Annual Meeting Plenary Sessions	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Oeiras, Portugal 21 - 26 October 2003
Programme & Schedule		Date: 26 October 2003

TDWG 2003 Plenary Meeting Schedule - revised Schedule for Sunday

Sunday 26 October 2003

All sessions to be held in the Ionians Room (the big auditorium).

09:00	TDWG Business TDWG 2002 Meeting Minutes Treasurer's Report Election of Officers TDWG Subgroups ABCD (Schema & Protocol)
09:20 (20 mins each)	Presentations speciesLink - The Brazilian experience on setting up a DiGIR network Author: Renato De Giovanni Functioning principles of the Belgian GBIF Node (BeBIF) Author: Patricia Mergen, Piette, D., Duflost, J., Wautelet, F. & Herzog, R. Semi-automatic polyclave key generation Author: Robert A. Morris, Jacob K. Asiedu, Robert D. Stevenson, and Hua Tang Data Cleaning Tools and Methodologies Author: Arthur Chapman
10:40	Coffee Break
11:00 (20 mins each)	Presentations GBIFDEABCDCDEFDENHSINBIOCASEENBI... - common approaches to specimen networking Author: Andrea Hahn (presented by Walter Berendsohn) Advances in IPNI Author: Sally Hinchcliffe BioGIS: A Web-Based Environment for Analyzing, Modeling and Visualizing Biodiversity Data (20 mins) Author: Ronen Kadmon, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat-Ram, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
12:00	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
13:45 (20 mins each)	Presentations 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
14:25	GBIF 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
15:25	Coffee Break
15:45	TDWG Subgroups Taxonomic Names Structure of Descriptive Data Spatial Data Standards Other Subgroups
16:40	Summary and TDWG 2004 (Stan Blum)
17:10	End of Session Transport to Hotel (subject to sufficient numbers - a head count will be made Saturday morning of those requiring transport)