Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics

Symposium: Key Innovations in Biodiversity Informatics Date: 21-22 October 2002, Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil The purpose of this Symposium is to present the emerging "landscape" in biodiversity informatics. The program will include reviews of relevant international activities and broader trends in information technology. Regional and local efforts will be presented and their relationships and contributions to the larger goals in biodiversity informatics will be discussed. The program will focus on efforts with special emphasis on Latin America, but initiatives that reflect the "state of the art" regardless of geographic focus will be also invited.

Venue Coordination Programme Documents

Coordination
Frank Bisby, SP2000
Larry Speers, GBIF
Lois Blaine, CODATA
Mike Ruggiero, ITIS
Stan Blum, TDWG
Vanderlei Perez Canhos, CRIA

Venue

Vitória Hotel
Av. Presidente Vargas, 3041
13330-000 Indaiatuba SP Brazil
phone/fax: +55 19 3801-8000
email: vitoria@vitoriahotel.com.br

Programme
(version: 18 October, 2002)

October 21	Sessions
08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Opening Session Chair: Hernan Chaimovich (Academia Brasileira de Ciências) Welcome. Vanderlei Perez Canhos (CRIA, Brazil) Building Capacity for Biodiversity Informatics, José Fernando Perez (Diretor Científico, Fapesp) The Strategic Dimension of Biodiversity Information. Marcio de Miranda Santos (Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos) Building the Global Infrastructure (Lawrence Speers, GBIF)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	New Frontiers of Biodiversity Data Availability Chair: Fernando de N. Ribeiro (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos) Names: Indexing the Species Names of the World for the World Frank Bisby (Species 2000), Michael Ruggiero (ITIS North America) and Per Bjorn (GBIF) Collections: Computerization of Large Collections: Problems, lessons learned, and benefits. Barbara Thiers (New York Botanical Garden, USA) Enriching Specimen Data: Georeferencing: Collaboration and Automation. John Wieczorek (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Berkeley, USA) and Reed Beaman (U. Kansas, USA)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch & Posters and Computer Demonstrations (Session 1)
14:00 - 16:00	Integrating Biodiversity Data (Part I) Chair: GBIF representative Standards and Interoperability. Chaired by Stan Blum (California Academy of Science, USA) Presenters: Per Bjorn, Program Officer, Electronic Catalog of the Names of Known Organisms (ECAT) Larry Speers, Program Officer, Digitization of Natural History Collection Data (DIGIT) Donald Hobern, Program Officer, Data Access and Database Interoperability (DADI) Beatriz Torres, Program Officer, Outreach and Capacity Building (OCB) Stan Blum: Chair, TDWG Executive Committee Developing the Platform for Access to European Collection Data. Walter Berendsohn (Berlin Botanical Garden, Germany) Futures for data and data integration in biodiversity informatics. A. Townsend Peterson (U. Kansas, USA)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30	Integrating Biodiversity Data (Part II) - Inventories and Biological Collections Chair: Marcio de Miranda Santos (Centro de Gestão e Estudos Estratégicos) The Species Link project. Vanderlei P. Canhos and Ricardo S. Pereira (CRIA, Brazil) The Australian Virtual Herbarium. Jim Croft (ANBG, Australia) Biodiversity Information and Digital Libraries: The American Museum of Natural History Digital Library Initiative. John Aubry, Dan Kaniarasseril, Tom Moritz (American Museum of Natural History, USA) The Flora brasiliensis Digital Library Initiative. George Shepherd (UNICAMP) and Dora Ann Lange Canhos (CRIA)
18:30 - 19:30	Posters and Computer Demonstrations (Session 2)
19:30 - 22:00	Reception
October 22
08:30 - 10:30	Integrating Biodiversity Data (Part III) Chair: Gladys Cotter (US Geological Survey) Multilingual Interfaces for Biodiversity Information, Guy Baillargeon (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) Recent Advances with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), Rainer Froese (Institute of Marine Research, Kiel, Germany) Roundtable Discussion on 'Biological Names Servers', Organizer: Lois Blaine (American Type Culture Collection, USA) Discussion Summary
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Overview of Available Tools and Predictive Powers Provided: Ecological Niche Modeling Chair: Carlos Alfredo Joly (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Bioclim. Arthur Chapman (Environment Australia) DesktopGarp. Ricardo Scachetti Pereira (CRIA, Brazil) Lifemapper. James Beach (U. Kansas, USA)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch & Posters and Computer Demonstrations (Session 3)
14:00 - 16:00	New Capabilities Emerging from Biodiversity Informatics Chair: José Galizia Tundisi (Instituto Internacional de Ecologia) Global Climate Change Consequences for Cerrado Tree Species. Marinez F. Siqueira (CRIA, Brazil) Biodiversity Informatics and Risk Assessment in Mexico. Raul Jimenez Rosenberg (Conabio, Mexico) Modeling Species' Distributions with Applications to Agriculture. Víctor Sánchez-Cordero (UNAM, Mexico) Biodiversity Informatics Applications to Understanding and Predicting Disease Dynamics. Townsend Peterson (U. Kansas, USA)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30	Framework for International Collaboration Chair: Ione Egler (Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia) IABIN: Building a Hemispheric Biodiversity Information Network. Gladys Cotter and Barbara Bauldock (USGS, USA) Creating an Inter-American Network for Invasive Species Information. Andrea Grosse (USGS, USA) Round Table on Building up Partnerships: TDWG, Catalog of Life Consortium, GBIF, IABIN and the CBD-CHM
18:30	Closure of the Meeting

Posters, Demonstrations and Short Presentations

Session 1

• Electronic Plant Information Centre: Resource discovery across heteregeneus data sources at Kew, Mark Jackson and Nicola Nicolson, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey TW93AB United Kingdom
• The MoReTax project: Modelling rule-based functions for an information system using taxonomic concepts to link factual data, Walter Berendsohn and Marc Geoffroy, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) Berlin-Dahlem, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
• The BGBM Model: Type Designation in AlgaTerra , K. Glück, W.-H. Kusber, W.G. Berendsohn, M. Geoffroy, A. Guntsch and R. Jahn, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) Berlin-Dahlem, Konigin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
• The BGBM Model: Modeling taxonomic concepts, W. G. Berendsohn, M. Doring, M. Geoffroy, K. Gluck, A. Guntsch, W.-H. Kusber, J.L. Li and F. Specht, Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Free University Berlin, Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
• The Euro+Med Internet taxonomic editor, W.Berendsohn, A.Guntsch & J.Li
• Mapping the collectors: the geo-referencing bottleneck, Karl-Heinz Lampe & Klaus Riede (Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig - ZFMK, Bonn - Germany).

Session 2

• The Belgian Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Patricia Mergen
• SinBiota - the environmental information system for the program Biota/Fapesp, CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental
• Hydro - database on water quality of the Rio Piracicaba watershed, CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental
• SICol - Information System for Collections of Biotechnological Interest, CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental
• The speciesLink Project: Distributed Information System for Biological Collections: Integrating Species Analyst and SinBiota (FAPESP), CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental.
• Creation of the Virtual Herbarium of São Paulo Botanical Institute, RCS Arte Digital
  
• BioCASE - A Biodiversity Collection Access Service for Europe, W.Berendsohn, M.Doring, M.Gebhardt & A.Guntsch, Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universitat Berlin, 14191 Berlin, Germany
• BoGART - Information Management for the Berlin Botanic Garden, Andrea Hahn, Agnes Kirchhoff, Ursula Matthas, Anna Surma and Walter G. Berendsohn, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) Berlin-Dahlem, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany

Session 3

• Predicting the potential of invasion of two Crotalaria species (Fabaceae) in Conservation Units in Brazil, CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, UNICAMP - State University of Campinas, University of Kansas.
• DesktopGarp: Modeling Species Ecological Niches with GARP, CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental.
• Prediction of bird community composition based on ecological niche modeling, and implications for biodiversity conservation in the Balsas Basin, Mexico, T. Patricia Feria A.
• Lifemapper Services - Web Mapping, WMS, and Query Services, Aimee Stewart (The University of Kansas).
• The Use of Existing and Developing Data Services by Lifemapper, Gregory Vorontsov (The University of Kansas).
• BioGeoMancer: Automated Georeferencing Web Services for Natural History Collections, Reed Beaman (The University of Kansas).

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