Report prepared for the Experts Meeting Towards the Implementation of a Global Invasive Species
Information Network (GISIN), 6-8 April, 2004. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Appendix L
Agenda
06April2004
Tuesday
7:30am
Continental breakfast
8:00
Pre-registration
8:30
Introduction and Setting the Stage (plenary) Annie Simpson
8:50
Databasing Invasions (summary of reports from prior workshops) (plenary) Liz Sellers
9:10
Participants Survey Results Summary (plenary) Shelaine Curd-Hetrick
9:30-10:00
Refreshments (view e-posters)
10:00
Purpose and description of breakout group format and goals (plenary) Annie Simpson
10:20
Divide up and go to break out groups
Online DB infrastructure (Plaza B)
leader Hannu Saarenma, rapporteur Jenn Forman Orth
Online DB content (Plaza B)
leaders Vishwas Chavan & Bob Meese, rapporteur Catherine Crosier
Developing DBs & capacity building (Smith Room)
leaders Soetikno Sastroutomo & Silvia Ziller, rapporteur Philip Thomas
Organizational framework (Hopkins Room)
leaders Keng-Yeang Lum & Lucie Rogo, rapporteurs Shelaine Curd-Hetrick & Richard
Smith
12:00-1:00pm
Buffet lunch
1:00
Web Services: Who, What, Why, Where, and When? (plenary; information theory) Bob
Morris
1:20
Baltic Sea Regional Database Cooperation (plenary; centralized database) Sergej
Olenin
1:40
NISbase: A Distributed Database System (plenary; distributed database system) Brian
Steves, Shawn Dalton, Pam Fuller, Greg Ruiz
2:00
Return to breakout groups
3:00-3:30
Refreshments (view e-posters)
3:30
Return to breakout groups
5:00
Summary reports from breakout groups
5:30
Informal presentation: European Research Network on Aquatic Invasive Species
(ERNAIS) Stephan Gollasch, Vadim Panov
6:00
Informal presentation: FishBase: a Global Information System on Fishes Christine Casal