Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics Forum
Trends and Developments in Biodiversity Informatics Forum
Organizers
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Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)
Taxonomic Databases Working Group
Species 2000
Integrated Taxonomic Information System, ITIS North America
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Sponsors
 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
(CNPq)
 Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia
 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras)
 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
 US Geological Survey (USGS)
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Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)
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October 14-20
~ 80 experts
Standards for access to biological collections
Taxonomic names sub-group has been reactivated
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International Organization of Plant Information, IOPI
 October 16
 Meeting of the Global Plant Checklist Committee
 New directions for accessing regional datasets of plant names
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World Bee Checklist Workshop
October 17-18
 Global bee checklist
 Integration of regional checklists
 list of bee taxonomists and scientific collections
Baseline information for the global pollinators program
Organization:
 Laboratório de Abelhas, Dept. de Ecologia Geral, ICB/USP
 Depto. Zoologia, ICB/UFMG
 Integrated Taxonomic Information System, ITIS North America
 Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental
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GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Saturday October 19
prioritization plan for digitization of Natural History Collection Data
key questions and main tasks to be taken into account
~ 50 participants
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Workshop:
An introduction to electronic
identification keys using Lucid
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October 23
Dr. Kevin Thiele (CSIRO, Australia)
George Shepherd, Volker Bittrich (Unicamp, Brasil)
An introduction to electronic identification keys
Hands-on session in key building using the Lucid Builder
Venue Embrapa Informática Agropecuária at UNICAMP
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Species 2000
 October 23-25
 Working Groups and Project Team will discuss how to improve the
collaboration with ongoing initiatives related to the development of the
Catalog of Life
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Flora brasiliensis Revisited
 October 23-25
 the virtual herbarium, regional checklists, data sharing, online
taxonomic keys, and tools for the development of the digital
knowledge base of the Brazilian Flora.
 strategy and an action plan for a new Flora brasiliensis
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Symposium: Key Innovations in
Biodiversity Informatics
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Building Capacity for Biodiversity Informatics
New Frontiers of Biodiversity Data Availability
Integration of Biodiversity Data
Overview of Available Tools and Predictive Powers Provided
New Capabilities Emerging from Biodiversity Informatics
Framework for International Collaboration