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= Overview  =
= Overview  =


This page contains links to materials from completed iDigBio workshops, conferences, and symposia. Codified documentation will reside on the [https://www.idigbio.org/tags/documentation iDigBio Documentation] page. Other materials may be displayed via Wikis or external publications, listed below.<br>
This page contains links to materials from iDigBio '''workshops, conferences, and symposia'''. Additional materials may be displayed via other Wikis or external publications, which may be included below.
Proposals for workshops, conferences or symposia can be submitted [https://www.idigbio.org/content/looking-ways-participate here].
 
Proposals for new workshops, conferences, or symposia should be submitted here: https://www.idigbio.org/content/looking-ways-participate
 
= Recording Policy =
 
== Rationale ==
 
In order to meet NSF expectations to offer services indiscriminately to all biodiversity collections professionals, iDigBio endeavors to provide video streaming and/or recording of its events, including, but not limited to, workshops, webinars, conferences, and symposia. iDigBio also prefers that online event speakers grant permission to be recorded and to post a copy of the recording of their presentation on the IDigBio conference website for asynchronous viewing by registered participants.
 
== Policy ==
 
* By registering for an iDigBio online event, you accept that all or part of its proceedings may be recorded and posted on the conference agenda for asynchronous viewing.
* By attending iDigBio’s online events, you accept that the event will be recorded and posted for later asynchronous viewing.


= Workshop Documentation =
= Workshop Documentation =


== Calendar Year 2017 ==
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|valign="top"|09/29/2020 - 09/29/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/finding-field-station-data-research-use-virtual-mini-workshop Finding Field Station Data for Research Use: A virtual mini-workshop ]
|valign="top"|The discovery and use of digital field station data for place-based biodiversity research as well as species discovery within a station’s boundaries and service area are essential contributions. Although many field stations curate their own biological collections, at least some of which have been digitized and made available online, field stations have traditionally served as important specimen collecting localities for a variety of researchers across taxonomies, resulting in a potential plethora of station-relevant digital data curated by non-station universities and museums. The rapidly expanding online availability of these data, motivated in large part by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, has made these data readily available to station scientists. As the U.S. center for enabling and facilitating specimen data digitization and mobilization, iDigBio’s portal (http://portal.idigbio.org/) serves approximately 124 million transcribed specimen records and 25 million associated images. This virtual mini-workshop will teach participants how to find and download records that are relevant to a specific field station and its surroundings, as well as how these records might be used to augment existing station data.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Finding_Field_Station_Data_Workshop Wiki]
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|valign="top"|08/02/2020 - 08/07/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-and-collaborations-ecologicial-society-america-2020 iDigBio and Collaborations at Ecologicial Society of America 2020]
|valign="top"|For 2020, plans are underway to once again provide a joint Data Help Desk, participate in the Open Science Section at ESA, and make major contributions to Career Central that will be featured in ESA's conference promotional activities. In addition, some of us will be presenting in ESA Special Sessions and Ignite Sessions. iDigBio works collaboratively with other NSF-funded programs to share and facilitate broader biocollections data use and provide access to data and computational literacy skills and knowledge needed to support FAIR and reproducible research.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ESA_2020_Data_Help_Desk Wiki]
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|valign="top"|06/08/2020 - 06/12/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-spnhc-icom-nathist SPNHC and ICOMNATHIST Virtual Conference 2020]
|valign="top"|iDigBio events at SPNHC and ICOMNATHIST Virtual Conference 2020 included an [https://spnhc.org/share-fair/ Education Share Fair] designed and lead by Molly Phillips (iDigBio's Education Outreach Diversity Inclusion Coordinator) and a symposium focusing on collections management/software/leadership for the future titled: [https://spnhc.org/abstracts-2020/#data-lifecycle Envisioning Collections Management for the Evolving Biodiversity Data Lifecycle]. The role of collections management in the biodiversity data lifecycle has been dramatically affected by worldwide specimen digitization programs. Institutions looking to support a visionary future for collections-based biodiversity data need to cultivate a culture of lifelong learning as the expectations of collections management evolve. This symposium highligts key challenges and opportunities involved in designing and driving such a vision that can address impending global challenges.
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*[https://spnhc.org/virtual-meeting-2020-wednesday/ SPNHC Symposium Abstracts]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWjrDXj5Tc&t SPNHC Symposium Recording]
*[https://spnhc.org/share-fair/ Share Fair Materials]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nZDLwd_p4 Share Fair Recording]
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|valign="top"|04/27/2020 - 04/29/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/georeferencing-paleo-refreshing-approach-fossil-localities Georeferencing for Paleo: Refreshing the approach to fossil localities]
|valign="top"|As the paleo collections community wraps up several TCNs we recognize that a significant amount of digitization work remains to be done and that georeferencing is one of the next big roadblocks. Across all collection types, there are major issues with the quality of georeference data currently available on biodiversity data aggregators such as iDigBio and GBIF. For paleo collections, there are additional issues related to applying existing georeferencing workflows in the paleontological context, as well as to sharing georeference data publicly. This workshop will take advantage of the momentum catalyzed by ADBC funding in the paleontological collections community to address critical issues related to georeferencing workflows and georeferencing data quality. This workshop transitioned from an in-person to a virtual event approximately one month prior to – please see workshop report for more details.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Georeferencing_for_Paleo_Workshop Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/workshop-report-georeferencing-paleo Report]
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|valign="top"|03/03/2020 - 03/04/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/future-fluid-preserved-specimen-imaging-challenges-bottlenecks-advances-and-promises Fluid-preserved Specimen Imaging Workshop]
|valign="top"|The goal of this workshop was to define the course forward for expanding and enhancing the use of fluid-preserved specimen images across all domains.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Fluid-preserved_Specimen_Imaging_Workshop Wiki]
*[Report]
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|valign="top"|02/24/2020 - 02/25/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/terrestrial-parasite-tracker-workshop-best-practices-and-standardization-digital-data Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Workshop: Best Practices and Standardization of Digital Data Capture]
|valign="top"|The goal of this workshop was to focus on project management, best practices, and workflow development for members of the TPT TCN. The developers of TPT's primary imaging system (i.e., Macroscopic Solutions) additionally provided hands-on image training demonstrations using Macropod Systems.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Terrestrial_Parasite_Tracker_Workshop:_Best_Practices_and_Standardization_of_Digital_Data_Capture Wiki]
*[Report]
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|valign="top"|02/21/2020 - 02/21/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigtrio-biological-sciences-conference-and-fair iDigTRIO Biological Sciences Conference and Fair]
|valign="top"|Explore opportunities in biology and paleontology at the iDigTRIO conference. This is a FREE one day conference with a pre-event shadowing day and reception (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigtrio-2020-conference-summary Report]
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|valign="top"|01/31/2020 - 02/01/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/scicomm-101 SciComm 101 Workshop]
|valign="top"| Attendees in this workshop will work to enhance existing science communication skills and develop new tools for sharing your research (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/SciComm_101_Workshop Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/first-scicomm-101-workshop Report]
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|valign="top"|01/23/2020 - 01/24/2020
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/integrating-institutional-archives-disciplinary-web-repositories-workshop Integrating Institutional Archives with Disciplinary Web Repositories Workshop]
|valign="top"|The goal of this invitation only workshop is to articulate common practices and potential workflows for sustainable integration between museums, institutional repositories, and third party domain-specialized (disciplinary) repositories.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_Institutional_Archives_with_Disciplinary_Web_Repositories Wiki]
*[Report]
 
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|valign="top"|11/08/2019 - 11/09/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/broadening-participation-biological-sciences-new-mexico Broadening Participation in the Biological Sciences: New Mexico]
|valign="top"| This is the third Broadening Diversity workshop that is part of a western-US workshop series with a goal to introduce undergraduate students, especially those in underrepresented populations, to museum and biodiversity science careers (EODI).
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*[https://www.biodiversityliteracy.com/event-for-students BLUE page]
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|valign="top"|10/31/2019 - 11/02/2019
|valign="top"|SACNAS 2019
|valign="top"| SACNAS 2019- The National Diversity in STEM Conference was held October 31 - November 2, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawai'i, at the Hawai’i Convention Center.  SACNAS is the “largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country.” The 2019 event was a 3-day conference which focused on activities to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. SACNAS has been around for 45 years, but this was the first time iDigBio as a project has participated (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/sacnas-2019-0 Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|10/22/2019 - 10/25/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodiversity-next-building-global-infrastructure-biodiversity-data-together Biodiversity Next Conference]
:[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-biodiversity-next-conference-better-data-better-science-better-policies International Alignment] Symposium
|valign="top"|(Paraphrased from abstract). A number of recent initiatives, often working at a country or continental level, are making huge strides in regional digitisation, aggregation and visualisation of collections data. Often the intellectual case, methodologies, organisational processes and impact of these programmes are very similar, differing only where regional needs demand a difference in priorities. This suggests that the geo-/bio-diversity informatics community is driving toward a common vision for community activities, and provides the means for less-resourced regions to highlight needs for local investment. But without international coordination, we risk duplicating effort, and subsequently struggle to build upon each other’s work. See Biodiversity Next Symposium (full abstract): [https://biodiversitynext.org/list-of-symposia-and-workshops/?session=SP79 Increasing Opportunities to Align Data Initiatives for Bio/Geo Collections]
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* Symposium Wiki
* Symposium Blog Post
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|valign="top"|10/22/2019 - 10/25/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodiversity-next-building-global-infrastructure-biodiversity-data-together Biodiversity Next Conference]
:[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-biodiversity-next-conference-better-data-better-science-better-policies Digitisation Next] Symposium
|valign="top"|(Paraphrased from abstract). With so many collections embracing the challenges of digitisation, there is a constant need to share progress and learn from each other. This symposium aims to showcase and discuss some key areas of development, including such topics as: artificial intelligence and machine learning, automated data extraction, new data capture workflows, barcodes for automated data capture, lessons learned from crowdsourcing data transcription, measuring cost and impact of collections digitisation to support data-driven decision making - policy - and infrastructure investment, focus on organizational cultural change, private collections, more effective dissemination of workflows, and expansion of stakeholders. See Biodiversity Next Symposium (full abstract): [https://biodiversitynext.org/list-of-symposia-and-workshops/?session=SI67 Digitisation Next]
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* Symposium Wiki
* Symposium Blog Post
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|valign="top"|10/22/2019 - 10/25/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodiversity-next-building-global-infrastructure-biodiversity-data-together Biodiversity Next Conference]
:[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-biodiversity-next-conference-better-data-better-science-better-policies Developing a Data-Literate Workforce in Biodiversity Science] Symposium
|valign="top"|(Paraphrased from abstract). Rapid advances in data science and technology are transforming biodiversity research. The volume and complexity of biodiversity data being generated, their availability via aggregation, and the interdisciplinary nature of modern scientific research are driving the need for new skill sets to address global scientific issues. Central to addressing the needs of the biodiversity research community is identifying a set of core and transferrable data literacy competencies and developing strategies to help develop a data-literate workforce. This symposium looks at models, lessons learned, and standards and skills knowledge needed across the entire community from data creation to data use. See Biodiversity Next Symposium (full abstract): [https://biodiversitynext.org/list-of-symposia-and-workshops/?session=SP91 Developing a Data-Literate Workforce in Biodiversity Science] Symposium
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* Symposium Wiki
* Symposium Blog Post
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|valign="top"|10/01/2019 - 10/03/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/adbc-summit-2019 ADBC Summit 2019]
|valign="top"|The ninth annual Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Summit was held October 1-3, 2019, in Gainesville, Florida. The ADBC Summit brought together representatives from Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), Partners to Existing Networks (PENs), the National Science Foundation (NSF), iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the NSF’s effort to digitize biodiversity collections through the ADBC program. The Summit’s aim was to inspire collaboration and facilitate discussions on shared goals, challenges, and opportunities.
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* [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ADBC_Summit_2019 Wiki]
* [https://www.idigbio.org/content/adbc-summit-2019-report Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|09/22/2019 - 09/25/2019
|valign="top"|Geological Society of America Conference (GSA) 2019
|valign="top"| The 2019 Geological Society of America Meeting was held in Phoenix, Arizona, September 20-25, 2019. iDigBio participated in the nightly exhibitor hall showcase presented in the Broadening Representation in Geology Symposium (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/geological-society-america-2019-annual-meeting Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|08/11/2019 - 08/16/2019
|valign="top"| [https://www.idigbio.org/content/data-help-desk-esa-2019 Data Help Desk at ESA 2019]
|valign="top"| For the second year ecological data repositories and data specialists will collaborate at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting to add a Data Help Desk (DHD) to the Poster/Exhibition Hall. The [https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/ Environmental Data Initiative (EDI)], [https://www.idigbio.org iDigBio], [https://www.esipfed.org/ Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)], [https://www.dataone.org/ DataONE], [https://www.gbif.org/ GBIF], [https://www.neonscience.org/ NEON] and [https://arcticdata.io/ Arctic Data Center] will each engage participants one-on-one about their questions, comments and concerns about using these data in their discipline and area of research.
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* [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ESA_2019_Data_Help_Desk Wiki]
* [https://www.esa.org/esablog/guest-posts/data-questions-data-help-desk-has-the-answers/ Original Blog Post at ESA]
* [https://www.idigbio.org/content/data-questions-data-help-desk-has-answers Blog Re-posting]
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|valign="top"|07/18/2019 - 07/20/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/imaging-and-digitization-workshop-amateur-paleontologists Imaging and Digitization Workshop for Amateur Paleontologists]
|valign="top"| The FOSSIL Project and iDigBio sponsored a three-day workshop focusing on imaging and digitization for amateur paleontologists on July 18-20, 2019 (EODI).
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*[https://www.myfossil.org/2019-imaging-and-digitization-for-amateurs-workshop/ MyFossil Announcement]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/imaging-and-digitization-workshop-avocational-paleontologists Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|07/15/2019
|valign="top"|[https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/summer2019/schedule/sessions#blue Using Data Science Skills and Digitized Natural History Collections Data to Investigate Ecological and Evolutionary Principles in Introductory Biology Courses] Workshop at Evolution of Data in the Classroom: From Data to Data Science (SW 2019)
|valign="top"| [From the abstract] In this workshop you'll explore activities, developed by the Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE) RCN-UBE, in which students investigate topics in ecology, evolution, and organismal biology using data from digitized natural history collections. BLUE's goals are to bring together communities of biodiversity, data science, and education specialists to identify core undergraduate biodiversity data competencies and standards and develop effective strategies for sustained integration of biodiversity and data literacy education into the undergraduate biology curriculum. BLUE participants have brought some of these strategies into practice by developing example curriculum materials (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/bioquest-and-qubes-summer-workshop-2019 Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|06/28/2019 07/02/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/asm-2019 American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) Data Help Desk and Broadening Participation Themed Session]
|valign="top"| The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) meeting will be held in Washington, DC in June 28-July 2, 2019. In collaboration with the ASM Human Diversity Committee we have been granted a themed session to focus on broadening participation in mammalogy. In addition to the session on broadening participation iDigBio co-hosted the “Data Help Desk.” in collaboration with NEON and VertNet (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ASM_2019_Broadening_Participation_in_Mammalogy/ Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/american-society-mammalogists-asm-2019 Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|06/25/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-resources-paleontology-professional-development-workshop Digital Resources in Paleontology, Teacher Professional Development Workshop]
|valign="top"|Advancing the Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) has allowed museums and smaller collections to become more accessible through online data aggregators and interactive websites. Many of the Thematic Collection Networks within the ADBC community have produced K-12 educational material as a product of their digitization efforts. The paleo-themed programs in ADBC, along with several other outside initiatives have come together to organize a one-day workshop in association with the 2019 North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC) on June 25, 2019 (EODI).
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*[https://www.myfossil.org/digital-resources-in-paleontology-professional-development-workshop/ MyFossil Page]
*[https://www.myfossil.org/digital-resources-in-paleontology-professional-development-workshop-napc2019/ Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|06/10/2019 - 06/12/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-specimen-based-research-biological-sciences#overlay-context 3rd Annual Digital Data Conference]
|valign="top"|Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in collaborated with iDigBio of the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Natural Science Collections Alliance, and Ecological Society of America to host the third annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference, Methods, Protocols, and Analytical Tools for Specimen-based Research, in the Biological Sciences at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/3rd_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Yale Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/third-annual-digital-data-biodiversity-research-conference-methods-protocols-and-analytical Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|06/12/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/workshop-digitial-data-3-tools-and-best-practices-biodiversity-data-science-data-carpentries Workshop: Tools and Best Practices for Biodiversity Data Science: A Data Carpentries Introduction with Python] at [https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-specimen-based-research-biological-sciences#overlay-context 3rd Annual Digital Data Conference]
|valign="top"|The Carpentries (comprised of Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry) is a project whose mission is to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers and others who create, manage, and use data. Specifically, Data Carpentry lessons are designed to be picked up by learners who do not have any previous programming experience. Data Carpentry workshops are typically organized in a 2-day format, but we will compress the lessons in this workshop to 1 day to focus on learning Python and Jupyter notebooks to work with data files in a reproducible manner. Before covering Python, we will go through a lesson using Excel to learn about the "tidy data" format, and best practices for working with tabular data files. We will also spend some time discussing community-building around the Carpentries, and how we can partner together to build biodiversity data science literacy at our organizations.
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*[https://smithsonianworkshops.github.io/2019-06-12-Yale/ Carpentries Workshop Website]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/3rd_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Yale Conference Wiki]
*[[Media:CarpentriesDigitalData3_copy.pdf|Summary Post-event Survey Report]]
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|valign="top"|05/31/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2019-educational-materials-share-fair SPNHC 2019 Educational Materials Share Fair]
|valign="top"|iDigBio and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education Network (BLUE) are co-sponsoring the second annual Educational Materials Share Fair session at SPNHC 2019. This session is an opportunity for colleagues to share and get feedback on collections-based education or outreach materials. Materials can be at any stage of development from fledgling ideas to fully vetted materials All are welcome to either share as developers or participate as potential adopters (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/educational-materials-share-fair-spnhc Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|05/25/2019 - 05/31/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/symposium-no-collection-left-behind-spnhc#overlay-context= SCNet Symposium: No Collection Left Behind: Research Contributions of Small Collections]
|valign="top"|SCNet, Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN), iDigBio, NSCA, and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education Network (BLUE) cosponsored the 5th annual SCNet Symposium at SPNHC 2019. The goal of this symposium was to highlight data-driven examples of the contributions small biological collections make to the national digitization initiative and resultant biodiversity research. This symposium discussed  small collections in the context of their unique and valuable contributions to digitization, aggregated data and metadata, and downstream research (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/symposium-no-collection-left-behind-spnhc#overlay-context= Symposium Report]
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|valign="top"|05/25/2019 - 05/31/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-spnhc-2019-making-case-natural-history-collections Collecting Measures of Success]
|valign="top"|Biocollections and collections data facilitate many important activities including research, curation, education, outreach, and policy-development. While the value of collection objects and related data seems obvious for those using them, it is often difficult to gather metrics needed to convey and communicate collections-related activities and their importance. Choosing appropriate, consistent and meaningful metrics, efficiently harvesting values, and being able to visualize success (or issues) in appropriate ways, is challenging and often changing with technological advancements and public perceptions. In this symposium, speakers will share stories and strategies, of metrics readily available, in development, and only just dreamt about. We also plan to encourage those attending to share their metrics stories.
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*[[SPNHC2019_Collecting_Measures_of_Success| Symposium Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/your-curatorial-work-matters-collecting-measures-success-symposium-spnhc-2019 Blog Post]
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|valign="top"|03/21/2019 - 03/23/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/5th-life-discovery-doing-science-biology-education-conference-ldc 5th Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference (LDC)]
|valign="top"|5th Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference (LDC) March 21-23, 2019, Hilton University of Florida Conference Center, Gainesville, Florida. Conference Theme: Microbiomes to Ecosystems: Evolution and Biodiversity across Scale, Space, and Time (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-hosts-life-discovery-conference Event Report]
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|valign="top"|03/09/2019 - 03/12/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-digital-future-entomology-symposium-and-panel-eastern-entsoc-2019 The Digital Future of Entomology - Symposium and Panel at Eastern EntSoc 2019]
|valign="top"|In this symposium and panel session titled: The Digital Future of Entomology, speakers and panelists seek to share lessons learned, and current trends from digitizing insect collections. Speakers' topics range from historical data uses, fossil amber data, enhanced data dissemination and discovery, automated (deep learning) insect identification using wing images, digitization lessons learned, and worldwide efforts to mobilize collections data and data use.
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*[[Digital_Future_of_Entomology_at_Eastern_Branch_EntSoc_2019| Symposium Wiki]]
*[[Media:The_Digital_Future_of_Entomology.pdf| Symposium Notes]]
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| 02/04/2019 - 02/05/2019
||[https://www.idigbio.org/content/digin-marine-invertebrate-collections-digitization-workshop DigIn Marine Invertebrate Digitization Workshop]
|In this 2 day workshop, collection personnel from all major and most medium-sized IZ collections in the US and abroad, will share information about their collections and curatorial and digitization workflows.  Participants will discuss best practices and consider ways to improve on existing methods to improve efficiency and speed of data mobilization for marine invert collections. Workshop short name #DigIn. 
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*[https://bit.ly/DigInWiki Wiki]<br>
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/understand-ocean-we-need-get-wet Workshop Report]
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|valign="top"|02/01/2019 - 02/02/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigtrio-biological-sciences-career-conference-fair iDigTRiO Biological Sciences Career Conference & Fair]
|valign="top"|iDigBio and the Office of Academic Support (OAS) and Student Support Services (SSS)/TRIO Program at University of Florida (UF) co-organized a free Biology Career Conference and Fair on February 1-2, 2019 for undergraduate students (EODI).
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/first-ever-idigtrio-biology-conference Event Report]
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|valign="top"|01/17/2019 - 01/19/2019
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/phenology-deep-learning-workshop Phenology Deep Learning Workshop]
|valign="top"|This workshop focused on exploring such technologies as deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), data protocols and standards for linking trait data to specimen records, tracking phenological synchronization across phyla, and tools for trait measurement and analysis. Effecting taxonomic determination and scoring phenological stage was also a major foci.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/phenology-deep-learning-workshop-report Report]
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|3/27/2016 - 3/28/2016
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|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/using-digitized-paleontological-data-research Using Digitized Paleontological Data in Research]
|valign="top"|11/07/2018 - 11/09/2018
|valign="top"|[https://community.canadensys.net/2018/how-to-prepare-your-data-for-publication-and-what-to-do-with-open-data-vancouver-workshop How to publish data and what to do with it] a GBIF-sponsored [https://www.gbif.org/programme/82219/capacity-enhancement-support-programme CESP-funded] workshop.
|valign="top"|This workshop aims to give curators, collection managers, students, and everyone willing to share their data on GBIF (or other aggregators like iDigBio and Canadensys) a set of useful tools and methodologies to go from their in-house database to the publication of data on GBIF. We will even go further, and discover how to search and use data published on Canadensys, which is now based on the Atlas of Living Australia framework, and on GBIF. iDigBio is collaborating with Canadensys to present this workshop.
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*[https://community.canadensys.net/2018/how-to-prepare-your-data-for-publication-and-what-to-do-with-open-data-vancouver-workshop Workshop Wiki]
*[https://community.canadensys.net/2019/data-cleaning-publication-reuse Data cleaning, publication, re-use help]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MpO6vN68jjFV67dyYxfg_2tDkbv0O9D3 Workshop materials]
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|valign="top"|10/01/2018 - 10/03/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/adbc-summit-2018 ADBC Summit 2018]
|valign="top"|Join the leading researchers and professionals striving to digitize our nation's Natural History Collections! The annual ADBC Summit brings together representatives from TCNs, PENs, NSF, iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit inspires collaboration and focuses discussions on shared goals, challenges, and opportunities.
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*[[ADBC Summit 2018 | Wiki]]
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|valign="top"|09/21/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/digitizing-and-mobilizing-research-station-collections-data-obfs-2018 Digitizing and Mobilizing Research Station Collections Data at OBFS 2018]
|valign="top"|The amount of digital specimen data available to field stations has grown exponentially, and the number of digitized specimens collected in a field station's geographic region but held in museum and academic collections elsewhere, often at great distances from the station, are providing a wealth of easily accessible information and opportunities for discovery. This concurrent session at the [https://www.obfs.org/2018-annual-meeting OBFS 2018 annual meeting] will offer an introduction to the status and availability of digital data and the national digitization effort, followed by a hands-on demonstration of how to search for and potentially use these data in field station research and activities.
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*[[Digitizing and Mobilizing Research Station Collections Data at OBFS 2018 | Wiki]]
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|valign="top"|08/30/2018 - 8/30/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-tdwg2018-symposium-challenges-implementing-collections-data-quality-feedback Symposium Challenges Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback: synthesizing the community experience]
|valign="top"|Much data quality (DQ) feedback is now available to data providers from aggregators of collections specimen and related data. Similarly, transcription centres and crowdsourcing platforms also provide data that must be assessed and often manipulated before uploading to a local database and subsequently published with aggregators. Sharing DQ integration experiences can help reveal risks and opportunities. Discovering others have the same conundrums helps develop a community of belonging and may assist in removing duplication of effort. It is important to leverage the knowledge and experience of those who are currently validating data to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process. Documenting and classifying these challenges also facilitates motivation and community building by informing those who would tackle these challenges. In this case, talks from aggregators and data providers give all of us a chance to learn from their stories about implementing and integrating DQ feedback.
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*[[SPNHC-TDWG2018_Symposium_-_Challenges_Implementing_Collections_Data_Quality_Feedback|Wiki]]
* [https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26003 Journal Abstract]
* [https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-goes-first-ever-joint-spnhc-and-tdwg-meeting Workshop Report]
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|valign="top"|08/30/2018- 8/30/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2018-educational-materials-share-fair SPNHC 2018 Educational Materials Share Fair]
|valign="top"|The Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education Network (BLUE), Ecological Society of America (ESA), and iDigBio are co-sponsoring a new session at the 2018 SPNHC/TDWG meeting entitled the Educational Materials Share Fair to be held on Thursday, August 30, 2018, from 11:00-12:30 NZST in Castle D (40). This is an opportunity for colleagues to share and get feedback on education or outreach materials. Materials can be at any stage of development from fledgling ideas to fully vetted materials. All are welcome to either share as developers or participate as potential adopters.
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*[[SPNHC-TDWG2018_Education_Share_Fair|Wiki]]
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|valign="top"|08/29/2018- 8/29/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/symposium-completing-data-pipeline-collections-data-use-research-education-and-outreach Symposium: Completing the Data Pipeline: Collections Data Use in Research, Education and Outreach]
|valign="top"|The purpose of this symposium is to highlight the diverse uses of digital collections resources for research, education, and outreach including activities that are currently underway around the globe with special focus on using collections data for: innovative research applications, inspiring outreach initiatives intended for new audiences, and educational resources and programs that are ensuring a new generation of competent collections data users. We anticipate this to be a full day event with up to 20 speakers. We will invite selected speakers to submit abstracts and depend on abstract submissions through the SPNHC abstract submission process.
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*[[SPNHC_2018_Symposium:_Completing_the_Data_Pipeline:_Collections_Data_Use_in_Research,_Education_and_Outreach|Wiki]]
*Workshop Report
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|valign="top"|08/25/2018- 9/02/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2018-and-tdwg-2018-first-joint-meeting SPNHC - TDWG 2018 Joint Mtg Announcement]
|valign="top"|iDigBio will be participating in the first ever joint meeting of SPNHC and TDWG. Details forthcoming.
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*Wiki
*Workshop Report
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|valign="top"|07/22/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/botany-2018 Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: Application for Ecology, Phylogentics, and Biogeography]
|valign="top"|In this full-day workshop, we will provide hands-on instruction for novices and advanced users alike. In addition to learning how to use various software packages, we will also discuss the assumptions of the analyses and the interpretations of the results. We will divide into groups based on participants' experience, so novices and advanced users are all welcome. For beginners, we will cover ways to access and download digitized herbarium data (from GBIF, iDigBio, and other aggregators) and prepare data sets for analysis. We will then offer a series of modules on using georeferencing software (GEOLocate) and applying Maxent software to construct ecological niche models and do paleoclimatic modeling. For advanced users, we will provide new, innovative modules for linking specimen data to phylogenetic trees, computing phylogenetic diversity measures, conducting biogeographic analyses, and more. We will cover strategies to extract information from niche models, such as species occupancy in ecological space and niche breadth, and link them to phylogenetic trees to test hypotheses about niche evolution, such as ancestral niche reconstruction. Participants will use new integrative software tools developed by the BiotaPhy Project (www.biotaphy.org) in collaboration with the Lifemapper Project that link occurrence data (through iDigBio), niche models, and ecological statistics calculated from the models, applying these to large trees in a desktop geospatial environment using the QGIS GIS application.
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|valign="top"|07/09/2018 - 07/11/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/drawers-jars-and-databases-teaching-hidden-science-natural-history-museums Drawers, Jars and Databases: Teaching the Hidden Science of Natural History Museums]
|valign="top"|A teacher workshop hosted by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, iDigBio, and the MicroFungi project about using collections in the classroom. Will take place at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences with excursions to Prairie Ridge Ecostation and North Carolina State University July9-11, 2018.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/NC_Teacher_Workshop_2018  NC Teacher Workshop 2018 Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/drawers-jars-and-databases-workshop-north-carolina-educators NC Teacher Workshop 2018 Workshop Report]
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|valign="top"|06/4/2018- 06/6/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-emerging-innovations-biodiversity-data# Digital Data Conference: Emerging Innovations for Biodiversity Data]
|valign="top"|The Berkeley Natural History Museums, the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, and iDigBio are pleased to announce the second annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held in Berkeley, CA, 4-6 June 2018.  The 2018 conference will again encompass the uses of digitized data across all biodiversity disciplines, with special emphasis on digitized specimen data and the potential for "big data" analytics in organismal biology.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Digital_Data_in_Biodiversity_Research_Conference,_Berkeley Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/second-annual-digital-data-biodiversity-research-conference-emerging-innovations Conference Report]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/compelling-content-inspires-unconference-participants-digital-data-ii Unconference at DigiData II (blog post)]
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|valign="top"|05/30/2018 - 06/01/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/developing-ontology-insect-natural-history-data Developing an ontology for insect natural history data]
|valign="top"|At this three-day workshop, we took the first steps toward developing a robust ontology for insect natural history data and natural history observations.  We primarily focused on information from insect specimen labels, but we also recognized considerable overlap in content between insect natural history data from labels and insect natural history data from literature sources, which means that much of our work will be easily adaptable to literature-sourced data.
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*[[Developing an Ontology for Insect Natural History Data|Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/workshop-report-developing-ontology-insect-natural-history-data Workshop Report]
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|valign="top"|04/06/2018 - 04/07/2018
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/broadening-participation-biological-sciences-los-angeles Broadening Participation in the Biological Sciences: Los Angeles]
|valign="top"|The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is hosting a Broadening Diversity workshop on April 6-7, 2018. This workshop is part of a western US workshop series with a goal to introduce undergraduate students, especially underrepresented populations, to museum and biodiversity science careers.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Broadening_Participation_in_the_Biological_Sciences:_Los_Angeles Wiki]
*Workshop Report
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|04/2018
|Announcement - Collaborating on Archaeological Collections Care
|iDigBio will be presenting and participating in an upcoming session at the Society for American Archaeology. Session abstract organized by Roger Colten and S. Terry Childs: Archaeology shares collection management, preservation, analysis, and data retrieval issues with many scientific and cultural disciplines.  Accessing the knowledge and expertise of colleagues in the natural history, museum, and other related professions can improve archaeological collections management and further scientific research.  In this session, we seek to encourage collaboration with colleagues in a variety of professional organizations, such as the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, Society of American Archivists, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Society for Historical Archaeology, American Cultural Resources Association, and others. The goal is to learn from and then adopt or adapt some of their best practices for the benefit of archaeological collections.  Data management and data sharing, conservation and preservation, and sustainable management of collections are among the topics covered by session participants.
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|08/03/2018-09/03/2018
|Workshop: Towards a strategic approach to digitising and mobilising UK museum biodiversity data<br/>
Workshop: Regional digitisation project – practical review
|In this 2-day workshop, iDigBio is supporting UK efforts to foster across-region collaboration and discussions for development of a strategic plan and vision to digitize regional and small collections across the UK. Day 1 attendees are museum leaders and directors. We will share case studies of collaborative digitization and data mobilization and offer examples from potential key stakeholders while highlighting audience benefits. Topics include: the UK science / nature agenda, citizen science, workforce skills and diversity, the power of storytelling, funding models, and institutional benefits mapping. For day 2, attendees will be staff caring for small and regional collections, essentially, non-national museum curators. The focus shifts to ideas, models, and training for incorporating digitization at this level but to key in on practical recommendations that do not require additional budget or expertise if possible. Practical training may be offered in one or two key areas, for example, georeferencing and review of recommendations based on the Five Task Clusters paper (Nelson, et al 2012). Future plans include repeating this second day for other regional (non-national museum) UK curators.
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*[[UK_Strategy_Workshop|UK Strategy Workshop Wiki]]
*[[UK-SWANSPracticalDigitisation|UK SWANS Practical Digitisation Workshop Wiki]]
* [https://www.idigbio.org/content/borderless-collections-%E2%80%93-starting-collections-community-revolution iDigBio Blog on 2 workshops]
* [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/d/d6/ReportUKnaturalSciencesDigitisationStrategy.pdf UK Team Workshop Report]
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|05/03/2018-06/03/2018
|ICEDIG
|To support and collaborate with DiSSCo, iDigBio heads to Helsinki to participate in and share our experience with the leaders and institutional members of the upcoming DiSSCo initiative in the EU. The purpose of this 2-day meeting is to envision the human and cyberinfrastructure needs to realize DiSSCo.
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* [https://www.idigbio.org/content/icedig-design-refinement-project-dissco-transforming-natural-science-collections-digital-age iDigBio ICEDIG blog post]
* [https://icedig.eu/blog/starting-conversation-icedig-opening-conference ICEDIG opening conference blog post]
* [https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/transforming-natural-science-collections-for-the-digital-age/programme ICEDIG programme with recordings]
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|13/02/2018-14/02/2018
|Citation - Attribution Workshop - convened by BCoN
|iDigBio will be participating in a workshop to discuss the current citation / attribution standards and practices when referencing museum collections and specimens. This meeting convened by BCoN looks to make recommendations and initiate collaborations that support changes in community norms and publishing practices resulting in more automated and robust scientific collections citations and attributions.
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|11/5/2017 - 11/8/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/entomology-society-america-esa-2017 Entomology Society of America (ESA) 2017]
|Entomology 2017 will be held November 5-8, 2017 at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. The theme "Ignite. Inspire. Innovate." highlights a vision to increase science communication within the research community. iDigBio will be leading a symposium: Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science. Pamela Soltis, iDigBio's Research PI will present a talk: "Using specimens and linked data in ecological and evolutionary research" in this symposium. The lineup of talks includes speakers from the US, South America, and the EU and several graduate students will be presenting their research.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Entomology_Society_of_America_(ESA)_2017 Symposium Wiki]
*[https://esa.confex.com/esa/2017/meetingapp.cgi/Session/29892 Big Data and Bugs Symposium]
*[http://www.entsoc.org/entomology-2017-program 2017 ESA Complete Program]
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|11/4/2017 - 11/5/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/2017-entomological-collections-network-annual-meeting Entomological Collections Network (ECN) 2017]
|The 2017 annual meeting of the ECN will be held in Denver, Colorado
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ECN_2017 Wiki]
*[http://ecnweb.org/pdf/ECN_program2017.pdf 2017 ECN Complete Program]
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|11/1/2017 - 11/3/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/adbc-summit-2017 ADBC Summit VII] announcement
|iDigBio hosts the 7th joint meeting of the [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503559 ADBC] Community working together to advance access to collections data and expand use of collections data in scientific research. ADBC Summit VII will be held November 2-3, 2017 at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) in Gainesville, Florida.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/ADBC_Summit_2017 ADBC Summit VII Wiki]
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|10/1/2017 - 10/6/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/tdwg-2017-annual-conference TDWG 2017 Annual Conference]
|iDigBio will be participating in numerous symposiums, workshops, talks and posters at TDWG 2017 in Ottawa, Canada.
The annual TDWG conference serves two purposes:it is is a forum for extending, refining, and developing standards in response to new challenges and opportunities and it is a showcase for biodiversity informatics - much of which relies on the specifications provided by TDWG and other standards organizations.
 
For the many iDigBio-related events at #TDWG2017, please see [https://www.idigbio.org/content/tdwg-2017-annual-conference iDigBio at TDWG 2017]
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*[https://tdwgproceedings.pensoft.net/ 2017 TDWG Conference Proceedings]
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|09/24/2017 - 09/25/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/24th-meeting-gb24-gbif-governing-board GBIF24 announcement]
|iDigBio will be at the table for the 24th meeting of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This includes the GBIF Nodes Meeting 24-25 September, and the GBIF Governing Board Meeting 26-27 October. The meeting is in Helsinki, Finland and you can read more about the conference events [https://www.gbif.org/event/83360/gb24-24th-meeting-of-the-gbif-governing-board here] and [https://gb24.gbif.org/ here] and also look at the [https://gb24.gbif.org/en/programme/ complete programme].
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*[https://gb24.gbif.org/en/programme/ GBIF24 programme]
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|8/05/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-ecologial-society-america-meeting-2017 Field-to-collections BioBlitz] announcement
|iDigBio continues efforts to engage the ecological community in using biocollections data. Calling all ecologists! Portland's Forest Park is the largest urban forest in the United States and home to the unique flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest, yet our understanding of its biodiversity, especially in disturbed areas, is incomplete. Join iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) as we seek to fill this knowledge gap. To do this, we'll be collecting voucher specimens and their data along with observational records and getting your input, as ecologists, on what information is critical to capture to make this data fruitful for your research.
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*[[Field-to-collections Bioblitz at ESA 2017 | Field-to-collections Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-ecologial-society-america-meeting-2017 Bioblitz Report]
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|7/17/2017 - 7/20/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/entomological-collections-management-workshop-ii Entomological Collections Management Workshop II]
|The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) and the Field Museum (FM) are hosting the 2017 Entomological Collections Management Workshop sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network (ECN), the SysEB Section for ESA, and the Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PERC). That's a Monday through Thursday with one of those days in Chicago to visit the Field Museum and at least a day devoted entirely to digitization of entomological collections. iDigBio staff collaborated with ECN staff to add the digitization component and will attend to present relevant material.
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*[http://ecnweb.org/default.asp?Action=Show_Workshop ECN Website Announcement]
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|7/16/2017 - 7/17/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/digitizing-2nd-largest-invertebrate-phylum-mollusks Digitizing the 2nd largest Invertebrate Phylum: Mollusks]
|This proposed taxon-focused digitization workshop will assemble a solid data foundation on the current status of US mollusk collections digitization, develop advancement strategies for rapidly promoting digitization and mobilization of North American molluscan specimen data, and provide georeferencing training covering key issues in terrestrial, aquatic, and marine localities, with special relevance to the phylum. The research use of digitized mollusk data and various applications by other stakeholder forms a prominent component of this workshop. The workshop is aligned with the Annual Meeting of the American Malacological Society in July 2017 hosted by the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, DE.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Digitizing_the_2nd_largest_Invertebrate_Phylum:_Mollusks Mollusks Workshop Wiki]
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|6/29/2017 - 6/30/2017
|Data Carpentry at FSU
| A two-day workshop at FSU covering better spreadsheet skills, introduction to Open Refine, the scripting-language R, and Structured Query Language (SQL). The majority of the participants are from the FSU Biological Sciences Department. This is the first in a on-going series as we strive to integrate Data Carpentry into FSU's efforts to offer students, staff, and faculty opportunities to increase their biodiversity data literacy, informatics skills, and data literacy. Focus is on empowering participants to use biodiversity collections data.
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*[https://fsulib.github.io/2017-06-29-fsu/ Data Carpentry Workshop Site]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/bringing-data-carpentry-fsu Bringing Data Carpentry to FSU] blog post
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|6/22/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-best-practices-integrating-collections-education SPNHC 2017 Symposium: Best Practices for Integrating Collections into Education]
| A full-day SPNHC Symposium on June 22, 2017, sponsored by SCNet, iDigBio, NSCA, AIM-UP!, BLUE, SHC, and SPNHC
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*[[ Best Practices for Integrating Collections into Education| Workshop Wiki]]
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|6/21/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-idigbio-events Advances in Digitization: see events at SPNHC 2017]
| Advances in Digitization, offers talks showcasing current trends and recent developments in the world of collections digitization. We'll hear about new strategies for scaling up and improved data quality, and get input from the herbaria, fish, and paleo collections. We'll delve into the realm of 3-D imaging, citizen science, and research librarians as collaborators. Four posters offered in this section cover digitization efficiency and crowdsourcing ideas from insect collections, to paleo. We welcome our international participants from KEW, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the MNHN.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/SPNHC2017_iDigBio_Symposia_-_Advances_in_Digitization_and_Innovative_Uses_of_Collections_Data Advances in Digitization Symposium Wiki]
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|6/21/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-idigbio-events Innovative Uses for Collections Data: see events at SPNHC 2017]
| Many collections now have more complete species inventories, and many have more digitized collections. What can be done with this data in house,to help the collections themselves? How does the aggregation of this data help collections more effectively advocate for themselves? How can it be used to for strategic planning? for advertisement? for seeking funding and setting policies? What can researchers and collections managers tell us about their georeferencing needs? From the biological field station to collections with specimens in the millions, find out what collections are learning about their own holdings - and the potential in that information.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/SPNHC2017_iDigBio_Symposia_-_Advances_in_Digitization_and_Innovative_Uses_of_Collections_Data Innovative Uses for Collections Data Symposium Wiki]
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|6/18/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2017-idigbio-events SPNHC 2017 Biodiversity Informatics 101: see events at SPNHC 2017]
|valign="top"|The short course will provide an introduction to natural history biodiversity informatics. The course is designed for museum professionals that would like a better understanding of the natural history informatics landscape or the resources available for digitizing and digitally sharing natural history collections data. Topics will cover the basics of natural history collection data and digital object lifecycle management, including digitally archiving and mobilizing collections data and participation in global initiatives. The course will be led by museum and informatics professionals with experience in natural history collections digitization and informatics.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/SPNHC_2017_Biodiversity_Informatics_101 Wiki]
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|valign="top"|06/5/2017- 06/6/2017
|valign="top"|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-inaugural-digital-data-biodiversity-research-conference-5-6-june-2017 Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference]
|valign="top"|iDigBio, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, and the University of Michigan Herbarium are pleased to announce the inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held in Ann Arbor, MI, 5-6 June 2017. The rapid mobilization of digitized biodiversity data, led largely in the United States by the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, has resulted in a substantial increase in available data for research and related activities. This conference will encompass the uses of digitized data across all biodiversity disciplines, with special emphasis on digitized specimen data and the potential for “big data” analytics in organismal biology.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Inaugural_Digital_Data_in_Biodiversity_Research_Conference Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/inaugural-digital-data-biodiversity-research-conference-0 Conference Report]
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|5/24/2017 - 5/25/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/resources-collections-based-undergraduate-education-workshop Resources for Collections-Based Undergraduate Education]
| The iDigBio Education and Outreach Working Group, AIM-UP!, Kurator, Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES), Biodiversity Literacy for Undergraduate Education (BLUE), and others are collaborating on a workshop entitled “Resources for Collections-Based Undergraduate Education” as part of a QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network...
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|5/2/2017 - 5/3/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-photography-101-managing-cameras-lighting-and-workstations-specimen-imaging Digital Photography 101: ManagingCameras, Lighting, and Copy Stands for Specimen Imaging]
|Topics will include digital camera and lens morphology, manual camera operation, customizing settings for specific purposes, sensor types, image file selection, lens types and usage, lighting and white balance, camera copy stands,  light boxes, and imaging workflows for imaging various types of organisms and preservation types. This is a basic course in digital photography for specimen imaging.
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*[[Digital_Photography_101:_Managing_Cameras,_Lighting,_and_Copy_Stands_for_Specimen_Imaging| Workshop Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-photography-101-workshop#overlay-context=content/digital-photography-101-managing-cameras-lighting-and-workstations-specimen-imaging Workshop Report]
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|3/27/2017 - 3/28/2017
|[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Digital_Data_in_Paleontological_Research Digital Data in Paleontological Research]
| The workshop will focus on tools, strategies, pipelines, and workflows for generating and using digitized data for paleontological research and other activities.
| The workshop will focus on tools, strategies, pipelines, and workflows for generating and using digitized data for paleontological research and other activities.
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*[[Incorporating K-12 Outreach Into Digitized Collections Programs Workshop|Workshop Wiki]]
*[[Digital Data in Paleontological Research|Workshop Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/using-digitized-paleontological-data-research-workshop Workshop Report]
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== Calendar Year 2016 ==
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*[[Incorporating K-12 Outreach Into Digitized Collections Programs Workshop|K-12 Workshop Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/incorporating-k-12-outreach-digitized-collections-programs-workshop K-12 Workshop Report]
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*[[Collection Imaging Techniques at the Florida Museum of Natural History|Imaging Workshop Wiki]]
*[[Collection Imaging Techniques at the Florida Museum of Natural History|Imaging Workshop Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/6/6f/NOTES_Collection_Imaging_FLMNH.pdf Imaging Workshop Notes]
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*[[IDigBio Summit 2016|Summit VI Wiki]]
*[[IDigBio Summit 2016|Summit VI Wiki]]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/adbc-summit-2016 Summit VI Report]
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|10/04/2016 - 10/07/2016
|10/04/2016 - 10/07/2016
|[[Georeferencing for Research Use|Georeferencing for Research Use, a short course]]
|[https://www.idigbio.org/content/apply-now-georeferencing-research-use-short-course-0 Georeferencing for Research Use, a short course]
|Our focus in this short course is on research use of georeferenced natural history collections data. We will include activities and discussions about best practices and tools for georeferencing, capturing locality data in the field, and using georeferenced specimen locality data in research. Attendees must have a basic level of experience with georeferencing techniques and tools - and be actively involved in research or supporting researchers. iDIgBio and CCBER are sponsoring this event, and NCEAS is our event host.
|Our focus in this short course is on research use of georeferenced natural history collections data. We will include activities and discussions about best practices and tools for georeferencing, capturing locality data in the field, and using georeferenced specimen locality data in research. Attendees must have a basic level of experience with georeferencing techniques and tools - and be actively involved in research or supporting researchers. iDIgBio and CCBER are sponsoring this event, and NCEAS is our event host.
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*[[Georeferencing_for_Research_Use|Workshop Wiki]]
*[[Georeferencing_for_Research_Use|Workshop Wiki]]
*Workshop Report
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/georeferencing-and-visualizing-biodiversity-data-research Workshop Report]
* Outcome Paper [https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.4.e32449 Georeferencing for Research Use: An integrated geospatial training paradigm for biocollections researchers and data providers.]
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|09/25/2016 - 09/30/2016
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*[[Data Without Borders ICE 2016|Symposium Wiki]]
*[[Data Without Borders ICE 2016|Symposium Wiki]]
*Symposium Schedule
*Symposium Schedule
*Symposium Report
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/data-without-borders-symposium-xxv-international-congress-entomologists-ice-2016 Symposium Report]
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|09/21/2016 - 09/25/2016
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|08/07/2016 - 08/12/2016
|[[Leveraging_the_Power_of_Biodiversity_Specimen_Data_for_Ecological_Research_at_ESA_2016|Symposium]] at [http://esa.org/ftlauderdale/ ESA 2016 Annual Meeting]
|[[Leveraging_the_Power_of_Biodiversity_Specimen_Data_for_Ecological_Research_at_ESA_2016|Symposium]] at [http://esa.org/ftlauderdale/ ESA 2016 Annual Meeting]
|At ESA 2016, on Wednesday 10 August, iDigBio presents a symposium bringing together speakers who have incorporated biological specimen data into their ecological research. Specimen collections include centuries of information from around the world and, as a result, comprise data collected in a wide range of formats, languages, media, accuracy, precision, and completeness. Using these data therefore requires an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates international standards and protocols. Further, these efforts must be forward thinking to anticipate the needs of future researchers and the capabilities of future technologies. The opportunities and challenges in working with these data are numerous and widely applicable across ecological fields. The session will include talks that span taxa, time and geographies, with an emphasis on data from iDigBio.
|At ESA 2016, on Wednesday 10 August, iDigBio presents a symposium bringing together speakers who have incorporated biological specimen data into their ecological research. Specimen collections include centuries of information from around the world and, as a result, comprise data collected in a wide range of formats, languages, media, accuracy, precision, and completeness. Using these data therefore requires an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates international standards and protocols. Further, these efforts must be forward thinking to anticipate the needs of future researchers and the capabilities of future technologies. The opportunities and challenges in working with these data are numerous and widely applicable across ecological fields. The session will include talks that span taxa, time and geographies, with an emphasis on data from iDigBio.
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*[[Leveraging_the_Power_of_Biodiversity_Specimen_Data_for_Ecological_Research_at_ESA_2016|ESA 2016 Symposium Wiki]]
*[[Leveraging_the_Power_of_Biodiversity_Specimen_Data_for_Ecological_Research_at_ESA_2016|ESA 2016 Symposium Wiki]]
*[http://esa.org/ftlauderdale/ ESA 2016 Annual Meeting] website
*[http://esa.org/ftlauderdale/ ESA 2016 Annual Meeting] website
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/esa-2016-leveraging-power-biodiversity-specimen-data-ecological-research Blog post report]
*[http://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2016/08/23/leveraging-the-power-of-biodiversity-specimen-data-for-ecological-research/ Original blog post at PLOS]


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*[http://www.islandbiology2016.uac.pt/ Meeting website]
*[http://www.islandbiology2016.uac.pt/ Meeting website]
*[[Island_Biology_2016:_mobilizing_natural_history_collections_data_for_research_use|Workshop Wiki]]
*[[Island_Biology_2016:_mobilizing_natural_history_collections_data_for_research_use|Workshop Wiki]]
 
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-island-biology-2016 Island Biology Report]
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*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*Workshop Wiki ''in progress''
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2016-one-collection-pathways-integration Linked Symposia Report]
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*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*Workshop Wiki ''in progress''
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2016-one-collection-pathways-integration Linked Symposia Report]
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*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*Workshop Wiki ''in progress''
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2016-one-collection-pathways-integration Linked Symposia Report]
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|So many abstracts were submitted (27) for the first symposium in this series, we added another symposium! This series of talks will delve into new imaging techniques, new ideas for expanding existing digitization and datasets, and expand our knowledge of collections data-in-action.
|So many abstracts were submitted (27) for the first symposium in this series, we added another symposium! This series of talks will delve into new imaging techniques, new ideas for expanding existing digitization and datasets, and expand our knowledge of collections data-in-action.
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2016-one-collection-pathways-integration Linked Symposia Report]
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*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/International_Conversation_Mobilizing_Data_for_Research_SPNHC_2016 Workshop Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/International_Conversation_Mobilizing_Data_for_Research_SPNHC_2016 Workshop Wiki]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2016-one-collection-pathways-integration Linked Symposia Report]
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*[http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page40.html Abstracts for Linked Symposia]
*Workshop Wiki ''in progress''
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2016-one-collection-pathways-integration Linked Symposia Report]
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*[[IDigBio_Scripps_Institute_of_Oceanography_Mini-workshop |Workshop Wiki]]
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*[http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4dfquy4bsf/ Webinar Recording]
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/update-idigbio-augmenting-ocr-working-group Workshop Report]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/update-idigbio-augmenting-ocr-working-group Workshop Report]
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-it-standards-workshop Workshop Agenda]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-it-standards-workshop Workshop Agenda]
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*[https://www.idigbio.org/forums/idigbio-2011-summit Presentations]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/forums/idigbio-2011-summit Presentations]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-summit-wrap Workshop Report]
*[https://www.idigbio.org/content/idigbio-summit-wrap Workshop Report]
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