iDigBio Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Specimens Workshop (Day1 AM Session2)

10:40–10:55

Sweeney, Patrick.

New England Vascular Plants Thematic Collections Network Project. Yale Univ., New Haven, Connecticut.

Mobilizing New England vascular plant data to track environmental change: an overview and preliminary thoughts on engaging the public.

11:00–11:15

Basham, Melody.

Southwest Collections of Anthropods Network Thematic Collections Network Project. Arizona State Univ., Phoenix, Arizona.

SCAN survey results: engaging the public with insect digitization workflows.

11:20–11:35

Hendricks, Jonathan.

Paleoniches Thematic Collections Network Project. San Jose State Univ., San Jose, California.

Digital atlases of fossil collections: new resources for the public to identify and understand ancient biodiversity.

11:40–11:55

Martin, Elizabeth.

Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL.

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON): a national resource for species occurrence data.

12:00–12:30

Discussion of similarities and differences in project goals and digitization methods and opportunities to engage the public across the TCNs and BISON.