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TDWG 2017

Sangay Dema

National Biodiversity Centre
Principal Biodiversity Officer
Thimphu, Bhutan

biodiversity.bt

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

11:00 EDT

[Contributed - Topic] What do People, DiSSCo, Brazil, Symbiota, BISON and Google have in common? Ballroom AGail Kampmeier [Contributed] Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments through the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) Ballroom ADimitris Koureas

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

14:00 EDT

[S28 - Topic] Financial Models for Sustaining Biodiversity Informatics Products Ballroom AJames H. Beach [S28] The Arctos Community Model for Sustaining and Enriching Access to Biodiversity Data Ballroom AJohn Wieczorek

14:30 EDT

[S28] Sustainability in Biodiversity Software Development: More financing or better practices? Ballroom AMatt Yoder

14:45 EDT

[S28] Maintenance and development of Symbiota2, a platform for data sharing and visualization Ballroom AMary E. Barkworth

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

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

19:00 EDT

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

09:40 EDT

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

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

12:15 EDT

[S02] Using YesWorkflow hybrid queries to reveal data lineage from data curation activities Ballroom ABertram Ludaescher

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

14:15 EDT

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

14:30 EDT

[S02] Angling for data: making biodiversity metadata more FAIR Ballroom AJoakim Philipson

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

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

09:40 EDT

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

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

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

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

16:30 EDT

[W23] Documenting Reproductive Phenology using Herbarium Specimens: Experiences from the New England Vascular Plants Project CapitalePatrick W Sweeney

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

10:15 EDT

[S20] Traits as Essential Biodiversity Variables Ballroom ARobert Guralnick

11:00 EDT

[Contributed - Topic] Topics in Taxonomy and Ontologies Ballroom ADavid Shorthouse [Contributed] Setup of BIOfid, a new Specialised Information Service for Biodiversity Research Ballroom AMarkus Koch

11:15 EDT

[Contributed] SOCCOMAS: A Self-Describing and Content-Independent Application for Semantic Ontology-Controlled Web-Content-Management-Systems Ballroom ASandra Meid • Lars Vogt