Taxonomic Databases Working Group Meeting 2005

Taxonomic Databases Working Group
2005 Annual Meeting
11-18 September 2005
St Petersburg, Russia

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TDWG 2005: MEETING SCHEDULE (at 10:00 GMT on 9 September 2005)

All delegates are welcome at all sessions except the TDWG Executive Meeting

Please note that some Parallel Meetings will be held in the British Council and Netherlands Institute buildings. Details will be available each day.

Sunday 11 September
Venue: Zoological Institute

Registration will take place between 09:00 and 18:00

Subgroup Sessions		Parallel Meetings Two additional auditoria are available for side meetings of new standard initiatives and/or ad-hoc computer demonstrations
09:30	Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD)
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Natural Collections Descriptions	11:30	TDWG Executive Meeting
13:00	Lunch
14:30	Taxonomic Concept Exchange Standard (TCS)
16:00	Coffee
16:30	Protocol Developers group
18:00	Close of day
19:30	Evening Reception (including an Introduction to TDWG)

Monday 12 September
Venue: Botanical Institute

Registration will take place between 09:00 and 11:30

Please note that the schedule for Monday will be subject to change

TDWG Standards Chair: Walter Berendsohn
10:00	Welcome by the Chair
10:05	Welcome by the Host Institute (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Standards Procedure Chair: Walter Berendsohn
10:10	Stan Blum: Report of the Procedures Subgroup and current procedure for voting on the proposed standards
10:20	Lee Belbin: An overview of current practice in other Standardization Bodies
10:40	Discussion
11:00	Coffee
Proposed standards for ratification (I) Chair: Stan Blum
11:30	Gregor Hagedorn: SDD (Structured Descriptive Data). See Hagedorn et al: Structured Descriptive Data (SDD) version 1.0 and http://www.diversitycampus.net/Projects/TDWG-SDD/index.html. Followed by discussion
12:15	Jessie Kennedy: TCS (Taxonomic Concept Exchange Standard). See Kennedy: The Taxonomic Concept Schema: an XML standard for exchanging taxonomic names and concepts and Wiki pages at http://tdwg.napier.ac.uk. Followed by discussion
13:00	Lunch
Proposed standards for ratification (II) Chair: Adrian Rissoné
14:30	Stan Blum: Darwin Core (Core Biological Collection Data). See Blum and Wieczorek: The Darwin Core 2 and http://darwincore.calacademy.org
14:45	Walter Berendsohn: ABCD-Schema (Access to Biological Collection Data). See Berendsohn et al: ABCD – the proposed standard XML schema for Access to Biological Collection Data and http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/ for further information about ABCD. The current state of the documentation can be consulted under http://ww3.bgbm.org/abcddocs/
15:30	Discussion of standards for collection data
16:00	Coffee
Announcement and Presentation of Emerging Standards Chair: Walter Berendsohn (The Chair will give an overview of the presentations of proposed standards to be given in talks during the Symposium on Tuesday and Thursday)
16:30	Markus Döring: TAPIR (TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval)
16:40	Donald Hobern and Ricardo Pereira: GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers)
16:50	Bob Morris: Imaging/Multimedia
17:00	Steve Kelling: Observational Data
17:10	Geospatial data
17:20	Economic Botany
17:30	Anna Weitzman: Literature
17:40	Further standard initiatives
18:00	Close of day

Tuesday 13 September

TDWG Symposium (Day 1)

Venue: Zoological Institute

Morning Sessions

Session 1 Biodiversity Informatics for taxonomic research in Russia Chair: Oleg Pugachev		Session 2 Data exchange formats, protocols and their integration (I) Chair: Sally Hinchcliffe
09:30	Pugachev, O., Geltman, D. V. and Ryss, A.: Information technology tools in the biodiversity research: the basic results and trends	09:30	De la Torre et al.: Using TAPIR views for integrating Biodiversity data sources into existing standard applications.
09:40	Gontar, O.: Databases of a dendrological collection of PABGI.	09:45	Wilkinson, M. et al.: Making TAPIR data providers BioMOBY services: first steps.
09:50	Kryshen A.M., Polevoi A.V.: Database "Habitats of East Fennoscandia".	10:00	Asiedu and Morris: Experience exporting and importing SDD 1.0
10:00	Litvinova N.M., Savilova T.A.: THE CATALOGUE of the World Ocean OPHIUROIDEA (ECHINODERMATA) from the collection of samples of the Institute of Oceanology RAN(Laboratory of Bottom fauna)	10:15	Suhrbier et al.: Access rights management and access control for BioCASE.
10:10	Polevoi: Concept of simple database providing storage and management of the information on regional fauna and flora	10:30	Hobern: Development of GBIF Data Services.
10:20	Ryss: On the standards of taxonomic description in Nematoda.	10:45	Ni and Donovan: SPICE Protocol and SPICE system.
10:30	Rios and Bart: A Web-Based Collaborative Environment for Building the Cypriniformes Tree of Life.
10:40	Discussion
11:00	Coffee/Informal discussion	11:00	Coffee/Informal discussion

Session 3 Application design and Tools for taxonomic research Chair: Anna Weitzman		Session 4 Data exchange formats, protocols and their integration (II) Chair: Sally Hinchcliffe
11:30	Jones, A. C. et al.: Workflow as a Metaphor for Biodiversity Problem-Solving	11:30	Hyam and Hobern: Modularisation of the TDWG XML Standards.
11:45	Gaitros et al.: MorphBank: The Requirements and Implementation of a Digital Image Phylogenetic Database	11:45	Wilkinson, S.B. et al.: Data exchange formats: experience from the National Biodiversity Network.
12:00	Flemons, K. J.: Website and web application design for biodiversity informatics applications: incorporating the stakeholders	12:00	Dibner et al.: A Standards-Based Structure for Supporting the Exchange of Biocollections Data
12:15	Johnson and Musetti: EOL: a database application for presenting results of taxonomic revisions on the web.	12:15	Ytow et al. Taxon names in multiscript languages.
12:30	Ryss et al.: The revision of the genus Bursaphelenchus Fuchs (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae) and analysis of the phylogeny and evolution with the use of the information technology tools.	12:30	Lepage et al.: The bird monitoring data exchange schema.
12:45	Discussion	12:45	Discussion
13:00	Lunch	13:00	Lunch

Afternoon Sessions

Posters and Computer Demonstrations (posters will continue to be on display throughout the meeting)
14:30	Posters & Computer Demonstrations (follow link for abstracts)
16:00	Coffee

Session 5 Biodiversity data applications Chair: Alexander Ryss		Session 6 Taxonomic ontologies, identifiers and schemas Chair: Neil Thomson
16:30	Kelling et al.: The contribution of monitoring data to information about biodiversity.	16:30	Grant, S. D. et al.: Reducing the pain of digitising herbaria and sharing data.
16:45	Tweddle and Hussey: Mapping equivalences: the role of a name server in providing access to real-world biodiversity datasets.	16:45	Diepenbroek, M. et al.: WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - Publication of observational data on the base of persistent identifiers (DOI).
17:00	Medvedev, S. G. and Lobanov, A. L.: World Database of Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera): expierence of morphological analysis	17:00	Ore and Lampe: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), a core-ontology for information integration
17:15	Shapley et al.: Serving Our Audiences: What teachers want from a tree of life visualization	17:15	Schentz et al.: ALTER-Net - An object-oriented approach to ecological and biodiversity data networking
17:30	Bonnet, P. et al.: Graphic identification tool applied to West African trees	17:30	Thomson and Döring: Natural Collections Descriptions (NCD): a standard for describing entire collections.
17:45	Discussion	17:45	Discussion
18:00	Close of day	18:00	Close of day

Wednesday 14 September

Cultural Excursion
GBIF Data Provider Training
TDWG Banquet

Please note that some Parallel Meetings will be held in the British Council and Netherlands Institute buildings. Details will be available each day.

08:30 - 18:00 (timing provisional)	Cultural Excursion (bookings now closed)
09:00 - 17:00	GBIF Data Provider Training (see GBIF Training Booking)
19:30 (timing provisional)	TDWG 2005 Banquet (tickets in advance only)

Thursday 15 September
Venue: Botanical Institute

TDWG Symposium (Day 2)

Morning Sessions

Session 7 Enhancing the efficiency of data mobilisation Chair: Gregor Hagedorn
09:30	Chapman et al.: Towards Best Practice in Georeferencing - Project BioGeomancer.
09:45	Beaman, R. et al.: HERBIS is the Erudite Recorded Botanical Information Synthesizer: Electronic data publication from herbarium specimens - a click away
10:00	Heidorn et al.: Machine Learning for Extracting Darwin Core Data from Museum Labels.
10:15	Grard, P.: Open Source for species identification: an application of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to a web based version of IDAO.
10:30	Thiele, K. R.: SDD and the Key to Life
10:45	Discussion
11:00	Coffee

Session 8 Tools for the improvement of data quality and their application Chair: Arthur Chapman
11:30	Wieczorek et al.: Usable georeferencing infrastructure: preliminary lessons with BioGeomancer
11:40	Wieczorek et al.: Pitfalls and prospects for spatially challenged occurrence data.
11:55	Chapman et al.: Data Quality Tools for use in Georeferencing Natural History Location Data - Project BioGeomancer.
12:10	Dalcin, White et al: Detecting spelling errors in taxonomic databases.
12:25	Hahn et al.: Remote Annotation in a Distributed Access System - How to Provide Feedback?
12:40	White et al.: Services for improving integrity in federated taxonomic information systems
12:55	Discussion
13:10	Lunch

Afternoon Sessions

Session 9 TDWG perspectives and the global biodiversity network Chair: Walter Berendsohn
14:30	Bisby, F.: Twenty years of TDWG: no more the travelling tea-party!
14:45	Hobern, D. and Blum, S.: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant for the GBIF-TDWG partnership
15:00	Döring, M. and De Giovanni, R.: Make the Tapir work. Practical potential of the TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR)
15:15	Miller, C.: Tropicos in Taxonomic Toil: Daucus or Ferula?
15:30	Bart et al.: Legacy Infrastructure Network for Natural Environments (LINNE)
15:45	Discussion
16:00	Coffee

Session 10 The Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: assembling and disseminating the whole Chair: Dmitri Geltman, Deputy Director, Komarov Institute of Botany
16:30	Roskov et al.: Half a million species: the Catalogue of Life Annual and Dynamic Checklists.
16:45	Roskov and Kimani: Species 2000 metadatabase: practicality and dreams.
17:00	Jones et al.: The Catalogue of Life Web-services
17:15	Hobern, D.: Using the Catalogue of Life in GBIF
17:30	Bisby and Ruggiero: Completing the catalogue of Life: Phase 2 of the programme.
17:45	Discussion
18:00	Close of day

Friday 16 September
Venue: Zoological Institute

TDWG Business Sessions
Demonstrations
Subgroup Sessions

TDWG Business Sessions Chair: Walter Berendsohn Subject to available space, all delegates are welcome to attend the TDWG Business Sessions but only paid-up TDWG members may vote		Parallel Meetings Two additional auditoria are available for side meetings of new standard initiatives and/or ad-hoc computer demonstrations
10:00	Report of the Chair of the Executive Committee Treasurer's report Election of officers Result of ballots on standards TDWG meetings 2006 and 2007 Future of TDWG: Interaction with the TDWG/GBIF Project Other Business
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Computer Demonstrations
13:00	Lunch
Subgroup Sessions
14:30	Plenary Session: (Programme to be announced)
16:00	Coffee
16:30	Break-out Groups: (Programme to be announced)
18:00	Close of day

Saturday 17 September
Venue: Zoological Institute

Subgroup sessions (programme to be announced):

Observation (Confirmed)
Imaging/Multimedia
Georeferencing
SDD
Natural Collections Descriptions (Confirmed)

Sunday 18 September
Venue: Zoological Institute

Subgroup sessions (as required)

TDWG 2005: POSTERS and COMPUTER DEMONSTRATIONS (last updated 8 September 2005)

We ask delegates bringing posters to mount them as soon as possible and to leave them on display until the end of the Business Sessions on Friday. Computer Demonstrations will be scheduled mainly according to sessions shown in the Programme (above in this document) but may also be arranged at other times. Please contact one of the organisers, giving as much notice as possible.

Ariño, A. et al: Metadata for specimen taxonomic surrogates
Baikov, K. S. et al. Ontological approach to organisation of biological information
Bennet et al. The PBI Solanum project - an international collaboration to monograph Solanum
Döring, M.: A first TAPIR implementation - the BioCASe PyWrapper serves a new protocol
Govaere, J. et al.: RMCA collaborator of the Belgian Generalized Natural Sciences Online and Spatial Information System project GNOSIS
Greene, S. L. et al.: Electronic collection of agricultural crops, their wild-growing relatives and pest organisms within the Former Soviet Union
Grichanov, I. Y.: An Internet-based information resource on the family Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Hong Cui: A Machine Learning Environment for the Automatic Markup of Taxonomic Descriptions with XML
Jahn, R. et al.: AlgaTerra: Calibrating micro algal information on the Internet.
Kirejtshuk, A. et al.: Databases on the "Supersite" of the Zoological Institute Web-Portal - "Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterists"
Kuzmenkova, S. M. and Nosylovsky, O. A.: Databases of the information storage and retrieval system of the Herbarium MSKH: Hortus Botanicus Centralis - Info
Leonov, M. V. and Kuznetsov, S. D.: Internet and XML-based program tools for the everyday work of taxonomists
Lobanov, A. et al.: "ZOOCOD" - The data standard for the building of taxonomic tables and representation of multilevel hierarchies in relational databases
Luneva, N. N. et al.: Database "Weed Plants in Russia Flora" - results and perspectives
May, R.: FloraWeb - the German Web Flora
Mergen, P. et al.: The Royal Museum for Central Africa in the era of biodiversity informatics.
Miller, C. and Sheppard, J.: TROPICOS: Next Generation - The newest version of the global plant taxonomic data source
Nakatoh and Hirokawa: Integrated search to taxonomic databases
Ostroumova, T. A. and Leonow, M. W.: Distribution maps of Russian Umbelliferae - simple technique of electronic view
Parr, C.: Interactive visualizations of taxonomic/phylogenetic trees and ecological networks
Prokhorov, V. et al.: Spatial modelling of plant species potential habitats
Russel, K. N. et al.: Introducing SPIDA-web: An automated identification system for biological species
Smekalova, T. N., Chukhina, I. G. and G. V. Talovina: Illustrated catalogue of the types of plans taxa of the Vir Herbarium (Wir)
Suhrbier, L. et al.: Access rights management and access control for BioCASE
Tkachenko, K. G. and Shi Lei: Collections of digital iconographic pictures of plants for decides taxonomic questions on living collections in Russion and Chinese botanical gardens
Virachova, L. L. and Kudryvtseva, O. V.: Database of introduced grassy perennial plants of an opent ground of the polar-alpine botanical garden - initial stage
Zhang, Y. et al.: OBIS Continues its Global Expansion through Content, Standard, and Service Development

Last Updated: 9 September 2005