Annual Meeting October 19-20, 2002
Indaiatuba, SP, Brasil

Program & Schedule Draft Date: 9-Oct-02

Friday, Oct 18th

17:30-19:00   Executive Committee Meeting
18:00-22:00   Reception

Saturday, Oct 19th

9:00   Welcome & Overview
   
  1. Overview of two-day program
  2. Pending TDWG proposals
    Content and rationale for proposals; voting procedure
  3. Past year and goals for this meeting
    GBIF events and results; their impact on TDWG; the rationale for work at this year’s TDWG meeting
9:30   TDWG Subgroups
   
  1. Geography — Rafael Govaerts & Neil Brummit
  2. Economic Botany — Daphne Christopher
  3. Access to Biological Collections (ABCD): schema for collections data — Walter Berendsohn
  4. Access to Biological Collections (ABCD): protocol for distributed queries — Stan Blum
10:40   Coffee Break
11:00   TDWG Subgroups (continued)
   
  1. Taxonomic Names — TBD
  2. Structure of Descriptive Data — Gregor Hagedorn
  3. Spatial Data Standards — Reed Beaman
  4. TDWG Standards Process — Stan Blum
12:00   Discussion
12:30   Lunch
14:00   Overview of GBIF – TBD
    Review of GBIF work programs
   
  1. Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms (ECAT) — Per Bjørn
  2. Digitization of Natural History Collection Data (DIGIT) — Larry Speers
  3. Data Access and Database Interoperability (DADI) — Donald Hobern
  4. Outreach and Capacity Building (OCB) — Beatriz Torres
15:40   Coffee Break
16:00   GBIF and TDWG:  implications for standards work (discussion)
   
  1. Framework for identifying needed standards
  2. Standards by GBIF work program
    1. ECAT — Taxonomic data
    2. DIGIT — Collections data
    3. DADI — Integration components and interoperability
    4. OCB — Deployment issues
17:15   Summary
17:30   Ballots due (End of Day 1)

Sunday, Oct 20th

9:00   Presentations
9:00   The INRAM Biodiversity Database Project. Christopher K. Frazier
9:20   Bioinformatics at the New York Botanical Garden: an update. Melissa Tulig, Emily Ashley and Barbara M. Thiers
9:40  

Data Access - challenges and opportunities. Charles Hussey

10:00   TaxoNote: a platform independent personal notebook for nomenclatural research. Nozomi Ytow, Hiroshi Kajihara, David R. Morse and David McL Roberts
10:20   Coffee Break
10:45   Presentations
10:45   Search Features over Semi-Structured Taxonomic Documents. P. Bryan Heidorn
11:05  

Intelligent Components for Systematics. Guillaume Rousse

11:25  

International and Special Characters in Scientific Data. Adrian Rissone

11:45  

Unicode processing for BioCASE. Anton Güntsch and Wolfgang Lipp

12:05  

Discussion
12:15   Arrangements for Subgroup Meetings
12:30   Lunch
14:00   Subgroup Meetings
15:40   Coffee Break
16:00   TDWG Business Meeting
   
  1. Treasurer’s Report
  2. Voting results
  3. Election of Officers
  4. Next year’s meeting
17:00   Summary
19:00   TDWG Banquet