Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset. The EML project is an open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing data relevant to the ecological discipline. The project is completely comprised of voluntary project members who donate their time and experience in order to advance information management for ecology. Project decisions are made by consensus according to the voting procedures described in the ecoinformatics.org Charter. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Environment Ontology (EnvO) provides a controlled, structured vocabulary that is designed to support the annotation of any organism or biological sample with environment descriptors. EnvO contains terms for biomes, environmental features, and environmental material. Examples of biome terms are: boreal moist forest biome, tropical rain forest biome, and oceanic pelagic zone biome. Examples of environmental feature terms are: mountain, pond, whale fall, and karst. Examples of environmental material terms are: sediment, soil, water, and air These three sets of terms enable a concise, standardised, and comprehensive description of environment that is key to the integration, archiving and federated searching of environmental data. As a tool for the life sciences, we see EnvO bringing similar benefits to the Gene Ontology (GO). Through promoting consistent annotation grounded in an ontological framework, we hope to facilitate the semantic retrieval of any biological record anchored to EnvO. Records contained in sequence databases, omic data repositories, tissue banks and museum collections are prime candidates for EnvO annotation.However, EnvO is also suitable for the annotation of any record that has an environmental component. For example, you can use EnvO terms to provide information on the environment of remote sensing devices or simply to tag a picture that you took at the weekend. Further, the EnvO project is closely tied with GAZ, a first step towards an open source gazetteer constructed on ontological principles. GAZ describes places and place names as well as the relations between them and, when linked with EnvO descriptors, provides a basis to infer environment from place names. ... [Information of the supplier]
The first annual International Environmental ‘Omics Synthesis conference will be held in Cardiff, UK, on September 9-11th, 2013. This conference is supported by NERC Mathematics and informatics for Environmental ‘Omics data Synthesis program and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council Futures Programme under the coordination of the recently established Environmental ‘Omic Synthesis Centre (EOS). The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and organisations from a range of disciplines representing those involved in the development of new approaches in data handling and generation with those harnessing ‘Omics to advance key areas in Environmental Science. It is our hope is that the resulting interaction and exchange of ideas will lead to novel approaches, new collaborations and the establishment of a wider integrated ‘Omics community. ... [Information of the supplier]
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and organisations from a range of disciplines with shared interests in the development of new approaches for data handling, generation and analysis in environmental omics. Science areas of interest include bioinformatics, DNA-barcoding, genomics, metagenomics, metabarcoding, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenetics, evolutionary and ecological omics, phylogenetics, study of ancient DNA and anthropology, new tools, resources and training, and beyond as applied to the study of the natural environmental and environmentally relevant organisms and systems. It is our hope is that the resulting interaction and exchange of ideas will lead to novel approaches, new collaborations and the establishment of a wider integrated ‘Omic community. ... [Information of the supplier]
We cordially invite you to the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI10) from 14-28 October 2016 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The conference provides a scientific podium for interdisciplinary exchange on novel concepts and applications of ecological informatics in order to target environmental issues like sustainability, climate change and biodiversity. After previous conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia, North- and South America, ICEI10 will be held in the mediaeval city of Dubrovnik at the Mediterranean Adriatic Sea that provides unique cultural scenery for this conference. The conference program will include special symposia arranged by leading scientists, oral and posters sessions, specialised short courses and cultural as well as field excursions. Conference papers will be considered for a special issue in the journal Ecological Informatics. We are looking forward to meet you at ICEI10 and invite you to SUBMIT your abstracts by 31 January, 2016 on any of the following themes: Recent Developments in Ecological Monitoring and Data Acquisition (ecoacoustics, video, remote sensing, in situ sensing, survey-based, LTER), Ecological Data Analysis (statistical, PCA, SOM, wavelets, GIS), Ecological Data Synthesis (regression trees, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, process-based simulation, Bayesian inference), Applications in Biodiversity and Conservation, Applications in Invasion Ecology, Applications in Paleo-ecology, Applications in Biogeography, Application in Bioindication, Informing Decision for Sustainable Management. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics. The conference aims to bring together researchers interested in data-intensive ecology – both from an ecological and a computer science point of view. After successful biennial conferences in France, Australia, Italy, South Korea, United States, Mexico, Belgium, Brazil, and China, the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics will be hosted in Jena, Germany, 24-28 September. ... [Information of the supplier]
International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ICEI) is a biennial forum that brings together interdisciplinary ecological researchers from all over the world to present their scientific works, deliberate upon ideas and build networks.The 10th ICEI was held in 2018 at the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. ... [Information of the supplier]