@conference {797,
	title = {Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2013 Symposium Talk: Expanding and Sustaining Sub-Saharan African Participation and Collaboration with TDWG},
	booktitle = {TDWG 2013 Annual Conference},
	year = {2013},
	month = {10/2013},
	publisher = {Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Conference 2013},
	organization = {Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Conference 2013},
	address = {Florence, Italy},
	abstract = {Over the past few years, with generous funding from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation (http://www.jrsbdf.org/), the authors have been supporting participation of biodiversity informaticians from Sub-Saharan African countries in annual TDWG conferences.  Biodiversity Information specialists from Madagascar, Rwanda and Zimbabwe will be participating in the 2013 TDWG conference.  The ultimate aim of the travel awards is to engage more African biodiversity information scientists in the activities of TDWG, including participation in TDWG task and working groups, and helping them to build research collaborations with TDWG members from other regions of the world.  We are surveying past TDWG travel awardees (2011 and 2012 conferences) to assess how well these aims are being accomplished.  The survey results will be discussed as part of this presentation. An ongoing collaboration with biodiversity scientists in Nairobi, Kenya, which contributed to Nairobi{\textquoteright}s selection as site of the 2014 TDWG conference, will also be discussed. The 2014 TDWG conference provides a unique opportunity to expand Sub-Saharan African participation and engagement in TDWG, and to develop effective strategies for sustaining this important activity.
},
	keywords = {Africa, Biodiversity Information Standards, collaboration, JRS Biodiversity Foundation, Sustainability, TDWG},
	url = {https://mbgserv18.mobot.org/ocs/index.php/tdwg/2013/paper/view/362},
	author = {Henry L. Bart and Patricia Mergen}
}
@article {974,
	title = {A Passion for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology},
	year = {2013},
	keywords = {Broadening Diversity: Careers and Graduate Study in the Biological Sciences},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/broadening-diversity/Bart-A\%20passion\%20for\%20Ecology\%20and\%20Evolutionary\%20Biology.pdf},
	author = {Henry L. Bart}
}
@article {1331,
	title = {SPNHC 2014: Progress in Digitization: Georeferencing Fish Collections from the FishNet Network},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {FishNet2 (www.fishnet2.net) is a global network of fish collection databases that gives researchers access to  data on roughly 4 million fish species lots,  representing over 30 million specimens. Before this project began, only about two-thirds of the records in Fishnet2 were georeferenced. The goals of this collaborative project were to georeference all localities without geographic coordinates and repatriate the results to data providers. The Collaborative Georeferencing Client  (CoGe)of the GEOLocate Platform was used to georeference and verify the roughly 250,000 localities in FishNet2 lacking coordinates at the start of the project. Each of the twelve collaborating institutions hired a full-time georeferencing technician to verify and correct the CoGe generated geographic coordinates for localities assigned to his or her institution. Since January 2013, when the georeferencing phase of the project began, more than 244,000 localities of have been processed (214,000 corrected), and over 1 million specimens records have been processed (935,000 corrected). Records that could not be georeferenced were skipped and reasons for not correcting the coordinates were recorded. Every corrected record includes geographic coordinates in decimal degrees, an uncertainty radius, and most of the records have a user generated error polygon to define the uncertainty in the determinations.},
	keywords = {Collaborative Georeferencing Client (CoGe), digitization, FishNet, GEOLocate, georeference, SPNHC 2014, SPNHC 2014: Progress in Digitization},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/spnhc2014/14_RIOS-spnhc2014.pdf},
	author = {Nelson E. Rios and Henry L. Bart and Michael H. Doosey}
}
