A one-day workshop on the promotion of ViBRANT tools is going to take place on Tuesday 11 June 2013 as part of the ViBRANT technical workshops, RBINS (WP3 Training, outreach and community support). The workshop is focused on how Scratchpads and other ViBRANT tools may be of interest and be useful for the DNA taxonomists.
Topics:
- ViBRANT project overview - Isabella Van de Velde, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels
- Scratchpads, a social networking tool to build, share and publish information on the Web - Dimitris Koureas, Natural History Museum London
- Scratchpads tools for the DNA taxonomist: which tools are needed? - Dimitris Koureas and Ed Baker, Natural History Museum London
- Manipulating sequence data and OBOE - Neil Caithness, Oxford e-Research Centre
- Literature Mining and Markup using OBOE - David Morse and David King, Open University
- Zookeys related publishing environment relevant for the DNA barcoding community – Lyubomir Penev, Pensoft Publishers
Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy (ViBRANT) is a European Union FP7 funded project starting in December 2010 that will support the development of virtual research communities involved in biodiversity science. The goal is to provide a more integrated and effective framework for those managing biodiversity data on the Web. Read more...
Date: Tuesday 11 June 2013, from 10:00 to 17:00.
Symposium venue: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Free coffee & sandwich lunch will be offered.
Registration is mandatory in order to arrange coffee & lunch.
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This workshop is sponsored by ViBRANT, BeBoL and FWO.