@article {1410,
	title = {SPNHC 2014 DemoCamp: Crowdsourcing in LBCC using Symbiota},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {    The project {\textquoteleft}Lichens Bryophytes and Climate Change (LBCC){\textquoteright} is funded by the NSF-Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) Thematic Collections Network (TCN) program and aims to digitize ca. 2.3 million North American lichen and bryophyte specimens from over 60 collections representing well over 90\% of the remaining North American specimens from Canada, the United States and Mexico. In its third year of digitizing > 1.2 million lichen records are available at http://lichenportal.org  and > 1.8 million bryophyte records at http://bryophyteportal.org. Digitization involved imaging the specimen labels and uploading them into the open source online collections management system {\textquoteleft}Symbiota{\textquoteright} (http://symbiota.org)  where they become immediately available for transcription. The project was able to expand the already very sophisticated editing interface in Symbiota and developed functionality for citizen science to access the data. Employing the Drupal content management system, we developed simple querying tools in which volunteers can find specimens collected in a geographic area or taxonomic group of interest. The query utilizes information gathered from the label images via optical character recognition, presents the user with a set of records and forwards him/her to an abridged Symbiota screen for editing. In contrast to other citizen science interfaces that accomplish this task of transcribing information from an image, this approach allows the data to remain within the overall management framework, become available immediately, and do not have to be pulled out of the database and reintegrated later. This provides for seamless collaboration between volunteers, imagers, collections managers, and anyone interested in the data for research. In addition, this approach can take advantage of sophisticated quality control mechanism and search for duplicates already built into Symbiota, while not overwhelming the citizen scientist with the entire complexity of this system. The Drupal site allows for social networking among the volunteers and with the collections managers, plus posting of help specific for lichen and bryophyte labels.
    We will be demonstrating the functionality of the volunteer interface which can be access from http://lbcc.lichenportal.org and http://lbcc.bryophyteportal.org, as well as Symbiota{\textquoteright}s editing interface.
},
	keywords = {Citizen Science, crowdsourcing, Lichens Bryophyte and Climate Change (LBCC), OCR, optical character recognition, seamless integration, social networking, SPNHC 2014 DemoCamp, Symbiota, User Interface},
	author = {Barbara Thiers and Edward Gilbert and Corinna Gries and Benjamin Brandt}
}
@article {1333,
	title = {SPNHC 2014: Progress in Digitization: Supporting Data Flows in the New England Vascular Plant Network with FilteredPush Technologies},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {FilteredPush is supporting digitization in two Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), the Southwest Arthropods Collections Network (SCAN) and the New England Vascular Plant project (NEVP).  In NEVP, minimal data records, including current taxonomic identification, state and town of collection, and date collected are created during imaging at high-throughput digitization stations at digitization sites.  Current identification is obtained at the folder level in a pre-capture step and associated with the specimens upon imaging.  FilteredPush transports data from the digitization sites by wrapping DarwinCore terms in Open Annotation ontology documents, including metadata about the when, where, and who of digitization, typing as New Occurrence records, and minimal AudubonCore for the images.  These annotations are ingested into the NEVP Symbiota portal.  The annotations are then available for ingest into the databases of record through new occurrence ingest tools in the Specify 6 collections management system.   Additional data will be transcribed, in Symbiota, from the specimen images, and, supporting the science goals of the project, flowering and fruiting state will be coded for some taxa.  These assertions will be wrapped in annotations, typed to reflect domain business operations, and transported to the relevant collections for ingest.  Records harvested from network participants into datastores within FilteredPush will be subject to quality control from an Akka workflow that tests the taxon name, georeference, and date collected values of each record. Quality control issues (including proposed corrections) are reported in response to queries by researchers and transported through annotations to both Symbiota and the databases of record.},
	keywords = {DarwinCore, digitization, FilteredPush, quality control, Specify, SPNHC 2014, Symbiota},
	url = {https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/spnhc2014/16_Morris_gwyth_ei_hidlo_NEVP_mini.pdf},
	author = {Paul J. Morris and James Hanken and Maureen Kelly and David B. Lowery and Bertram Lud{\"a}scher and James A. Macklin and Chuck McCallum and Robert A. Morris and Tianhong Song and Patrick Sweeney}
}
