Preliminary Programme of the First ENBI Forums Workshop (Pruhonice, 25th - 28th March 2004)

The topic for this First ENBI Forums Workshop will be derived from the issues raised during the First and Second ENBI e-conferences: Open-access for biodiversity information (8 - 28th September 2003) and Data Validation and Restrictions in the GBIF network (9 - 24th March 2004), respectively.

Tuesday, 25 May 2004

12.30 - 14.00 Registration at the Information Point ( Institute of Botany, Pruhonice, Prague)

14.00 - 15.30 Opening session

• Welcome and Presentation - Jan Kirschner (Director of Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and ENBI-Forum partner).
• Introduction to the Meeting - Francisco Pando (ENBI Forum Co-ordinator)
• Keynote speech: Technical options for managing data quality in the GBIF network - Donald Hobern (GBIF Secretariat)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 17.30 Opening session (cont.)

• Report from ENBI -GBIF workshop (Stturgart, 17th -19th March, 2004): Techniques and challenges for digital imaging of biological type specimens –contributions for a manual of current best practices and standards - Patricia Mergen (BeBIF node manager).
• Report on Conference on Molecular Biodiversity (Copenhagen, 11th - 12th March 2004) - Henrik Enghoff (Director Natural History Museum of Denmark).
• Presentation on CETAF and SYNTHESYS - Marian Ramos (CETAF chair and Vice-Director of Research at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain).
• Presentation on BioCASE and ENBI - Javier de la Torre (ENBI work package 6).
  

20.00 Evening party

Wednesday, 26 May 2004

9.00 - 10.30 Presentations

• Report from e-conference 1 : Open-access for biodiversity information - Patricia Mergen, e-conference 1 moderator (BeBIF node manager).
• Report from e-conference 2: Data Validation and Restrictions in the GBIF network - Nicolas Bailly, e-conference 2 moderator (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris).
  
• Discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 Breakout groups I

1. Open-access for biodiversity information
2. Data validation and Restrictions in the GBIF network

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Breakout groups I (cont.)

1. Open-access for biodiversity information
2. Data validation and Restrictions in the GBIF network

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 17.30 Presentation of conclusions

1. Presentation: Open-access for biodiversity information
2. Presentation: Data validation
3. General discussion
   

Thursday, 27 May 2004

9.00 - 10.30 European Nodes presentations

• GBIF in Europe (EU-BIF). General introduction
• BeBIF Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility - Patricia Mergen
• BULBIONET Bulgarian Biodiversity Network - Yordan Uzunov
• Czech Node - Milena Roudna
• Danbif Danish Biodiversity Information Facility - Henrik Enghoff
• The Hugarian situation in relation to the GBIF initative - Attila András Takács

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 European Nodes presentations (cont.)

• Italian experience on exchange of information and co-operation on Biodiversity - Barbara Di Giovanni
• Polish Node - Piotr Tykarski
• Slovenian Node - Mladen Kotarac
• Slovak Node - Karol Marhold
• GBIF.ES Spanish GBIF node - Francisco Pando
• NBN United Kingdom's National Biodiversity Network - Paul Harding
  

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Breakout groups II

1. Node managers
2. Data providers and users: Needs and expectations on GBIF nodes

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee breaks

16.00 - 17.30 Breakout groups II (cont.)

1. Node managers
2. Data providers and users: Needs and expectations on GBIF nodes

Friday, 28 May 2004

9.00 - 10.30 General discussion

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 12.30 Cluster I meeting

The work of the workshop will be base upon the contributions and results of the two past ENBI e-conferences:

	First ENBI Electronic Conference (10th - 28th September 2003)
	Second ENBI Electronic Conference (9th - 24th March 2004)