5th International Flora Malesiana Symposium

9-14 September 2001, SYDNEY, Australia

Bioinformatics Mini-symposium
a symposium on bioinformatics of the Malesian region

Co-ordinators:

Barry Conn (barry.conn@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au)
Jim Croft (jrc@anbg.gov.au)

General symposium information: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/fm/fm.html
General symposium enquiries: fmv@rbgsyd.gov.au

Venue:

Conference and Symposium: Royal Botanic Gardens, SYDNEY, Australia
Associated workshops: Tropical Forest Research Centre, ATHERTON, North Queensland, Australia
Preconference tour: starting CAIRNS, North Queensland, Australia

Introduction and organization

A mini-symposium on biodiversity informatics in the Malesian region is being run as part of the 5th International Flora Malesiana Symposium in Sydney, 9 - 14 September 2001.

This mini-symposium will focus on digital information management of the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, phytogeography and conservation patterns of plants of the Malesian region. Presentations will be in the form of presented papers and/or poster displays. This mini-symposium will provide overview presentations on the benefits of comtemporary computer technology to the management of data and information for the flora of the Malesian region.

The Biodiversity Mini-symposium will be programmed and run to fit in with and be a part of the main Flora Malesiana Symposium.

Tentative program

The following tentative program is based on preliminary indications from the coordinating committee concerned. Understandably attendance and titles are not final yet, and other committments and funding problems may prevent some people from attending. Nevertheless we will attempt to keep this web version of the program as up to date as possible. Any changes to the program and the attendee list will be made on this web version first before being printed and distributed by other means.

Name	Country	Activity	Topic
Monday afternoon - Flora Malesiana Website Workshop and discussion
		Workshop	Flora Malesiana website
Thursday - Bioinformatics mini-symposium Bioinformatics and the Flora Malesiana
Jim Croft	Australia	Chair	Welcome, introduction
Barry Conn	Australia	Keynote speaker	Standards
Reed Beeman	Australia	Keynote Speaker	Biogeomatics
Bill Barker	Australia	Keynote Speaker	Australia's Virtual Herbarium
Kevin Thiele ?	Australia	Keynote Speaker	XML and descriptive data
Morning Tea Databasing and Interactive Keys
	Papua New Guinea		Web-based databasing
	Indonesia		IBIS (Indonesia)
			Specimen / taxon imaging
Trevor Whiffin	Australia		Interactive Keys
Ken Hill / Kevin Thiele	Australia		On-line Interactive Keys
Lunch - Demonstrations
			Demonstrations
Afternoon Tea - Discussion
			Concluding discussions

Field Trips

Pre- and mid-conference field trips and excursions are being organized.

Organizers and Sponsors

The 5th International Flora Malesiana Symposium is being organized by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and the Centre for Plant Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium, Canberra, on behalf of the Flora Malesiana Foundation, Leiden.