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| Day | Time | Misc | Ballroom A | Ballroom B | Capitale | Chaudiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 30 Sep | 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM | Data Carpentry Workshop, Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa | ||||
| Sunday, 1 Oct | 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM | Data Carpentry Workshop, Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa | ||||
| Sunday, 1 Oct | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | TDWG Executive, Bytowne | IG01: Data Quality (by invitation) | |||
| Sunday, 1 Oct | 05:30 PM - 08:00 PM | Registration in the Penthouse, Panorama | ||||
| Sunday, 1 Oct | 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM | Welcome Reception in the Penthouse, Panorama | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM | Registration, Victoria | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM | Load Talks & Hang Posters | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 09:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Welcoming remarks and guide to the meeting | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 09:40 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote: Roderic D.M. Page - Towards a Biodiversity Knowledge Graph | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break, Ballroom B | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Contributed: What do People, DiSSCo, Brazil, Symbiota, BISON and Google have in common? | W19: Construction of biodiversity knowledge graphs driven by federated text mining tools | W01: Establishing a global registration system of algal names and types | ||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch provided, Ballroom C | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Newcomers Meet & Greet | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | S28: Financial Models for Sustaining Biodiversity Informatics Products | W03: Towards robust interoperability in multi-omic approaches to biodiversity monitoring | S04: Advances in data accessibility and data management for marine species occurrence data | ||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Break, Ballroom B | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 03:40 PM - 03:55 PM | Computer Demo | ||||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Contributed: Topics in Climate Change | W03: Towards robust interoperability in multi-omic approaches to biodiversity monitoring | S04: Advances in data accessibility and data management for marine species occurrence data | ||
| Monday, 2 Oct | 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Night at the Museum, Canadian Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod St, Ottawa | ||||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM | Registration, Victoria; Load Talks & Hang Posters | ||||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 09:00 AM - 09:40 AM | i. Overview of TDWG and TDWG standards; ii. Announcement of Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS), the new journal of TDWG | ||||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 09:40 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote: Anne Bowser - Standardizing Citizen Science? | ||||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break, Ballroom B | Posters (Even Numbers) | |||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 10:40 AM - 10:55 AM | Computer Demo | ||||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | S02: Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools | W09: Implementing Biodiversity Standards for Paleobiology | W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community: example of the Living Atlases community | ||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch on your own | IG02: Technical Architecture Meeting | |||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | S02: Biodiversity Data Quality – concepts, methods and tools | S15: Agricultural Informatics Contributions to Biodiversity Science and Biodiversity Assessments | W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community: example of the Living Atlases community | ||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Break, Ballroom B | Posters (Odd Numbers) | |||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 03:40 PM - 03:55 PM | Computer Demo | ||||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | S22: Biological Interaction Data - towards data standardization | S10: 500 Years of Big Data from the Biodiversity Heritage Library | W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community: example of the Living Atlases community | ||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM | Registration, Victoria; Load Talks | ||||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 09:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Wild Ideas | ||||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 09:40 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote: Javier de la Torre - Everything happens somewhere, multiple times | ||||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break, Ballroom B | ||||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 10:40 AM - 10:55 AM | Computer Demo | ||||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | S16: Using Big Data Techniques to Cross Dataset Boundaries - Integration and Analysis of Multiple Datasets | S12: Citizen Science Contributions to Biodiversity Research and Standards | W07: Reusing an open source platform in order to create a community: example of the Living Atlases community | ||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM | Lunch pick-up (boxed), Ballroom C | ||||
| Wednesday, 4 Oct | 01:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Excursion, Canadian Museum of Nature Collections or Pink Lake Hike | ||||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM | Registration, Victoria; Load Talks | ||||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 09:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Standards in Action: The Darwin Core Hour | ||||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 09:40 AM - 10:30 AM | Keynote: Pamela Soltis - Linking Heterogeneous Data in Biodiversity Research | ||||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break, Ballroom B | Posters (Odd Numbers) | |||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 10:40 AM - 10:55 AM | Computer Demo | ||||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | S18: Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals | W21: Biological Interaction Data Workgroup | IG03: Species Information | ||
| Tuesday, 3 Oct | 12:30 PM - 12:40 PM | Group photo, Lobby stairs | ||||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch on your own | IG02: Technical Architecture Meeting | |||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | S18: Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals | W23: Towards an Online Atlas of Phenology | W06: Data Quality Workshop | ||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Break, Ballroom B | Posters (Even Numbers) | |||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | W17: The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy, Current State and Envisaged Integration into the Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructure | W23: Towards an Online Atlas of Phenology | W06: Data Quality Workshop | ||
| Thursday, 5 Oct | 05:45 PM - 11:00 PM | Banquet, Canadian Museum of History, 100 Laurier Street, Gatineau (Hull), Quebec | ||||
| Friday, 6 Oct | 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM | Registration, Victoria; Load Talks | ||||
| Friday, 6 Oct | 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM | S20: Traits - Data models, sources, vocabulary, interoperability and their presentation and discoverability via species information pages | W14: Standards for Citizen Science Biodiversity Studies | W08: Biodiversity data annotations – state of the play and perspectives | ||
| Friday, 6 Oct | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Break, Ballroom B | ||||
| Friday, 6 Oct | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Contributed: Topics in Taxonomy and Ontologies | IG04: Natural Collections Description Meeting | W08: Biodiversity data annotations – state of the play and perspectives | ||
| Friday, 6 Oct | 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Lunch provided, Ballroom C | Poster take-down | |||
| Friday, 6 Oct | 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Business Meeting: Reports from Treasurer, Interest and Task Groups; Preview of TDWG2018; Closing Remarks | ||||