ADBC Summit 2019: Difference between revisions

| '''R and the iDigBio API: Enabling Exploration and Discovery'''<br>''Ronald Canepa, ACIS Lab, University of Florida ''<br>APIs and their use: a non-technical overview of the iDigBio Application Programming Interface (APIs) and example use cases for both data providers and downstream data consumers.  

| '''Thrills and spills: sharing experiences, insights, and products on education, outreach, diversity & inclusion'''<br>This session will include a series of 5-minute lightning presentations from TCN representatives on successes (thrills) and lessons learned (spills) relating to education, outreach, diversity, and inclusion (EODI) initiatives followed by a Q&A/discussion. The goals of this session are to raise awareness about all of the amazing EODI activities and products that have stemmed from the ADBC program and to hopefully encourage cross-pollination of ideas and collaboration among the projects.  

| '''Sharing biotic interactions found in collection data'''<br> ''Katja Seltmann, UC Santa Barbara, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration''<br> During this session we will discuss how existing species interaction datasets are structured and how to increase our ability to generate aggregate datasets and examine networks of interactions. We will show examples of datasets shared through Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI - https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org) and discuss ideas about how to share more biotic interaction data for research.  

| '''How to convince your institution to digitize its biodiversity collection'''<br> ''Eric Knox, Indiana University Herbarium'' <br> This session will briefly present the institutional funding strategy that was successfully used to curate and digitize a semi-orphaned collection of 161,000+ herbarium specimens at Indiana University. The critical point is that all discussion with administrators should be framed in terms of how you can help them with their collection, not the other way around. The ensuing discussion will address varied institutional settings and potential pitfalls to avoid.

| '''Biodiversity Summit 2020 Discussion''' <br> iDigBio is looking for help from the ADBC community to provide suggestions and input for the 2020 Biodiversity Summit in Arlington.

''Ronald Canepa, ACIS Lab; University of Florida ''<br>

| '''Strategic Planning for the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event'''<br> ''Austin Mast, Florida State University <br> Join us to discuss a future where large-scale creation of research-ready collections data continues with carefully crafted evaluation mechanisms guiding the community towards increasing science inclusiveness and participant understanding and valuation of biodiversity, collections, and science.  A few 5-minute slots for those wishing to present their past WeDigBio innovations will be followed by a brief presentation of the strategic plan and a 30-minute discussion of it.  Email Austin (amast@bio.fsu.edu) soon to get a 5-minute timeslot.

| '''Specimen Digitization Workflow Optimization Tools'''<br>''Joey Shaw, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga <br> Caleb Powell and Dakila Ledesma, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga''<br> This session will introduce and demonstrate various workflow optimization tools developed during the digitization of Tennessee herbaria under the SERNEC TCN. This session will showcase tools developed for common image processing tasks, including: naming, color correcting, white balance, metadata application, distortion correction, as well as quality controls such as blur detection and image orientation.