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All the OBIS-related content at TDWG 2026 at a glance!
26 August 2026
TDWG 2026
Are you joining the TDWG 2026 conference in Oslo, Norway, on 21–25 September? We have rounded up, day by day, all the OBIS-related programme items. TDWG 2026 is touching upon numerous topics of interest to the OBIS community beyond the items listed below! You can access the full conference programme here. Are you part of the OBIS Community and participating in an agenda item we haven’t listed? Send us a message at helpdesk@obis.org.
Monday 21 September
14:00–16:00, Plenary (UiO Aula)
Extending Darwin Core to Represent Sociobiodiversity and Traditional Knowledge, Clara Baringo Fonseca (OBIS Brazil) — Talk in the Taster session.
Tuesday 22 September
8:30–10:30, Sal B
Toward RASD Implementation in Brazil: Integrating Conservation, Open Data, and Traditional Knowledge Safeguards, Clara Baringo Fonseca (OBIS Brazil) — Talk in the Symposium: SYM23 Managing restricted access data (RASD).
14:00–15:30, Sal C
Modernizing Brazil’s Taxonomic Backbone: How ChecklistBank Supports Biodiversity and Genetic Heritage Systems, Clara Baringo Fonseca (OBIS Brazil) — Talk in the Contributed Oral session: CO2 Digitizing Collections & Legacy Data.
16:00–17:00, Balder
WM48 IQAIR Task Group Work Meeting, co-led by Yasin Bakış and Hank Bart (Fish OBIS).
Thursday 24 September
8:30–10:30, Sal B
SYM15 Operationalizing Biodiversity Digital Twins within Data Space Ecosystems — Symposium, co-led by Dag Endresen (OBIS Norway).
11:00–12:30, Sal B
Challenges and Opportunities for FAIR Marine eDNA Data Publication Workflows, Berenice Talamantes Becerra (OBIS Australia) [virtual] — Talk in the Contributed Oral session: CO4 FAIR data in practice: eDNA, modelling and biodiversity concepts.
11:00–12:30, Sal C
Toward Quantitative AI-Readiness Metrics for Biodiversity Data Infrastructures, Yasin Bakış (Fish OBIS) — Talk and organiser of the Symposium: SYM46 AI-Readiness Metrics and Metadata for Biodiversity Data.
16:00–17:00, Forum
DS49 What Makes Biodiversity Data “Robot-Ready”? Standards, Infrastructure, and AI — Discussion Session, co-organized by Yasin Bakış and Hank Bart (Fish OBIS).
Friday 25 September
8:30–10:00 & 10:30–12:00, Sal A
SYM47 Large Language Models for Biodiversity Data Discovery, Integration, and Curation — Symposium in two parts, co-organized by Yasin Bakış (Fish OBIS).
10:30–12:00, Sal C
ASEAN Biodiversity Dashboard as a data-sharing platform to monitor biodiversity trends and species occurrences in the ASEAN Region, Christian “Kit” Elloran (SEA OBIS) — Talk and organiser role in the Symposium: SYM28 From Standards to Implementation: Connecting Observation Data in Asia to GBIF Infrastructure.
