Bring your perspectives on how to "Describe Life" to the 6th annual event on TaxonWorks, its community, and the broader world of biodiversity informatics.
What
Our 5th TaxonWorks Together, 6-8 May 2025. Join us for 3 days of activities centered around building the collective TaxonWorks community within the broader context of biodiversity informatics around the world, highlighting what's new, changed, and on the horizon. Activities range from highly guided, to un-conference style, with informational (demos, new features, participant presentations) and conversational (e.g. round-table, Q & A) opportunities mixed throughout. As always, we invite new audiences to join us to gather insights for tailoring future directions, our topics will range from those involving TaxonWorks directly (how can we improve) to grand-challenges facing or collective communities (e.g. data quality, semantics and standards, sustaining communities, agency).
Expect lots of opportunities to ask questions, meet others, and to contribute the conversation, your feedback and contributions will make a difference.
When
6 - 8th May 2025
- See Schedule.
- Here already? Please add your event idea for TWTogether 2025 (click "New Issue").
- Can't wait to participate? If you want to share a longer perspective at TWT 2025 on the role of taxon pages or how the process of taxonomic circumscription might evolve propose it to us! See Contact us.
- Now! Plan your 3-minutes 1 slide presentation. Each day an open session where you can emphasize what's important to your biodiversity informatics world, whether TaxonWorks related or not.
How
All sessions virtual (Zoom) and free to attend. Registration is required. Space may be limited.
Take the first step and register for free with your email which sends you your Zoom link.
Post ideas, requests, questions for our event sessions.
If you would like to present your insights or ideas on a given topic about TaxonWorks let us know we'll add you to the list
Group notes doc for TaxonWorks Together 2025
Do more
New to TaxonWorks? Learn about TaxonWorks features and functions via the TaxonWorks YouTube videos and visit the online documentation.
Discover TaxonWorks in a sandbox now. It's ready-to-use, no software installation needed, Request sandbox account.
Not required, but recommended. A GitHub account will help you better participate in many aspects of the community and help you get recognition for the work and expertise you contribute.
If you are software developer and you want to hack TaxonWorks itself, please start reading install_taxonworks. You Don't Need To Install TW locally to use it. (See number 2 above).
Got data in TaxonWorks already? Looking to experiment to see what your TaxonPages will look like? Try installing this software "locally" (on your computer) to find out. (You will need to install Node on your machine, and git, there’s a link in the above instructions). You can also "see" other sites, if their API is open, look here: https://sandcastle.taxonworks.org/api/v1.
Who
Taxonomists, students, ecologists, curators, collection managers, software developers, biodiversity information scientists, para-taxonomists. If you have questions about TaxonWorks this is a great time to ask them. If you have a vision to share, this is the place. Whether you are very familiar with TaxonWorks or new to our community, all are welcome.
Speakers
Schedule
All events will have question / answer / discussion time.
May 6th -
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May 7th -
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May 8th -
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Awards
The inaugural TaxonWorks Annual Awards! To help celebrate over 10 years of development behind TaxonWorks and its community we thought it would be fun start a light-hearted event that recognizes the diverse contributions to our community. Winners all receive our first ever TaxonWorks t-shirt. Please join us in congratulating everyone, and look for next years event that will include nominations and updates coming from the broader community.
Contact
Send email to dlpaulillinoisedu or chat (Matrix/Element or Slack, both rooms are linked) with a member of the Species File Group.