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TableofContents
WelcometoTDWG2017....................................................................................................03
HostsandSponsors............................................................................................................04
ScheduleataGlance..........................................................................................................05
DailySchedule....................................................................................................................08
KeynoteSpeakers...............................................................................................................25
Posters................................................................................................................................27
Symposia,Workshops&InterestGroupMeetings&TheirOrganizers.............................29
SymposiaAbstracts............................................................................................................31
WorkshopAbstracts...........................................................................................................36
InstructionsforSpeakers,PosterPresenters,andModerators.........................................43
BreakfastandLunchRecommendationsNeartheDelta...................................................44
NightattheMuseumSocialandLocalAttractions............................................................45
RecommendedRestaurantsenroutetotheNightattheMuseumSocial........................46
Committees........................................................................................................................47
Acknowledgments..............................................................................................................48
DeltaConferenceHotelFloorPlan.....................................................................................49
Printedprogramswillnotbeavailableatthismeeting.Anonlineschedulerformobiledevicesisavailableathttps://tdwg2017.sched.org/.InpartnershipwithiDigBio,yourtalkmayberecorded.FollowTweetsusingthe#tdwg17hashtagathttps://twitter.com/hashtag/tdwg17.
Welcome to TDWG 2017
This year's meeting at the Delta Hotels by Marriott in downtown
Ottawa, Canada has as its theme: Data Integration in a Big Data
Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and
Environments. In a packed scientific program starting Monday 2
October, about 150 participants, representing countries across the
globe, will join together to hear presentations by colleagues, and
discuss current and future biodiversity-related standards. iDigBio is
sponsoring a pre-conference Data Carpentry Workshop and has
partnered with TDWG to record most scientific sessions.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Museum of
Nature (CMN) will host this year's meeting in a
year celebrating Canada's 150th anniversary
since Confederation. Monday evening's Night at
the Museum is sponsored by the CMN, with hors
d'oeuvres and beer tastings from local brewers.
This meeting marks the inaugural publication of
all presentation abstracts TDWG Proceedings
2017, each with its own DOI (digital object
identifier).
Four keynote speakers will highlight morning plenaries and
parallel sessions will feature symposia, workshops, interest
group meetings, contributed oral presentations, computer
demos, and posters. Participants will have a chance to spend
Wednesday afternoon hiking at Pink Lake in the fall color,
visiting the CMN collections, or exploring Ottawa on their
own. Thursday evening's banquet will take place at the
Canadian Museum of History, with opportunities to see some
of the collection during the visit.
Photo sources:
Canadian Museum of Nature: KPMB Open Buildings
Canadian Museum of History: Julia Pelish/Vacay.ca
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HostsWethankourhostsandsponsorsoftheNightattheMuseumSocialandtheGalaDinner.
http://www.agr.gc.ca/
http://nature.ca
SponsorsWethankthefollowingsponsorsfortheirgeneroussupportofTDWG2017.
GoldSponsor
https://www.gbif.org
SilverSponsor
https://pensoft.net/
Additionalfinancialandin-kindsupportprovidedby:
Software Carpentry pre-conference course; recording and archiving TDWG 2017 sessionshttps://www.idigbio.org
http://www.canadensys.net
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Schedule at a Glance
Day
Time
Misc
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
CapitaleChaudiere
Saturday, 30 Sep09:00 A
M ‐ 04:30 PM
Data Carpentry W
orkshop, Canadian Museum
of Nature, 240 M
cLeod St, O�aw
a
Sunday, 1 Oct
09:00 AM ‐ 04:30 PM
Data Carpentry W
orkshop, Canadian Museum
of Nature, 240 M
cLeod St, O�aw
a
Sunday, 1 Oct
09:00 AM ‐ 05:00 PM
TDWG Execu�ve,
Bytowne
IG01: D
ata Quality (by
invita�on)
Sunday, 1 Oct
05:30 PM ‐ 08:00 PM
Registra�on in the Penthouse, Panorama
Sunday, 1 Oct
06:00 PM ‐ 09:00 PM
Welcom
e Recep�on in the Penthouse, Panorama
Monday, 2 O
ct08:00 A
M ‐ 09:00 A
MRegistra�on, Victoria
Monday, 2 O
ct08:30 A
M ‐ 09:00 A
MLoad Talks &
Hang Posters
Monday, 2 O
ct09:00 A
M ‐ 09:40 A
MWelcom
ing remarks and guide
to the mee�ng
Monday, 2 O
ct09:40 A
M ‐ 10:30 A
MKeynote: Roderic D
.M. Page ‐
Towards a Biodiversity
Knowledge G
raph
Monday, 2 O
ct10:30 A
M ‐ 11:00 A
MBreak, Ballroom
B
Monday, 2 O
ct11:00 A
M ‐ 12:30 PM
Contributed: What do People,
DiSSCo, Brazil, Sym
biota, BISON
and Google have in com
mon?
W19: Construc�on of
biodiversity knowledge graphs
driven by federated text mining
tools
W01: Establishing a global
registra�on system of algal
names and types
Monday, 2 O
ct12:30 PM
‐ 02:00 PMLunch provided,Ballroom
C
Monday, 2 O
ct01:30 PM
‐ 02:00 PMNew
comers M
eet & Greet
Monday, 2 O
ct02:00 PM
‐ 03:30 PMS28: Financial M
odels forSustaining BiodiversityInform
a�cs Products
W03: Tow
ards robustinteroperability in m
ul�‐omic
approaches to biodiversitymonitoring
S04: Advances in data
accessibility and datamanagem
ent for marine
species occurrence data
Monday, 2 O
ct03:30 PM
‐ 04:00 PMBreak, Ballroom
B
Monday, 2 O
ct03:40 PM
‐ 03:55 PMCom
puter Dem
o
Monday, 2 O
ct04:00 PM
‐ 05:30 PMContributed: Topics in Clim
ateChange
W03: Tow
ards robustinteroperability in m
ul�‐omic
approaches to biodiversitymonitoring
S04: Advances in data
accessibility and datamanagem
ent for marine
species occurrence data
Monday, 2 O
ct07:00 PM
‐ 10:00 PMNight at the M
useum, Canadian M
useum of N
ature, 240 McLeod St, O
�aw
a
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Day
Time
Misc
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
CapitaleChaudiere
Tuesday, 3 Oct
08:30 AM ‐ 09:00 A
MRegistra�on, Victoria; Load Talks &
Hang Posters
Tuesday, 3 Oct
09:00 AM ‐ 09:40 A
Mi.O
verview of TD
WG and
TDWG standards; ii.
Announcem
ent of BiodiversityInform
a�on Science andStandards (BISS), the newjournal of TD
WG
Tuesday, 3 Oct
09:40 AM ‐ 10:30 A
MKeynote: A
nne Bowser ‐
Standardizing Ci�zen Science?
Tuesday, 3 Oct
10:30 AM ‐ 11:00 A
MBreak, Ballroom
BPosters (Even N
umbers)
Tuesday, 3 Oct
10:40 AM ‐ 10:55 A
MCom
puter Dem
o
Tuesday, 3 Oct
11:00 AM ‐ 12:30 PM
S02: Biodiversity Data Q
uality –concepts, m
ethods and toolsW09: Im
plemen�ng
Biodiversity Standards forPaleobiology
W07: Reusing an open source
pla�orm
in order to create acom
munity: exam
ple of theLiving Atlases com
munity
Tuesday, 3 Oct
12:30 PM ‐ 02:00 PM
Lunch on your own,
N/A
IG02: Technical A
rchitectureMee�ng
Tuesday, 3 Oct
12:40 PM ‐ 12:50 PM
Group Photo, Lobby stairs
Tuesday, 3 Oct
02:00 PM ‐ 03:30 PM
S02: Biodiversity Data Q
uality –concepts, m
ethods and toolsS15: A
gricultural Informa�cs
Contribu�ons to BiodiversityScience and BiodiversityAssessm
ents
W07: Reusing an open source
pla�orm
in order to create acom
munity: exam
ple of theLiving Atlases com
munity
Tuesday, 3 Oct
03:30 PM ‐ 04:00 PM
Break, Ballroom B
Posters (Odd N
umbers)
Tuesday, 3 Oct
03:40 PM ‐ 03:55 PM
Computer D
emo
Tuesday, 3 Oct
04:00 PM ‐ 05:30 PM
S22: Biological Interac�on Data
‐ towards data standardiza�on
S10: 500 Years of Big Data from
the Biodiversity Heritage
Library
W07: Reusing an open source
pla�orm
in order to create acom
munity: exam
ple of theLiving Atlases com
munity
Wednesday, 4 O
ct08:30 A
M ‐ 09:00 A
MRegistra�on, Victoria; Load Talks
Wednesday, 4 O
ct09:00 A
M ‐ 09:40 A
MWild Ideas
Wednesday, 4 O
ct09:40 A
M ‐ 10:30 A
MKeynote: Javier de la Torre ‐Everything happenssom
ewhere, m
ul�ple �mes
Wednesday, 4 O
ct10:30 A
M ‐ 11:00 A
MBreak, Ballroom
B
Wednesday, 4 O
ct10:40 A
M ‐ 10:55 A
MCom
puter Dem
o
Wednesday, 4 O
ct11:00 A
M ‐ 12:30 PM
S16: Using Big D
ata Techniquesto Cross D
ataset Boundaries ‐Integra�on and A
nalysis ofMul�ple D
atasets
S12: Ci�zen ScienceContribu�ons to BiodiversityResearch and Standards
W07: Reusing an open source
pla�orm
in order to create acom
munity: exam
ple of theLiving Atlases com
munity
Wednesday, 4 O
ct12:30 PM
‐ 01:00 PMLunch pick‐up (boxed), Ballroom
C
Wednesday, 4 O
ct01:00 PM
‐ 05:30 PMExcursion, Canadian M
useum of N
ature Collec�ons or Pink Lake Hike
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Day
Time
Misc
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
CapitaleChaudiere
Thursday, 5 Oct
08:30 AM ‐ 09:00 A
MRegistra�on, Victoria; Load Talks
Thursday, 5 Oct
09:00 AM ‐ 09:40 A
MStandards in A
c�on: TheDarw
in Core Hour
Thursday, 5 Oct
09:40 AM ‐ 10:30 A
MKeynote: Pam
ela Sol�s ‐ LinkingHeterogeneous D
ata inBiodiversity Research
Thursday, 5 Oct
10:30 AM ‐ 11:00 A
MBreak, Ballroom
BPosters (O
dd Num
bers)
Thursday, 5 Oct
10:40 AM ‐ 10:55 A
MCom
puter Dem
o
Thursday, 5 Oct
11:00 AM ‐ 12:30 PM
S18: Bridging Gaps betw
eenBiodiversity Inform
a�cians andCollec�ons Professionals
W21: Biological Interac�on
Data W
orkgroupIG03: Species Inform
a�on
Thursday, 5 Oct
12:30 PM ‐ 02:00 PM
Lunch on your own,
N/A
IG02: Technical A
rchitectureMee�ng
Thursday, 5 Oct
02:00 PM ‐ 03:30 PM
S18: Bridging Gaps betw
eenBiodiversity Inform
a�cians andCollec�ons Professionals
W23: Tow
ards an Online Atlas
of PhenologyW06: D
ata Quality W
orkshop
Thursday, 5 Oct
03:30 PM ‐ 04:00 PM
Break, Ballroom B
Posters (Even Num
bers)
Thursday, 5 Oct
04:00 PM ‐ 05:30 PM
W17: The ED
IT Pla�orm
forCybertaxonom
y, Current Stateand Envisaged Integra�on intothe Biodiversity Inform
a�csInfrastructure
W23: Tow
ards an Online Atlas
of PhenologyW06: D
ata Quality W
orkshop
Thursday, 5 Oct
05:45 PM ‐ 11:00 PM
Banquet, Canadian Museum
of History, 100 Laurier Street, G
a�neau (Hull), Q
uebec
Friday, 6 Oct
08:30 AM ‐ 09:00 A
MRegistra�on, Victoria; Load Talks
Friday, 6 Oct
09:00 AM ‐ 10:30 A
MS20: Traits ‐ D
ata models,
sources, vocabulary,interoperability and theirpresenta�on and discoverabilityvia species inform
a�on pages
W14: Standards for Ci�zen
Science Biodiversity StudiesW08: Biodiversity data
annota�ons – state of the playand perspec�ves
Friday, 6 Oct
10:30 AM ‐ 11:00 A
MBreak, Ballroom
B
Friday, 6 Oct
11:00 AM ‐ 12:30 PM
Contributed: Topics inTaxonom
y and Ontologies
IG04: N
atural Collec�onsDescrip�on M
ee�ngW08: Biodiversity data
annota�ons – state of the playand perspec�ves
Friday, 6 Oct
12:30 PM ‐ 02:00 PM
Lunch provided,Ballroom
C
Friday, 6 Oct
02:00 PM ‐ 03:30 PM
Business Mee�ng: Reports from
Treasurer, Interest and TaskGroups; Preview
of TDWG2018;
Closing Remarks
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Daily Schedule
Saturday, 30 September 201709:00 AM - 04:30 PM Data Carpentry Workshop, Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa
Sunday, 01 October 201709:00 AM - 04:30 PM Data Carpentry Workshop, Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM TDWG Executive, Bytowne
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM Interest Group/Task Group, CapitaleIG01: Data Quality (by invitation)Organizers: Arthur D. Chapman, Antonio M. Saraiva
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM Registration in the Penthouse, Panorama
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM Welcome Reception in the Penthouse, Panorama
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Saturday, 30 SeptemberSunday, 01 October
Monday, 02 October 201708:00 AM - 09:00 AM Registration, Victoria
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM Load Talks & Hang Posters, see instructions for presenters
09:00 AM - 09:40 AM Welcoming remarks and guide to the meeting, Ballroom A
09:40 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote: Roderic D.M. Page - Towards a Biodiversity Knowledge Graph, Ballroom A
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break, Ballroom B
Contributed: What do People, DiSSCo, Brazil, Symbiota, BISON andGoogle have in common?Moderator: Gail Kampmeier11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Ballroom A
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments through the Distributed System ofScientific Collections (DiSSCo)https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.17010Presenter: Dimitrios Koureas
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Proposed Extension to Darwin Core for People and their Roles in the Curation of Physical and DigitalObjectshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19829Presenter: David Shorthouse
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM SiBBr: Envisioning the spatial distribution of Brazilian biodiversity recordshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19966Presenter: Nayara Soto
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Symbiota2https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19933Presenter: Mary E. Barkworth
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Taxonomy and Distribution in Big Data Use Cases from BISON and ITIShttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19890Presenter: Gerald Guala
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Google Summer of Code: Why TDWG should participatehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19918Presenter: Tomer Gueta
W01: Establishing a global registration system of algal names and typesOrganizer: Andreas Kohlbecker11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Chaudiere
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Introduction into Phycobank: challenges, concepts and solutionsPresenter: Andreas Kohlbecker
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop Activities
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Monday, 02 October
W19: Construction of biodiversity knowledge graphs driven by federatedtext mining toolsOrganizers: Riza Batista-Navarro, Sophia Ananiadou, Teodor Georgiev, Evangelos Pafilis, Lyubomir Penev,
Viktor Senderov, Axel J. Soto, William Ulate11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Capitale
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM EXTRACT 2.0: interactive identification of biological entities mentioned in text to assist databasecuration and knowledge extractionhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20152Presenter: Evangelos Pafilis
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Developing a knowledge base on the habitats and reproductive conditions of Dipterocarps throughinformation extractionhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20066Presenter: Roselyn Gabud
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Building Your Own Big Data Analysis Infrastructure for Biodiversity Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20161Presenter: Matthew Collins
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Argo as a platform for integrating distinct biodiversity analytics tools into workflows for building graphdatabaseshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20067Presenter: Riza Batista-Navarro
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM OpenBiodiv: an Implementaion of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity KnowledgeGraphhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20084Presenter: Viktor Senderov
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch provided01:30 PM - 02:00 PM Newcomers Meet & Greet, Capitale
W03: Towards robust interoperability in multi-omic approaches tobiodiversity monitoringOrganizers: Robert Hanner, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Luke Thompson02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Capitale
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM Environmental samples, eDNA and HTS libraries – data standard proposals from the Global GenomeBiodiversity Network (GGBN)https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20483Presenter: Walter G. Berendsohn
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Metadata Standards for Genomic Sequence Data: Past and Future of MIxS Standards Familyhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20423Presenter: Pelin Yilmaz
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Using MIxS: An Implementation Report from Two Metagenomic Information Systemshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20637Presenters: Joel Sachs, Luke Thompson
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM SeqDB: Biological Collection Management with Integrated DNA Sequence Trackinghttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20608Presenter: Satpal Bilkhu
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Semantically Defining Populations for 'Omics Researchhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20435Presenter: Ramona L. Walls
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM Panel Discussion
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Monday, 02 October
S04: Advances in data accessibility and data management for marinespecies occurrence dataOrganizers: Andrew Sherin, Ward Appeltans, Lenore Bajona, Mary Kennedy02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Chaudiere
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM IntroductionPresenters: Lenore Bajona, Andrew Sherin, Mary Kennedy
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Cookbooks and Curriculumhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20405Presenter: Mary Kennedy
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Expanding the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) beyond species occurrenceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20196Presenter: Daphnis De Pooter
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Improving data availability with “OBIS-ENV-DATA”: Examples from OBIS-USAhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20207Presenter: Abigail Benson
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Talking beyond presence: 04 Symposium: Advances in data accessibility and data management formarine species occurrence data: Discussion Panel 1https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20407Presenter: Mary Kennedy
S28: Financial Models for Sustaining Biodiversity Informatics ProductsOrganizer: James H. Beach02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Ballroom A
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM The Arctos Community Model for Sustaining and Enriching Access to Biodiversity Datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20466Presenter: John Wieczorek
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Interoperability, Attribution, and Value in the Web of Natural History Museum Datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.21095Presenter: Andrew Bentley
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Sustainability in Biodiversity Software Development: More financing or better practices?https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20283Presenter: Matthew J. Yoder
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Maintenance and development of Symbiota2, a platform for data sharing and visualizationhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20220Presenter: Mary E. Barkworth
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Sustaining Software for Biological Collections Computinghttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20254Presenter: James H. Beach
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM DINA: Open Source and Open Services - A Modern Approach for Sustainable Natural History CollectionManagement Systemshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20216Presenters: Elspeth Margaret Haston, Falko Glöckler, Jana Hoffmann, Fredrik Ronquist, James AMacklin, Stefan Daume
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Break, Ballroom B
03:40 PM - 03:55 PM Computer Demo, Ballroom BOpenBiodiv: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity KnowledgeGraphhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20193Presenters: Viktor Senderov, Teodor Asenov Georgiev
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Monday, 02 October
S04: Advances in data accessibility and data management for marinespecies occurrence dataOrganizers: Andrew Sherin, Ward Appeltans, Lenore Bajona, Mary Kennedy04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Chaudiere
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM Spatial Visualization of Publicly Accessible Species Occurrence Datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20155Presenter: Jeff McKenna
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Exploring the Canadian Federated Research Data Repository Servicehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20185Presenter: Lee Wilson
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Sydney Harbour Atlashttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20157Presenter: Andrew Sherin
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM The developing Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System (CIOOS)https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20432Presenter: Lenore Bajona
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM Future pathways for sharing and integrating data: 04 Symposium: Advances in data accessibility anddata management for marine species occurrence data: Discussion Panel 2https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20406Presenter: Andrew Sherin
W03: Towards robust interoperability in multi-omic approaches tobiodiversity monitoringOrganizers: Robert Hanner, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Luke Thompson04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Capitale
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM The Genomic Observatories Metadatabasehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20508Presenter: John Deck
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Integrating Marine Omics into the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) in Support of theUN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Agenda 2030https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20521Presenter: Kelly Goodwin
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Rewards and Challenges of eDNA Sequencing with Multiple Genetic Markers for Marine ObservationProgramshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20548Presenter: Kathleen J Pitz
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Linking molecular and morphological biodiversity evidence by building a single name spacehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20503Presenter: Dmitry Schigel
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM Panel Discussion
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Monday, 02 October
Contributed: Topics in Climate ChangeModerator: Robert D. Stevenson04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Ballroom A
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM Use of Online Species Occurrence Databases in Published Research since 2010https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20518Presenter: Joan E Ball-Damerow
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Extending Darwin Core to incorporate data about material condition and absolute deep timehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20126Presenter: Laura Brenskelle
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Pipedream or pipeline: delivering regular, reliable, up-to-date information on biodiversity throughrepeatable workflowshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20749Presenter: Peter Desmet
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Development of a National Repository for Aquatic Biodiversity in Bhutanhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20809Presenter: Sangay Dema
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM Night at the Museum, Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, OttawaJoin us for an evening of light bites and drinks, featuring beer tastings with local brewers. See pages inthe program for walking directions or public transportation options and recommended restaurants forsupper along the walking route. A beer talk by a Canadian Museum of Nature botanist will be given at8:00 PM.
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Monday, 02 October
Tuesday, 03 October 201708:30 AM - 09:00 AM Load Talks & Hang Posters, see instructions for presenters
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM Registration, Victoria
09:00 AM - 09:40 AM i. Overview of TDWG and TDWG standards; ii. Announcement of Biodiversity Information Science andStandards (BISS), the new journal of TDWG, Ballroom A
09:40 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote: Anne Bowser - Standardizing Citizen Science?, Ballroom A
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break, Ballroom B
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Posters (Even Numbers), Ballroom B
10:40 AM - 10:55 AM Computer Demo, Ballroom BTaxonWorkshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20279Presenter: Matthew J. Yoder
W09: Implementing Biodiversity Standards for PaleobiologyOrganizers: Denné Reed, Falko Glöckler, Mareike Petersen, Jana Hoffmann11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Capitale
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM The Data Standard ABCD EFG - Access to Biological Collection Data Extended for Geoscienceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.15146Presenter: Falko Glöckler
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop Activities
W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community:example of the Living Atlases communityOrganizers: Marie-Elise Lecoq, David Martin, Christian Gendreau, Federico Mendez, Jeremy Goimard,
Santiago Martínez de la Riva, Anders Telenius, Manash Shah11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Chaudiere
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Introduction of the Living Atlases workshophttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20253Presenter: Marie-Elise Lecoq
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Living Atlases Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19826Presenters: David Martin, Christian Gendreau, Manash Shah
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Documentation about Atlas of Living Australia tools: how to find informationhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19941Presenter: Fabien Cavière
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop Activities
S02: Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and toolsOrganizers: Arthur D. Chapman, Antonio M. Saraiva, Alexander M. Thompson11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Ballroom A
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Fitness for Use: The BDQIG aims for improved Stability and Consistencyhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20240Presenter: Arthur D. Chapman
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Toward a Biodiversity Data Fitness for Use Backbone (FFUB): A Node.js module prototypehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20300Presenter: Allan Koch Veiga
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Tuesday, 03 October
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Fitness-for-Use-Framework-aware Data Quality workflows in Kuratorhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20379Presenter: Paul J. Morris
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Darwin Cloud: Mapping real-world data to Darwin Corehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20486Presenter: John Wieczorek
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Integrating data-cleaning with data analysis to enhance usability of biodiversity big-datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20244Presenter: Tomer Gueta
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Using YesWorkflow hybrid queries to reveal data lineage from data curation activitieshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20380Presenter: Qian Zhang
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch on your own12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Interest Group/Task Group, Capitale
IG02: Technical Architecture MeetingOrganizer: TBA
S02: Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and toolsOrganizers: Arthur D. Chapman, Antonio M. Saraiva, Alexander M. Thompson02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Ballroom A
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM Managing data quality in GBIF: status and planshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19825Presenter: Christian Gendreau
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Towards a comprehensive workflow for biodiversity data in Rhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20311Presenter: Tomer Gueta
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Angling for data: making biodiversity metadata more FAIRhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20267Presenter: Joakim Philipson
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Design and use of NOMEN, an ontology defining the rules of biological nomenclaturehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20284Presenter: Matthew J. Yoder
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Invasive Organisms Information: A proposed TDWG Task Grouphttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20266Presenter: Quentin Groom
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM Panel Discussion
W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community:example of the Living Atlases communityOrganizers: Marie-Elise Lecoq, David Martin, Christian Gendreau, Federico Mendez, Jeremy Goimard,
Santiago Martínez de la Riva, Anders Telenius, Manash Shah02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Chaudiere
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM The Registry component of Atlas of Living Australiahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19802Presenter: Santiago Martínez de la Riva
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Biocache-store: Command-Line Interface tool for managing occurrence recordsPresenter: Manash Shah
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Workshop Activities
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S15: Agricultural Informatics Contributions to Biodiversity Science andBiodiversity AssessmentsOrganizers: Gail Kampmeier, Cyndy Parr, James Macklin02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Capitale
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM How Agricultural Researchers Share their Data: a Landscape Inventoryhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20434Presenter: Erin Antognoli
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Databasing Crop Plants from the People's Biodiversity Register of Indiahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19820Presenter: Prabhakar Rajagopal
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM The Value of Agricultural Voucher Specimenshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19932Presenter: Mary E. Barkworth
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Bringing Bugs into the Systemhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20050Presenter: Gail Kampmeier
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Agricultural Informatics Contributions to Biodiversity Science and Biodiversity Assessmentshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20100
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Posters (Odd Numbers), Ballroom B
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Break, Ballroom B
03:40 PM - 03:55 PM Computer Demo, Ballroom BDefining a Data Quality (DQ) profile and DQ report using a prototype of Node.js module of the Fitness forUse Backbone (FFUB)https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20275Presenter: Allan Koch Veiga
S22: Biological Interaction Data - towards data standardizationOrganizers: Antonio M. Saraiva, Jennifer Hammock, Quentin Groom04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Ballroom A
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM How species interactions are managed in Plinian Core: Status and questionshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20556Presenter: Francisco Pando
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Addressing the proposal for new Darwin Core terms for interaction datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20350Presenter: John Wieczorek
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM GoMexSI: Using Open Platforms such as Github, Wordpress, and GloBI to Manage, and Share SpeciesInteraction Datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20325Presenter: James Simons
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM Brazilian Plant-Pollinator Interactions Network: definition of a data standard for digitization, sharing, andaggregation of plant-pollinator interaction datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20298Presenter: Antonio M. Saraiva
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Global Biotic Interactions: A Catalyst For Integrating Existing Interaction Datasets, Connecting DataCurators And Developing Data Exchange Methodshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20214Presenter: Jorrit H Poelen
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM mangal - making sense of biotic interaction datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19993Presenter: Timothée Poisot
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S10: 500 Years of Big Data from the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryOrganizers: Martin R. Kalfatovic, Carolyn A. Sheffield04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Capitale
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM How Did BHL Get to Big Datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20002Presenter: Martin R. Kalfatovic
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literaturehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20146Presenter: Mariah Lewis
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Scientific Names: Linking the Past to Provide Context for Knowledgehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19937Presenter: Thomas M. Orrell
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM A path to continuous reindexing of scientific names appearing in Biodiversity Heritage Library datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20186Presenter: Dmitry Mozzherin
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM Crowdsourcing Data Enhancements to Improve Named Entity Recognition in the Biodiversity HeritageLibraryhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.17354Presenter: Katie Mika
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM BHL’s Feedback Tools and User Surveys: Investigating User Needs for Data in Digital Librarieshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20003Presenter: Carolyn A. Sheffield
W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community:example of the Living Atlases communityOrganizers: Marie-Elise Lecoq, David Martin, Christian Gendreau, Federico Mendez, Jeremy Goimard,
Santiago Martínez de la Riva, Anders Telenius, Manash Shah04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Chaudiere
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM Biocache-store: Command-Line Interface tool for managing occurrence recordsPresenter: Manash Shah
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM Occurrences : Data resources and Biocache-hubhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20321Presenter: Jeremy Goimard
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM Workshop Activities
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Wednesday, 04 October 201708:30 AM - 09:00 AM Load Talks, see instructions for presenters
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM Registration, Victoria
09:00 AM - 09:40 AM Wild Ideas, Ballroom A
09:40 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote: Javier de la Torre - Everything happens somewhere, multiple times, Ballroom A
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break, Ballroom B
10:40 AM - 10:55 AM Computer Demo, Ballroom BDesktop or remote knowledge base management systems for taxonomic data and identification keys:Xper2 and Xper3https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19911Presenter: Régine Vignes-Lebbe
S12: Citizen Science Contributions to Biodiversity Research andStandardsOrganizer: Robert D. Stevenson11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Capitale
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM The state of the data in citizen sciencehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20370Presenter: Anne Bowser
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Setting Collections Data Free with the Power of the Crowd: challenges, opportunities and a vision for thefuturehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20422Presenter: Margaret J Gold
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Turning Flickr into a useful Citizen Science Resourcehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20348Presenter: Arthur D. Chapman
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Discovering Nature in the City with a Citizen Science Mobile Apphttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20206Presenter: Jana Hoffmann
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion
W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community:example of the Living Atlases communityOrganizers: Marie-Elise Lecoq, David Martin, Christian Gendreau, Federico Mendez, Jeremy Goimard,
Santiago Martínez de la Riva, Anders Telenius, Manash Shah11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Chaudiere
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Living Atlases : tips and adviceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20252Presenter: Marie-Elise Lecoq
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop Activities
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S16: Using Big Data Techniques to Cross Dataset Boundaries -Integration and Analysis of Multiple DatasetsOrganizers: Matthew Collins, Robert Guralnick, Martin R. Kalfatovic11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Ballroom A
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM BHL: A Source for Big Data Analysishttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20339Presenter: Mike Lichtenberg
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM TAXREF-LD: A Reference Thesaurus for Biodiversity on the Web of Linked Datahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20232Presenter: Franck Michel
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM IndexMEED cases studies using 'Omics' data with graph theoryhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20740Presenter: Romain David
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM A High-throughput Data Ingest Pipeline for Semantic Data-storeshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20208Presenter: John Deck
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Using ontologies to explore floral evolution in a non-model plant cladehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20347Presenter: Annika L Smith
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion
01:00 PM - 05:30 PM Excursion: Canadian Museum of Nature Collections or Pink Lake Hike
Pick-up your boxed lunch before catching a school bus; there will not be anywhere to buy food. Dietary restrictions communicated with registration will be accommodated.
There will be one bus for the Canadian Museum of Nature Collections tour and one for the Pink Lake hike. Please be sure to embark on the correct bus.
Canadian Museum of Nature’s Research & Collections Facility
Bus departs at 1:00 PM from the side of the Delta Hotel on Albert Street and later departs the Collections Facility at 4:30 PM to make the 25 minute return trip to the Delta Hotel.
Not typically open to the public, this tour will bring participants behind the doors of the museum’s innovative collections facility, which was designed specifically for the management and preservation of natural history specimens. The tour includes the following collections: minerals, fossils, large skeletons(mammals), invertebrates, botany (National Herbarium of Canada), library & archives, conservation lab, and the Molecular Biodiversity Lab (DNA). This tour runs about two hours, with participants divided into smaller groups to promote engaged discussion with the museum’s scientific staff.
Tour Notes:
The Facility is a scent-free workplace, please do not wear perfume or cologneNo open-toed shoesNo food or drink (we'll eat before visiting the collections)No large bags or backpacks in the collectionsSecure storage will be provided for jackets and bags
Pink Lake Hike in Gatineau Park
Bus departs at 1:15 PM from the side of the Delta Hotel on Albert Street and later departs Pink Lake at4:30 PM to make the 35 minute return trip to the Delta Hotel.
Participants may choose to do the ~2.5km easy loop trail or simply enjoy the lake area. The lake has aunique ecosystem; no swimming is allowed. Sturdy footwear is recommended. We also recommend thatyou bring a daypack to contain camera(s) and rainwear in the event of inclement weather.
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Thursday, 05 October 201708:30 AM - 09:00 AM Registration, Victoria
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM Load Talks, see instructions for presenters
09:00 AM - 09:40 AM Standards in Action: The Darwin Core Hour, Ballroom Ahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20280Presenters: Deborah Paul, John Wieczorek, Paula F Zermoglio
09:40 AM - 10:30 AM Keynote: Pamela Soltis - Linking Heterogeneous Data in Biodiversity Research, Ballroom Ahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.21113
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break, Ballroom B
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Posters (Odd Numbers), Ballroom B
10:40 AM - 10:55 AM Computer Demo, Ballroom BDeveloping a Module for Generating Formalized Semantic Morphological Descriptions for Morph∙D∙Basehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.15141Presenters: Sandra Meid, Lars Vogt
S18: Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and CollectionsProfessionalsOrganizers: Holly Little, Deborah Paul, Gail Kampmeier11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Ballroom A
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Building a community of practice through capacity enhancement mentoringhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20234Presenter: Laura Russell
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM How Mass Digitization is changing Herbarium Collection Management at the Botanic Garden Meise (BR)– Teaching old dogs new tricks!https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20194Presenter: Henry Engledow
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM An Example of Synergy in Data Mobilization: the Arctos-VertNet Nexushttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20098Presenter: David Bloom
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Towards Insect Digital Collections and Data Publishing: A journey for the GBIF-funded African InsectAtlas Collaborative Projecthttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20274Presenter: Boikhutso Lerato Rapalai
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Setting up an Interdisciplinary Data Infrastructure: Why Cooperation between Domain Experts andComputer Scientists Matters - An Experience Report from the GFBio Projecthttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20198Presenters: Jana Hoffmann, Felicitas Löffler
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Interest Group/Task Group, ChaudiereIG03: Species InformationOrganizer: Francisco Pando
W21: Biological Interaction Data WorkgroupOrganizers: Antonio M. Saraiva, Jennifer Hammock, Quentin Groom11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Capitale
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12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch on your own12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Interest Group/Task Group, Capitale
IG02: Technical Architecture MeetingOrganizer: TBA
W23: Towards an Online Atlas of PhenologyOrganizers: Zoe Panchen, Joel Sachs, Mélanie Bélisle-Leclerc, Scott Chamberlain, Jonathan Davies, Pamela
Soltis, Rob Guralnick02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Capitale
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM IntroductionPresenters: Joel Sachs, Pamela Soltis
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Phenological sensitivity to temperature at broad scales: opportunities and challenges of natural historycollectionshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20587Presenter: Heather Kharouba
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM The use of avian museum specimen data in phenology studies: prospects and challengeshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20324Presenter: Keith Barker
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Phenology atlas use cases: a new map of plant phenology across North America and beyondhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20582Presenters: Zoe Panchen, Jonathan Davies
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Panel Discussion
W06: Data Quality WorkshopOrganizers: Arthur D. Chapman, Antonio M. Saraiva02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Chaudiere
S18: Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and CollectionsProfessionalsOrganizers: Holly Little, Deborah Paul, Gail Kampmeier02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, Ballroom A
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM A tool for collections-specific searches in genetic databaseshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20320Presenter: Michael Trizna
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM What’s Missing From All the Portals?https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20236Presenter: Sharon Grant
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Building community-specific standards and vocabularies: prospects and challenges for linking to thebroader community - The SINP Casehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20297Presenters: Paula F Zermoglio, Remy Jomier
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Managing Ex Situ Collections of Wild Species' Seeds: Use of Biodiversity Informatics in the MillenniumSeed Bank to Address Challengeshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20197Presenter: Udayangani Liu
03:00 PM - 03:15 PM Automated Herbarium Specimen Identification using Deep Learninghttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20302Presenter: Jose Carranza-Rojas
03:15 PM - 03:30 PM SPNHC 2017 Natural History Collections Biodiversity Informatics 101 Short Course Insightshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20263Presenter: Holly Little
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03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Break, Ballroom B
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Posters (Even Numbers), Ballroom B
W17: The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, Current State andEnvisaged Integration into the Biodiversity Informatics InfrastructureOrganizers: Andreas Müller, Walter Berendsohn, Anton Güntsch04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Ballroom A
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, a Brief Overviewhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20368Presenter: Andreas Kohlbecker
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM A Comprehensive and Standards-Aware Common Data Model (CDM) for Taxonomic Researchhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20367Presenter: Andreas Müller
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM The CDM Applied: Handling of Names, Taxa and Concepts in a Conservation Contexthttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20364Presenter: Walter G. Berendsohn
04:45 PM - 05:00 PM The CDM Applied: Unit-Derivation, from Field Observations to DNA Sequenceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20366Presenter: Andreas Müller
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM EDIT Platform Web Services in the Biodiversity Infrastructure Landscapehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20363Presenter: Andreas Kohlbecker
05:15 PM - 05:30 PM EDIT Platform Projects: What’s Nexthttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20365Presenter: Walter G. Berendsohn
W23: Towards an Online Atlas of PhenologyOrganizers: Zoe Panchen, Joel Sachs, Mélanie Bélisle-Leclerc, Scott Chamberlain, Jonathan Davies, Pamela
Soltis, Rob Guralnick04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Capitale
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM The USA National Phenology Network: A Framework for Delivery of Phenology Data Products onMultiple Spatiotemporal Scaleshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20188Presenter: Lee Marsh
04:15 PM - 04:30 PM An Update on the Plant Phenology Ontology and Plant Phenology Data Integrationhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20487Presenter: Brian J. Stucky
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM Documenting Reproductive Phenology using Herbarium Specimens: Experiences from the New EnglandVascular Plants Projecthttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20430Presenter: Patrick W Sweeney
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Panel Discussion
W06: Data Quality WorkshopOrganizers: Arthur D. Chapman, Antonio M. Saraiva04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Chaudiere
05:45 PM - 11:00 PM Banquet, Canadian Museum of History, 100 Laurier Street, Gatineau (Hull), QuebecStarting 5:45 PM, buses depart every 20min until 7:00 PM beside the Delta Hotel on Albert St. Cocktailsare served at 6:30 PM at the Museum, which is open to the public until 8:00 PM. Bring your conferencebadge. Starting 9:30 PM, buses depart every 20min until 11:00 PM for the return to the Delta Hotel via theByWard Market for an optional hop-off.
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Friday, 06 October 201708:30 AM - 09:00 AM Registration, Victoria
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM Load Talks, see instructions for presenters
W14: Standards for Citizen Science Biodiversity StudiesOrganizers: Robert D. Stevenson, Libby Ellwood09:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Capitale
S20: Traits - Data models, sources, vocabulary, interoperability and theirpresentation and discoverability via species information pagesOrganizers: Jeff Gerbracht, Robert Guralnick, Jennifer Hammock, Deborah Paul, Pamela Soltis09:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Ballroom A
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM Species Information pages, how are the data discovered, consolidated and presented.https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20294Presenter: Jeff Gerbracht
09:15 AM - 09:30 AM Building semantics in the domain of trait data: an OBO Library approachhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20293Presenter: Pier Luigi Buttigieg
09:30 AM - 09:45 AM Traits in a graphhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20289Presenter: Jennifer Hammock
09:45 AM - 10:00 AM VicFlora: a dynamic, service-based Florahttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20525Presenter: Niels Klazenga
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Documenting Marine Species Traits in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): Current status,Future Plans and Encountered Challengeshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20337Presenter: Leen Vandepitte
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Traits as Essential Biodiversity Variableshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20295Presenter: Robert Guralnick
W08: Biodiversity data annotations – state of the play and perspectivesOrganizers: Lutz Suhrbier, Okka Tschöpe, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn09:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Chaudiere
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM AnnoSys – an online tool for sharing annotations to enhance data qualityhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20315Presenters: Walter G. Berendsohn, Okka Tschöpe
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM Annosys – hands on session
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Integrating AnnoSys into your specimen data portalhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20313Presenter: Lutz Suhrbier
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Panel Discussion
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break, Ballroom B
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W08: Biodiversity data annotations – state of the play and perspectivesOrganizers: Lutz Suhrbier, Okka Tschöpe, Anton Güntsch, Walter Berendsohn11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Chaudiere
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Semantic Annotations of Text and Images in Morph∙D∙Basehttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.14778Presenter: Christian Köhler
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Annotating out the Way to the Linked Biodiversity Data Webhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20270Presenter: Burke Chih-Jen Ko
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM AnnoSys - future developmentshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20317Presenter: Lutz Suhrbier
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion
Contributed: Topics in Taxonomy and OntologiesModerator: David Shorthouse11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Ballroom A
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Setup of BIOfid, a new Specialised Information Service for Biodiversity Researchhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19803Presenter: Markus Koch
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM SOCCOMAS: A Self-Describing and Content-Independent Application for Semantic Ontology-ControlledWeb-Content-Management-Systemshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20033Presenters: Sandra Meid, Lars Vogt
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM OntoPilot: New Software to Simplify and Accelerate Ontology Development and Deploymenthttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20192Presenter: Brian J. Stucky
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM The Taxonomic and Biodiversity Software Stack in Rhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20219Presenter: Scott Chamberlain
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Building a Taxonomic Data Editor: ITIS Taxonomic Workbench 6.0https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19965Presenter: David Mitchell
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Catalogue of Life, China and Taxonomic Tree Toolhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20394Presenter: Liqiang Ji
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Interest Group/Task Group, CapitaleIG04: Natural Collections Description MeetingOrganizers: Alexander Thompson, Deborah Paul
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch provided02:00 PM - 03:30 PM Business Meeting: Reports from Treasurer, Interest and Task Groups; Preview of TDWG2018; Closing
RemarksPresenters: Dimitrios Koureas, William Ulate
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KeynoteSpeakers
Dr.RodericD.M.Page
Rodisperhapsbestknownastheauthorofthephylogeneticvisualizationprogram“TreeView”,andmorerecentlyhis“iPhylo”blog,Hestartedoutas a crustacean taxonomist, before being swept up in the debates onpanbiogeography and vicariance biogeography that raged in the 1980’sand 90’s. After gaining a PhD at Auckland University, New Zealand, heworkedasapostdocattheAmericanMuseumofNaturalHistoryinNewYork, and The Natural History Museum in London, before taking up alectureship at theUniversity of Oxford. Since 1995 Rod has been at theUniversityofGlasgow,whereheisProfessorofTaxonomy.ApasteditorofSystematicBiology,hewasuntilSeptembertheChairoftheGBIFScienceCommittee.Hiscurrentworkfocusesonlinkingtogetherbiodiversitydatafromdiversesources.
Dr.AnneE.Bowser
AnneisanInnovationAnalystwiththeScienceandTechnologyInnovationProgram(STIP)attheWoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars.She seeks to understand and mobilize public participation in scientificresearchandpolicydialogue throughcitizen scienceandother formsofcrowdsourcing. From a research perspective, Anne is interested in howtechnologies canbedesigned to supportparticipation,whether throughtechnological appropriation, participatory design, or the motivationalaffordancesofgames.Anneisalsoengagedinthemorepracticalworkofunderstandingwhat constitutes good citizen sciencedatapractices, andworkswithorganizationsliketheOpenGeospatialConsortium(OGC),theCommitteeonDataforScienceandTechnology(CODATA),andtheWorldDataSystem(WDS),andtheCitizenScienceAssociation(CSA)topromoteopen and interoperable data. Her dissertation was awarded from theUniversityofMaryland’siSchoolandexploredhowFloracaching,amobilegeocachinggameforplantphenologydatacollection,couldbedesigned
tomotivatenewtypesofcitizensciencevolunteers.
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JavierdelaTorre
JavierisCEOatCARTO.Oneofthepioneersoflocationintelligence,Javierfoundedthecompany in2012withavision todemocratizedataanalysisand visualization. Under his leadership, CartoDB has grown from agroundbreakingideaintooneofthefastestgrowinggeospatialcompaniesintheworld.Javierstartedhiscareerasaconservationscientist,applyingdata sharing technologies to analyze and visualize endangered species.Javier holds a degree in Agriculture Engineering and EnvironmentalScience from theUniversidad Politéncia deMadrid and FreieUniversitätBerlin.Heispassionateaboutallthingsdataanditspotentialtoimprovethewaywemakedecisionsinourworld.
Dr.PamelaS.Soltis
Pamhasplayedamajorroleinreconstructingtheplantbranchofthetreeof life and relaying this information to the scientific community and thepublic. Her research interests are in plant biodiversity, emphasizingangiosperm phylogeny, polyploidy, the evolution of the flower,conservationgeneticsof rareplantspeciesandphylogeography.Pam isadistinguished professor at the University of Florida and curator of theLaboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics at theFlorida Museum of Natural History. She has served as president of theSocietyofSystematicBiologistsand theBotanicalSocietyofAmericaandasanassociateeditorforten journals, includingEvolutionandSystematicBiology.Sheparticipates inpublicoutreachthroughtheGainesvillepublicschools and the Florida Museum of Natural History. In 2016, Pam was
elected amember of the National Academy of Sciences, and, togetherwith Doug Soltis, was awarded theDarwin-WallaceMedalbytheLinneanSocietyofLondon.
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PostersBallroomB
1 Aworkbenchforspeciesidentificationbasedonimagesanddeeplearningtechniqueshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20569Presenter:FranciscoPando
2 Quantifyingquality:the"ApparentQualityIndex",ameasureofdataqualityforoccurrencedatasetshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20533Presenter:FranciscoPando
3 WorldFloraOnlineProject:Anonlinefloraofallknownplantshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20529Presenter:ChuckMIller
4 HistoricalfloweringphenologyacrossabroadrangeofPacificNorthwestplantshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20528Presenter:LindaJennings&BarbaraNeto-Bradley
5 ExpandingtheOceanBiogeographicInformationSystem(OBIS)beyondspeciesoccurrenceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20515Presenter:PieterProvoost
6 EnhancingMonitoringandControloftheFallArmyworm(Spodopterafrugiperda)intheDemocraticRepublicoftheCongo(DRCongo)byCitizenScience.https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20499Presenter:PapyNsevoloMiankeba
7 BioBeacon:anOnlineFieldGuidetoDigitalBiodiversityInformationResourceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20472Presenter:JarrettBlair
8 UnifyingBiologyThroughInformatics(UBTI)anewprogrammeoftheInternationalUnionofBiologicalScienceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20431Presenter:DavidPeterShorthouse
9 DataInfrastructureforScientificandCollectionsDatainMediumSizeInstitutionhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20429Presenter:JakubBelka
10 LowCostEnvironmentMonitoringServer–Wireshieldhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20427Presenter:JiriFrank
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11 UsingaDeepConvolutionalNeuralNetworkforExtractingMorphologicalTraitsfromHerbariumImageshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20400Presenter:RégineVignes-Lebbe
12 ThreeyearsofXper3assessment:towardssharingsemantictaxonomiccontentofidentificationkeyshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20382Presenter:RégineVignesLebbe
13 APipelineforProcessingSpecimenImagesiniDigBio-ApplyingandGeneralizinganExaminationofMercuryUseinPreparingHerbariumSpecimenshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20326Presenter:MatthewCollins
14 DNAqua-Net:AdvancingMethods,ConnectingCommunitiesandEnvisagingStandardshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20310Presenter:AlexanderM.Weigand
15 AutomatedGenerationofListsofUniqueValuesfromiDigBioDataFieldstoFacilitateDataQualityImprovementshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20306Presenter:MatthewCollins
16 BiodiversityInformationServingOurNation(BISON)nowwithmorethan1/3billionspeciesoccurrenceshttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20285Presenter:AnnieSimpson
17 LivingAtlasesCommunityhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20290Presenters:Marie-EliseLecoq,DavidMartin
18 OpenBiodivPoster:anImplementationofaSemanticSystemRunningontopoftheBiodiversityKnowledgeGraphhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20246Presenter:ViktorSenderovandTeodorGeorgiev
19 CanadensysandGBIFFrance:collaborationthroughtheGBIFnetworktohelplaunchthenewCanadensysexplorerhttps://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.17011Presenters:Marie-ÉliseLecoq,JérémyGoimard
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Symposia,Workshops&InterestGroupMeetings&TheirOrganizers
Symposia
S02 BiodiversityDataQuality–concepts,methodsandtoolsArthurD.Chapman,AntonioM.Saraiva,AlexanderM.Thompson
S04 AdvancesindataaccessibilityanddatamanagementformarinespeciesoccurrencedataAndrewSherin,WardAppeltans,LenoreBajona,MaryKennedy
S10 500YearsofBigDatafromtheBiodiversityHeritageLibraryMartinR.Kalfatovic,CarolynA.Sheffield
S12 CitizenScienceContributionstoBiodiversityResearchandStandardsRobertD.Stevenson
S15 AgriculturalInformaticsContributionstoBiodiversityScienceandBiodiversityAssessmentsGailKampmeier,CyndyParr,JamesMacklin
S16 UsingBigDataTechniquestoCrossDatasetBoundaries-IntegrationandAnalysisofMultipleDatasetsMatthewCollins,RobertGuralnick,MartinR.Kalfatovic
S18 BridgingGapsbetweenBiodiversityInformaticiansandCollectionsProfessionalsHollyLittle,DeborahPaul,GailKampmeier
S20 Traits-Datamodels,sources,vocabulary,interoperabilityandtheirpresentationanddiscoverabilityviaspeciesinformationpagesJeffGerbracht,RobertGuralnick,JenniferHammock,DeborahPaul,PamelaSoltis
S22 BiologicalInteractionData-towardsdatastandardizationAntonioM.Saraiva,JenniferHammock,QuentinGroom
S28 FinancialModelsforSustainingBiodiversityInformaticsProductsJamesH.Beach
Workshops
W01 EstablishingaglobalregistrationsystemofalgalnamesandtypesAndreasKohlbecker
W03 Towardsrobustinteroperabilityinmulti-omicapproachestobiodiversitymonitoringRobertHanner,PierLuigiButtigieg,LukeThompson
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W06 DataQualityWorkshopArthurD.Chapman,AntonioM.Saraiva
W07 Reusinganopensourceplatforminordertocreateacommunity:exampleoftheLivingAtlasescommunityMarie-EliseLecoq,DavidMartin,ChristianGendreau,FedericoMendez,JeremyGoimard,SantiagoMartínezdelaRiva,AndersTelenius,ManashShah
W08 Biodiversitydataannotations–stateoftheplayandperspectivesLutzSuhrbier,OkkaTschöpe,AntonGüntsch,WalterBerendsohn
W09 ImplementingBiodiversityStandardsforPaleobiologyDennéReed,FalkoGlöckler,MareikePetersen,JanaHoffmann
W14 StandardsforCitizenScienceBiodiversityStudiesRobertD.Stevenson,LibbyEllwood
W17 TheEDITPlatformforCybertaxonomy,CurrentStateandEnvisagedIntegrationintotheBiodiversityInformaticsInfrastructureAndreasMüller,WalterBerendsohn,AntonGüntsch
W19 ConstructionofbiodiversityknowledgegraphsdrivenbyfederatedtextminingtoolsRizaBatista-Navarro,SophiaAnaniadou,TeodorGeorgiev,EvangelosPafilis,LyubomirPenev,ViktorSenderov,AxelJ.Soto,WilliamUlate
W21 BiologicalInteractionDataWorkgroupAntonioM.Saraiva,JenniferHammock,QuentinGroom
W23 TowardsanOnlineAtlasofPhenologyZoePanchen,JoelSachs,MélanieBélisle-Leclerc,ScottChamberlain,JonathanDavies,PamelaSoltis,RobGuralnick
Interest/TaskGroupMeetings
IG01 DataQuality(byinvitation)ArthurD.Chapman,AntonioM.Saraiva
IG02 TechnicalArchitectureMeetingTBA
IG03 SpeciesInformationFranciscoPando
IG04 CollectionsDescriptionMeetingAlexanderThompson,DeborahPaul
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SymposiaAbstracts
S02:BiodiversityDataQuality–concepts,methodsandtools
Organizers:ArthurD.Chapman,AntonioM.Saraiva,AlexanderM.Thompson
Thegoalofthis4thSymposiumistodiscussconcepts,problems,policies,metadata,methodologiesandmechanismsrelatedtoBiodiversityDataQuality,whichcanbereusedbytheBiodiversityInformaticscommunitycollaborativelyandincrementally.Dataquality(DQ)isamajorconcerninBiodiversityInformatics.Thedistributednatureofdataacquisitionanddigitization,thespecificdifficultiesimposedbysomeofthedatasub-domains,suchastaxonomicdataandgeographicdata,amongotheraspects,makeitimportanttodiscussDQinbiodiversitysothatdatamadeavailableinportalsandothersystemscanbeusedforvariouspurposessuchaseducation,science,anddecision-making.AlthoughseveralinitiativesintheBiodiversityInformaticscommunityhavebeendevelopingtoolsandbestpracticesaboutDQ,thereisnoconsensusrelatedtoconcepts,metadata,policies,methodologiesandtoolsaboutDQ.ThesizeofDQcheckpipelineshasalsoposedchallengesforexistingmethodologiesandtoolsandmayneedtodrivesomeofthediscussiononconceptsandpolicies.PrevioussymposiaonDQwereheldattheTDWGmeetingsinFlorence,Italy/2013,Jönköping,Sweden/2014andSantaClaradeSanCarlos,CostaRica/2016.Asaresult,ajointTDGW/GBIFInterestGrouponDQwasproposedandapprovedin2014.Subsequentlythreetaskgroupswerealsocreated:TG1–BDQFramework,TG2–BDQTools,servicesandworkflows,andTG3–BDQUsecases.Theytacklesomeofthemostimportantissuesidentifiedbytheattendantstotheprevioussymposia.
ThegrouphasbeenabletomeetbetweenTDWGmeetingstoadvanceonitsactivities.InMarch,2016,inSãoPaulo,Brazil,theIGandTGsconvenersgottogetherwithmembersfromtwofitness-for-usegroupssupportedbyGBIFonspeciesdistributionmodelingandagrobiodiversity,andhavemadegoodprogresstowardsadoptingacommonconceptualbasisanddevelopingprofilesforthosetwousecases.InOctober,2016,inMelbourne,Australia,furtheradvancewasmadefocusingonanotherfitness-for-usegrouponalienandinvasivespecies.AnothermeetingisscheduledtotakeplaceinCanberra,Australia,inMay,2017.
Bythe2017TDWGMeeting,inOttawa,significantadvanceswillhavebeenmadeinallthreeTaskGroupsaswellasinVocabularies.Inthis4rdSymposiumwewanttoadvancefurtheronthosediscussionsandincreaseparticipationofotherstakeholders,keepingthesameprinciples:discussandshareexperiencesonthewayswedealwithDQintheBiodiversityInformaticscommunity,avoidingduplicationofeffortsandsharingknowledge.
S04:Advancesindataaccessibilityanddatamanagementformarinespeciesoccurrencedata
Organizers:AndrewSherin,WardAppeltans,LenoreBajona,MaryKennedy
ThesymposiumwillincludepresentationsonthepracticesofdataaccessibilityanddatamanagementformarinebiologicaloccurrencedatabymembersoftheCanadianOceanDataManagementCommunityofPracticeandothersonthefollowingtopics:
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• Makingdataaccessibleforreuseanddatarescueinitiatives• Biodiversityplusenvironmentalmeasurements:OBIS-ENVandbeyond• Encouraginga‘Communityofpractice’formarinebiologicaloccurrencedata• DevelopmentofvocabulariesandtoolsforqualitycontrolforDwCterms• IdentificationoftheneedfornewDwCterms• Biodiversityusecasesdemonstratingdataintegrationwithhabitat(e.g.CoastalWebAtlases)• Datamanagementtrainingcurriculums• Citizenscienceandvolunteercoordination
Thesymposiumwillbestructuredintoseveralmini-symposiaofselectedtopicsbaseduponthetopicsofreceivedpresentationproposals.Notallofthetopicslistedabovemaybeaddressedwithinthesymposium.Eachmini-symposiawillconcludewithapaneldiscussiontoidentifynextstepsforcollaborationand/orrecommendationsinitiallytotheCanadianOceanDataManagementCommunityofPractice.
S10:500YearsofBigDatafromtheBiodiversityHeritageLibrary
Organizers:MartinR.Kalfatovic,CarolynA.Sheffield
With89.9terabytesofdataspanningover500yearsofdatacollection,theBiodiversityHeritageLibrary(BHL)isanimportantgalaxyintheuniverseofbiodiversitydata.Embeddedinthose89.9terabytesareover174millionspeciesnameoccurrencesandacurrentlyunknownnumberofspeciesoccurrences,descriptions,identifiedtraits,andrelateddata--alllockedintheover500yearsofdatacapturedintheBHL.Asaconsumerofnameoccurrencedata,BHLworkscloselywiththeGNAanddataproviderssuchasITIS.RecentdevelopmentsandactivitiesofITISandhowtheseenhanceBHLwillbediscussed.AcurrentIMLSfundedgrant,'FoundationstoActions,'hasfundedfivepost-gradresidentstogatherdataforrequirementsofBHLVersion2.
Aninternationalconsortium,theBHLpartnersworktomakebiodiversityliteratureopenlyavailabletotheworldaspartofaglobalbiodiversitycommunity.ThroughitsextensivenetworkofMembersandAffiliates,over52millionpagesofbiodiversityliteraturearenowavailablethroughtheBHLportal.Providingdeeperaccesstothedatacontainedinthisliteratureisagoalofanongoingprojecttoprovidefull-textsearchcapabilitytoBHL.Technicaldetailsanduse-caseexamplesforthiswillbediscussed.
BHLisnotonlydata,butgeneratesnewdataviawide-rangingandsuccessfuloutreachactivities.FromtaggingofimagesonFlickr,transcriptionofarchivalmaterials,andOCRcorrectionfromgamingactivities,BHLhasbeenabletoleveragecrowd-sourcedinputfromuserstobetterunderstandourcollections.Outreachstrategiesdesignedtoencouragecitizenscienceactivitieswillbediscussed,aswellastheimportanceofcommunityengagementtosustaincrowd-sourcinginitiatives.Nextstepsandchallengesrelatedtoincorporatingcrowd-sourceddataintotheBHLcollectionwillalsobeaddressed.
TheBiodiversityHeritageLibraryhasgrowntobeanimportantpartoftheinfrastructureofbiodiversity.Inanattempttosolvetheliteraturecomponentofthetaxonomicimpediment,theBHLcontinuestoprovideaccesstolegacyprintpublicationsandmakethisdatawidelyavailableforreuseincollectionssupportsystems.ThissymposiumwillincludeabriefupdateonBHLactivitiessincethat2016TDWG.ThefinalsectionofthissymposiumwillbeaguideddiscussionofdesideratumandenhancementsTDWGparticipantsseeasimportantforBHL.
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SymposiumparticipantswillincluderepresentativesfromtheBHLSecretariat,BHL-relatedprojects,ITIS,andotherBHLpartners.
S12:CitizenScienceContributionstoBiodiversityResearchandStandards
Organizer:RobertD.Stevenson
Citizenscienceencompassesadiversesetofactivitiesthatcontributetobiodiversityresearchincludingdecodingandtranscribingmuseumlabels,collectingspecimensandimages,analyzingandclassifyingdigitalcollections,settingoutcameratrapsanddoingfieldsurveys.ThissymposiumoffersavenueforcitizensciencepractitionerstodescribetheirbiodiversityprojectsandtolearnabouttheTDWGcommunity.Likewise,informaticsspecialistsanddatabasemanagersworkingonbiodiversityprojectsareencouragedtopresenttheissuestheyfacewhensupportingcitizenscienceprograms.Aspectsofacitizenscienceprogramsfromprojectdesign,todatacollectionanddatacurationarewelcome.Projectsthataddresstaxonomicordataqualityissuesareespeciallyencouraged.ParticipantsareinvitedtojoinintheworkoftheCitizenScienceInterestGroupindevelopingstandardstosupportbiodiversityresearch.
S15:AgriculturalInformaticsContributionstoBiodiversityScienceandBiodiversityAssessments
Organizers:GailKampmeier,CyndyParr,JamesMacklin
Agriculturalbiodiversityhaslongbeenignoredbythetraditionalbiodiversitycommunityandtheaggregatorsoftheirdata.TheFebruary2016GBIF'FinalReportoftheTaskGrouponGBIFDataFitnessforUseinAgrobiodiversity,'providedrecommendationsprimarilyregardingcropsandtheirwildrelatives,butdidnotaddresswiderissuesofcroppests(plantdiseasesandtheirvectors,arthropods)andmanagementsystemsthataffectthegreaterbiodiversityofthosecrops.TheTDWG16symposium,'AgriculturalBiodiversityStandards&Semantics,'highlightedthecurrentstatusofagrobiodiversitydatamanagementanddiscussedmajorchallengesinthisfield.Thisyear’ssymposiumwillprovideaprogressreportonaddressingchallengessuchascropmanagementandexperimentalprotocolstandardsandinfraspecifictaxonomiccoverage.Itwilldivedeeperintotrendsinsemanticsanddataminingforagriculture,andinapplicationofstandardstobiodiversityassessments.Weaimtoprovidespecificexampleswhereshareddatamanagementstandardsandpracticesacrossbothbasicandappliedbiodiversityresearchcommunitiescanleadtoimprovedoutcomesforbothscienceandsociety.
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S16:UsingBigDataTechniquestoCrossDatasetBoundaries-IntegrationandAnalysisofMultipleDatasets
Organizers:MatthewCollins,RobertGuralnick,MartinR.Kalfatovic
Formanyhistoricalreasons,muchbiodiversitydataiscatalogedandaggregatedbytype:occurrence,genesequence,literature,etc.Whilethishasadvantages,interestingandnewscientificquestionsrequireinformationfrommorethanonesourcebutthevariedstructureandaxesofexistingdatasetsdon'tmakeiteasytosimplyjointhemup.
Inthissymposiumwewillhavepresentationsfromresearchersontechniquesusedtojoin,extract,andinferinformationacrosstraditionaloccurrence,taxonomy,trait,phenology,genetic,environment,literature,image,climate,andotherboundaries.Wealsowillhavelimitedpresentationsfromdataprovidersontheworktheyaredoingandchallengestheyfaceinbuildingandexposinglinkagesamongtheirdatasets.Ourgoalistoprovideaforumtoexposeworkingtechniquesforaddressingthedisjointnatureofourcurrentdataecosystem.
S18:BridgingGapsbetweenBiodiversityInformaticiansandCollectionsProfessionals
Organizers:HollyLittle,DeborahPaul,GailKampmeier
Thebiodiversityinformaticsstandards,tools,andresourcesdevelopedbyTDWGanditsmembersarevitalcomponentsinthedailyworkofcuratorsandcollectionsprofessionalsinnaturalhistorymuseumcollections.However,opportunitiesforcommunicationandcollaborationbetweenthesegroupsaretoooftenrareandsiloed.Therefore,buildingamutualunderstandingofandsolidcollaborationabouthowbiodiversityinformaticsconceptsaredevelopedandthenhowtheyareappliedtothemobilizationofcollectionsdatacanbedifficult.In2018,theTDWGmeetingwillbeheldinconjunctionwiththeSocietyforthePreservationofNaturalHistoryCollection(SPNHC)meeting,providinganinvaluableopportunitytoaddresstheseissues.Inordertoenhancetheeffectivenessofthe2018meetingitisimportantforeachgrouptodevelopabettercomprehensionofthevernacularoftheother.Thissymposiumaimstobridgegapsinunderstandingbetweenthebiodiversityinformaticiansandthewayscollectionsprofessionalsusetheirwork.ItwillprovideexamplesofhowcollectionsareusingTDWGstandards,applicabilitystatements,andbestpractices,aswellasexploringwherethiscommunity,alongwithdisciplinespecificexperts,canworktoprovidemorecontrolledvocabulariesforexistingterms,participateindevelopmentactivitiesofinterestandtaskgroups,andidentifyandcontributesolutionstoneedsasyetunaddressedbycurrentstandards.
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S20:Traits-Datamodels,sources,vocabulary,interoperabilityandtheirpresentationanddiscoverabilityviaspeciesinformationpages
Organizers:JeffGerbracht,RobertGuralnick,JenniferHammock,DeborahPaul,PamelaSoltis
Withpotentially3-4billionspecimensglobally,theworld’snaturalhistorycollectionsoffertreasuretrovesofrelevantinformation.Thisiscomplementedbyalonghistoricrecordofcitizenscienceobservations,andrecentlybymolecularsampling.Newcontributionsinboththeseareasareborndigitalandareacceleratingthegrowthofcontemporarybiodiversityoccurrencedata.Meanwhile,effortssuchastheNSF’sAdvancingDigitizationofBiodiversityCollectionsProgramareincreasingtherateofdigitizationofspecimenrecords,fillinginourhistoricbiodiversityrecordjustasrapidly.Occurrencerecordstypicallycontainlocalityinformation,andthesegeoreferencedoccurrenceshaverevolutionizedourabilitytomodelspeciesdistributionsandprojectfuturedistributionsbasedonmodelsofclimatechange.Theserecordsmayalsocontaininformation,suchasbodysize,phenology,environment,thatisrelevanttoecologicalandevolutionaryresearch.Evenliteraturesources,wheretraitsmeasuredarenotassociatedwithdepositedspecimens,containdetailedmetadatadescribinglocation,environment,lifestageandconcurrentlymeasuredtraits.Textualdescriptions,fromregionalfloras,catalogs,monographsandotherliterature,alsocontainextensiveecologicalinformation,suitableforextractionusingsemanticanalysis.Thisdelugeofdataisnotwithoutitschallenges.Amongtheseistheneedtodevelopontologies,whicharecrucialforbigdatasolutions,sothattraitdatacanbeextractedandassembledinformatically.Thisrequiresthedevelopmentofontologies,whicharecrucialforbigdatasolutions.
Thereisanarrayofexistingontologiesinthebiodiversityspace,manymaintainedbyactivecommunitiesliketheOBOFoundry.Gapsremainineventhemostmatureontologies,butastermadoptionbyoutsideprojectsincreases,andnewtoolsdevelopedfortermsnominationandothercommunitycurationactivity,itbecomesmorepracticaltodeveloprobuststructuredvocabularycoverageforthebiodiversityspace.
Thereisincreasingconvergencearoundtraitsofurgentconcernforconservationandappliedresearch.TheEssentialBiodiversityVariables,identifiedbyGEOBONasessentialformonitoringbiodiversitychange,highlightkeytraitsneededforthisstewardship.
Inthissymposium,wewillexplorethebreadthofsourcesofbiodiversitytraitdata,andtechniquesandconsensusneededtosupportanalysisoverthesediversesources.Withover780millionoccurrencerecordsnowavailableviaiDigBioandGBIF,andmanymillionsmoreappearingeveryyear,nowistheperfecttimetoconsiderwhichtraitsaremostsignificantforecologicalandevolutionaryresearch,theontologiesrequiredformeaningfulcommunicationanddataassembly,andthetoolsneededforensuringinteroperabilityofthesedata.
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S22:BiologicalInteractionData-towardsdatastandardization
Organizers:AntonioM.Saraiva,JenniferHammock,QuentinGroom
Scientistsuseavarietyofmethodstocollect,record,andstorebiologicalinteractiondata(predator-prey,parasite-host,pollinator-plant,etc.).Usesforthesedataareequallydiverse.Forexample,theycouldplayanimportantroleinbuildingdecisionsupportsystemsforconservationandsustainableuseinagriculture.Numerouseffortsareunderwaytoaggregate,organize,andefficientlydisseminatethesedata.However,welackaformaldatastandardtosupportthiswork.Thegoalofthissymposiumistoprovideanopportunity,forthoseinvolvedorinterestedinthedigitizationofbiologicalinteractiondata,tosharetheirexperiencesandideassothatwecanmoveforwardandproposeabiologicalinteractiondatastandard.Duringthe2016TDWGConference,inSantaClaradeSanCarlos,CostaRica,agroupofpeoplegatheredtostartdiscussingthisissueundertheTDWGumbrella.TheobjectiveistoproposethecreationofanInterestGrouponBiologicalInteractionsDatawherethistopiccanbediscussedwithinthebiodiversityinformaticscommunity.Duringthesymposium,wewillprovideanupdateonthegroup’sachievementsaswellaswelcomeotherinterestedpartiestopresenttheirwork.
S28:FinancialModelsforSustainingBiodiversityInformaticsProducts
Organizer:JamesH.Beach
Thissessionwillfocusontheeconomicsofsustainingbiodiversitysoftwareplatformsandtools,withrevenuemodelsthatarenotwhollycomprisedofgrantfunding.Ascyberinfrastructurematuresintowidely-used,productiondatasources,software,andservices,businessmodelswillbeneededthatidentifyandengagestakeholderswhobenefitfromtheirvalue--potentiallyaspayers.Innovativevaluepropositionsandcleverfinancialmodelsforlong-termsustainabilitywillbeimportantforproductsseekingtosupportacommunityofinstitutionsandinitiativesthatrangefromthelargeandwell-resourced,tothosethataresmallandsparinglyfunded.
WorkshopAbstracts
W01:Establishingaglobalregistrationsystemofalgalnamesandtypes
Organizers:AndreasKohlbecker
Establishinganon-lineregistrationsystemforalgalnamesandtheirnomenclaturaltypesisoneofthemainobjectivesofaDFG(DeutscheForschungsGemeinschaft)project,whichstartedin2016.
Thisregistrationsystemwillbecomepartoftheinternationalnetworkofbiodiversitydataandoneoftheoperatingglobalregistrationsystemsfornamesoforganisms.Onceestablished,PhycoBankwillremoveamajorobstacletoresearchinthefieldofphycology.Theenvisagedworkflowsincludemanualregistrationof
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newalgaenames,aswellastheautomaticregistrationofnewalgalnamespublishedinscientificjournalsthatalreadyhaveafunctioningelectronicpublishingworkflow.
Animportantcomponentoftheregistrationsystemwillbeacomprehensiveindexofalgaenames.ItsmainpurposesaretocoverallalgaenamesknowntosourcesexternaltoPhycoBank,andtosupporttheregistrationworkflowbyprovidingthesenamesinaharmonizedandconsistentway.Theindexcouldbefurthermoreavaluablesourceofnamesforotherdatasystems.ItmaycontributetotheGlobalNamesArchitecture(GNA)inthemediumterm.Intheshortterm,itaimstoprovidenamestothebackboneofbiodiversitynetworkssuchasGBIFandtheBiologicalCollectionAccessService(BioCASe).
Theworkshopwillreviewanddiscussinteroperabilityaspectsofthesystemwiththeglobalnetworkofbiodiversityinformationsystems,includingtopicslikepersistentidentifiersfornamesandtypifications,dataflowstonamecatalogs,andotherservices,aswellastheharvestingandindexingofnamesandtaxaforthealgaenameindex.Anothermajorfocusoftheworkshopwillbetheintegrationofnameregistrationsystemsintheworkflowofdigitalpublishers.
W03:Towardsrobustinteroperabilityinmulti-omicapproachestobiodiversitymonitoring
Organizers:RobertHanner,PierLuigiButtigieg,LukeThompson
Theroutineuseof(meta)genomics,(meta)transcriptomics,andthetargetedsequencingoftaxonomicmarkergenesisenablingmonitoringofbothmicroandmacro-organismalassemblagesacrossawiderangeofenvironments.Suchmonitoringofphylogeneticandfunctionaldiversityoffersnovelandvaluableinsightintohowthebiosphereisrespondingtoenvironmentalchange.However,thereareconsiderableobstaclestounifyingmulti-omicobservationandmonitoringstrategies,whichspanenvironmentsfromthedeepmarinesubsurfacetotheurbanatmosphere.Perhapsforemost,rapiddevelopmentwithinthefieldoftenoutpacesattemptstoharmoniseitstechniques,despiteprogressbyinitiativessuchastheEarthMicrobiomeProject,TARAOceans,andOceanSamplingDay.Overcomingtheseobstacleswillbeessentialinrealisinganinformaticsinfrastructuresuitedtoaglobal,omically-enabledbiodiversitymonitoringsystemandincorporatingomics-driveninsightsintothebiodiversitymetricswhichinformtheconservationandpolicydomain.
Thisworkshopwillbeginwithacollectionoftalksthatwilloutlinethescopeofthechallengeandpossiblesolutions,followedbyfacilitateddiscussiontowardsdeliveringadraftdatastandardforreportingspeciesoccurrencesasdetectedthroughvariedenvironmentalDNA(eDNA)methodsandcommunitymeta-omicsapproaches.Thisissueisnontrivialandinvolvestheintersectionofgeospatial,genomicandbiodiversityinformaticsperspectives,amongothers.Wewillexamineeffortssuchaslong-term,omicallyenabledobservatoriesasusecasesinneedof“futureproof”,flexiblestandardsandproposestrategiesforexistingstandardstocontendwiththeirdemands.Wealsowelcomecontributionsidentifyingaspectsofomicdatawhichhaveyettobeacknowledgedinthestandardslandscape.Ouractivitiesaimtocatalysetherobustinteroperabilityandconvergenceofcommunity-endorsed/bestpractices,metadatachecklists,standardterminologies,knowledgerepresentations,andpersistentidentifiersfortheenvironments,samples,processes,informationartifacts,equipment,andagentsinvolvedinthisemerging,multidisciplinarydomain.
Wewelcomesubmissionsontopicsdirectlyrelatedtotheabove,including:
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• Community-endorsed,bestpracticesfor‘omicobservatoriesand/orobservationcampaigns,suchas:• Designand/orgovernance-emphasisinginteroperability• Standardisedsampling,samplemanagement,andarchiving,includingtheuseofpersistentsample
identifiersandFIMS/LIMStechnologies• Standardisedgeneration,processing,analysis,andarchivingof‘omicsdata• Acquisition,standardisation/structuring,processing,management,andexchangeofmetadata(e.g.use
ofchecklists,structuredformats,controlledvocabularies,ontologies,andFIMS/LIMStechnologies)• Effortstotranslateomicsoutputstodiversestakeholders,suchasthoseinthepolicy,conservation,
commercial,andpublicspheres
W06:DataQualityWorkshop
Organizers:ArthurD.Chapman,AntonioM.Saraiva
ThegoaloftheworkshopistopresenttheadvancesandthestatusofthethreeTaskGroupsofthis[InterestGroup]TG1–BDQFramework,TG2–BDQTools,servicesandworkflows,andTG3–BDQUsecases.Wewillalsoworkonspecificissuesraisedduringtheyear,whichneedtobeaddressedbythegroup,andplannextsteps,includinghowtoincreaseparticipationofotherstakeholdersandplanstowardaTDWGstandardondataqualitytestsandassertions.
Thedistributednatureofdataacquisitionanddigitization,thespecificdifficultiesimposedbysomeofthedatasub-domains,suchastaxonomicdataandgeographicdata,amongotheraspects,makeitimportanttodiscussDQinbiodiversitysothatdatamadeavailableinportalsandothersystemscanbeusedforvariouspurposessuchaseducation,science,anddecision-making.AlthoughseveralinitiativesintheBiodiversityInformaticscommunityhavebeendevelopingtoolsandbestpracticesaboutDQ,thereisnoconsensusrelatedtoconcepts,metadata,policies,methodologiesandtoolsaboutDQ.ThesizeofDQcheckpipelineshasalsoposedchallengesforexistingmethodologiesandtoolsandmayneedtodrivesomeofthediscussiononconceptsandpolicies.
AjointTDGW/GBIFInterestGrouponDQwasproposedandapprovedin2014.Subsequentlythreetaskgroupswerealsocreated:TG1–BDQFramework,TG2–BDQTools,servicesandworkflows,andTG3–BDQUsecases.Theytacklesomeofthemostimportantissuesidentifiedbytheattendantstotheprevioussymposia,heldattheTDWGmeetingsinFlorence,Italy/2013,Jönköping,Sweden/2014andSantaClaradeSanCarlos,CostaRica/2016.
ThegrouphasbeenabletomeetbetweenTDWGmeetingstoadvanceonitsactivities.InMarch,2016,inSãoPaulo,Brazil,theIGandTGsconvenersgottogetherwithmembersfromtwofitness-for-usegroupssupportedbyGBIFonspeciesdistributionmodelingandagrobiodiversity,andhavemadegoodprogresstowardsadoptingacommonconceptualbasisanddevelopingprofilesforthosetwousecases.InOctober,2016,inMelbourne,Australia,furtheradvancewasmadefocusingonanotherfitness-for-usegrouponalienandinvasivespecies.AnothermeetingisscheduledtotakeplaceinCanberra,Australia,inMay,2017.
Bythe2017TDWGMeeting,inOttawa,significantadvanceswillhavebeenmadeinallthreeTaskGroupsaswellasinVocabularies.
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W07:Reusinganopensourceplatforminordertocreateacommunity:exampleoftheLivingAtlasescommunity
Organizers:Marie-EliseLecoq,DavidMartin,ChristianGendreau,FedericoMendez,JeremyGoimard,SantiagoMartínezdelaRiva,AndersTelenius,ManashShah
Since2013,acommunityhasgrownaroundtheAtlasofLivingAustralia(ALA)opensourceplatform,mostlybutnotexclusivelyaroundGBIFnodes.Indeed,since2014fiveinternationalworkshopshavebeenorganizedaroundtheworldandeightdataportalshavebeenreleasedintoproductionusingthistool(ALA,Brazil,GBIFArgentina,GBIFCostaRica,GBIFFrance,NBN,GBIFSpain,GBIFPortugal)andseveralothersarecurrentlyindevelopment(Canadensys,GBIFSweden,etc.).HereyoucanfindamaprepresentingallcountrieswithaninterestinimplementingALAastheirnationaldataportal.
ALAmodulesworkwithstandardsdefinedbytheTDWGcommunity.DatashownonmapsareloadedthroughDarwinCoreArchivefilespreviouslypublishedfromIPTordirectlydownloadedontheGBIF.org.UserscanfilteranddownloadoccurrencesandcanalsointeractwithdatausingAPIproposedbytheplatform.Wekeepthedataauthorityandhighlightdatapublishers,institutions,collectionsanddatasetsbyshowingtheirmetadata.Moreover,usingthisALAtechnologyasnationaldataportalsisthesolutionrecommendedintheGBIFImplementationPlan2017-2021.
OneofthemainobjectivesofthisworkshopwillbetopresentthecommunityofLivingAtlasesbyshowingexamplesalreadyinproduction(AtlasofLivingAustralia,GBIFFrance,GBIFSpainandNBNAtlasScotland),andpast&futureprojectsinvolvingthecommunity.Inaddition,weexpecttotrainparticipantsinthebasicALAmodules(CollectoryandBiocache-hub)thatfocusonoccurrenceresearchtools,datavisualizationandmetadataportal.ThistechnicaltrainingwillalsoincludetheinstallationofanALAdemoversioninordertogivethepossibilitytouserstomaketheirfirstconfigurationsanddevelopmentsoftheirnewtool.
W08:Biodiversitydataannotations–stateoftheplayandperspectives
Organizers:LutzSuhrbier,OkkaTschöpe,AntonGüntsch,WalterBerendsohn
Withthegrowingnumberofdigitisedspecimenmetadataandimagesontheworldwideweb,on-lineannotationsystemsforcorrectingorenrichinglabelinformationbecomeincreasinglyimportant.TheannotationsystemAnnoSysisoneofthesystemsthatprovidefunctionalinfrastructureforannotatingcollectioninformationaswellaswebserviceinterfacesforsearchingexistingannotationsandtheirintegrationintoresearchworkflows.TherecentstablereleaseofAnnoSyshasbeenintegratedwiththeGBIFdataportal,theWorldFloraOnlineSpecimenExplorer,theGlobalGenomeBiodiversityNetwork(GGBN)andothersandstoresallannotationsconformingwiththeW3COpenAnnotationDataModelinacentralisedRDFrepositorytogetherwiththeoriginalspecimendata.
Theworkshopfocussesonpracticaldemonstrationofavailableannotationsystemsandtheirintegrationintotheinternationalbiodiversityinformaticslandscape.Wewilldiscusspotentialnewfeatures
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andfuturedevelopmentswithafocusonsemanticinteroperabilityandsynchronisationoraggregationmechanismsfordistributedannotationrepositories.
W09:ImplementingBiodiversityStandardsforPaleobiology
Organizers:DennéReed,FalkoGlöckler,MareikePetersen,JanaHoffmann
ThePaleobiologyInterestGroup(Paleo)wasestablishedin2015tobroadentheapplicationofexistingstandardssuchasDarwinCoreandtheAccesstoBiodiversityCollectionsDataExtendedforGeosciences(ABCDEFG)toaccommodatepaleobiologicaldata.ThiswillrepresentthesecondmeetingoftheinterestgroupataTDWGconference.
Thegroupseekstoextendexistingstandardstomeettheneedsofpaleobiologyandtofostergreaterintegrationbetweenneontologyandpaleontologyinthestudyofbiodiversityacrossspaceanddeeptime.Understandinglong-termtemporalpatternsinbiodiversityprovidesthecontextforinterpretingmodernchangesinbiodiversityandunderstandingtheprocessresponsibleforthesechanges.
Employingbiodiversityinformationstandards,suchasDarwinCoreandABCDEFGtopaleobiologydatarequiresaddressingabroaderrangeofmetadatarequirementsandadaptingbestpractices.TheroleofthePaleogroupistoprovideguidelinesfordeployingexistingbiodiversitystandardstopaleobiologyandtoproposeextensionsandmodificationstoexistingstandardstomakethemmoreamenable(andgeneralizable)forpaleobiology.
Theprimarygoalsforthe2017meetingofthePaleobiologyInterestGroupare:1)toupdateTDWGmembersonthegroup'shistoryandprogress,2)toconductin-depthdiscussionsanddebateoncommonusecasesfordeployingstandardsinpaleobiology,3)todiscussandproduceexamplesofDarwinCoreandABCDEFGentriesforthoseusecases.Theannualmeetingsofferthebestopportunityforbringingbiodiversityinformationspecialiststogetherwithdisciplinaryspecialistsinpaleobiologytoresolvequestionsandmakeconcreteadvancesinbroadeningtheapplicationofbiodiversityinformationstandardsinanewdisciplinarydomain.The2017meetingoftheTDWGPaleoInterestGroupwillincludeafocusontherelationshipbetweenDarwinCoreandABCDEFGandhowtheycanworktogether.
W14:StandardsforCitizenScienceBiodiversityStudies
Organizers:RobertD.Stevenson,LibbyEllwood
TheTDWGCitizenScienceInterestGroupwascharteredatthebeginningof2017.Thisworkshoprepresentsthefirsttimethegroupcanmeettogetheranddiscusscommunitydevelopmentandstandardsneeds.Topicswillincludepoliciesandstandardsforcommonname,symbolsfornonliterateobserversanddataquality.AnimportantaspectofthemeetingwillbetoestablishlinkstootherTDWGworkinggroupsandtolearnabouteffortsbygroupsoutsidetheTDWGorganizationsuchastheCitizenScienceAssociationMetaDataworkinggroup,theEuropeanCitizenScienceAssociation,CoData,RDASmallUnmannedAircraftSystems,andtheCameraTrapFederatedMinimumDataStandardabouttheireffortstodraftstandards.ThePPSR_COREmetastandardhasbeendefined.Wewillreviewthisstandardanditsimplementation.
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W17:TheEDITPlatformforCybertaxonomy,CurrentStateandEnvisagedIntegrationintotheBiodiversityInformaticsInfrastructure
Organizers:AndreasMüller,WalterBerendsohn,AntonGüntsch
TheEDITPlatformforCybertaxonomyhasbeendevelopedoverthepastyearstosupportthefulltaxonomicworkflowandtoserveasaninformationbrokerforalltypesofbiodiversitydata.ThoughafocushasbeensetontaxonleveldataitcoversallrelevantdatatypesfromliteraturetoDNAalignment.Intheearlyphasefocusingoncorefunctionalityitnowaimsforadeeperintegrationintoexistingbiodiversityinfrastructurelandscapebymakinguseofitsserviceorientedarchitecture.
TheworkshopwillpresentthecurrentstateofthePlatformandintendstodiscussnewfeaturestofurtherintegratethePlatform.
W19:Constructionofbiodiversityknowledgegraphsdrivenbyfederatedtextminingtools
Organizers:RizaBatista-Navarro,SophiaAnaniadou,TeodorGeorgiev,EvangelosPafilis,LyubomirPenev,ViktorSenderov,AxelJ.Soto,WilliamUlate
Knowledgegraphs-knowledgebaseswhichencodeinformationusinggraphstructures-haverecentlydemonstratedtheirpowerinsupportingknowledgediscoverytaskssuchasdataaggregationandsemanticsearch.Well-knownknowledgegraphssuchasDBpediaandGoogle'sKnowledgeGraphhavebeenbuilttostoregeneral-domainfacts,andarenowwidelyusedinmanyknowledgediscoveryapplications.Weshouldalsobeabletoconstructlarge-scalegraphscapturingbiodiversityknowledge,whichwillenablelinkingandconsolidationofinformationfrommultiplecomplementarysources-databasessuchastheEncyclopediaofLife(EoL),GlobalBiodiversityInformationFacility(GBIF),BiodiversityHeritageLibrary(BHL)andPensoft.
Thisworkshopisfocussedonthedemonstrationanduseoftechnologiesthatfacilitatetheconstructionofbiodiversityknowledgegraphsbasedonvariousdatasources.Firstly,weshallshowcasetoolsforautomaticallyanalysingsecondarydata,i.e.,biodiversityliterature.Theserangefromtoolsorservicesthatcanautomaticallyrecognisementionsofpertinentconcepts(e.g.,taxa,environments)suchasEXTRACT,tothosethatdisambiguateandlinksuchmentionswithcontrolledvocabulariesandprimary(occurrence)data,throughtooneswhichidentifysemanticallyrelatednames(e.g.,usingdistributionalsemantics).Importantly,wewilldemonstratehowagraphdatabase-aNeo4jinstance-canbepopulatedwiththeautomaticallyextractedinformation.Emphasiswillalsobegiventothebenefitsofrepresentinginformationusingagraphdatabase.Furthermore,weshalldemonstratehowthesediversetools-aswellasthosecontributedbyothermembersofthecommunity-canbefederated,i.e.,integratedintounifiedpipelines,usingArgo:agraphicalWeb-basedworkbenchforuser-interactiveconstructionofprocessingworkflows.Inthisway,theworkshopwillprovidetheknow-howforbuildingknowledgegraphsthroughbespokeprocessingworkflowsthatdonotrequireanyprogrammingeffort.
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Applicationsoftheabovetechnologiesinthecontextofusecaseswillthenbepresented.AspecificexampleisthegraphrepresentationofknowledgestoredinWorldFloraOnline(WFO)whichwould:(1)integrateWFOcontentwithdatafromotherplatforms,e.g.,GBIF,EoL,and(2)enablesearchingformoredescriptiveplantspeciesinformation,e.g.,relatedcommonorvernacularnames,location,habitat,reproductivestate.Anopendiscussionoffurtherusecasesthatareofinteresttothecommunitywillbeheld.
W21:BiologicalInteractionDataWorkgroup
Organizers:AntonioM.Saraiva,JenniferHammock,QuentinGroom
Theobjectiveofthisworkshopistopresenttheadvancesoftheworkgroup,sinceitscreationatthe2016TDWGConference,workonspecificissuesraisedduringtheyear,andplannextsteps,whichmayincludethecreationofanInterestGrouponBiologicalInteractionsDatawithinTDWG.Scientistsuseavarietyofmethodstocollect,record,andstorebiologicalinteractiondata(predator-prey,parasite-host,pollinator-plant,etc.).Usesforthesedataareequallydiverse.Forexample,theycouldplayanimportantroleinbuildingdecisionsupportsystemsforconservationandsustainableuseinagriculture.Numerouseffortsareunderwaytoaggregate,organize,andefficientlydisseminatethesedata.However,welackaformaldatastandardtosupportthiswork.Thegoalofthisworkshopistoprovideanopportunity,forthoseinvolvedorinterestedinthedigitizationofbiologicalinteractiondata,tosharetheirexperiencesandideassothatwecanmoveforwardandproposeabiologicalinteractiondatastandard.
W23:TowardsanOnlineAtlasofPhenology
Organizers:ZoePanchen,JoelSachs,MélanieBélisle-Leclerc,ScottChamberlain,JonathanDavies,PamelaSoltis,RobGuralnick
Anon-linephenologyatlaswouldbeaplatformforintegratingphenologydatafromthemanyindividualresearchers,institutions,andcitizenscienceprogramsthatarewillingtomaketheirphenologyrecordsavailable.Itwouldprovidecapabilitiesforanalyzingandvisualizingthedatawithaspecies-based,location-based,orphenophase-basedfocus.Thisworkshopwillexplorepossiblevisionsforsuchanatlas,andpossiblestepsformakingitareality.Goalsoftheworkshopinclude:
• Asurveyofexistinginitiativesaimedatstandardizingandintegratingphenologydata.• Identifyingbarrierstostandardizationandintegration.• Generatingusecases.• Generatingcompetencyquestions-i.e.Whatquerieswouldwewantanon-lineatlasofphenologyto
support?• Identifyingpossibilitiesforfuturedevelopment.
Submissionsareinvitedrelatingtoanyoftheabove.Aswell,theorganizersplananumberofsmallexperimentsinphenologicaldataintegrationpriortotheworkshop,sothatdiscussionisinformedbywhat’scurrentlyeasy,andwhat’scurrentlyhard.Ifyouwouldliketoparticipateintheseexperiments(bycontributingdata,usecases,ortechnicalcapacity),pleasecontacttheorganizers.
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InstructionsforSpeakers• Forbestresults,prepareyourslidesusingMicrosoftPowerPoint,usingwidelyavailableWindows-
compatiblefontsandminimizingfancytransitions.• Pleaseformatallslidesfor16:9inMicrosoftPowerPoint.Thisistheindustrystandardandis(usually)
thedefaultforPowerPoint2010+• Pleasetitlethefiletoyourtalkusingthefollowingfilename
convention:Room_Day_Time_Surname.pptx(e.g.Chaudiere_Monday_1415_Smith.pptx)• Visityourpresentationroomthemorningofyourtalkbetween8:30AMand9:00AMwithyourtalk
onaUSBkeyandloaditontothelaptop• Ifyouaredoingacomputerdemothatrequirestheinternet,pleasehaveabackupplanincaseof
networkissues.• Thisyearnearlyalltalksare15minutesinlength(includingquestionsandspeakerchanges),tomakeit
easierforattendeestomovefromonesessiontoanotheriftheywish.Pleaseberespectfulofotherspeakersandhelpmoderatorskeepyoursessionontime.
• TherewillbeaWindowsPC(notMac)presentingyourslides.ThehotelissupplyingsomeonetohelpwithA/Vtechnologiesduringsessionsandbreaks.
• BecausewearepartneringwithiDigBiotorecordsessions,youmaybeaskedtowearaclip-onmicrophone,andyouwillneedtousethetrackpadonthecomputerasyourpointer.Amobilemicrophoneshouldbeavailableforaudiencememberstoaskquestions.
• Rememberthisisadiverseinternationalaudiencewhomaynotbefamiliarwithcustoms,acronyms,andjargonusedinyourspecialty.Helpeveryoneappreciateyourworkbyspeakingclearlyandexplainingpotentiallyunfamiliarterms.
InstructionsforPosterPresentersYourpostershouldbeapproximatelyA0-sized(33"x47"or84cmx119cm)ornomorethan48"onthewidestside.TheboardsareVelcroandVelcrostickydotsandnumberswillbeprovided.Seetheprogramscheduletolearnwhentohangyourposterandwhentostandnearyourposter.
InstructionsforModerators• Moderatorresponsibilities(non-workshop)
o Bringaworkingstopwatchtotimepresentationso Makesureyouknowhowtoswitchbetweentalksonthepresentationcomputero Arriveatsessionatleast10minutesbeforethestartofthesessiono Confirmthatallpresentationsareloadedonthecomputero Startthesessionontimeandremindspeakersoftheirtimelimitsandthattheybecourteousto
speakerswhomustfollowthembynotexceedingtheirtimelimit.o Keepsessionontime.Announcehowyouwillletauthorsknowwhentheirtimeisrunningout
(e.g.,raisethreefingerswithinsightofthespeakertoindicate3minutesremaining;standatoneminute;dowhatyoucantokeepspeakerswithintheirtimelimit)
o Questionsmaybeaskedwithintheallottedtime,butiftimedoesnotallow,askquestionerstoseekoutspeakersafterthesession
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BreakfastandLunchRecommendationsNeartheDelta
BREAKFAST LUNCHBridgehead-Localcoffeeroasteryservinglightbreakfastfare,includingcroissants,granolaparfaits,oatmeal,andmuffins.Breakfastservicebeginsat6:30a.m.344SlaterStreet.250mfromtheDeltaHotel.https://www.bridgehead.ca/
Aroma-Greekmeze(smallplates)restaurantofferingavarietyofoptions,includingmanyvegetariandishes.Onlinereservationsavailable.239NepeanStreet.650mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://www.aromameze.com/
GoodEats-Ever-changingbreakfastmenuwithampleveganandgluten-freeoptions,andcoffeefromlocalroasteryEquator.Breakfastservicebeginsat7:30a.m.388AlbertStreet.350mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://good-eats.ca/,https://www.equator.ca/
Burgers‘n’FriesForever-Certifiedhalalburgerjointofferinganinventivemenufeaturinggourmetfries.Veganandvegetarianoptionsavailable.329BankStreet.1.2kmfromtheDeltaHotel.https://burgersnfriesforever.com/
LIFTRestoLounge-Hotelrestaurantofferingbuffet,continental,andfullAmericanbreakfasts.Breakfastservicebeginsat6:30a.m.LocatedinsidetheDeltaHotelonthemezzaninelevel.http://liftrestolounge.ca/
C’estJaponàSuisha-Sushirestaurantrenownedforfreshnessandexpertpreparation.ClosedMondays.208SlaterStreet.550mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://www.japaninottawa.com/
TimHorton’s-Canadiancoffeechainservingbreakfastsandwiches,muffins,andbagels.Open24hours.LocatedinsidetheDeltaHotelbehindhotelreception.http://www.timhortons.com/
Clover-Populardowntownlunchspotfeaturinglocally-sourcedingredients.Onlinereservationsavailable.155BankStreet.600mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://www.cloverottawa.ca/GreenRebel-Casuallunchspotwithafocusonenvironmentalsustainabilityfeaturingsalads,sandwiches,wraps,andsmoothies.340AlbertStreet,Suite140.220mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://www.greenrebel.ca/JasmineGarden-Mediterraneanrestaurantfeaturingseveralaffordablelunchspecials.340LaurierAvenueWest,Suite102.550mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://www.jasminegarden.ca/Rawlicious-Veganrestaurantservingglobally-inspiredsalads,mains,smoothies,anddesserts.381CooperStreet.1.0kmfromtheDeltaHotelhttp://www.rawliciousottawa.ca/Sansotei-Popularramenspotfeaturinghandmadenoodles.Linescanformatlunch,butserviceisquickonceseated.153BankStreet,600mfromtheDeltaHotel.http://www.sansotei.com/
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NightattheMuseumSocialMonday,2October7:00PM–10:00PMCanadianMuseumofNature,240McLeodStreetDirections:http://bit.ly/walk2museum
AbeertalkbyaCanadianMuseumofNaturebotanistwillbegivenat8:00PM
Intheeventofinclementweather,werecommendusingOttawa’spublictransportationsystem,OCTranspo,http://www.octranspo.com/.Adultfaresare$3.40CAone-way(cashcoinsor2tickets$1.70each).TicketsmaybepurchasedatTheCoveTuckShop,350AlbertStreet(SEcorner,backofhotel)orRexallPharmaPlus,240SparksStreet(cornerorSparksStreetandKentStreet).
BustotheMuseumfromtheHotelWalk5minutesEastfromtheHoteltoBankStreet.The#6bus(directionGreenboro)orthe#7bus(directionCarlton)canbecaughtevery10minutesonBankStreetSouth.DisembarkatGladstoneAvenueandwalk8minutesEasttotheMuseum.Proofofpayment/transferslipremainsvalidfor90minutesafterinitialboarding.
BustotheHotelfromtheMuseumReverseinstructionsfromabove.Walk8minutesWesttoBankStreet.Catchthe#6bus(directionRockcliffe)or#7bus(directionSt-Laurent)anddisembarkatSparksStreet.CrossBankStreetandwalk5minutesWesttotheHotel.
LocalAttractionsYourTDWGregistrationbadgemakesyoueligibleforOttawaTourism’s“FlashYourBadge”Program.Thisentitlesyouandaguesttoadiscountedvisittotheattractions,tours,restaurantsandhospitalitylistedathttp://ottawatourism2.ca/fyb/.Thereisnoneedtoprintthispassport,allyouhavetodoispresentyourdelegatebadge.
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RecommendedRestaurantsenroutetotheNightattheMuseumSocialDatsunAsian-inspiredsmallplatesfeaturinglocalingredientsandanimpressivecocktailmenu.Thetake-outwindowoffersaquickwaytograbadeliciousbite.Kitchenopenuntilmidnight.380ElginStreet(300mfromtheCanadianMuseumofNature)http://eatdatsun.com
ElginStreetDinerAnOttawainstitution.TheElginStreetDinerservesclassicdinerfare,includingall-daybreakfastandpoutine.Open24hours.374ElginStreet(350mfromtheCanadianMuseumofNature)http://www.elginstreetdiner.com/
Lieutenant’sPumpExpansiveBritish-stylebarfeaturingarotatingselectionofbeersontapandstandardpubfavourites.Kitchenopenuntilmidnight.361ElginStreet(400mfromtheCanadianMuseumofNature)http://www.lieutenantspump.ca/
TheManxCozysubterraneanwateringholefeaturingadiverseselectionofbeersontap,globally-inspiredpubfare,andtheworksoflocalartists.Kitchenopenuntil10:30PM.370ElginStreet(350mfromtheCanadianMuseumofNature)http://manxpub.com/
PureKitchenScratchvegetarian/vegankitchenandjuicebar,withafocusonlocalproduce.Kitchenopenuntil10:00PM.340ElginStreet(450mfromtheCanadianMuseumofNature)http://www.purekitchenottawa.com/
TheStandard Apopularlate-nighthangoutofferingadiversemenuofappetizers,salads,burgers,andpizzas.Mondaynightfeatures$6mojitos,housewine,andappetizers.Kitchenopenuntilmidnight.360ElginStreet(400mfromtheCanadianMuseumofNature)http://www.thestandardtavern.com/
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Committees
Program Committee
MEMBER ORGANIZATION CONTACT
Joel Sachs, chair Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Joel.Sachs@AGR.GC.CA, @xjsachs
Gail Kampmeier, co-chair Illinois Natural History Survey, USA gkamp@illinois.edu, @gkampmeier
Stan Blum (ex-officio) TDWG Coordinator stanblum@gmail.com, @StanBlum
James Macklin (ex-officio) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada James.Macklin@AGR.GC.CA
David Shorthouse Canadian Museum of Nature dshorthouse@mus-nature.ca, @dpsSpiders
Local Organizing Committee
MEMBER ORGANIZATION CONTACT
James Macklin, chair Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada James.Macklin@AGR.GC.CA
Shannon Asencio Canadian Museum of Nature sasencio@mus-nature.ca
Heather Cole Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Heather.Cole@AGR.GC.CA
Mark Graham Canadian Museum of Nature mgraham@mus-nature.ca
Joel Sachs Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Joel.Sachs@AGR.GC.CA, @xjsachs
David Shorthouse Canadian Museum of Nature dshorthouse@mus-nature.ca, @dpsSpiders
TDWG Executive Committee
MEMBER POSITION CONTACT
Dimitris Koureas Chair d.koureas@nhm.ac.uk
James Macklin Deputy Chair james.macklin@agr.gc.ca
Quentin Groom Secretary secretary@tdwg.og
William Ulate Treasurer treasurer@tdwg.org
Greg Whitbread Technical Architecture Group, chair whitbread.greg@gmail.com
Martin Kalfatovic Fundraising & Partnerships, chair martin.kalfatovic@gmail.com
Tim Robertson Infrastructure, chair trobertson@gbif.org
Prabhakar Rajagopal Outreach & Communications, chair prabha.prabhakar@gmail.com
Patricia Mergen Time & Place, chair mergen.patricia@gmail.com
Lucy Waruingi Africa Regional Rep lucy.waruingi@acc.or.ke
Ji Liqiang Asia Regional Rep ji@ioz.ac.en
Wouter Addink Europe Regional Rep wouter.addink@naturalis.nl
Bruno de Carvalho Albertini Latin America Regional Rep balbertini@gmail.com
Cynthia Parr North America Regional Rep csparr@tdwg.org
Aaron Wilton Oceania Regional Rep WiltonA@landcareresearch.co.nz
Gail Kampmeier Conference Program Co-chair gkamp@illinois.edu
Stan Blum TDWG Coordinator stanblum@gmail.com
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AcknowledgmentsLogoArtwork:DanAsencio
ThankstotheProgramCommitteeandLocalOrganizingCommitteefortheendlesshourstheyputintomakingsureourmeetingisasuccess.ThanksalsototheInstitutionstheyrepresent.
Toalloftheorganizersofsymposia,workshops,andinterestgroupmeetings,thismeetingwouldnotexistwithoutyoureffortsandenthusiasm.
AspecialthankstoHeatherColeofAgricultureandAgri-FoodCanadawhokeptitalltogetherandledthelion’sshareofalllocallogistics.
ThankstoPaulSokoloff,CanadianMuseumofNaturebotanistwhogaveanengagingtalkaboutbeerduringtheNightattheMuseumsocial.
Thankstoallourvolunteers:DanAsencio,JodieFrancis,ChristinaJenness,KelseyJoustra,MaryKennedy,AlanMcDonald,JocelynPender,JudithPrice,andLauraSmyk
ThankstoKevinJ.LoveofiDigBioforrecordingourmeeting’ssessions.
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