[Data-Mongers] March 8th, 12:15 - Biodiversity Informatics Seminar - Speck Auditorium at MBL

[Holly Miller]

MBLWHOI Library presents:

Woods Hole Scientific Informatics Seminar Series
"Biodiversity Informatics: Mining Untapped Resources"
P. Bryan Heidorn
Director, University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science

Monday, March 8, 2010, 12:15 pm at the Speck Auditorium in the Rowe Laboratory
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

It has been long recognized that biodiversity research leads to a very broad diversity of data but in spite of this complexity biologists are not routinely trained in informatics and there is relatively little information infrastructure within their facilities. In this presentation we will analyze a number of biodiversity informatics projects to identify the critical informatics skills required to make the project successful. The survey of projects will be based in part on the biodiversity informatics projects funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation http://www.jrsbdf.org/ and the speaker’s projects. Some of the projects will include specimen digitization, text mining, sensors, mining character states from text, text fusion, animal tracking, biodiversity decision support systems, morphological ontologies, georeferencing, niche modeling and others. This analysis will be used to inform a discussion of the diversity information technologies that would need to be taught in a graduate program in biodiversity informatics to support the next generation of biodiversity informatics.
 
P. Bryan Heidorn is the director of the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science beginning October, 2009. The prior two years he was a program manager at the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure were he worked on programs such as Advances in Biological Informatics, Assembling the Tree of Life, Dimensions in Biodiversity Working Group, the Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Center, the cross-agency Data Working Group and others. From 1995-2009 he was a faculty member the Graduate School of Library and Information Science where he participated in the creation of a masters degree in biological informatics and a concentration in data curation in the MLS degree.  His research methods include machine learning, text mining and information retrieval applied to biodiversity research.
__
Holly Miller
MBLWHOI Library
hmiller at mbl.edu
x7632






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.whoi.edu/pipermail/data-mongers/attachments/20100305/c319eecf/attachment.htm