Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics

Flora brasiliensis Revisited 24-25 October 2002, Indaiatuba, SP, Brazil Topics to be addressed: the virtual herbarium, regional checklists, data sharing, online taxonomic keys, and tools for the development of the digital knowledge base of the Brazilian Flora.

Venue Coordination Programme Documents

Coordination
George Shepherd, UNICAMP
Paul Berry, University of Wisconsin
Ariane Luna Peixoto, Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
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

Preliminary Programme
(Draft date: 11 october 2002)

OCTOBER 24th: INVITED PRESENTATIONS

08:30 - 10:00	Session 1: Problems and perspectives for plant taxonomy in Brazil and tropical Latin America. The "Flora brasiliensis" revisited, George Shepherd The current situation in Brazil: general strategies, local floras, state-level floras and herbarium databasing. Regional differences and current situation. Ariane Luna Peixoto & Maria Regina de V. Barbosa The Need for a Neotropical Plant Species Checklist, Wayt Thomas
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30	Session 2: Making information available Structured data management in modern on-line Flora treatments, Jim Croft, Helen Thompson, & Greg Whitbread Current Trends and Future Visions of the Virtual Botanical Library, Douglas Holland
11:30 - 12:30	Round Table: Information technology and data repatriation Data repatriation for Brazilian floristics projects - a European perspective, Simon Mayo, presented by David Nicholas Hind. The New York Botanical Garden Experience, Barbara Thiers
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Session 3: Speeding the process of producing floras 21th century floras - New technologies to speed the process, Arthur Chapman Tools for making taxonomic data more assessable, Kevin Thiele Do names lead to correct information? Handling of taxonomic concepts in botanical databases., Marc Geoffroy
15:00 - 16:30	Session 4: New prospects with old data? Uses of Natural History Collections Data, Raul Jimenez Rosenberg Automated georeferencing web services for natural history collections, Reed Beaman Predictive Modeling Applications: example of predicting the potential of invasion of two Crotalaria species, Ricardo Pereira & Modeling of geographic distribution for species with restricted distribution, Marinez F. Siqueira
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30	Session 5: von Martius revisited From the Flora brasiliensis of Martius to the Flora Brasiliensis of the 21st Century, Paul Berry A Flora brasiliensis website. How it could look like - an example. Maria do Carmo E. Amaral & V. Bittrich A new concept using frontier developments. Dora Ann Lange Canhos

OCTOBER 25th: WORKING GROUPS AND PLENARY DISCUSSIONS
Note: Plenary and working group discussions will be held in portuguese

08:30 - 09:00	Explicação da Dinâmica dos trabalhos e separação dos participantes nos seguintes grupos de trabalho: Estratégia Geral Recuperação de Dados Novas Tecnologias e Abordagens Infra-estrutura
09:00 - 10:45	Reunião dos grupos de trabalho
10:45 - 11:00	Café
11:00 - 12:30	Reunião dos grupos de trabalho
12:30 - 14:00	Almoço
14:00 - 15:45	Apresentação dos resultados dos grupos de trabalho e discussão em plenária
15:45 - 16:00	Café
16:00 - 17:00	Considerações Finais e Encerramento

Resultado Esperado: uma estratégia e um plano de ação para uma nova Flora brasiliensis

Documents

Background document

Organization: Depto. Botânica, Instituto de Biologia, Unicamp Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental Sponsorship:

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