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TDWG 2017 Annual Conference
TDWG 2017 Annual Conference
| Title: | TDWG 2017 Annual Conference |
| Title abbreviated: | TDWG 2017 |
| Identifier: | https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ |
| Venue: | Ottawa |
| Start date: | 2017-10-01 |
| End date: | 2017-10-06 |
| Creator: | TDWG = Taxonomic Database Working Group |
| Abstract: | We are excited to announce that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Canadian Museum of Nature will host the 2017 Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) conference in Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 1 - Oct. 6. Standards for the description and exchange of biodiversity information help promote research, support decision-making for conservation and planning, and provide a means of communicating observations across taxa, sub-disciplines, and political boundaries. The annual TDWG conference serves two purposes: it is is a forum for extending, refining, and developing standards in response to new challenges and opportunities; and it is a showcase for biodiversity informatics - much of which relies on the specifications provided by TDWG and other standards organizations. Our theme this year is Data Integration in a Big Data Universe: Associating Occurrences with Genes, Phenotypes, and Environments. Associating genotypes with phenotypes has been the subject of previous TDWG symposia, and remains one of the great ongoing challenges of biodiversity science. It is complicated by our increased (but still nascent) understanding of the role played by microbiomes in phenotype expression. (As Bob Robbins pointed out in his 2012 keynote, some microbial genes, due to inter-species horizontal gene transfer, are better understood as attributes of a particular ecosystem than of a particular species.) Meanwhile, "habitat" remains one of the most over-burdened of Darwin Core terms, conflating climate, geology, taxonomic association, and other environmental variables. Our theme is intended to provoke discussion around questions such as: Can current systems, methods, and schemas be used to capture and understand patterns of association amongst occurrences, genes, phenotypes, and environments? If so, how? If not, what gaps need to be filled? [Information of the supplier] |
| Subject: |
Auxilliary techniques and procedures/apparatus, equipment, materials/microscopy (570.28); Philosophy and theory in natural history (578.01) » find similar sources! |
| Spatial coverage: | Canada |
| Audience: | Experts |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | website |
| Resource type: | Conferences and Congresses (archive) |
| Access: | free |
| Metadata update date: | 2017-10-13 |
| Metadata provider: |
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| URL of this vifabio-resource: | http://www.vifabio.de/en/iqfBio/detail/9320 |
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