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Hilmar Lapp

Duke University, Center for Gemonic and Computational Biology
Director of Informatics
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Websiteorcid.org/0000-0001-9107-0714
Monday, December 5
 

09:00 CST

Opening Session Auditorium

09:30 CST

Keynote: Dr. Rodrigo Gámez Lobo Auditorium

10:30 CST

Monday AM Break & Registration Lobby

11:00 CST

A Standards Architecture for Integrating Information in Biodiversity Science AuditoriumAndrea Hahn • Donald Hobern

11:15 CST

Biodiversity Data Integration from an Aggregator’s Perspective AuditoriumTim Robertson

11:30 CST

A High-altitude View of TDWG Standards: Machine Processing, Graphs, and the Vocabulary Development Process AuditoriumSteven Baskauf

11:55 CST

GitHub for TDWG standards and Interest Groups AuditoriumPeter Desmet

12:30 CST

Monday Lunch Cafeteria

14:00 CST

Real use cases for Semantic Information from the Mining Biodiversity project AuditoriumRiza Batista-Navarro • William Ulate

14:15 CST

Towards the next-generation ABCD AuditoriumGabi Droege • David Fichtmüller • Anton Güntsch • Jana Hoffmann • Jörg Holetschek • Mareike Petersen • DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

14:30 CST

The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System: A Semantic Suite Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph AuditoriumDonat Agosti • Terry Catapano • Nico Franz • Teodor Georgiev • Lyubomir Penev • Guido Sautter • Viktor Senderov • Kiril Simov • Éamonn Ó Tuama • Grant agreement No 642241 • under project BIG4 • Maria-Sklodovska Curie

14:45 CST

Semantic Annotation for Tabular Data AuditoriumJohn Deck • National Science Foundation

15:00 CST

Some Challenges in Working with Biodiversity Ontologies AuditoriumHong Cui • James Macklin • Joel Sachs

15:15 CST

Bottom-up Phenotype Ontology Building from Character Descriptions AuditoriumSteven Chong • Hong Cui • James Macklin • Thomas Rodenhausen • Joel Sachs • Dongfang Xu • National Science Foundation

15:30 CST

Monday PM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration Lobby
 
Tuesday, December 6
 

09:00 CST

Geographic entities extraction from biological textual sources AuditoriumMoisés Acuña-Chaves

09:15 CST

Semi-automatical classification and structuring of text fragments from biological documents AuditoriumJose Araya-Monge

09:30 CST

Semi-Automatic Extraction of Plants Morphological Characters from Taxonomic Descriptions AuditoriumJosé Araya • Maria Mora

09:45 CST

Understanding mass flowering of dipterocarps through semantic occurrence information extraction AuditoriumRiza Theresa Batista-Navarro • Roselyn Gabud • Vladimir Mariano • Eduardo Mendoza • Sandra Yap • British Council [172722806 (COPIOUS)]

10:00 CST

Enhancing semantic search through the automatic construction of a Biodiversity Terminological Inventory AuditoriumSophia Ananiadou • Riza Batista-Navarro • Georgios Kontonatsios • Nhung Nguyen • Axel Soto • British Council

10:30 CST

Tuesday AM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration Lobby

11:15 CST

What's in a name? Sense and reference in digital biodiversity information AuditoriumJoakim Philipson

11:30 CST

Creating computable definitions for clades using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) AuditoriumNico Cellinese • Hilmar Lapp • Gaurav Vaidya • National Science Foundation

11:45 CST

Creature Features: A semantic toolkit for biodiversity trait data AuditoriumDavid Bloom • John Deck • Rob Guralnick • Raphael LaFrance • Laura Russell • Ramona Walls • John Wieczorek • Paula Zermoglio

12:00 CST

Logic that embraces systematic progress and persistent conflict - an update on taxonomic concept reasoning AuditoriumNico Franz • Bertram Ludäscher • National Science Foundation

12:30 CST

Tuesday Lunch Cafeteria

14:30 CST

BiGAEOn: an ontology for Biogeographic areas AuditoriumPier Buttigieg • Visotheary Ung • CNRS • MNHN

15:00 CST

An Introduction to the Plant Phenology Ontology AuditoriumKjell Bolmgren • John Deck • Ellen Denny • Robert Guralnick • Brian Stucky • Ramona Walls • iDigBio • USGS

15:30 CST

Tuesday PM Break, Poster Viewing, & Registration Lobby

16:30 CST

New Scientific names finding, parsing and resolution tools from Global Names. AuditoriumDmitry Mozzherin • Alexander Myltsev • David Patterson • NSF • University of Illinois • Species Files Group of Illinois Natural History Survey
 
Wednesday, December 7
 

09:00 CST

Towards Best Practices for the Implementation and Documentation of Biodiversity Informatics Services Computer Science 3Anton Güntsch • James Macklin • Paul Morris

09:15 CST

Nanopublications for biodiversity: concept, formats and implementation AuditoriumTeodor Georgiev • Lyubomir Penev • Viktor Senderov • Pavel Stoev • Éamonn Ó Tuama • Grant agreement No 642241 • under project BIG4 • Maria-Sklodovska Curie

09:30 CST

COPIS: A Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System AuditoriumHenry Bart • Nelson Rios • IMLS

10:15 CST

Demonstrating the Prototype of the Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System AuditoriumTeodor Georgiev • Lyubomir Penev • Viktor Senderov

14:00 CST

Next Generation Publishing for Biodiversity using Pensoft's Arpha Writing Tool and Publishing System AuditoriumTeodor Georgiev • Lyubomir Penev • Viktor Senderov • Grant agreement No 642241 • under project BIG4 • Maria-Sklodovska Curie

14:15 CST

Novel article formats in the ARPHA* Writing Tool and Biodiversity Data Journal AuditoriumTeodor Georgiev • Lyubomir Penev • Viktor Senderov

16:00 CST

Clustering botanical collections data with a minimised set of features drawn from aggregated specimen data AuditoriumNicky Nicolson • Allan Tucker

16:15 CST

Taking a Big Data Approach to Estimating Species Abundance AuditoriumDonald Hobern • Steven Kelling

16:30 CST

Large-scale Evaluation of Multimedia Analysis Techniques for the Monitoring of Biodiversity AuditoriumPierre Bonnet • Hervé Goeau • Alexis Joly • French Governement

16:45 CST

GUODA: A Unified Platform for Large-Scale Computational Research on Open-Access Biodiversity Data AuditoriumMatthew Collins • Jennifer Hammock • Jorrit Poelen • Alexander Thompson • EOL • iDigBio

17:00 CST

Data Quality at Scale: Bridging the Gap between Datum and Data AuditoriumMatthew Collins • Alexander Thompson

17:15 CST

Fresh Data: what's new and what's interesting? AuditoriumJennifer Hammock • Jorrit Poelen • National Science Foundation
 
Thursday, December 8
 

09:00 CST

Reviewing data integration and mobilisation using name reconciliation and identifier services AuditoriumAbigail Barker • Nicky Nicolson • Robert Turner

09:30 CST

Identifiers for Biodiversity Informatics: The Global Names Approach AuditoriumDmitry Mozzherin • Richard Pyle

09:45 CST

The Catalogue of Life Editor's View on Globally Unique Identifiers for Names AuditoriumYuri Roskov

10:00 CST

Names and identifiers in the CyVerse cyberinfrastucture AuditoriumRamona Walls

10:15 CST

Utilizing Unique Identifiers for Taxonomic Concepts AuditoriumJeff Gerbracht

11:00 CST

The Significance of Data Visualizations for Dynamically Occurring Species AuditoriumDaniel Fink • Steven Kelling • Frank La Sorte

11:15 CST

Visual Comparison of Biological Taxonomies AuditoriumErick Mata-Montero • Lilliana Sancho-Chavarria • Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

11:30 CST

Participatory Three-Dimensional Modeling (P3DM) as a tool for biodiversity mapping: Application of Indigenous Knowledge and GIS Technology AuditoriumSilas Osinde • Directorate of Resources and Remote Sensing
 
Friday, December 9
 

09:00 CST

An open participatory species traits infrastructure to organize and discover species information. Computer Science 3Thomas Le Bourgeois • Balasubramanian D • Pierre Grad • Sathish M • Sravanthi M • Prabhakar Rajagopal • Maheswaran T • Sandeep Tandekar • Thomas Vattakaven Streamlining the Flow of Taxon Occurrence Data Between a Manuscript and Biological Databases AuditoriumTeodor Georgiev • Lyubomir Penev • Viktor Senderov • Grant agreement No 642241 • under project BIG4 • Maria-Sklodovska Curie

09:15 CST

Plinian Core profiles: Facilitating the documentation and access to biological information of exotic and invasive species Computer Science 3Nestor Beltran • Leonardo Buitrago • Valerie Dean • Marcela Delgado • Dairo Escobar Molecular and morphological biodiversity: survey of data access, use and publishing AuditoriumDmitry Schigel

09:30 CST

Mamut: An online web editor to manage biological information of taxa based on the Plinian Core Computer Science 3Daniel Amariles • Nestor Beltran • Leonardo Buitrago • Maria Fernanda Cubillos • Valerie Dean • Marcela Delgado • Oscar Duque • Dairo Escobar • Valentina Grajales • Camila Plata

09:45 CST

TraitMan - an Online Management System for Biological Traits. Computer Science 3Kessy Abarenkov • Kristjan Adojaan • Urmas Kõljalg

10:00 CST

Xper3: a Collaborative Descriptive Data System with Web Services Computer Science 3Sylvain BOUQUIN • Regine vignes-lebbe

14:30 CST

Examining citizen scientist engagement and transcription rates through site content and social media activity on the Notes from Nature platform AuditoriumJulie Allen • Michael Denslow • Rob Guralnick • National Science Foundation

14:35 CST

Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences. AuditoriumWard Appeltans • Sky Bristol • Philip Goldstein • Francisco Hernandez • Gwenaëlle Moncoiffé • Daphnis De Pooter • Pieter Provoost • Leen Vandepitte

14:45 CST

New developments for the Libraries of Life project and app AuditoriumAnne Basham • Nico Franz • Austin Mast • National Science Foundation

14:55 CST

A New Georeferencing Tool AuditoriumRukaya Johaadien • Fhatani Ranwashe