2025 Spring Meeting

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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
Museum Koenig
Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany (First floor, on the right. Please follow the signs!)

Participants

  • Anton Güntsch (FUB-BGBM)
  • Dominik Röpert (FUB-BGBM)
  • David Fichtmüller (FUB-BGBM)
  • Quentin Groom (Meise Botanic Garden)
  • Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden)
  • Maarten Trekels (Meise Botanic Garden)
  • 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)
  • Jonas Grieb (SGN, DE)
  • Claus Weiland (SGN, DE)
  • Anke Penzlin (SGN, DE)
  • André De Mûelenaere (Africamuseum, BE)
  • Björn Quast (LIB, DE, Bonn)
  • Birgit Rach (LIB, DE, Bonn)

Draft Agenda

------------------------------------------------------------ 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
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00 AI Subgroup
17:00 - 17:30 Establishment of a new Center for Knowledge Literacy and Biodiversity Informatics at the LIB (Peter Grobe)
17:30 End of day one
19:00 - Dinner at Tuscolo, Gerhard-von-Are-Straße 8, 53111 Bonn (self paid)
------------------------------------------------------------ Day 2 - April 8 ------------------------------------------------------------
9:00 - 10:00 Type specimen initiative
10:00 - 11:00 Guided tour
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:20 Misc presentations (projects, initiatives, ideas, ...):
- Indexing of research expeditions and linking to semantic entities (Sabine von Mering)
- Enhancing geological specimen data (Laura Tilley)
- Update on MAS development in DiSSCo (Wouter Addink)
- Exsiccata series in botanical collections: Part of a shared history - IndExs demo (Dagmar Triebel)
12:20 - 12:45 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