BiCIKL Hackathon

The BiCIKL Hackathon will take place on September 20-24, 2021 at Meise Botanic Garden. This hackathon is a five-day coding event and is held to test and identify barriers to interoperability between the infrastructures. In BiCIKL we want to link up different data types such as specimens, taxon names, literature and sequences. The Hackathon will explore what the technical issues and requirements are for linking data types in the different infrastructures.

All BiCIKL partners were invited to propose topics which were then reviewed in the week of June 28-July 2 by partners involved in Task 1.2.

• Organizational details
  • How to get to Meise Botanic Garden
    • From Brussels Airport (15 km away)
    • From Brussels-Midi train station
  • Accommodation
• Topics for the BiCIKL Hackathon 2021
  • Topic Overview

Organizational details

How to get to Meise Botanic Garden

From Brussels Airport (15 km away)

Meise Botanic Garden can be reached by a direct De Lijn bus connection (Zaventem-Merchtem line 821 ). Be aware that Brussels Airport is not the same airport as Brussels South (Charleroi) airport.

From Brussels-Midi train station

First take the train to Brussels-North where you will then take a direct bus connection (Lines 250 or 251) to the main entrance of the Botanic Garden.

Accommodation

You can choose to stay in a hotel close to the Garden such as the Falko hotel (2 km away) or the Hotel Ibis Brussels Expo Atomium (4 km away). However, if you would like to stay closer to where the bars and restaurants are then you better choose a hotel located in the city center of Brussels such as Hotel Novotel Brussels City Centre. It will take you approximately 45 minutes to get from Brussels city centre to the Garden by bus. Check the website for the bus timetable here.

Topics for the BiCIKL Hackathon 2021

1. Finding the lost parents
2. How good are Triple IDs in ENA
3. Enhance the GBIF clustering algorithms
4. Assigning latin scientific names to OTUs based on sequence clusters
5. Registering biodiversity-related vocabulary as Wikidata lexemes and link their senses to Wikidata items
6. FAIR Digital Object design from multiple sources
7. Enriching Wikidata with information from OpenBiodiv about taxonomic name usages in context from different literature sources
8. Linking specimen with material citation and vice versa
9. Hidden women in science
10. Lifeblock Testnet

Topic Overview

Project number	Project title	Lead	Partners/infrastructures involved
1	Finding the lost parents	MBG (Quentin Groom)	SIB, GBIF, COL, Plazi, Wikidata
2	How good are Triple IDs in ENA?	BGBM (Jörg Holetschek)	ENA, GBIF
3	Enhance the GBIF clustering algorithms	GBIF (Tim Robertson)
4	Assigning latin scientific names to OTUs based on sequence clusters	GBIF (Thomas Jeppesen, Tobias Frøslev)	UNITE/PlutoF, COL
5	Registering biodiversity-related vocabulary as Wikidata lexemes and link their senses to Wikidata items	Pensoft (Daniel Mietchen)	Wikidata, Plazi, COL
6	FAIR Digital Object design from multiple sources	Naturalis (Sharif Islam, Wouter Addink)	TDWG, GBIF, ENA, OpenBiodiv, DiSSCo
7	Enriching Wikidata with information from OpenBiodiv about taxonomic name usages in context from different literature sources	Pensoft (Mariya Dimitrova, Lyubomir Penev)	OpenBiodiv, Wikidata, GBIF, Plazi, Zoobank
8	Linking specimen with material citation and vice versa	Plazi (Donat Agosti)	SIB, BFH, MBG, GBIF, BGBM
9	Hidden women in science	MBG (Maarten Trekels)	Wikidata, Plazi, GBIF, CETAF, Science stories
10	Lifeblock Testnet	Lifewatch

Agenda

Time zone: CEST

Monday 20/9

Start: 12:00

Programme:

• 12:00-13:00 Registration and sandwich lunch

HYBRID MEETING

• 13:00-13:45 Welcome
• 13:45-17:45 Presentations of infrastructures used in the hackathon and project presentations:

  • 13:45-14:00 DiSSCo

  • 14:00-14:15 ENA

  • 14:15-14:30 SIB

  • 14:30-14:45 LifeWatch ERIC

  • 14:45-15:00 TreatmentBank

  • 15:00-15:15 PlutoF

  • 15:15-15:30 OpenBiodiv

  • 15:30-15:45 Short coffee break

  • 15:45-16:00 COL

  • 16:00-16:15 GBIF

  • 16:15-16:20 Project 1

  • 16:20-16:25 Project 2

  • 16:25-16:30 Project 3

  • 16:30-16:35 Project 4

  • 16:35-16:40 Project 5

  • 16:40-16:45 Project 6

  • 16:45-16:50 Project 7

  • 16:50-16:55 Project 8

  • 16:55-17:00 Project 9

  • 17:00-17:45 Discussion about the projects

END HYBRID MEETING

• 17:30-19:00 Reception

Tuesday 21/9

Start: 9:00

Programme:

• 9:00-12:30 Hacking in teams
• 12:30-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-16:30 Hacking in teams
• 16:30-17:30 Teams report progress, problems,...

Wednesday 22/9

Start: 9:00

Programme:

• 9:00-12:30 Hacking in teams + Parallel technical team meeting (9:00-11:00 at Van Heurck Auditorium)
• 12:30-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-16:30 Hacking in teams
• 16:30-17:30 Teams report progress, problems,...
• 17:30-23:00 Tapas & beer tasting

Thursday 23/9

Start: 9:00

Programme:

• 9:00-12:30 Hacking in teams
• 12:30-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-17:30 Hacking in teams

Friday 24/9

Start: 9:00

Programme:

HYBRID MEETING

• 9:00-12:30 Presentations of each team and discussion of the results

END HYBRID MEETING

• 12:30-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00 End hackathon