TDWG 2015 Annual Conference

Introduction

The 2015 Biodiversity Information TDWG Annual Conference was held from 28 September to 1 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This was TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference was Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global Biodiversity. Subprograms included: Digitization, Semantic Technologies, Phyloinformatics, Outreach and Collaboration, ePublications, Trait Data, and Conservation informatics.

Agenda

https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/public/conferences/5/schedConfs/11/program-en_US.pdf

Recorded Conference Proceedings

Monday September 28, 2015

Opening Session (Oak Room)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4ypih3oakg/

S07 - Training and Collaboration For Sustained African Engagement in Biodiversity Informatics (OAK ROOM)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p25ona6cm9f/

S03 - The Role of Data Standards in Real-World Applications Using Biodiversity Information (OAK ROOM)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p7bs4yeeqae/

C04 - USING BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS TOOLS FOR MANAGEMENT (OAK ROOM)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p6noe6v5rmv/

C02 - BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS TOOLS FOR SYSTEMATICS (ACACIA TENT)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p2rntp02lja/

Tuesday September 29,2015

PLENARY SESSION (OAK ROOM)

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3jnxtdy2m5/

S02 - FORMAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS TRAINING AS KEY FOR CAPACITY BUILDING

STATE-OF-PLAY, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (OAK ROOM)

S06 - SEMANTICS FOR SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY (ACACIA TENT)

W04 - BIODIVERSITY DATA MOBILIZATION MODELS I (OAK ROOM)

W04 - BIODIVERSITY DATA MOBILIZATION MODELS II (OAK ROOM)