversity in Bhutan Ballroom ASangay Dema [W03] Linking molecular and morphological biodiversity evidence by building a single name space CapitaleDmitry Schigel

19:00 EDT

[Social Event] Night at the Museum Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa

08:30 EDT

Load Talks & Hang Posters N/A

09:00 EDT

i. Overview of TDWG and TDWG standards; ii. Announcement of Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS), the new journal of TDWG Ballroom A

09:40 EDT

[Keynote] Anne Bowser - Standardizing Citizen Science? Ballroom AAnne Bowser

10:30 EDT

Posters (Even Numbers) Ballroom B

11:00 EDT

[S02 - Topic] Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools Ballroom AArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva • Alexander Thompson [S02] Fitness for Use: The BDQIG aims for improved Stability and Consistency Ballroom AArthur D. Chapman

11:15 EDT

[S02] Toward a Biodiversity Data Fitness for Use Backbone (FFUB): A Node.js module prototype Ballroom AAllan Koch Veiga

11:30 EDT

[S02] Fitness-for-Use-Framework-aware Data Quality workflows in Kurator Ballroom APaul J. Morris

11:45 EDT

[S02] Darwin Cloud: Mapping real-world data to Darwin Core Ballroom AJohn Wieczorek

12:00 EDT

[S02] Integrating data-cleaning with data analysis to enhance usability of biodiversity big-data Ballroom ATomer Gueta

12:30 EDT

Lunch on your own N/A

14:00 EDT

[S02 - Topic] Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools Ballroom AArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva • Alexander Thompson [S02] Managing data quality in GBIF: status and plans Ballroom AChristian Gendreau [S15 - Topic] Agricultural Informatics Contributions to Biodiversity Science and Biodiversity Assessments CapitaleGail Kampmeier • James A. Macklin • Cyndy Parr

14:15 EDT

[S02] Towards a comprehensive workflow for biodiversity data in R Ballroom ATomer Gueta

14:30 EDT

[S15] Bringing Bugs into the System CapitaleGail Kampmeier

15:00 EDT

[S02] Invasive Organisms Information: A proposed TDWG Task Group Ballroom AQuentin Groom

15:15 EDT

[S02] Panel Discussion Ballroom AArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva • Alexander Thompson

15:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

16:00 EDT

[S22 - Topic] Biological Interaction Data - towards data standardization Ballroom AQuentin Groom • Jennifer Hammock • Antonio M. Saraiva [S22] How species interactions are managed in Plinian Core: Status and questions Ballroom AFrancisco Pando

16:15 EDT

[S22] Addressing the proposal for new Darwin Core terms for interaction data Ballroom AJohn Wieczorek

16:30 EDT

[S22] GoMexSI: Using Open Platforms such as Github, Wordpress, and GloBI to Manage, and Share Species Interaction Data Ballroom AJames Simons

16:45 EDT

[S22] Brazilian Plant-Pollinator Interactions Network: definition of a data standard for digitization, sharing, and aggregation of plant-pollinator interaction data Ballroom AAntonio M. Saraiva

17:00 EDT

[S22] Global Biotic Interactions: A Catalyst For Integrating Existing Interaction Datasets, Connecting Data Curators And Developing Data Exchange Methods Ballroom AJorrit H Poelen

17:15 EDT

[S22] mangal - making sense of biotic interaction data Ballroom ATimothée Poisot

09:00 EDT

Wild Ideas Ballroom A

09:40 EDT

[Keynote] Javier de la Torre - Everything happens somewhere, multiple times Ballroom AJavier de la Torre

10:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

10:40 EDT

[Computer Demo] Desktop or remote knowledge base management systems for taxonomic data and identification keys: Xper2 and Xper3 Ballroom BRégine Vignes-Lebbe

11:00 EDT

[S12 - Topic] Citizen Science Contributions to Biodiversity Research and Standards CapitaleRobert D. Stevenson [S12] The state of the data in citizen science CapitaleAnne Bowser

11:15 EDT

[S12] Setting Collections Data Free with the Power of the Crowd: challenges, opportunities and a vision for the future CapitaleMargaret J Gold

11:30 EDT

[S12] Turning Flickr into a useful Citizen Science Resource CapitaleArthur D. Chapman

11:45 EDT

[S12] Discovering Nature in the City with a Citizen Science Mobile App CapitaleJana Hoffmann

12:00 EDT

[S12] Panel Discussion CapitaleRobert D. Stevenson

13:00 EDT

[Field Trip] Canadian Museum of Nature Collections or Pink Lake Hike N/A

09:00 EDT

Standards in Action: The Darwin Core Hour Ballroom ADeborah Paul • John Wieczorek • Paula F Zermoglio

09:40 EDT

[Keynote] Pamela Soltis - Linking Heterogeneous Data in Biodiversity Research Ballroom APamela S. Soltis

10:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

11:00 EDT

[Interest Group] Species Information ChaudiereFrancisco Pando [W21 - Topic] Biological Interaction Data Workgroup CapitaleQuentin Groom • Jennifer Hammock • Antonio M. Saraiva

11:15 EDT

[S18] What’s Missing From All the Portals? Ballroom ASharon Grant

12:30 EDT

Lunch on your own N/A

14:00 EDT

[W06 - Topic] Data Quality Workshop ChaudiereArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva

15:15 EDT

[S18] SPNHC 2017 Natural History Collections Biodiversity Informatics 101 Short Course Insights Ballroom AHolly Little

15:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B Posters (Even Numbers) Ballroom B

16:00 EDT

[W06 - Topic] Data Quality Workshop ChaudiereArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva

16:45 EDT

[W23] Panel Discussion CapitaleZoe Panchen • Joel Sachs • Mélanie Bélisle-Leclerc • Scott Chamberlain • Jonathan Davies • Pamela S. Soltis • Robert Guralnick

17:45 EDT

[Social Event] Banquet Canadian Museum of History, 100 Laurier Street, Gatineau (Hull), Quebec

09:00 EDT

[W14 - Topic] Standards for Citizen Science Biodiversity Studies CapitaleLibby Ellwood • Robert D. Stevenson

10:15 EDT

[S20] Traits as Essential Biodiversity Variables Ballroom ARobert Guralnick

10:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

11:00 EDT

[Contributed - Topic] Topics in Taxonomy and Ontologies Ballroom ADavid Shorthouse

12:00 EDT

[Contributed] Building a Taxonomic Data Editor: ITIS Taxonomic Workbench 6.0 Ballroom ADavid Mitchell

12:15 EDT

[Contributed] Catalogue of Life, China and Taxonomic Tree Tool Ballroom ALiqiang Ji

12:30 EDT

Lunch provided Ballroom C

14:00 EDT

Business Meeting: Reports from Treasurer, Interest and Task Groups; Preview of TDWG2018; Closing Remarks Ballroom ADimitris Koureas • William Ulate