EDIT General Meeting (Carvoeiro)

12/15/2009 - 16:00
12/16/2009 - 18:00
Etc/GMT

Start Title Speaker
TUESDAY 15
18:00 Biodiversity Informatics: practical approaches and tools to support community efforts Dora Canhos (CRIA, Reference Center on Environmental Information, Brazil)
19:30 Ice breaker
WEDNESDAY 16
09:00 Introduction to the General Meeting Simon Tillier (EDIT Project Leader Work Package 1 - Coordination and management, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris)
Session 1 Integration & interactions with other initiatives Chair: Dave Roberts (EDIT WP6 Leader - Unifying Revisionary taxonomy, Natural History Museum, London)
09:10 The biodiversity informatics landscape Anthony Rees (Data Centre Manager, CSIRO, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia)
09:55 User engagement and innovation in cybertaxonomy: trading zones, implicated actors and relevant social groups Christine Hine (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK)
10:40 Break
Session 2 Engagement in Cyberscience Chair: Leo Kriegsman (EDIT WP3 Leader - Integrating the infrastructure basis, Natural History Museum Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands)
11:10 Fieldwork and cybertaxonomy: the future Christoph Häuser (EDIT WP7 Leader - Applying taxonomy to conservation, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin)
11:50 Why do people engage? Daphne Duin (EDIT Stakeholders Liaison, , Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris)
12:30 Lunch
Session 3 Platform for Cybertaxonomy tools Chair: Christoph Haüser (EDIT WP7 Leader - Applying taxonomy to conservation, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin)
13:30 Platform for Cybertaxonomy and the taxonomic workflow Andreas Kohlbecker (Biologist Dept of Biodiversity Informatics, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem)
13:50 Taxonomic data editing Anton Güntsch (Head of Section Biodiversity Informatics - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem)
14:10 Geographic tools for eTaxonomy Pere Roca Ristol (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - CSIC)
14:30

Crossmedia publishing with the Common Data Model

Niels Hoffman (Software Developer, Biodiversity Informatics - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem)
14:50 Break
Session 4 Building the Legacy Chair: Henrik Enghoff (EDIT WP2 Leader - Integrating the expert and expertise basis, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Copenhague)
15:20 EDIT exemplar groups: lessons learnt on web Taxonomy Soraya Villalba (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
15:50 The evolution of taxonomic publishing by natural selection Koen Martens (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels)
16:20 Boosting taxonomy into the 21st century by training future taxonomists and fueling their passion Thierry Backeljau (EDIT WP8 Leader - Training and public awareness, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels)
16:50 Sustainability and the future of EDIT Bertrand-Pierre Galey (Director, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris)
17:20 General discussion
17:50 Close of meeting