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TDWG 2017

Tara Rintoul

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Research Technician
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

08:30 EDT

Registration Victoria

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

10:40 EDT

[Computer Demo] TaxonWorks Ballroom BMatt Yoder

11:00 EDT

[S02 - Topic] Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools Ballroom AArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva • Alexander Thompson

11:45 EDT

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

14:00 EDT

[S02 - Topic] Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools Ballroom AArthur D. Chapman • Antonio M. Saraiva • Alexander Thompson [S15 - Topic] Agricultural Informatics Contributions to Biodiversity Science and Biodiversity Assessments CapitaleGail Kampmeier • James A. Macklin • Cyndy Parr

14:15 EDT

[S15] The Value of Agricultural Voucher Specimens CapitaleMary E. Barkworth

14:45 EDT

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

15:15 EDT

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

16:00 EDT

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

16:30 EDT

[S10] Scientific Names: Linking the Past to Provide Context for Knowledge CapitaleThomas M. Orrell

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

08:30 EDT

Registration Victoria

09:40 EDT

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

11:00 EDT

[S12 - Topic] Citizen Science Contributions to Biodiversity Research and Standards CapitaleRobert D. Stevenson

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

11:45 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

12:30 EDT

Lunch pick-up (boxed) Ballroom C

13:00 EDT

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

08:30 EDT

Registration Victoria

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

11:00 EDT

[S18 - Topic] Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals Ballroom AGail Kampmeier • Holly Little • Deborah Paul

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

12:30 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

14:45 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

[W17 - Topic] The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, Current State and Envisaged Integration into the Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructure Ballroom AWalter G. Berendsohn • Anton Güntsch • Andreas Müller

16:30 EDT

[W17] The CDM Applied: Handling of Names, Taxa and Concepts in a Conservation Context Ballroom AWalter G. Berendsohn

08:30 EDT

Registration Victoria

09:00 EDT

[S20] Species Information pages, how are the data discovered, consolidated and presented. Ballroom AJeff Gerbracht

11:00 EDT

[Interest Group] Natural Collections Description Meeting CapitaleDeborah Paul • Alexander Thompson