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= CETAF Information Science & Technology Commission - Spring 2025 Meeting =
'''Bonn, April 7-8 2025'''
== Venue ==
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change<br>
Museum Koenig<br>
Raiffeisenhaus<br>
Adenauerallee 127<br>
53113 Bonn, Germany
(First floor, on the right. Please follow the signs!)

== Participants ==
* Anton Güntsch (FUB-BGBM, DE)
* Dominik Röpert (FUB-BGBM, DE)
* David Fichtmüller (FUB-BGBM, DE)
* Quentin Groom (Meise Botanic Garden, BE)
* Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden, BE)
* Maarten Trekels (Meise Botanic Garden, BE)
* Jiri Frank (NM, CZ)
* Adam Cironis (NM, CZ)
* Wouter Addink (Naturalis, NL)
* Dagmar Triebel (SNSB, DE)
* Stefan Seifert (SNSB, DE)
* Sabine von Mering (MfN, DE)
* Caitlin Thorn (MfN, DE)
* <s>Jonas Grieb (SGN, DE)</s>
* Claus Weiland (SGN, DE)
* <s>Anke Penzlin (SGN, DE)</s>
* André De Mûelenaere (Africamuseum, BE)
* Franck Theeten (Africamuseum, BE)
* Björn Quast (LIB, Bonn, DE)
* Birgit Rach (LIB, Bonn, DE)
* Cristina Garilao (LIB, Hamburg, DE)
* <s>Laura Tilley (CETAF, BE)</s>
* Ana Casino (CETAF, BE)
* Glorioso Alessio (CETAF, BE)
* Nicky Nicolson (Kew, UK)
* Arianna Salili-James (NHM, UK)
* Theary Ung (MNHN, Paris, FR)
* Laurent Gohy (ULiège, BE) - first day

== Agenda ==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2" | ------------------------------------------------------------ Day 1 - April 7 ------------------------------------------------------------
|-
| '''12:00 - 13:00''' || '''Arrival and lunch'''
|-
| 13:00 - 13:30 || Welcome, introduction of participants, agenda, logistics
|-
| 13:30 - 14:00 || The new ISTC Wiki and future ISTC documentation
|-
| 14:00 - 15:15 || CMS Subgroup<br>- Introduction of the new subgroup<br>- Presentations of CMS-related activities in CETAF collections<br>* [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/1/15/01_theeten_presentation_isct_2025.pdf Frank Theeten]<br>* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f_mICa50WKusn94CXW0IhELABTsx4IkV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114384447688591455468&rtpof=true&sd=true/ Maarten Trekels]<br>* [https://istc.cetaf.org/File:03_Seifert-ISTC-2025-04-07.pdf Stefan Seifert]<br>* <s>Jonas Grieb</s><br>* [https://istc.cetaf.org/images/8/89/2025-04-07_JACQ_ISTC_Bonn.pdf Dominik Röpert]<br>- Discussion of possible activities of the CMS subgroup and structuring of the collaboration
|-
| '''15:15 - 15:45''' || '''Coffee break'''
|-
| 15:45 - 17:00 || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UdHPtT6nYadYRgZjgOPMgDlTksrdO-CrbhMgFswh2YM/edit?usp=sharing/ AI, Robotics and Digital Collections Subgroup]<br>- Introduction of the new subgroup<br>- Examples of currently ongoing initiatives<br>- Discussion of possible activities of the AI subgroup and structuring of the collaboration
|-
| 17:00 - 17:30 || Cancelled: <s>Establishment of a new Center for Knowledge Literacy and Biodiversity Informatics at the LIB (Peter Grobe)</s>
|-
| '''17:30''' || '''End of day one'''
|-
| ''19:00 -'' || ''Dinner at Tuscolo, [https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.73294&mlon=7.09964#map=16/50.73294/7.09964 Gerhard-von-Are-Straße 8], 53111 Bonn (self paid)''
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2" | ------------------------------------------------------------ Day 2 - April 8 ------------------------------------------------------------
|-
| 9:00 - 10:00 || [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gnCnZgJml1dKllMoK62A8l5x93Hpmbse9Cd80TVzl98/ Type specimen initiative]
|-
| 10:00 - 11:00 || Guided tour
|-
| '''11:00 - 11:20''' || '''Coffee break'''
|-
| 11:20 - 12:20 || Misc presentations (projects, initiatives, ideas, ...):<br>- Indexing of research expeditions and linking to semantic entities (Sabine von Mering)<br>- Cancelled: <s>Enhancing geological specimen data (Laura Tilley)</s> <br> - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jQp0TKJhnbKCG_IHmNmQaIHOKTQIN7GAbQbsMx-The8/edit?usp=sharing Update on MAS development in DiSSCo] (Wouter Addink)<br>- Exsiccata series in botanical and mycological collections: [[Storytelling with IndExs|Storytelling]] with [http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de/ IndExs], demo (Dagmar Triebel)
|-
| 12:20 - 12:45 || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y4VsXEjCGDRzL7_fEMRYpqcgiD-9WUey/edit?slide=id.p2#slide=id.p2 Funding opportunities]
|-
| 12:45 - 13:00 || AOB
|-
| '''13:00''' || '''End of meeting (and packet lunch)'''
|}

== Logistics ==
=== Hotels ===
* ACHAT Sternhotel Bonn, Markt 8, 53111 Bonn, 90€
* IntercityHotel Bonn, Quantiusstraße 22, 53115 Bonn, 100€
* Hotel Motel One, Am Hauptbahnhof 12, and Berliner Freiheit 36, 53111 Bonn, 100€
* Hotel Kurfürstenhof, Baumschulallee 20, 53115 Bonn, 90€
* Beethoven Hotel Dreesen, Bonngasse 17, Zentrum, 53111 Bonn, 90€
* My Südstadt Bonn, Kaiserstraße 221, 53113 Bonn, 90€> (very close to Museum Koenig, but rooms are very noisy towards Kaiserstraße)
* For those who like it unusual: BaseCamp Hostel Bonn, In d. Raste 1, 53129 Bonn, 70€

Hotels on a map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/c6P5W2taKKTZD8HJ6