Alun SaltTweets from the Friday evening public lecture at the International Botanical Congress.
Photo by mgjefferies on flickr
(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 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Public Lecture. Donald Hobern: The Atlas of Living Australia #alau – infrastructure for boidiversity research. | |||
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| “ | Hobern – uses of the #alau – agriculture, climate change, pests and diseases, invasive flora and fauna – too many to tweet #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – Shoutouts to AVH, OZCAM, Birds Australia, GBIF #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | … and EoL, Catalogue of Life, Barcode of Life etc. etc. – shoutouts for #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – Names are important – don’t want users to think that giant pandas occur in Aust. First step is what occurs here. #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Donald Hobern #alau stressing the importance of scientifc names of organisms, links to all other biological and environmental data. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | hobern – talking about the value of web services – can’t agree more! #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Donald Hobern explaining #alau #webservices to the public. There are some things a bloke just has to know. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Yay – dots on maps. #loveit #nothinglikeit #ibc18 #alau | |||
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| “ | Hobern #alau: now getting into the good stuff – #dotzonmapz; herbarium specimens; Darwin Core, yes, #Dwc! #thepublicmustbetold. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – insects hard to database – in comparison to beautifully mounted herbarium specimens #ibc18 #alau | |||
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| “ | 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 | |||
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| “ | Darwin Core elements on screen! And a typo. The public need to see how their sausages are made. #biodiversityisnotalwayspretty #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Public still remaining in the theatre even after seeing confronting graphic demonstration of errors in data #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Donald Hobern trotting out his Australian #gbif error detection slides. #bestsbiodiversityinformaticslidesever #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #alau explore your area – find out what lives (or used to live) in your area. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – overview of collecting institutions – impressive visualisation of records collected over time and space #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | And now Donald introducing #alau mappy stuff with ‘explore your area’ and the spatial portal. Find it on http://www.ala.org.au #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern talking about #alau spatial portal – 350 different map layers that can be used #awesome #moreisbetter #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – sensitive data service – can restrict public view of the data based on configurable rules. #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Donald Hobern: strutting the #alau spatial portalfunctionality. try this: http://spatial.ala.org.au/ #gonuts #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern. #alau species pages: information in a structured form. Images useful in identification, engaging volunteers. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Species pages – moving beyond the basic information – we want picutres #eyecandy #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Public can volunteer to transcribe label data – now I know why the public were invited to this talk #ibc18 #alau | |||
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| “ | Hobern plugging #IdentifyLife http://www.identifylife.org , a tool to help, um, identify life ‘n stuff. #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Identify life – they have web services too #everyonesdoingit #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | And here it comes. Donald Hoberm spruiking the OZ node of Biodiversity Heritage Library #bhlau. #oldbookz #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #bhlau hobern showing how annotations will work to link back to the #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – Citizen Science: what we used to call amateur natural history. #ibc18 #alau | |||
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| “ | Donald Hobern plugging the Taxonomic Resources Information Network #trin http://wiki.trin.org.au in partic. the mangrove wiki #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern shoutout to @museumvictoria biodiversity snapshots, birds australia and other cit. sci. initiatives #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #CitizenScience – public can collect ocurrence data, verify occurrences, check data, etc., and yes, use #webservices. #alau #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern – contextual identification. Identify what is in your area using the #alau #identifylife and #webservices #ihaveadream #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hobern answers question from David Cameron about accuracy of data and how to display the precision. #alau #ibc18 #thatsit | |||
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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.
