Once a year, GBIF sponsors a Science Symposium in association with its Governing Board meeting and science planning meetings. The GBIF Secretariat also organises symposia on biodiversity informatics at other meetings. On this page, you can access abstracts, PowerPoint presentations and other materials related to these events.

GBIF Science Symposium 2007:
Biodiversity on the Web: Information and Informatics

Programme (includes Abstracts and Speaker Biographies) (PDF 810 KB)
PowerPoint presentations

Hobern: GBIF Information Architecture (PDF 307 KB)

Vincx, Merckx & Deprez: Role of GBIF Data in Biodiversity Studies (PDF 602 KB)

Guralnick & Hill: GBIF's Role in Biodiversity Prediction (PDF 902 KB)

Kerr & Kharouba: GBIF & GEOSS (PDF 295 KB)

Schindel: Linking GBIF data to gene sequences (PDF 503 KB)

Edwards: Future of biodiversity informatics (PDF 96 KB)

GBIF Science Symposium 2006:
The role of GBIF and other new technologies in conservation and monitoring biodiversity change

Abstracts
Speaker biographies
PowerPoint presentations

ISOBIS Annual Meeting 2006:

Data: From Cradle to Grave?

Abstract and PowerPoint presentation given by Meredith Lane 3 Feb 2006

DIVERSITAS International Conference Integrating Biodiversity Science for Human Well-being 2005:

Biodiversity informatics: Acquisition, analysis, archiving and applications

Abstracts and PowerPoint presentations from a symposium organised by GBIF.

Natural Science Collections Alliance 2005:

Bioinformatics to Ecoinformatics: Digital Interconnectivity

PowerPoint presentations from a symposium organised by GBIF.

GBIF Science Symposium 2005:

Tropical Biodiversity: Science, Data, Conservation

• Description of Symposium
• Abstracts and PowerPoint Shows of Symposium Presentations
• Proceedings of the Symposium

Workshop 2005:

Building Species Banks: How Shall We Shape the Future?

This link will take you to a hierarchical library of documents, powerpoint presentations and databases associated with this workshop, which took place 2--4 March 2005.

DanBIF - GBIF Seminar 2004:

Data to Uncertainty: Challenges to Using Primary Species Data

A presentation by Arthur D. Chapman sponsored by DanBIF and GBIF.

GBIF Science Symposium 2004:
Biodiversity Data Users Serving Science and Society

• Program
• PowerPoint Shows of Symposium Presentations

IUBS 2004: The Role of Biodiversity Informatics in Science and Society

• PowerPoint Shows of Symposium Presentations

GBIF Science Symposium 2003:
On the Rock of Real Data or the Sands of Speculation?

• Program
• PowerPoint Show of Symposium Presentation by Craig Moritz
• Written form of Presentation by Craig Moritz

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