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BIOGRAPHY Dr. Guy Baillargeon
Guy Baillargeon is leading a research group dedicated to the development of Web applications in the area of systematics and biodiversity at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa. For the last few years, their primary focus has been the development of the international, multilingual version of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) of United-States, Canada and Mexico, supporting multiple interfaces, multiple classifications, automated web-portal functions and XML-enabled (machine-to-machine) services. In early 2002, they launched a prototype Biological Observations, Specimens and Collections (BiOSC) Gateway. The BiOSC Gateway is the first global search and map engine dedicated to specimen and observational records available on the Internet via distributed queries on several biodiversity networks. BiOSC crosswalks coexisting networks and facilitates access to their combined holdings by providing a searchable metadata layer combined with a mapping interface, both structured to connect end-users directly to primary biodiversity data sources, no matter their network affiliation or transport protocols. Guy Baillargeon started in career as Research Scientist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, after completion of his doctoral studies (Dr. rer. nat.) in Systematic Botany at the Berlin Freie Universität (Germany) in 1986. As ITIS representative, Guy is an Associate Participant to the Governing Board of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). He was previously head of the Canadian delegation at the OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Biological Informatics that led to the creation of GBIF.
Guy Baillargeon dirige un groupe de recherche consacré au développement d'applications Web dans le domaine de la biodiversité et de la systématique à Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada. Au cours des dernières années, le groupe s'est concentré principalement sur la version internationale du Système d'information taxonomique intégré (SITI) partagé par les États-Unis, le Canada et le Mexique. La version développée au Canada supporte plusieurs interfaces, plusieurs langues, plusieurs classifications, ainsi que des services destinés aux échanges automatisés entre ordinateurs (XML). Guy Baillargeon a débuté sa carrière comme chercheur en 1986 avec l'obtention d'un doctorat en botanique systématique de l'Université libre de Berlin (Allemagne). Il est membre associé au Conseil de direction du Système mondial d'information sur la biodiversité (GBIF).
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