iDigBio Symbiota Working Group

September 11, 2017 Meeting Agenda

• Overview of the taxonomic cleaning code (Ed Gilbert)
• Overview of SOLr and the Spatial Module (Ben Brandt)
• Discussion of Webinar and Meeting Topics for the 2017-2018 academic year (see below)
• Review of Wish List

Proposed Line up of Webinar-Meetings

September- October

• Spatial Module I (Ben Brandt)
• Spatial Module II (Ben Brandt)
• Integrating Computer Vision (Andre Poremski)

November-December

• Documenting the Ethnobiology of Mexico and Central America (DEMCA): A Digital Portal for
  Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences (Jonathan Amith)
• Taxonomy Services (Matt Yoder, Neil Cobb Moderator)

January-February

• Developing Education-Outreach (Anne Basham & Neil Cobb)
• Refactoring  Symbiota (Curtis Dyerson)
• Update on Genetic linkages (Andy Miller) and Paleo functionality (Neil Cobb)

March-April

• Usage Stats and publication linking (Ben Brandt)
• Improving Data Entry options -(Mary Barkworth)

May-June

• Georeferencing (open)
• End of year open discussion