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 iii. 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

Standards in Action - The Darwin Core Hour and Keynote

Pamela Soltis - Linking Heterogeneous Data in Biodiversity Research (9am Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pnfbmfmo2uvh/

S18 Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals (11a Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p01s3r6bz4z7/

S18 Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals (2pm Ballroom A)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p8df3u88v1bs/