报告题目：Biodiversity Information Diversity and Education

报告人：Bryan Heidorn 博士

Director, School of Information Resources and Library Science，University of Arizona

时间： 2010年4月14日(星期三)上午10:00

地点：系统中心104会议室

联系人：崔金钟(62836136）

报告内容简介：It has been long recognized that biodiversity research leads to a very broad diversity of data (Bowker, 2000). A number of global informatics projects have begun globally to deliver this information. These projects have made it clear that there is a great need for informatics research to support biology. Similarly, in spite of the underlying information complexity biologists are not routinely trained in informatics and there is relatively little information infrastructure within their facilities. In this presentation we will analyze a number of biodiversity informatics projects to identify the critical informatics research areas as well as information management skills required to make the project successful. The survey of projects will be based in part on the biodiversity informatics projects funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation http://www.jrsbdf.org/ and the speaker’s projects. Some of the projects will include specimen digitization, text mining, sensors, mining character states from text, text fusion, animal tracking, biodiversity decision support systems, morphological ontologies, georeferencing, niche modeling and others. This analysis will be used to inform a discussion of the diversity information technologies that would need to be taught in a graduate programs to support next generation of biodiversity informatics. The talk will end with a description of the Masters and Doctoral programs at  the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona.

Bryan Heidorn 博士简介：P. Bryan Heidorn is the director of School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona beginning October, 2009. The prior two years he was a program manager at the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure were he worked on programs such as Advances in Biological Informatics, Assembling the Tree of Life, Dimensions in Biodiversity Working Group, the Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Center, the cross-agency Data Working Group and others. From 1995-2009 he was a faculty member the University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science where he participated in the creation of a masters degree in biological informatics and a concentration in data curation in the MLS degree.  His research methods include machine learning, text mining and information retrieval applied to biodiversity research.