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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics Panel Yannis Ioannidis Univ. of Athens, Hellas Personal Background Not involved with any BDEI project No immediate knowledge of BDEI projects Involved with scientific database projects in


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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics Panel

Yannis Ioannidis

  • Univ. of Athens, Hellas
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Personal Background

  • Not involved with any BDEI project
  • No immediate knowledge of BDEI

projects

  • Involved with scientific database

projects in other domains

– biochemistry – genetics – soil science

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Potential Needs

  • Original informatics research
  • Adaptation of cutting-edge technology
  • Off-the-shelf technology
  • Organizational infrastructure
  • Ecologist training on technology
  • More ecologists doing domain research

YES to all!

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Others’ Project Titles

  • Event and process tagging for information

integration for the int’l Gulf of Maine Watershed

  • Radar remote sensing of habitat structure for

biodiversity informatics

  • Designing an infrastructure for heterogeneity of

ecosystem data, collaborators and organizations

  • Spatial data infrastructure for ecological grant
  • Biodiversity information organization using taxonomy
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Others’ Project Titles

  • Spatio-temporal models of biogeophysical fields for

ecological forecasting

  • Overcoming nomenclature complications while

searching in a distributed database environment

  • … biodiversity monitoring: extending the spatial and

temporal scales

  • Towards an operational semantics of biological

diversity: integrating structure and function in a web-accessible knowledge base

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Research Problems?

  • Object-based spatial contexts
  • Matching data on different spatial

scales

  • Spatio-temporal querying
  • Data classification
  • Knowledge inferencing
  • Data visualization
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Informatics/DB Research

  • No new research questions/areas
  • Old problems

– Modeling-Semantics-Ontologies – Heterogeneity – Spatial and Temporal Data – User Interfaces

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Informatics/DB Research

  • New kinds of data
  • New forms of semantic complexity
  • New forms of interaction
  • Large dataset sizes
  • Research for potentially new solutions

and new technologies

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Additional Activities

  • Domain scientists need other help too!

– Use of off-the-shelf technology for mundane tasks – Set up organizational infrastructure – Train domain scientists on using existing technology

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Bottom Line

  • Ecologists and computer-scientists

should work together

  • They should be willing to spend time up

front to learn to communicate

  • Computer scientists should be willing

to help ecologists on technology

  • Computer scientists have great

research opportunities by addressing

  • ld problems in new contexts