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
Here are a few open access articles on the subject:
Riedel et al.: Integrative taxonomy on the fast track -towards more sustainability in biodiversity research. Frontiers in Zoology 2013 10:15.
Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Miller J, Blagoderov V, Roberts D, Smith VS, Brake I, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Johnson NF, Morris RA, Sautter G, Chavan V, Robertson T, Remsen D, Stoev P, Parr C, Knapp S, Kress WJ, Th ompson FC, Erwin T (2010) Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys 50: 1–16.
Smith VS, Rycroft SD, Brake I, Scott B, Baker E, Livermore L, Blagoderov V, Roberts D (2011) Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science. In: Smith V, Penev L (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150:53–70.
King D, Morse DR, Willis A, Dil A (2011) Towards the bibliography of life. In: Smith V, Penev L (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150: 151–166.
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.
Registration is free but mandatory in order to arrange coffee & lunch.
Free coffee & sandwich lunch will be offered.
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This workshop is sponsored by ViBRANT, BeBoL and FWO.