Presentations
Smith, V.S. (2010)
An introduction to ViBRANT: Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy
Entomology departmental meeting, at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. July 9th, 2010.
Smith, V.S., & Roberts, D. (2010)
Top-down and bottom-up informatics: who has the high ground?
iEvoBio: Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity, at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA. June 29-30, 2010.
Smith, V.S. (2010)
Lice on the Web: A workshop on the new Phthiraptera website
Forth-International Congress on Phthiraptera (ICP4)., Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. 13 -18 June.
Smith, V.S.*, Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D. (2010)
Small pieces loosely joined: getting louse research online.
Forth-International Congress on Phthiraptera (ICP4)., Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. 13 -18 June.
Smith, V.S.* & Palma, R.L. (2010)
Louse taxonomy, anatomy and identification workshop.
Forth-International Congress on Phthiraptera (ICP4)., Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. 13 -18 June.
Smith, V.S., Blagoderov, V., Kitching, I. and Simonsen T. (2010)
Scaling-up collections digitisation
Science Information Committee presentation at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. May 14th, 2010.
Smith, VS. (2010)
Publishing from a Scratchpad to a printed journal.
Zookeys Open Publishing Meeting. Natural History Museum, London. 11 Feb. 2010.
Duin, D., Self, D., Rycroft, S.D., Roberts D. & Smith, V.S. (2009)
Online taxonomy: Why do people engage?
EDIT general meeting, Carvoeiro, Portugal. Dec. 15-17, 2009.
Smith, VS. and Rycroft, S. (2009)
Scratchpads: A standard implementation using Drupal
Invited. National Biodiversity Network technical conference the Natural History Museum, London, UK. November 19, 2009.
Harmen, K.T., Rycroft, S.D., Scott, B., Roberts, D., Smith, VS. (2009)
A Matrix based Character Editor for Scratchpads
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Annual Conference. Montpellier, France. 9th - 13th November 2009.
McAlister, E., Broad, G. and Smith, VS. (2009)
Six-Legged Wonders
Invited. Nature Live Evening Event at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. 7-9pm on October 29, 2009.
Smith, VS. (2009)
Large-scale digitisation options at the Natural History Museum, London.
Invited. Science Information Committee, Natural History Museum, London, UK. November 6, 2009.
Smith, VS.* (2009)
Small pieces loosely joined: towards a unified theory of biodiversity for the web.
Invited. Part of the symposium titled "Biodiversity science loosely joined: global approaches to taxonomy and biodiversity research supporting science and policy". At the Second DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference (DIVERSITAS OSC2). Cape Town, South Africa. Oct. 13-16, 2009.
Adams, Z. and Smith, VS. (2009)
Meet the parasites
Invited. Nature Live Event at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. 12.30 on September 23, 2009.
Smith, V.S (2009)
Writing the Encyclopedia of Life (not EOL.org)
Invited. Presented at the Biodiversity Informatics course at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm, Sweden on 16th Sept. 2009.
Smith, V.S (2009)
A summary of Scratchpad functionality
Invited. Presented to remotely from NHM London to senior members representing CBOL, EOL, GBIF, and Genbank in Washington D.C. and the University of Guelph. 13.30 on 5 August, 2009.
Roberts, D.*, Harman, K., Rycroft, S.D. & Smith, V.S (2009)
Scratchpads: Building web communities supporting biodiversity science.
Invited. Information Technology in Biodiversity Conservation and in Agriculture organized by the Club of Rome and the EU ICT-ENSURE project, at UNESCO, Paris. January 15th, 2009. Dave Roberts was the presenting author.
Smith, VS*. (2008)
Darwin's Transatlantic Lice
Invited. Nature Live Event at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. 12.30 on December 11, 2008.
Roberts, D.*, Harman, K., Rycroft, S.D. & Smith, V.S (2008)
Scratchpads in the Biodiversity Informatics Landscape.
Invited. Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden 1-4 December 2008. Dave Roberts was the presenting author.
Smith, VS.* (2008)
Small pieces loosely joined: towards a unified theory of biodiversity for the web..
Invited. Part of the Richard Gilder Graduate School Program. American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. November 10, 2008 RESCHEDULED for Nov. 24.
Smith, VS*. (2008)
Small pieces loosely joined: a unified theory of biodiversity for the web.
Invited. Ebbe Nielsen Prize Ceremony. Part of the 15th meeting of the Governing Board (GB15) of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Arusha, Tanzania. November 5, 2008.
Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D., Harman, K. and Smith, VS. (2008)
Small pieces loosely joined: Building scientific web communities with Scratchpads.
TBC: Part of the session From Small to Big: How to Capitalize on Small Contributions to the Big Dreams of Sharing Biodiversity Information during the Taxonomic Database Working Group meeting in Fremantle (Perth), Australia. October 19-25, 2008.
Smith, VS.*, Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D. (2008)
Scratchpads: community tools for taxonomists.
Invited. New York Botanic Gardens. New York, NY. September 15-16, 2008.
Smith, VS.* and Rycroft, S.D.* (2008)
Taxonomy and Scratchpads.
Invited. Encyclopedia of Life Code Sprint. The Field Museum, Chicago, IL. September 8-12, 2008.
Smith, VS.*, Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D. (2008)
Scratchpads: community tools for taxonomists.
Invited. The Fourth International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons - eTaxonomy session. August 15, 2008.
Smith, VS*. (2008)
Biodiversity informatics, barcoding and open science. See my blog posts (coming soon) for more info..
Invited. SciFoo Camp 2008. Googleplex, Mountain View, CA, USA. August 8-10, 2008.
Rycroft, S.D.*, Roberts, D., Smith, VS. (2008)
Scratchpads: Getting biodiversity online, redefining publication.
The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), Biodiversity Informatics workshop, Cardiff, UK. July 10, 2008
Smith, VS.*, Rycroft, S.D., Roberts, D. (2008)
Scratchpads: Getting biodiversity online, redefining publication.
The International Congress of Entomology, Durban, South Africa. July 5-11, 2008.
Smith, VS.* (2008)
The virtual taxonomist: scholarly communication for the facebook generation.
Invited. The Virtual Scholar. The second Bloomsbury conference on e-Publishing and e-Publications, UCL Centre for Publishing, University College, London, U.K. June 27, 2008.
Smith, VS.* (2008)
Cybertaxonomy: applying computers & the Web to the study of biodiversity.
Invited. Part of the Voyages of Discovery lecture series. Natural History Museum, London, U.K. April 22, 2008.
Smith, VS.*, Rycroft, S.D. & Roberts, D. (2008)
Scratchpads: Getting biodiversity online, redefining publication.
Invited. NHM trustees presentation. Natural History Museum, London, U.K. March 4, 2008.
Smith, VS.*, Rycroft, S.D., & Roberts, D. (2008)
Scratchpads: Getting biodiversity online, redefining publication.
EDIT general meeting, Carvoeiro, Portugal. Jan. 24, 2008.
Roberts, D.*, Smith, VS., Rycroft, S.D. (2007)
EDIT Scratchpads as a vehicle for community building and outreach.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Annual Conference. Bratislava, Slovakia. Sept. 21, 2007.
Smith, VS*. (2007)
Lice - the living fossils.
Invited. Nature Live Event. Natural History Museum, London. Sept. 15, 2007. (Given twice that day)
Roberts, D.,* Smith, VS., Rycroft, S.D. (2007)
Scratchpads “getting biodiversity on the web”.
Botany Department, Natural History Museum, London, U.K. Sept. 12, 2007.
Rycroft, S.D*., Smith, VS., Roberts, D. (2007)
Scratchpads.
EDIT developers meeting, Botanic gardens and museum, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Sept. 3, 2007.
Smith, VS*. (2007)
Science publishing for the mySpace generation.
Invited. SciFoo Camp 2007. Googleplex, Mountain View, CA, USA. Aug. 4, 2007.
Smith, VS*. (2007)
Lice - the living fossils.
Invited. Nature Live Event. Natural History Museum, London, U.K. July 20, 2007.
Smith, VS*. (2007)
Cybertaxonomy.
Invited. Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London, U.K. July 17, 2007.
Smith, VS.*, Roberts, D., Gonzalez, M. Rycroft, S.D. (2007)
Scratchpads - a space for your data on the web.
EDIT Data commonalities workshop, Natural History Museum, London, U.K. April. 27, 2007.
Roberts, D*. and Smith, VS.* (2007)
The EU project EDIT and building to community web servers.
Zoology departmental talk, Zoology Department, Natural History Museum, London, U.K. April 19, 2007.
Smith, VS. (2007)
NHM Remote Imaging System Demonstration.
Invited. By video and audio link from the Natural History Museum, London, to the Chicago Field Museum. Chicago Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA. January 22, 2007.
Smith, VS., Dalgleish, RC. Rycroft, S. & Reed, D. (2006)
Electronic Resources for Studying Lice.
3rd International Congress on Phthiraptera. CIPEIN, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 16 - 20, 2006
Smith, VS., Ford, T., Johnson, KP., Johnson, P., Yoshizawa, K. & Page, RDM. (2006)
The Diversification of Lice: Age
3rd International Congress on Phthiraptera. CIPEIN, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 16 - 20, 2006
Smith, VS. & Johnson, KP. (2006)
The Diversification of Lice: Phylogeny.
Invited. 3rd International Congress on Phthiraptera. CIPEIN, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 16 - 20, 2006
Smith, VS. (2005)
What is Cybertaxonomy? some case studies from a louse systematist..
Invited. Natural History Museum, London, UK. September 16, 2005.
Smith, VS. & Johnson, KP. (2005)
The evolution of microhabitat specialization in parasitic lice: lineage assortment or character displacement?
Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA. June 10-14, 2005.
Smith, VS. (2005)
Did dinosaurs have lice? estimating rates of diversification in parasitic lice.
Invited speaker / instructor. Biostatistics workshop (Bayesian and likelihood inference of phylogeny) with John Huelsenbeck, Fred Ronquist, Dave Swofford, and Jeff Thorne. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. May 22-31, 2005.
Smith, VS. (2004)
DNA barcoding debate
Invited. Debate chair and session organiser. PEET V Meeting. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. USA. Sept. 21-25, 2004
Smith, VS, & Rycroft, S.D. (2004)
SID: Specimen Image Database.
Invited. Biological image database workshop. Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. Sept. 10-11, 2004.
Smith, VS., Ford, T., Johnson, KP., Johnson, P., & Page, RDM. (2004)
Did dinosaurs have lice?
Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. June 26-30, 2004
Yoshizawa, K, Johnson, KP. and Smith, VS. (2004)
Multiple Origins of Parasitism in Lice
POSTER PRESENTATION. Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. June 26-30, 2004
Grosso, EG., Laufer, G. & Smith, VS. (2004)
Piojos masticadoresde pluma, ectoparásitos del ñandú (Rhea americana)
POSTER PRESENTATION. 6th International conference for the management of wildlife in Amazonia and Latin America. The National University of Peruvian Amazonía (UNAP), Iquitos, Peru. 5-10 Sept. 2004 CONFERENCE NOT PERSONALLY ATTENDED BY VSS.
Smith, VS. (2003)
Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice.
Invited speaker. The Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders. Dresden, Germany. Sept. 19-21, 2003
Smith, VS. (2003)
Ancient mariners and recent stowaways: the coevolution of seabirds and their lice.
Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). California State University, Chico. California, USA. June 20-24, 2003.
Smith, VS. (2002)
Data Set Incongruence and the Problem of Avian Louse Phylogeny..
Invited. 2nd International Congress on Phthiraptera. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. July 8 - 12, 2002. files/2002.VSmith.LousyPhylogICP2Modified.zipapplication/zip
Smith, VS. & Page, RDM. (2002)
LouseBase: an online specimen and data management system for working with lice.
2nd International Congress on Phthiraptera. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. July 8 - 12, 2002. files/2002.VSmith.LouseBase.zipapplication/zip
Smith, VS. & Johnson, KP. (2002)
Lies I have told about lice: a fresh look at avian louse phylogeny.
POSTER PRESENTATION. Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. USA. June 29 - July 2, 2002.
Smith, VS. (2001)
Ischnoceran louse phylogeny : congruence, consensus and coevolution.
Invited. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. November 28, 2001. files/2001.VSmith.LousyPhylogenies.Georgia.zipapplication/zip
Smith, VS. (2000)
Ischnoceran louse phylogeny : congruence, consensus and coevolution.
Invited. Royal Entomological Society, Medical and Veterinary Entomology Special Interest Group, Royal Entomological Society, London. November 1, 2000. files/2000.LousyPhylog.RES.zipapplication/zip
Smith, VS. (1999)
Heirlooms or souvenirs: have lice cospeciated with their hosts?
Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. June 22-26, 1999. files/1999.VSmith.HeirloomsOrSouvenirs.zipapplication/zip
Smith, VS. (1999)
Reconstructing character state trees: an example based on louse head shape.
Second biennial conference of the Systematics Association. University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. (Won £500 of book vouchers for best student paper at the conference). August 23-27, 1999.
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