#empbiores is now closing. CETAF staff waiting to meet participants at CETAF desk @ biodiversity fair.

Quentin Groom present digitisation efforts of literature at @botanicgarden01 #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

Meanwhile, right outside the #empbiores conference, the Biodiversity Fair is a great networking opportunity.

Anton Van de Putte from @RBINSmuseum showcasing Antarctic #biodiversitydata

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The Taxonomic Backbone:from Klaas Deneudt & @LifeWatchVLIZ #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

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Remote sensing to study rare occurrences of animals with Julien Radoux from UCL university. #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

Afternoon session at #empbiores

Peter Desmet from INBO showcases bird tracking data

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Inspiring talk by @vsmithuk this morning at #empbiores . Thanks Vince!
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Acoustic ecology Acoustic ecology, sometimes called ecoacoustics or soundscape studies, is a discipline studying the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment.[1] Acoustic ecology studies started in the late 1960s with R. Murray Schafer a musician, composer and former professor of communication studies at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) with the help of his team there[2] as part of the World Soundscape Project. The original WSP team included Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp, Bruce Davies and Peter Huse, among others. The first study produced by the WSP was titled The Vancouver Soundscape. This innovative study raised the interest of researchers and artists worldwide, creating enormous growth in the field of acoustic ecology. In 1993, the members of the by now large and active international acoustic ecology community formed the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.[3]

for more info on ecoacoustics #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

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And Ecoacoustics follows. Another 6 minutes presentation. #biodiversityinformatics is vast and wide-reaching! #empbiores #biodiversity

Belgian Network for DNA Barcoding The Belgian Network for DNA Barcoding (or BeBoL for Belgian Barcode of Life project) aims at establishing a research network that provides an integrated and multidisciplinary molecular systematic and DNA barcoding task force. Its role is to:

to know more about DNA barcoding in Belgium #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

bebol.myspecies.info

Belgian DNA Barcoding Network now on stage. 6 minutes is short! #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

to know more about Vito #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

lemon.vgt.vito.be

Should data access stats be used to evaluate scientific work ? #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics #biodiversity

Scientists are being pushed to publish data openly BUT not getting credit if they do #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics #biodiversity

Open Data is an extra curricular activity for scientists. How to get them to embrace it? #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics #biodiversity

Q & A now starting #empbiores

"Open" means anyone can access use and modify the data. @pietercolpaert #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics #biodiversity

Pieter Colpaert on The controversies with #opendata publishing.
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Vince Smith: telling stories about data through compelling visualisations #empbiores #biodiversityinformatics

33k specimens per day digitized @museumnaturalis says Vince Smith (@NHM_London) #empbiores #biodiversity

Vince Smith (@NHM_London) presenting large-scale #digitization projects. #empbiores #biodiversity

Vince Smith from @NHM_London taking the stage. Presenting a strategic view of #biodiversity informatics #empbiores

Empowering Biodiversity is a satellite event of EU Green Week 2015 #empbiores #biodiversity #greenweek

CETAF discovering the constellation of belgian projects in #biodiversity informatics #empbiores

A: Improving use of data is the key, transform data into useful tools and make data more widely available.

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Hilde Eggermont drawing a landscape of the Belgian Biodiversity Informatics landscape #empbiores #biodiversity

CETAF @ Empowering Biodiversity conference in Brussels all day today #empbiores

Aline Ven Der Werf from Belspo weicomes everyone to Empowering Biodiversity conference #empbiores #biodiversity