Open-access for biodiversity information

Opening of the First ENBI e-conference by ENBI team (10th Septemeber)

Session 1: Sharing biodiversity information

• Opening Statement by Patricia Mergen (moderator) (10th September)
• Reliability of biodiversity information by Hendrik Segers (10th September)
  • Re: Reliability - Data Quality by Stefanie Weykam (11st September)
  • Re: Reliability - Data Quality by Hendrik Segers (11st September)
  • Re: Reliability - Data Quality by Christelle Malbrouck (15th September)
  • Re: Reliability - Data Quality - Data assessment by Francisco Pando (15th September)
• Aspects of harmonisation and standardisation by Sophie Condé (16th September)
  • Re: by Francisco Pando (16th September)
  • Re: by Patricia Mergen (17th September)
• Data reliability and completeness vs. storage. Why losing information? by Joaquín Hortal Muñoz (18th September)
  • Re: by Patricia Mergen (19th September)
  • Qualifying data is a problem, data storage is not by Francisco Pando (19th September)
    • Re: by Joaquin Hortal (19th September)
  • A unique, invariable, reference for each specimen is desirable by Joaquín Hortal Muñoz (19th September)
    • Re: by Patricia Mergen (19th September)
    • Re: by Hendrik Segers (19th September)
      • Re: A stable part - GPS Georeference by Patricia Mergen (19th September)
    • Re: by Joaquín Hortal Muñoz (19th September)
    • Re: by Ernst Vitek (19th September)
      • Specimen (and observation record) identifier by Walter Berendsohn (26th September) (Contribution to session 3)
    • Re: by Joaquín Hortal Muñoz (19th September)
      

Session 2: Biodiversity information: What services are needed and how the data providers should supply them?

• Opening Statement by Christian Köppel (moderator) (15th September)
• Comments to the Opening Statement by Laura Padovani (17th September)
• Comments on point 4: From data for scientists to data for society by Patricia Mergen (17th September)
• What mechanisms are needed to ensure a permanent dialogue between providers and users? by Manfred Ade (18th September)
• What services are needed and how the data providers should supply them? by Christian Köppel (19th September)

Session 3 : General discussion about most relevant topics arisen in the previous sessions

• Opening by Marisa Esteban (moderator) (22nd September)
• Little summary of session 1 by Patricia Mergen (22nd September)
• From data for scientists to data for society (some notes to Session 2, point 4) by Marisa Esteban (23rd September)
• Usability and commercial exploitation of Biodiversity information by Marisa Esteban & Belén Estébanez (24th September)
  • Re: by Elizabeth Watson (1st October)
• ENBI and biodiversity end-users by Cees Hof (26th September)
  • Re: by Walter Berendsohn (26th September)
    • Re: by Cees Hof (26th September)
  • Re: by Marisa Esteban (26th September)
  • Re: By Patricia Mergen (26 th September)

Closing remarks by ENBI team (28th September)