Workshop

Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge

Cardiff University, UK, 10th July 2008

On-line Workshop proceedings now available (click here!)

This workshop was held in association with the 25th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2008), which ran from 7th to 9th July 2008.

Programme

09:00 - 09:40	Registration
09:40 - 09:50	Introduction & "housekeeping"
09:50 - 10:30	Short paper session 1 Nicola Nicolson, "Exploring International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Data using Visualisation" Vincent S. Smith, Simon D. Rycroft & David Roberts, "Scratchpads: getting biodiversity online, redefining publication"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break & demonstrations
11:00 - 12:30	Full paper session 1 Andrew W. Hill & Robert P. Guralnick, "Distributed Systems and Automated Biodiversity Informatics: Genomic Analysis and Geographic Visualization of Disease Evolution" (*) Ewen R. Orme, Andrew C. Jones & Richard J. White, "LSID Deployment in the Catalogue of Life" Russell P. McIver, Andrew C. Jones & Richard J. White, "Workflow Systems for Biodiversity Researchers: Existing Problems and Potential Solutions"
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Full paper session 2 Martin Graham, Paul Craig & Jessie Kennedy, "Visualisation to Aid Biodiversity Studies through Accurate Taxonomic Reconciliation" (*) Christopher H.C. Lyal & Anna L. Weitzman, "Releasing the content of taxonomic papers: solutions to access and data mining"
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break & demonstrations
15:30 - 16:10	Short paper session 2 Pablo Salvanha, Pedro Luiz Pizzigati Correa, Antonio Mauro Saraiva & Etienne Americo Cartolano Junior, "An architecture to approach distributed biodiversity pollinators relational information into centralized portals based on biodiversity protocols" Charles Hussey & Yde de Jong, "A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)"
16:10 - 17:00	Discussion: "Meeting the challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge"
17:00	Close

Publication

The papers will be made available to attendees on CD-ROM; they will also be made available on the Workshop Web site a few days after the Workshop has been held. The papers marked "(*)" in the conference programme have also been accepted (as the two best papers) for publication in the BNCOD conference proceedings (Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

Organisation

Organising committee

Dr Andrew C Jones (Cardiff University)
Dr Richard J White (Cardiff University)

Programme committee

Dr Andrew C Jones (Cardiff University) (chair)
Dr Richard J White (Cardiff University) (co-chair)
Dr Gordon Curry (Glasgow University)
Prof W Alex Gray (Cardiff University)
Mr Donald Hobern (Atlas of Living Australia)
Prof Jessie Kennedy (Napier University)
Prof Rod Page (Glasgow University)
Dr Alan Paton (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Mr David Remsen (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
Mr Neil Thomson (Natural History Museum, London)

Links

Workshop URL: http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/

Workshop call for papers: http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/CallForPapers.html
(NB the deadline for paper submission is now past; we include a link to the CFP for information only.)

BNCOD conference URL: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod08/

E-mail address for enquiries about the workshop:

Andrew.C.Jones@cs.cardiff.ac.uk

Last update: 20:15, Tuesday 12th August 2008.