2021 Paleo Digitization Happy Hour

Join colleagues every other Thursday at noon Eastern in an informal, biweekly discussion on various topics related to digitizing paleontology collections and sharing the digitized data. No advance registration required, and you are welcome to drop in for only part of the hour! Recordings and notes from past discussion sessions can be found linked to the Paleo Digitization Working Group wiki.

Remote participation link (Zoom): https://fsu.zoom.us/j/98686393084

Topics for upcoming happy hour discussions are:

• January 14 - Paleo collections data resolutions for 2021
• January 28 - Tools and strategies for tidying data, including demos of OpenRefine and iDigBio data quality flags
• February 11 - Making people data discoverable with Bionomia and wikidata
• February 25 - How the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) relates to our shared datasets
• March 11 - Extra discussion time to debrief from February Happy Hours, and to plan group priorities for upcoming Happy Hours
• March 25 - Getting started with wikidata
• April 08 - Understanding the new Collections Description standard
• April 22 - Geography revisted
• May 06 - TBD
• May 20 - open Zoom room to talk about SPNHC and Digital Data conferences (debrief, discuss further, etc.); note that SPNHC session "Specimen Spotlight" is happening at this same time
• June 03 - open Zoom room to talk about SPNHC and Digital Data conferences (debrief, discuss further, etc.); note that SPNHC session "Collection Care Network - Collection care adaptations" is happening at this same time
• June 17 - open Zoom room to talk about SPNHC and Digital Data conferences (debrief, discuss further, etc.); note that SPNHC session "Using Natural History Collections as an Education Tool" is happening at this same time
• July 01 - TBD
• July 15 - TBD
• July 29 - TBD
• August 12 - TBD
• August 26 - TBD
• September 09 - TBD
• September 23 - TBD
• October 07 - TBD
• October 21 - TBD
• November 04 - TBD
• November 18 - TBD
• December 02 - TBD
• December 16 - TBD