BioDigiCon 2022

iDigBio is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually on 27-29 September 2022.

Twitter: #biodigicon2022, @idigbio

Registration is open! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-biodigicon-tickets-367104919697

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iDigBio Orientation
Time EDT	Room 1
10:30 - 10:50	iDigBio: Intro & What's New
10:50 - 11:00	iDigBio Project Management
11:00 - 11:10	Promoting your collection: Social media, WeDigBio/transcription projects
11:10 - 12:00	Discussion session for new and existing TCNs: Reporting, Tracking, Keeping people engaged
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch

TCN Presentations
Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2
1:00 - 1:15	NEW TCN 1
1:15 - 1:30	NEW TCN 2
1:35 - 1:45	TPT (Tucker/Zaspel)	Bringing Asian plant diversity to digital life
1:45 - 1:55	oVert (Blackburn)	Big-Bee (Seltmann)
1:55 - 2:05	LepNet/SCAN (Cobb)	GLOBAL (Budke)
2:15 - 2:25	ESB	TORCH (Barroso)
2:25 - 2:35	DigIn (Wetzer)	California Phenology (Yost)
2:35 - 2:45	Break	Break
2:45 - 2:55	PILSBRY (Yeung)	PCC (Rothfels)
3:05 - 3:15	Endless Forms (Pace)	SERNEC (Denslow)
3:15 - 3:25		SoRo (Allen)
3:25 - 3:35
3:35 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:15	Q & A / Open Discussion
4:15 - 4:30	Wrap-Up

Lightning Talks
Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome: Gil Nelson Introduction of speaker: Pam Soltis
10:10 - 10:30	Visionary Plenary highlighting discussion session topics : Dena Smith
10:30 - 11:30	Biodiversity Digitization Lightning presentations: cool code, tools, etc.	Concurrent session	Concurrent session
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch

Themed Discussion Groups
Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2
1:30 - 2:30	Solutions for long-term image storage and accessibility	Data quality: most common data dealbreakers
2:30 - 3:30	GBIF, ALA, iDigBio: Aligning systems to benefit data mobilization	Sustaining institutional digitization
3:30 - 4:30	Biocultural issues within collections / TK labels	Digital Extended Specimen

Workshop: hands-on/ sharing resources
Time EDT	Room 1	Room 2
11:00 - 1:00	Digitization workflows in Symbiota	Capturing trait data: broad, across different taxonomic groups
1:30 - 3:30	Progress for paleo digitization	Imaging workshop: Where to start
3:30 - 4:00	Looking forward with NSF
4:00 - 4:30	Wrap-Up