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TDWG 2017

Rusty Russell

The Field Museum
Director of Collections
Chicago, IL

17:30 EDT

Registration in the Penthouse Panorama

18:00 EDT

[Social Event] Welcome Reception in the Penthouse Panorama

08:00 EDT

Registration Victoria

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

11:15 EDT

[Contributed] Proposed Extension to Darwin Core for People and their Roles in the Curation of Physical and Digital Objects Ballroom ADavid Shorthouse

11:30 EDT

[Contributed] SiBBr: Envisioning the spatial distribution of Brazilian biodiversity records Ballroom ANayara Soto

11:45 EDT

[Contributed] Symbiota2 Ballroom AMary E. Barkworth

12:00 EDT

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

12:15 EDT

[Contributed] Google Summer of Code: Why TDWG should participate Ballroom ATomer Gueta

12:30 EDT

Lunch provided Ballroom C

14:00 EDT

[S28] The Arctos Community Model for Sustaining and Enriching Access to Biodiversity Data Ballroom AJohn Wieczorek

14:15 EDT

[S28] Interoperability, Attribution, and Value in the Web of Natural History Museum Data Ballroom AAndrew Bentley

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

[S28] DINA: Open Source and Open Services - A Modern Approach for Sustainable Natural History Collection Management Systems Ballroom AStefan Daume • Falko Glöckler • Elspeth Margaret Haston • Jana Hoffmann • James A. Macklin • Fredrik Ronquist

15:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

15:40 EDT

[Computer Demo] OpenBiodiv: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph Ballroom BTeodor Georgiev • Viktor Senderov

16:00 EDT

[S04] Spatial Visualization of Publicly Accessible Species Occurrence Data ChaudiereJeff McKenna

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

[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

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

Break Ballroom B

10:40 EDT

[Computer Demo] TaxonWorks Ballroom BMatt Yoder

11:00 EDT

[W07 - Topic] Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community: example of the Living Atlases community ChaudiereChristian Gendreau • Jeremy Goimard • Marie-Elise Lecoq • Dave Martin • Federico Mendez • Santiago Martínez de la Riva • Manash Shah • Anders Telenius [W07] Introduction of the Living Atlases workshop ChaudiereMarie-Elise Lecoq

11:15 EDT

[W07] Living Atlases Architecture ChaudiereChristian Gendreau • Dave Martin • Manash Shah

11:30 EDT

[W07] Documentation about Atlas of Living Australia tools: how to find information ChaudiereFabien Cavière

11:45 EDT

[W07] Workshop Activities ChaudiereMarie-Elise Lecoq • Dave Martin • Christian Gendreau • Federico Mendez • Jeremy Goimard • Santiago Martínez de la Riva • Anders Telenius • Manash Shah

12:30 EDT

Lunch on your own N/A

14:00 EDT

[S15 - Topic] Agricultural Informatics Contributions to Biodiversity Science and Biodiversity Assessments CapitaleGail Kampmeier • James A. Macklin • Cyndy Parr [S15] How Agricultural Researchers Share their Data: a Landscape Inventory CapitaleErin Antognoli

14:15 EDT

[S15] The Value of Agricultural Voucher Specimens CapitaleMary E. Barkworth [S15] [CANCELLED] Databasing Crop Plants from the People's Biodiversity Register of India CapitalePrabhakar Rajagopal

14:45 EDT

[S02] Design and use of NOMEN, an ontology defining the rules of biological nomenclature Ballroom AMatt Yoder

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

[S10 - Topic] 500 Years of Big Data from the Biodiversity Heritage Library CapitaleMartin Kalfatovic • Carolyn A. Sheffield [S10] How Did BHL Get to Big Data CapitaleMartin Kalfatovic

16:15 EDT

[S10] Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature CapitaleMariah Lewis

16:30 EDT

[S10] Scientific Names: Linking the Past to Provide Context for Knowledge CapitaleThomas M. Orrell [S22] GoMexSI: Using Open Platforms such as Github, Wordpress, and GloBI to Manage, and Share Species Interaction Data Ballroom AJames Simons

16:45 EDT

[S10] A path to continuous reindexing of scientific names appearing in Biodiversity Heritage Library data Capitale

17:00 EDT

[S10] Crowdsourcing Data Enhancements to Improve Named Entity Recognition in the Biodiversity Heritage Library CapitaleKatie Mika

17:15 EDT

[S10] BHL’s Feedback Tools and User Surveys: Investigating User Needs for Data in Digital Libraries CapitaleCarolyn A. Sheffield

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

11:00 EDT

[S16 - Topic] Using Big Data Techniques to Cross Dataset Boundaries - Integration and Analysis of Multiple Datasets Ballroom AMatthew Collins • Robert Guralnick • Martin Kalfatovic

11:15 EDT

[S16] TAXREF-LD: A Reference Thesaurus for Biodiversity on the Web of Linked Data Ballroom AFranck Michel

11:30 EDT

[S12] Turning Flickr into a useful Citizen Science Resource CapitaleArthur D. Chapman [S16] A High-throughput Data Ingest Pipeline for Semantic Data-stores Ballroom AJohn Deck

11:45 EDT

[S16] Using ontologies to explore floral evolution in a non-model plant clade Ballroom AAnnika L Smith

12:00 EDT

[S16] Panel Discussion Ballroom AMatthew Collins • Robert Guralnick • Martin Kalfatovic

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

[S18 - Topic] Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals Ballroom AGail Kampmeier • Holly Little • Deborah Paul [S18] Building a community of practice through capacity enhancement mentoring Ballroom ALaura Russell

11:15 EDT

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

11:30 EDT

[S18] An Example of Synergy in Data Mobilization: the Arctos-VertNet Nexus Ballroom ADavid Bloom

11:45 EDT

[S18] Towards Insect Digital Collections and Data Publishing: A journey for the GBIF-funded African Insect Atlas Collaborative Project Ballroom ABoikhutso Lerato Rapalai

12:00 EDT

[S18] Setting up an Interdisciplinary Data Infrastructure: Why Cooperation between Domain Experts and Computer Scientists Matters - An Experience Report from the GFBio Project Ballroom AJana Hoffmann • Felicitas Löffler

12:15 EDT

[S18] Panel Discussion Ballroom AHolly Little • Deborah Paul • Gail Kampmeier

12:30 EDT

Lunch on your own N/A

14:00 EDT

[S18 - Topic] Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals Ballroom AGail Kampmeier • Holly Little • Deborah Paul [S18] A tool for collections-specific searches in genetic databases Ballroom AMichael Trizna

14:15 EDT

[S18] How Mass Digitization is changing Herbarium Collection Management at the Botanic Garden Meise (BR) – Teaching old dogs new tricks! Ballroom AHenry Engledow

14:30 EDT

[S18] Building community-specific standards and vocabularies: prospects and challenges for linking to the broader community - The SINP Case Ballroom ARémy Jomier • Paula F Zermoglio

14:45 EDT

[S18] Managing Ex Situ Collections of Wild Species' Seeds: Use of Biodiversity Informatics in the Millennium Seed Bank to Address Challenges Ballroom AUdayangani Liu

15:00 EDT

[S18] Automated Herbarium Specimen Identification using Deep Learning Ballroom AJose Carranza-Rojas

15:15 EDT

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

15:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B

16:00 EDT

[W23 - Topic] Towards an Online Atlas of Phenology CapitaleMélanie Bélisle-Leclerc • Scott Chamberlain • Jonathan Davies • Robert Guralnick • Zoe Panchen • Joel Sachs • Pamela S. Soltis [W23] The USA National Phenology Network: A Framework for Delivery of Phenology Data Products on Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales CapitaleLee Marsh

16:15 EDT

[W23] An Update on the Plant Phenology Ontology and Plant Phenology Data Integration CapitaleBrian J. Stucky

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

[S20 - Topic] Traits - Data models, sources, vocabulary, interoperability and their presentation and discoverability via species information pages Ballroom AJeff Gerbracht • Robert Guralnick • Jennifer Hammock • Deborah Paul • Pamela S. Soltis [S20] Species Information pages, how are the data discovered, consolidated and presented. Ballroom AJeff Gerbracht

09:15 EDT

[S20] Building semantics in the domain of trait data: an OBO Library approach Ballroom APier Luigi Buttigieg

09:30 EDT

[S20] Traits in a graph Ballroom AJennifer Hammock

09:45 EDT

[S20] VicFlora: a dynamic, service-based Flora Ballroom ANiels Klazenga

10:00 EDT

[S20] Documenting Marine Species Traits in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): Current status, Future Plans and Encountered Challenges Ballroom ALeen Vandepitte

10:15 EDT

[S20] Traits as Essential Biodiversity Variables Ballroom ARobert Guralnick

10:30 EDT

Break Ballroom B