The conference was organised as a series of four consecutive thematic sessions. In an opening session, several acknowledged experts presented some key aspects in the field of data management. The final session was dedicated to general conclusions. Posters were on display for the duration of the conference. The presentations (pps format) can be downloaded by clicking on the titles.

Programme

• Opening Session

  • Ehlers, Peter (BSH). Opening of the Conference on Ocean Biodiversity Informatics
  • Costello, Mark; Vanden Berghe, Edward. OBI objectives
  • Gillin, Julie. ICES view
  • Rickards, Lesley. Representative of IODE
  • Imhoff, H. (BMU). Representative of German Government
  • Nast, Friedrich (BSH). Practical arrangements
  • Arthur Chapman. From Data to Uncertainty - Principles of Data Quality
  • Donald Hobern. Architecture and Standards for Global Biodiversity Informatics - a GBIF and TDWG Perspective
  • Pauly, Daniel; Watson, R. Fisheries Impact on Global Marine Biodiversity and ecosystems: inference from large heterogeneous data sets

• Information system development

  • Best, B.; Halpin, Patrick. Emerging Open Source Software, Standards and Protocols Used for Sharing and Analyzing Marine Biogeographic Data
  • Duckworth, Kim. The application of standardised data quality improvement methodologies to data describing marine biodiversity: three case studies illustrating the New Zealand experience
  • Finney, Kim. Key Ingredients For Developing A National Oceans Portal
  • Hahn, A.; Kirchhoff, A.; Berendsohn, W.G. Networking Biodiversity Data – Online Access to Distributed Datasources in GBIF-D
  • Lehfeldt, Rainer. The Role of Metadata in the Management of Data from the Coastal Zone
  • Lowry, Roy; Bird, Laura; Haaring, Pieter. A Semantic Modelling Approach to Biological Parameter Interoperability
  • Rees, Tony. Evolving concepts in the architecture and functionality of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System
  • Schaap, Dick. Pan-European network for ocean and marine data & information management – (SEA-SEARCH)
  • Stocks, Karen I.; Baker, Karen S. How do you build an information system that works? Lessons from environmental case studies

• Taxon-based systems

  • Deprez, Tim; Vincx, Magda; Vanden Berghe, Edward; Mees, Jan. NeMys: An evolving biological information system, a state of art
  • Enevoldsen, Henrik; Lion, Monica; Sexto, Cristina; Sims, Benjamin. The IOC-ICES-PICES Harmful Algal Event Data-base, HAE-DAT
  • Froese, Rainer. Lessons learned in the design, data management and user needs of FishBase.
  • Greve, Wulf. Communicating the properties of marine organisms as the second dimension of marine biodiversity
  • Lleonart, J.; Lamboeuf, M.; Taconet, M. FAO databases on Marine Species Identification for Fishery Purposes
  • Smirnov, I.S.; Voronina, E.P.; Lobanov, A.L.; Neyelov, A.V. The Information System of The Marine Animals Collection (Fish And Invertebrates) in The Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Lelekov, S.G.; Tokarev, Yu. N; Melnikov, V.V.; Pakhorukov, N.P.; Lyakh, Anton; Georgieva, E. Yu.; Tsarin, Sergey A.; Zhuk, V.F.; Belogurova, Yu. B; Danilova, O.N. TAXEX: TAXonomical EXpert System. History of development and technology of identification
  • Vanden Berghe, Edward; Bouchet, Philippe; Boxshall, Geoff; Costello, Mark J.; Emblow, Chris. European Register for Marine Species Version 2.0: data management, current status and plans for the future

• Geography-based systems

  • Arvanitidis, Christos; Valavanis, Vasilis D. MedOBIS: Biogeographic Information System for the Mediterranean and Black Sea
  • Costello, Mark J.; Grassle, Fred; Zhang, Yunqing; Stocks, Karen I.; Rees, Tony. The evolution and future challenges of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System
  • Davies, Jon; Wilkinson, Steve; Connor, David. Managing and distributing marine biodiversity data to meet the needs of marine conservation
  • Halpin, Patrick; Read, A.; Crowder, L.; Best, B.; Hyrenbach, D.; Freeman, S. OBIS-SEAMAP: Developing a Biogeographic Research Data Commons for the Conservation of Marine Mammals, Sea Birds and Sea Turtles
  • Kiefer, D.A.; O’Brien, F.J.; Domeier, Michael L. A New Environmental Information System for Tracking Tagged Marine Organisms
  • Larsen, Lena Inger. Trawl survey data stored at ICES
  • Levitus, S.; Gelfeld, R. Building ocean profile-plankton database: Progress since the first "International Workshop on Oceanographic Biological and Chemical Data Management"
  • O'Brien, Todd D. Building a Global Plankton Database: Eight years after Hamburg 1996
  • Stevens, Darren; Richardson, Anthony. The Continuous Plankton Recorder Database: current uses and future directions

• Analysis

  • Guinotte, John M.; Bartley, Jeremy D.; Iqbal, Asif; Fautin, Daphne G.; Buddemeier, Robert W. Predicting and understanding biogeographic ranges from occurrence records and correlated environmental data: a method-development study using clownfishes and their sea anemone hosts
  • Meerhaeghe, A.; De Cauwer, K.; Devolder, M.; Jans, S.; Scory, S. Operational integration of biodiversity and physico-chemical data: experience at the BMDC
  • Branton, R.; Ricard, D. Using OBIS to Provide Reliable Regional Scale Estimates of Population Indices for Marine Species from Research Trawl Surveys
  • Ricard, D.; Myers, R.A.; Lucifora, L.; Ferretti, F.; Porter, A. Integrating the OBIS schema into the information system that supports the Pew Global Shark Assessment
  • Cousineau, P.; Keeley, J. R. Integrating marine information and products using the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)
  • Dadic, V.; Ivankovic, D. MEDAS System for Archiving, Visualisation and Validation of Oceanographic Data
  • Kozyr, Alexander; Key, R.M. Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP): Results and Data Presentation through Cdiac Data Visualization Tools
  • Brenner, Jorge; Jimémez, José A. Spatial database model of ichthyofauna bioindicators of coastal environmental quality
  • Costello, Mark J.; Emblow, Chris; Bouchet, Philippe; Legakis, Anastasios. An analysis of gaps in knowledge of marine biodiversity in Europe
  • Rosenberg, Gary. Species naming curves versus species accumulation curves
  • Zhuang, Wei; Zhang, Yunqing; Grassle, Fred. Identify erroneous distribution data in OBIS using outlier detection techniques

• Closing Session

  • Summaries by chairs
    • Chapman Arthur. Data Quality, take away messages
    • Gillin Julie. Data information
    • Edward Vanden Berghe. Wrap up on COD discussions
  • General discussion and commenting on draft OBI Statement

• Posters

  • Addink, Wouter; Brugman, Marc. Achieving data integration and solving interoperability problems when connecting databases to distributed systems
  • Alba-Casado, José Carlos; Pushker, Ravindra; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco. Micro-Mar: A marine prokaryotes database to correlate habitat with taxonomy
  • Appeltans, Ward; Vanden Berghe, Edward; Mees, Jan. A taxonomic and biogeographic information system of marine species in the Southern North Sea developed by Flanders Marine Institute
  • ARAMBURU, Antton; Borja, Angel; GALPARSORO, Ibon; SAGARMINAGA, Yolanda. A Marine Observatory Network for The Basque Country (N.E. Of Spain)
  • Branton, R.M., Black, G.A., Van Guelpen, L. Emergence of a Regional OBIS Node, A Summary of Present Canadian Contributions to OBIS and GMBIS
  • Chavan, Vishwas; Wafar, M.V.M.; Krishnan, S. Biodiversity Informatics and Indian Ocean: Challenges and Potentials
  • Coppola, Salvatore R.; Giacalone, Vincenzo; Bahri, Tarub. Fisheries and Ecosystems Information System: a tool for the implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Mediterranean Fisheries.
  • Danis, B.; De Broyer, C. Presentation of the SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN) project
  • Fabri, Marie-Claire; Galeron, Joëlle; Maudire, Gilbert. BIOCEAN – A new database for deep-sea benthic ecological data
  • Garnería, David; Fernández, Mercedes; Raga, J. Antonio. A Mediterranean Geo-Database of Cetacean Strandings (MEDACES): an Implement for Research and Conservation
  • Hernandez, Francisco; T'Jampens, Roeland; Vanhoorne, Bart; Vanden Berghe, Edward. Web mapping services for biological data
  • Hughes, Michael; Lowry, Roy. The BODC Taxonomic Browser – a powerful search tool to locate taxonomic information
  • Kameya, Albertina. Marine biodiversity data in Peru
  • Kaschner, K.; Watson, R.; Trites, A.W.; Pauly, Daniel. Mapping world-wide distributions of marine mammal species using a Relative Environmental Suitability (RES) model
  • Kraberg, Alexandra; Buchholz, F.; Wiltshire, K. Dealing with the challenges in presenting taxonomic information online: an introduction to PLANKTON*NET@AWI
  • Kedra, Monika; Urbanski, Jacek. Linear referencing as a tool for analyses of organic material deposition along sandy beach of Gdansk – Sopot – Gdynia (Polish coast of Baltic Sea)
  • Klenz, Birgitt. What information on biodiversity can be derived from ichthyoplankton surveys in the western Baltic Sea?
  • Koukouras, A.; Kitsos, M-S; Kirmitzoglou, I.; Arvanitidis, Christos. Development of an updating information system on Decapoda Crustacea Museum collections, useful in education and scientific research
  • Lakkis, Sami. Plankton Dataset from Lebanese Seawater
  • Larsen, Janus. DOME – Database on Oceanography and Marine Ecosystems
  • Millard, Keiran; Hernandez, Francisco; Vanden Berghe, Edward. Integration of Biological Information with other information classes - the experiences of the IOC/IODE MarineXML initiative
  • Miranda, A.; Eirín, C.; Fernández, G. Mesozooplankton from Ría de Vigo (NW Spain) and its adjacent shelf between 1995 and 2003.
  • Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle. Marine Biological Data Management at the British Oceanographic Data Centre
  • Myroshnychenko, V.; Beken, S.C. Polat. MED POL Phase III Database
  • O'Brien, Todd D. NMFS-COPEPOD: An online, investigator-friendly, global plankton database.
  • Palacios, Carmen; Olsson, Bert; Boetius, Antje; Lebaron, Philippe. New biotechnologies for sampling the ecological diversity of the oceans: the informatics challenge
  • Panov, Vadim; Shestakov, Vladimir S. Towards an information system on aquatic invasive species with early warning functions for European coastal waters
  • Parr, Jon; Lear, Dan. The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN)
  • Patterson, Edward J.K. Marine Biodiversity Data Management and Dissemination: A case study from Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve, Southeast coast of India
  • Rees, Hubert; Rachor, Eike; Vanden Berghe, Edward. The ICES North Sea Benthos Project: Objectives and Data Management
  • Rius, Josephine; Tolentino-Pablico, G.; Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel. Predicting trophic level for all fishes
  • Sato, Satoshi; Nagao, Michihiro; Baba, Norio; Tomioka, Yutaka. Marine Biological Data Management at Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)
  • Sergeyeva, O. Environmental Sensitivity Mapping
  • Stocks, Karen I.; Tittensor, Derek; Myers, R.A. Using data systems to evaluate seamount biogeography
  • Tsontos, V.M.; Kiefer, D.A.; O’Brien, F.J. A Web-based Fisheries Oceanographic Information System for the Gulf of Maine
  • Vanhoorne, Bart; Claus, Simon; Cuvelier, Daphne; Vanden Berghe, Edward; Mees, Jan. EurOBIS: The European node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System