Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG 2009 Annual Conference

Themes

1. Outcomes of the e-Biosphere 09 meeting in London (1-3 June) – and taking the Roadmap for Biodiversity Informatics forward. Theme leader: Prof. Walter Berendsohn, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM), Head, Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories
2. Agricultural biodiversity informatics – developing and expending standards. Theme Leader: Elizabeth Arnaud, Bioversity International Coordinator, Biodiversity Informatics Project
3. Data integration. Theme leader: Roger Hyam, Natural History Museum (London). Project officer, Pan European Species Infrastructure (PESI)

Candidate topics

• The TDWG Ontology
• Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)
• Semantic web
• Data exchange protocols, including recent work on Darwin Core
• Geospatial information
• Multimedia standards
• Graphical Standards for Species identification
• Invasive species
• Agronomy
• Genomics
• Integrating functional traits
• Integration of wild and cultivated species
• Disease
• Citizen sciences, traditional knowledge