Programme
10.00-10.05 – Welcome
10.10-10.40 – Introduction: is online taxonomy coming of age? Malcolm Scoble – Natural History Museum and Linnean Society of London
10.40-11.10 Scratchpad virtual research environments: making your data work for you. Vince Smith – Natural History Museum, London
11.15-11.45 Tea/Coffee
11.50-12.20 Towards a taxonomic search engine: surfacing the deep data of taxonomy. Rod Page – University of Glasgow
12.25- 12.55 Online information about fishes: what is available and who is using it? Rainer Froese- Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-14.45 eMonocot Portal: delivering consensus classification. Paul Wilkin – RBG, Kew
14.50-15.20 Online biodiversity – towards uniting taxonomy, descriptions, occurrences and ecology. Ulf Gardenfors – Sweedish Species Information Centre
15.20-15.45 Tea/Coffee
15.50-16.20 Encyclopedia of Life: A web page for every species. Bob Corrigan – EOL
16.25-16.55 eTaxonomy – what do the non-taxonomic user communities want? Charles Godfray – University of Oxford
17.00-17.30 Discussion
18.00-19.00 Paleoclimatic impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems – insights from ecoinformatics. Jens-Christian Svenning – Aarhus University