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VoCamp Home

This is the home page for the "Phyloinformatics VoCamp" workshop event scheduled to take place in coordination with the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting in Montpellier, France, in November, 2009.

Quick links

• See the list of VoCamp Participants, with links to some of their projects
• Contribute your idea to the VoCamp Pitches list of candidate projects
• Find related resources such as ontologies and other artefacts to be used during the vocamp
• Learn some background to understand how ontologies and other artefacts are developed and used
• Pore over the mailing list archive or our meeting notes
• The original VoCamp proposal
• The TDWG Interest Group on Phylogenetics Standards

Overview

Integrating diverse biological data with the historical process of evolution is a grand challenge for 21st century biology. The interoperability of data from diverse fields (e.g., genetics, ecology, biodiversity, biomedicine) requires a technology infrastructure based on formalized, shared vocabularies. Developing such vocabularies is a community project. In order to build controlled vocabularies and ontologies, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is sponsoring a "Phyloinformatics VoCamp".

The Phyloinformatics VoCamp is a hands-on meeting for investigators to create and develop ontologies and lightweight vocabularies in support of integration and semantic cross-linking of evolutionary data with its many related fields. It will be held on November 7-11, 2009 in Montpellier, France, co-localized with the annual meeting of the International Biodiversity Information Standards Organization (TDWG).

Schedule for the event

• Saturday, Nov 7, LIRMM
  • Introductions
  • Pitches
• Sunday, Nov 8, LIRMM
• Tuesday, Nov 10, Le Corum
• Wednesday, Nov 11, Le Corum

How to prepare

explanation about background, pitches, setting goals, finding collaborators

Travel, maps and logistics

If you will have cell service during the conference, please consider sharing your number with the organizers. It will help us all to keep in touch, in case there is some confusion about locations or meals.

• Getting to LIRMM: http://www.lirmm.fr/xml/en/0003-27.html

Acknowledgements

The VoCamp event is an official activity of the TDWG Interest Group on Phylogenetic Standards and takes place through the generous support of NESCent, which funded a VoCamp proposal written by the organizers:

• Nico Cellinese
• Karen Cranston
• Hilmar Lapp
• Sheldon MacKay
• Enrico Pontelli
• Arlin Stoltzfus

The VoCamp proposal, in turn, builds on previous support from NESCent, which sponsored the Evolutionary Informatics Working Group. The EvoInfo working group, which was active from 2006 to 2009, spawned the NeXML, CDAO and PhyloWS projects, and helped to organize 2 hackathons.

The organizers also thank TDWG and LIRMM for support.