Tweets from the Friday evening public lecture at the International Botanical Congress.
(The photo is from earlier this year, not the IBC, but it was the only one I could easily find)
“ First talk that I have been to at #ibc18 – Kevin Thiele introducing @dhobern talking about the atlas of living australia
“ #ibc18 Public Lecture. Donald Hobern: The Atlas of Living Australia #alau – infrastructure for boidiversity research.
“ Hobern – uses of the #alau – agriculture, climate change, pests and diseases, invasive flora and fauna – too many to tweet #ibc18
“ Hobern – Shoutouts to AVH, OZCAM, Birds Australia, GBIF #alau #ibc18
“ … and EoL, Catalogue of Life, Barcode of Life etc. etc. – shoutouts for #alau #ibc18
“ Hobern – Names are important – don’t want users to think that giant pandas occur in Aust. First step is what occurs here. #alau #ibc18
“ Donald Hobern #alau stressing the importance of scientifc names of organisms, links to all other biological and environmental data. #ibc18
“ hobern – talking about the value of web services – can’t agree more! #alau #ibc18
“ Donald Hobern explaining #alau #webservices to the public. There are some things a bloke just has to know. #ibc18
“ Yay – dots on maps. #loveit #nothinglikeit #ibc18 #alau
“ Hobern #alau: now getting into the good stuff – #dotzonmapz; herbarium specimens; Darwin Core, yes, #Dwc! #thepublicmustbetold. #ibc18
“ Hobern – insects hard to database – in comparison to beautifully mounted herbarium specimens #ibc18 #alau
“ Oh no! Donald Hobern is showing the public a plume moth. Yes, a plume moth! With a stainless steel stake through its heart! #alau ibc18
“ Darwin Core elements on screen! And a typo. The public need to see how their sausages are made. #biodiversityisnotalwayspretty #alau #ibc18
“ Public still remaining in the theatre even after seeing confronting graphic demonstration of errors in data #alau #ibc18
“ Donald Hobern trotting out his Australian #gbif error detection slides. #bestsbiodiversityinformaticslidesever #alau #ibc18
“ #alau explore your area – find out what lives (or used to live) in your area. #ibc18
“ Hobern – overview of collecting institutions – impressive visualisation of records collected over time and space #alau #ibc18
“ And now Donald introducing #alau mappy stuff with ‘explore your area’ and the spatial portal. Find it on http://www.ala.org.au #ibc18
“ Hobern talking about #alau spatial portal – 350 different map layers that can be used #awesome #moreisbetter #alau #ibc18
“ Hobern – sensitive data service – can restrict public view of the data based on configurable rules. #alau #ibc18
“ Hobern. #alau species pages: information in a structured form. Images useful in identification, engaging volunteers. #ibc18
“ Species pages – moving beyond the basic information – we want picutres #eyecandy #alau #ibc18
“ Public can volunteer to transcribe label data – now I know why the public were invited to this talk #ibc18 #alau
“ Identify life – they have web services too #everyonesdoingit #alau #ibc18
“ And here it comes. Donald Hoberm spruiking the OZ node of Biodiversity Heritage Library #bhlau. #oldbookz #ibc18
“ #bhlau hobern showing how annotations will work to link back to the #alau #ibc18
“ Hobern – Citizen Science: what we used to call amateur natural history. #ibc18 #alau
“ Donald Hobern plugging the Taxonomic Resources Information Network #trin http://wiki.trin.org.au in partic. the mangrove wiki #alau #ibc18
“ Hobern shoutout to @museumvictoria biodiversity snapshots, birds australia and other cit. sci. initiatives #alau #ibc18
“ #CitizenScience – public can collect ocurrence data, verify occurrences, check data, etc., and yes, use #webservices. #alau #ibc18
“ Hobern – contextual identification. Identify what is in your area using the #alau #identifylife and #webservices #ihaveadream #ibc18
“ Hobern answers question from David Cameron about accuracy of data and how to display the precision. #alau #ibc18 #thatsit
And I think that concludes the tweets for the public lecture. I’m moving house now, but I hope to be online one way or another for the final day tomorrow.
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