1st meeting (Montreal 2009)
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Introduction
The first Canadensys meeting was held January 16-17, 2009 at the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale located at the Montreal Botanical Garden (JBM).
Introductions to several other biodiversity informatics projects and the participants’ collections were given the first day. The second day tackled subjects as data standards, data entry and georeferencing.
You can find all presentations and documents related to this meeting on this page.
Documents
- Meeting report
- Meeting agenda
- Larry Speers Reading list : Collection databasing, data quality, data cleaning, imaging & georeferencing
Keynote presentations
Guy Baillargeon Canadian participation in GBIF
James Macklin Global Plants Initiative & other initiatives
- Global Plants Initiative (GPI)
- Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
- Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria (CNH)
David Shorthouse Encyclopedia of Life: Participation is the measure of success
Robert Hanner DNA barcoding and the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)
Peter Desmet Canadensys
Peter Desmet Biodiversity Collection Index (BCI)
Peter Desmet Data standards & protocols
James Macklin GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)
Larry Speers From ink to electrons : Issues to be considered
James Macklin Specify 6 : A new beginning
Larry Speers Imaging of specimens : Issues to be considered
Larry Speers Georeferencing : Determining space from place
Collection presentations
University of Alberta collections
- Cryptogamic Herbarium (ALTA-CP)
- University of Alberta Botanic Garden
- E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum (UASM)
- Vascular Plant Herbarium (ALTA-VP)
University of Guelph collections
- York University Bee Collection
University of British Columbia collections
University of Saskatchewan collections
- Saskatchewan Microbial Collection and Database (SMCD)
- W.P. Fraser Herbarium (SASK)
University of Manitoba collections
Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre collections
- Cercle des mycologues de Montréal fungarium (CMMF)
- Marie-Victorin Herbarium (MT)
- Montreal Insectarium (IMQC)
- Ouellet-Robert entomological collection (QMOR)
Montreal Botanical Garden collections
McGill University collections
University of Toronto & ROM collections
- Green Plant Herbarium (TRT)
- TRTC Mycology Herbarium (TRTC)
- TRTE Herbarium (TRTE)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada collections
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