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+title: International Botanical Congress
+date: 2024-07-25
+categories: [News]
+twitter_description: 'Presented echinopscis at the International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain'
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+
+We've presented echinopscis at the XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain as part of a symposium called "Taxonomy as Open Science: Tool support to facilitate data use for hands-on practitioners".
+
+We explained our aim in developing the tool - we wanted something that sat between the two traditional ways to deliver technology. We didn't want to build a website (as its harder to integrate your own data and working practices in this kind of project) and we didn;t want to deliver an API, as you need to be a programmer to use this effectively. We wanted to enable the use of advanced technoloogy without requiring advanced technical skills. 
+
+This presentation includes a number of short demo videos, showing how you can use different Obsidian plugins (some developed through this project, so externally developed and customised here).
+
+## Wikidata
+
+This plugin allows you to use an identifier in the frontmatter of a page to gather a list of related identifiers from Wikidata - using Wikidata as a "switchboard" to access related records elsewhere
+
+<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_58jp_Q-_tQBPJYuWeaoyjlEynPknNXK/preview" width="640" height="480" allow="autoplay"></iframe>
+
+## Glossary
+
+This plugin shows how you can look up a technical botanical term in a glossary - so that you have a reference resource side by side as you work.
+
+<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IScemobWwsX6Jcsb_80PSvOQ4Mvb_CuG/preview" width="640" height="480" allow="autoplay"></iframe>
+
+## Phylogeny viewer / navigation of notes
+
+This demo shows how we can render a phylogenetic tree from newick text and use it to navigate your personal library of references and notes
+
+<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xIYDM9iDPsKR6zetZlvhcuoXmMW0Jfas/preview" width="640" height="480" allow="autoplay"></iframe>
+
+## AI "co-pilot" 
+
+Now a couple of demos which show how we can connect your local research notes to a remote AI assistant (a large language model).
+
+### Extraction of specimen references
+
+This shows how we can reformat specimens examined paragraphs from your library of references into a table of specimen data - using the Darwin Core data standard from [Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)](https://www.tdwg.org)
+
+<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g4khh5vBGU1XYcFZxyex-5JhZIutq8nW/preview" width="640" height="480" allow="autoplay"></iframe>
+
+### Reformatting descriptive data to trait matrices
+
+Now we're reformatting descriptive data into tabular form, so that we have a trait dataset from a text input.
+
+<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/105-2yebBWNiv-lGQ27FZ2cI59m9x44DC/preview" width="640" height="480" allow="autoplay"></iframe>
+
+## Checklist
+
+We finished with a checklist of practical actions for the audience - if you're interested in the toolkit how can you get involved?
+
+- Review the [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17YD81kMce2poCM-PCaEZ_OhpAhddggSP/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114263942339372339976&rtpof=true&sd=true)
+- [Sign up to github](https://github.com/signup) - also useful for participating other projects like GBIF. 
+- Participate on the [discussion board](https://github.com/orgs/echinopscis/discussions)
+- Particularly: 
+    - If we made a pre-populated echinopscis vault for your group, what data should we include? 
+    - What kind of collaboration features do you need?