Presentations

Speaker presentations from the Life and Literature Conference are available on the BHL wiki.

Each panel, presenter, and presentation are also listed below or will be added in the future as permission is granted.

Plenary Presentations:  

Richard Pyle: "A Brief History of Everything that Really Matters"  

George Dyson: "Darwin Against the Machines"    

Session One: Research, Informatics, and the Published Record Panel:  

Sandra Knapp: "Research, Informatics, and the Published Record: Life, the Universe, and Everything"

Stan Blum: "Biodiversity Informatics and the Biodiversity Literature"

Elycia Wallis: "Digitising for What?"

Donat Agosti: "The Future"

  

Session Two: Publishers, Aggregators, and Authors Panel: 

 

Susan Skomel: "Publishers, Aggregators, and Authors: New Models and Access"  

Lyubo Penev: "The Pensoft Journal System and XML-Based Workflow"  

Jan Reichelt: "Mendeley Research Networks: Life and Literature Conference"  

Catriona MacCallum: "PLoS: Public Library of Science"    


Abel Packer: "SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online"

Session Three: Learning and Education Panel: 

 

Ken Walker: "Digitized Legacy Biodiversity Scientific Literature and Biodiversity Databases"  

Douglas Wilkin: "CK-12"  

Devin Reese: "Bringing the Biodiversity Heritage Library into Secondary School Classrooms"  

Natalia Zamora: "Costa Rica's National Biodiversity Institute and its Bioliteracy Program: Sharing Knowledge and Information about Biodiversity with Society"

Session Four: Building Collaborative Networks for Science and the Humanities through Scientific Literature Panel: 

Janet Browne: "Illustrations as Substitute Specimens"

Alain Touwaide:  "Valeriana and the Banana Tree: Massive Digitization and the Dynamics of Publication"

Peggy Macnamara:  "Birds and Nests"

 Chris Wildrick: "Interactive Projects and Exploratory Systems: Imagination and Identification at the Limits of Knowledge"

Closing Remarks 

Closing remarks from BHL Director Tom Garnett