[seek-taxon] 5th International Conference on Ecological Informatics

[Matt Jones]

Hi Jessie,

I've now heard back from the ISEI folks and have some answers for you.

The conference is generally on ecoinformatics, and papers from any 
topical area are welcome.  So all of your suggested topics will be fine. 
  The conferece organizer said:

Fred Recknagel wrote:
> The sessions have been defined as possible themes of the conference.
> Some may not attract enough papers to be run as sessions and a new 
> session theme may emerge by submitted abstract topics.
> 
> That means we will schedule sessions only after reviewing abstracts
> and are flexible enough to modify or add sessions.
> 
> Please encourage people to submit abstracts on any aspect of 
> ecological informatics and then we will structure them into sessions.

Bill and I will be able to select from the submitted abstracts to create 
a session on metadata and semantics, but there may be other related 
sessions as well.

More comments inline below...

Kennedy, Jessie wrote:
> Hi Matt/Bill
> We just had a SEEK taxon call and we were discussing the 5th 
> International Conference on Ecological Informatics and what we should 
> try and submit for it.
>
> Could you please give us some advice….
> 
> Is the conference made up of ONLY the list of special sessions announced 
> on the web site or will it be these special sessions plus other sessions 
> determined from the abstracts submitted to the conference?
> 
> If it is only the special sessions then I think that there are only two 
> sessions that SEEK taxon might submit an abstract to:
> 
> *Ecological applications of meta information concepts and semantic webs*
> Conveners: *Bill Michener* (/Albuquerque/), *Matt Jones* (/Santa Barbara/)
> 
> Ecological information processing and transfer
> Conveners: Ellen van Donk (Amsterdam), Adam Marsh (Lewes)
> 
> None of us have ever been to this conference and we hope that you might 
> give us some indication of the areas that might be most sensible for 
> SEEK taxon to try and submit. We were thinking we could submit papers on 
> the taxonomic concepts model for ecologists, or on the taxonomic object 
> server, or on the either of the visualisation tools or…..
I haven't been to it either, but I got involved in order to try to 
connect our community working on metadata etc to their modleing 
community more strongly.  I suspect the audience will consist of mainly 
ecological modelers and informatics specialists.  I think all of your 
sugestions are good ideas (the taxon concept model, the TOS, and vis 
tools).

> 
> Would it be sensible to pick one (or more) specific topics e.g. the TOS 
> or to put in a SEEK Taxon perspective paper that we all contribute to?
I've been asked to give an invited talk on "Ecoinformatics and Metadata" 
and I will be giving an overview of SEEK approaches in the context of 
that general talk, so I'm not sure we need another. Josh Madin has 
submitted an abstract on the SEEK KR work, so something from you guys 
that focused on taxon stuff would be great -- especially if it relates 
to semantics like TCS does.

Hope this helps,
Matt

> 
> Thanks for your help,
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> Jessie
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