A conference theme

Marine biodiversity data

Marine species and ocean data, marine geographic units and gazetteers, and land-sea integration.

6 talks & discussions
Across rooms and sessions

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talk · Tuesday 22 September · ODIN

AURORA - A Shiny app designed to create Darwin Core Archives from messy biodiversity datasets

AURORA lowers the barrier to Darwin Core publication by guiding researchers step by step from messy tables to standard-compliant tables and metadata.

Sara Araújo ↗
talk · Tuesday 22 September · SAL B

KakraCards: An AI-Assisted Pipeline for Liberating Six Decades of Seabird Heritage Data

Multi-model consensus with human adjudication builds ground truth and picks the best LLM for transcribing standardised historical cards.

Kristjan Adojaan ↗
talk · Thursday 24 September · SAL B

Beyond Data Integration: Ecological and Semantic Interoperability in Coastal Digital Twins

Coastal digital twins expose a long list of unresolved land-sea interoperability gaps, from vertical datums and shifting shorelines to missing cross-domain ontologies.

Laura Slaughter ↗
talk · Thursday 24 September · FORUM

Mapping geographical distributions in the World Register of Marine Species

A country-aware, hierarchical marine geoscheme will let WoRMS and others record and query distributions consistently, pending a solution for defining spatial units in a TDWG standard.

Serge Gofas ↗
talk · Thursday 24 September · FORUM

Marine Regions as a backbone for the TDWG Marine GeoScheme

Marine Regions supplies the identifiers, boundaries and hierarchy that make a marine geoscheme maintainable.

Britt Lonneville ↗
talk · Friday 25 September · SAL A

Extracting Structured Biodiversity Knowledge from Literature with AI-Assisted Workflows

A hybrid text-layer/OCR tool can free tables from grey-literature PDFs into CSV with about 83% precision, but it misses a third of tables, especially narrow ones.

Yağmur Güleç ↗