Last updated: 21 October 2003
NOTICE: We now have as many submitted papers as can be fitted into the Schedule.
Titles and abstracts (up to 200 words) should be submitted as soon as possible to the Programme Coordinator (Adrian Rissoné <A.Rissone@nhm.ac.uk>). Indicate whether you are willing to make your final contribution available on the TDWG website (for example, as a PowerPoint document). Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes. In previous years it has been necessary to reduce this time to 20 minutes so please design presentations to be shortened easily if required.
Please try to make your contribution relevant to the primary themes of the meeting, which has special emphasis on Taxonomic Names, interoperability, and the provision of data via the Web.
Papers or posters addressing collaboration and interoperability would be welcome, papers on "my cool website" or "the status of informatics at my institution" less so (unless directly addressing "lessons learned" and how to move forward).
If you need space for a computer demonstration please let us as soon as possible know what you need (equipment, internet connection, projector, etc.), how much space, and when you would prefer your demonstration to be scheduled.
October 23 - Taxonomic Names Subgroup
It is likely that there will be an opportunity for the presentation of a limited number of papers or posters during the day set aside for the Taxonomic Names Subgroup. Please submit your title and abstract as soon as possible to help us judge how much session time will be required.
Please note that this is a draft schedule. The date and time of a particular presentation may change. A final schedule for the Taxonomic Names Subgroup Session will be available at the conference venue on Wednesday 22 October.
- Presentation to be advised (Frank Bisby)
- Beyond names: the Berlin Model for taxonomic information processing
Author: Walter Berendsohn, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Königin-Luise-Str.6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany- The Prometheus taxonomic model - The drivers behind its development and its potential uses
Author: Martin Pullan, The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh- Presentation to be advised (Greg Whitbread)
- The VegBank taxonomic datamodel
Author: Robert K. Peet, Dept of Biology CB#3280, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280- Presentation to be advised (Donald Hobern)
- Using Taxonomic Concepts: integrating taxonomic concept models
Author: Jessie Kennedy, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh- UK-based developments in online thesauri for taxonomic information
Author: Charles Copp, Grant, M., Hewzulla, D., Hussey, C., Robinson, J., van Breda, J. & White, R.- Online taxonomic information at the Belgian GBIF Node
Author: Didier Piette, Mergen, P.Duflost, J., Wautelet, F. & Herzog, R., Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility (BeBIF), ULB CP 257, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium (http://www.be.gbif.net)- Taxonomic software for the Berlin Model
Author: Döring, Markus, Glück, Karl, Anton Güntsch & Li Jinling, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Königin-Luise-Str.6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany- What name can do alone: An Application of Formal Concept Analysis with Rough Set Approximation to Multiple Hierarchies Visualisation by TaxoNote Comparator
Author: Nozomi Ytow 1, Akira Sato 2, David R. Morse 3 and David McL. Roberts 4. 1 Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan. 2 Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics / Science Information Processing Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan. 3 Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United KingdomOctober 25 - Plenary Session
Please note that this is a draft schedule. The date and time of a particular presentation may change. A final schedule for the Plenary Sessions will be available at the conference venue on Friday 24 October.
The main business of the Saturday Plenary Session will be parallel running GIS (Spatial Data) and SDD (Structure of Descriptive Data) Workshops. The following papers are scheduled, see the Plenary Meeting Schedule for details:
- BiodiversityWorld: a GRID-based distributed environment for studying global biodiversity patterns
Author: T. Sutton et al- The Catalogue of Life: a global partnership between Species 2000 and ITIS, to index the world's known species
Author: Frank Bisby & Michael Ruggiero- Integrating GIS tools in the Web Services Architecture of GBIF
Author: Aaron Beller, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- BioGIS: A Web-Based Environment for Analyzing, Modeling and Visualizing Biodiversity Data
Author: Ronen Kadmon- Interoperable Geospatial Referencing by using OpenGIS® Web Services
Author: Jens Fitzke- Federated Description Services and the Library of Life; or, What can we do with SDD anyway?
Author: Kevin Thiele- An SDD subset example for Data Interchange
Author: P. Bryan HeidornOctober 26 - Plenary Session
Please note that this is a draft schedule. The date and time of a particular presentation may change. A final schedule for the Plenary Sessions will be available at the conference venue on Friday 24 October.
- speciesLink - The Brazilian experience on setting up a DiGIR network
Author: Sidnei de Souza- Functioning principles of the Belgian GBIF Node (BeBIF)
Author: Patricia Mergen, Piette, D., Duflost, J., Wautelet, F. & Herzog, R.- GBIFDEABCDCDEFDENHSINBIOCASEENBI... - common approaches to specimen networking
Author: Andrea Hahn- Data Cleaning Tools and Methodologies
Author: Arthur ChapmanSemi-automatic polyclave key generation
Author: Robert A. Morris, Jacob K. Asiedu, Robert D. Stevenson, and Hua TangSEEK: Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge
Author: James Beach- Advances in IPNI
Author: Sally Hinchcliffe- An update from Kew - including progress with Herbarium digitisation, the electronic Plant Information Centre project, and other new systems
Author: Mark Jackson- Improving the web based data discovery and mapping experience
Author: Paul Flemons- Status of the GBIF network, implementation of the GBIF work programme 2003, and the plan for 2004.
Authors: D.Hobern, L.Speers, P.Bjørn, G.Ksouris and H.Saarenmaa
Posters and Computer DemonstrationsOctober 25
- AlgaTerra - Applying Type Designation and Factual Data to a Berlin Model database
Author: Karl Glück, Kusber W.-H. and Jahn R.- What name can do alone: An Application of Formal Concept Analysis with Rough Set Approximation to Multiple Hierarchies Visualisation by TaxoNote Comparator
[Poster version of paper presented on 23 October]
Author: Nozomi Ytow 1, Akira Sato 2, David R. Morse 3 and David McL. Roberts 4. 1 Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan. 2 Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics / Science Information Processing Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan. 3 Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom- The New York Botanical Garden Specimen Type Index for Mushrooms and Related Groups (Agaricales and Gasteromycetales)
Author: Barbara Thiers- The RHS Database of Cultivated Plant Diversity
Author: Dr Janet J Cubey & Rupert G Wilson, Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, UK- Technical introduction to the BioCASE software modules
Author: Markus Döring & Anton Güntsch, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Königin-Luise-Str.6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany- BioGIS: A Web-Based Environment for Analyzing, Modeling and Visualizing Biodiversity Data
Author: Ronen Kadmon, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat-Ram, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel- The uBio Taxonomic Information System
Author: Dave Remsen, uBio Project Developer, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543- Nature Navigator and interactive finding aid for British wildlife
Author: Charles Hussey, Grant, Malcolm, Hewzulla, Dilshat. The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United KingdomOctober 26
Posters will remain on display. Computer demonstrations by arrangement during coffee and lunch breaks