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

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF)

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

• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

Robert Hanner DNA barcoding and the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)

• Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
• Consortium for the International Barcode of Life (IBOL)

Peter Desmet Canadensys
Peter Desmet Biodiversity Collection Index (BCI)

• Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl)

Peter Desmet Data standards & protocols
James Macklin GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)

• GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)

Larry Speers From ink to electrons : Issues to be considered
James Macklin Specify 6 : A new beginning

• Specify

James Macklin Developing a framework for exchange of botanical specimen data to reduce duplicative effort and improve quality using a ‘filtered push’

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

• OAC Herbarium (OAC)
• University of Guelph Insect Collection (DEBU)

York University collections

• York University Bee Collection

University of British Columbia collections

• Spencer Entomological Museum (UBCZ)
• UBC Botanical Garden (UBCBG)
• UBC Herbarium (UBC)

University of Saskatchewan collections

• Saskatchewan Microbial Collection and Database (SMCD)
• W.P. Fraser Herbarium (SASK)

University of Manitoba collections

• Wallis Roughley Museum of Entomology
• University of Manitoba Herbarium (WIN)

Acadia University collections

• E.C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD)
• Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens

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

• Montreal Botanical Garden (JBM)

Université Laval collections

• Louis-Marie Herbarium (QFA)

McGill University collections

• Lyman Entomological Museum (LEMQ)
• McGill Herbarium (MTMG)

University of Toronto & ROM collections

• Green Plant Herbarium (TRT)
• TRTC Mycology Herbarium (TRTC)
• TRTE Herbarium (TRTE)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada collections

• National Mycological Herbarium (DAOM)