TDWG 2017 Annual Conference

Introduction

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2017 annual meeting was hosted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital of Canada. The theme of this year's conference was "Data Integration in a Big Data Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments".

Agenda

https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/program/TDWG2017_Program.pdf

Oral Presentation Recordings

All oral presentations in Ballroom A, Capitale and Chaudiere have been recorded using Adobe Connect.

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Recorded Conference Proceedings

Monday October 2, 2017

Welcoming remarks and guide to the meeting and Keynote - Roderic D.M. Page - Towards a Biodiversity Knowledge Graph (9am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p2ul6gfd20os/

Contributed - What do People, DiSSCo, Brazil, Symbiota, BISON and Google have in common? (11am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pb9gqai2x9bs/

S28 Financial Models for Sustaining Biodiversity Informatics Products (2pm Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/ppkayehzil6w/

Contributed - Topics in Climate Change (4pm Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pauuf3o94fve/

Tuesday October 3, 2017

i. Overview of TDWG and TDWG standards; ii. Announcement of Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS), the new journal of TDWG and Keynote - Anne Bowser - Standardizing Citizen Science? (9am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pgglvwto1p5b/

S02 Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools (11am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/prbjhahswt3k/

S02 Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools (2pm Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pktqp2xwojwv/

S22 Biological Interaction Data - towards data standardization (4pm Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/phv3nw8t67sr/

Wednesday October 4, 2017

Wild Ideas and Keynote - Javier de la Torre - Everything happens somewhere, multiple times (9am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/puhnvjn8ln5f/

S16 Using Big Data Techniques to Cross Dataset Boundaries - Integration and Analysis of Multiple Datasets (11am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pimfwpavcd9d/

Thursday October 5, 2017

S12 Globally Unique Identifiers for Names (Auditorium)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p81nv6qmux1/

C02 Contributed Oral Presentations & Demos- Inventories (Computer Science)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p8fhjjgqc62/

S04 Application of Data Visualisation for Sustainable Biodiversity- Deriving Useful Knowledge and Insights from Heterogeneous Data (Auditorium)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p7bfk26ltj7/

IG02 Biodiversity Informatics Curriculum (Computer Science)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p63tyn2syyk/

Friday October 6, 2017

S13 DNA based species and taxon occurrences (Auditorium)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p484mgux2k1/

C03 Contributed Oral Presentations & Demos Plinian Core, Taxon Traits (Computer Science)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4bo8ekokzc/

IG09 Natural Collections Description [NCD] (TechnoAula2)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p7va64fcs6i/

C05 Contributed Oral Presentations & Demos- Data Gaps, Trust, Knowledge Acquisition (Auditorium)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p41qxdw80lo/

C04 Contributed Oral Presentations & Demos- Catalogs, Checklists, Collections (Computer Science)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3dn6m7xq6a/

Closing Session (IG/TG reports,lightning talks,TDWG 2017 presentation) (Auditorium)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p5i7jnfnpxd/