21 - 25 September 2026, Oslo
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These themes are AI-derived: a model tagged each talk from its transcript, and the tags were then merged into one shared set. They are separate from the organisers’ conference tracks, which are listed on each talk’s page.
Starting points
AI-ready data
Making biodiversity data and metadata fit for machine learning: readiness definitions and metrics, dataset documentation (e.g. Croissant, dataset cards) and FAIR-for-AI.
Specimen digitisation
Digitising natural history specimens and collections, from imaging workflows and stations to national and legacy digitisation programmes.
Persistent identifiers
Persistent and content-based identifiers for specimens, samples, media, names, literature and organisms, and their stability.
Data provenance
Recording where data came from and how they were processed, including versioning, paradata and auditability.
Knowledge graphs
Constructing and using RDF and property-graph knowledge graphs to connect biodiversity data, literature and knowledge.
Data quality assessment
Tests, flags, validation and cleaning that assess and improve the quality of biodiversity records (e.g. BDQ tests).
Standards development and governance
How TDWG and other bodies develop, review, ratify, version and sustain standards, and how standards evolve and are adopted.
Biodiversity literature mining
Extracting occurrences, traits, names and other data from biodiversity literature and grey literature with text mining and NLP.
The full directory
All 123 themes.
3D and advanced specimen imaging6 talks & discussions ↗Access and benefit sharing7 talks & discussions ↗Aeroecology and animal migration2 talks & discussions ↗Agricultural biodiversity and pest management3 talks & discussions ↗AI agents and conversational data access11 talks & discussions ↗AI crawlers and bot traffic3 talks & discussions ↗AI-assisted digitisation15 talks & discussions ↗AI-assisted software development7 talks & discussions ↗AI-assisted species identification13 talks & discussions ↗AI-ready data19 talks & discussions ↗Automated sensor-based monitoring10 talks & discussions ↗Bioacoustics and passive acoustic monitoring4 talks & discussions ↗Biobanks, seed banks and living collections6 talks & discussions ↗Biodiversity digital twins5 talks & discussions ↗Biodiversity indicators and policy reporting11 talks & discussions ↗Biodiversity literature mining19 talks & discussions ↗Camera trap data9 talks & discussions ↗Capacity building and workforce14 talks & discussions ↗Citizen science16 talks & discussions ↗Collection and data use and impact11 talks & discussions ↗Collection data models13 talks & discussions ↗Collection descriptions and registries5 talks & discussions ↗Collection management systems20 talks & discussions ↗Colonial legacies and decolonisation3 talks & discussions ↗Community engagement and outreach15 talks & discussions ↗Conservation and restoration practice12 talks & discussions ↗Controlled vocabularies14 talks & discussions ↗Critical perspectives on AI4 talks & discussions ↗Darwin Core Data Package14 talks & discussions ↗Darwin Core mapping and crosswalks17 talks & discussions ↗Data access control and licensing13 talks & discussions ↗Data and digital sovereignty5 talks & discussions ↗Data discovery and search9 talks & discussions ↗Data gaps and biases13 talks & discussions ↗Data governance and stewardship9 talks & discussions ↗Data packaging and exchange formats7 talks & discussions ↗Data preservation and storage7 talks & discussions ↗Data provenance20 talks & discussions ↗Data publishing and mobilisation27 talks & discussions ↗Data quality assessment20 talks & discussions ↗Data rescue and historical data7 talks & discussions ↗Data round-tripping and provider feedback13 talks & discussions ↗Data timeliness and latency1 talks & discussions ↗Data visualisation3 talks & discussions ↗Decision support and dashboards9 talks & discussions ↗Digital extended specimen17 talks & discussions ↗Digitisation planning and prioritisation8 talks & discussions ↗Drone-based monitoring6 talks & discussions ↗Environmental and compute costs of AI7 talks & discussions ↗Environmental DNA5 talks & discussions ↗Evidence synthesis and actionable knowledge7 talks & discussions ↗Extending data standards5 talks & discussions ↗FAIR data principles10 talks & discussions ↗FAIR digital objects4 talks & discussions ↗Fitness for use8 talks & discussions ↗Foundation models and imageomics6 talks & discussions ↗Freshwater biodiversity data9 talks & discussions ↗Funding models for biodiversity infrastructure17 talks & discussions ↗Geographic standards and gazetteers7 talks & discussions ↗Georeferencing6 talks & discussions ↗Geoscience and mineral collections9 talks & discussions ↗Geospatial data infrastructure7 talks & discussions ↗Habitat classification2 talks & discussions ↗Historical archives and field notes11 talks & discussions ↗Human-in-the-loop validation18 talks & discussions ↗Identification keys and descriptive data9 talks & discussions ↗Identification provenance and uncertainty6 talks & discussions ↗Identifying and crediting people13 talks & discussions ↗Indigenous data governance6 talks & discussions ↗Infrastructure resilience and risk16 talks & discussions ↗Infrastructure sustainability16 talks & discussions ↗Invasive species6 talks & discussions ↗Knowledge graphs20 talks & discussions ↗Knowledge representation and meaning8 talks & discussions ↗Label transcription and OCR16 talks & discussions ↗Legacy data migration9 talks & discussions ↗Legacy literature digitisation9 talks & discussions ↗Linked open data and Wikidata9 talks & discussions ↗LLM evaluation and hallucination12 talks & discussions ↗LLM-based information extraction20 talks & discussions ↗Local and edge AI10 talks & discussions ↗Long-term and national monitoring16 talks & discussions ↗Marine biodiversity data6 talks & discussions ↗Minimum information standards for digitisation7 talks & discussions ↗ML training data and benchmarks13 talks & discussions ↗Molecular and sequence data4 talks & discussions ↗Multilingual biodiversity data1 talks & discussions ↗National and regional biodiversity data networks14 talks & discussions ↗Ontologies10 talks & discussions ↗Open data and open science9 talks & discussions ↗Palaeontology data5 talks & discussions ↗Persistent identifiers24 talks & discussions ↗Personal data and privacy3 talks & discussions ↗Provenance of AI-derived data8 talks & discussions ↗Remote sensing and Earth observation8 talks & discussions ↗Reproducible workflows5 talks & discussions ↗Research infrastructure landscape22 talks & discussions ↗Research software architecture8 talks & discussions ↗Responsible and trustworthy AI16 talks & discussions ↗Retrieval-augmented generation4 talks & discussions ↗Sampling-event and survey data9 talks & discussions ↗Schema design and data modelling7 talks & discussions ↗Semantic and FAIR publishing9 talks & discussions ↗Semantic interoperability17 talks & discussions ↗Sensitive and restricted-access species data11 talks & discussions ↗Species distribution modelling12 talks & discussions ↗Specimen and record annotation8 talks & discussions ↗Specimen digitisation21 talks & discussions ↗Standards development and governance24 talks & discussions ↗Taxon concepts and taxonomic change9 talks & discussions ↗Taxonomic backbones and checklists20 talks & discussions ↗Taxonomic expertise and the taxonomic impediment11 talks & discussions ↗Taxonomic name matching10 talks & discussions ↗TDWG community and governance7 talks & discussions ↗Traditional knowledge and sociobiodiversity4 talks & discussions ↗Trait and phenology data12 talks & discussions ↗Trust and research ethics4 talks & discussions ↗Type specimens3 talks & discussions ↗Under-resourced and orphaned collections6 talks & discussions ↗Urban biodiversity4 talks & discussions ↗User-centred design8 talks & discussions ↗Vector-borne disease surveillance1 talks & discussions ↗Volunteer and community curation11 talks & discussions ↗
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