Paleo Digitization Working Group

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The Paleo Digitization Working Group was inspired by the paleo digitization workshop held in New Haven, CT in conjunction with the Yale Peabody Museum, 23-25 September 2013. The focus of the group is to examine issues and create community-generated documentation related to the digitization of paleontology collections.

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As of 2023, activity for the current iteration of this working group has migrated away from this wiki and to a stand-alone website. Please visit us at https://paleo-data.github.io to see what the group is up to and to get in touch!

This wiki provides an excellent archive of working group activities from 2013 - 2022.

2022 Activity

Paleo Data Happy Hours

Join colleagues 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! See the calendar announcement for more details.

Workshops

2021 Activity

Paleo Data Happy Hours

Join colleagues 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!

  • 2021-01-14, Paleo collections data resolutions for 2021 (notes)(audio recording)
  • 2021-01-28, Tools and strategies for tidying data (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-02-11, Making people data discoverable with Bionomia and wikidata (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-02-25, How the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) relates to our shared datasets (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-03-11, Extra discussion time to debrief from February Happy Hours, and to plan group priorities for upcoming Happy Hours (notes)(audio recording)
  • 2021-03-25, Getting started with wikidata (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-04-08, Understanding the new Collections Description standard (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-04-22, Geography revisited (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-05-06, Further discussion on the new Collections Description standard (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-05-20, open Zoom room to talk about SPNHC and Digital Data conferences (debrief, discuss further, etc.)
  • 2021-06-03, Overview of the Paleobotany Database (PBOT) project (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-06-17, Evaluating vocabulary for describing relationships between fossil specimens (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-07-01, open Zoom room to talk about whatever people want (notes)
  • 2021-07-15, open Zoom room to talk about whatever people want (notes)
  • 2021-07-29, Bias in paleo collections (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-08-12, Managing plastercasts, murals, and other non-specimen objects (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-08-26, Managing trace fossils and trackways (incl. ichnotaxonomy, cataloging trace fossils, quantifying trace fossils, publishing associations between traces and other organisms, etc.) (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-09-09, Sharing data about interactions in the fossil record (with GloBI) (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-10-07, Digital assets and copyright vs. usage rights (notes)(video recording)
  • 2021-11-04, Identifying connections between earlier Happy Hour topics and action items (notes)(recording)
  • 2021-11-18, Working session to plan wikidata workshop (recording)
  • 2021-12-02, Working session on recommendations for use of Darwin Core terms in paleo collections (notes)(recording)
  • 2021-12-16, Holiday social time!

2020 Activity

Paleo Data Happy Hours

Join colleagues 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!

Workshops

2017 Activity

Webinars

2016 Activity

Webinars

  • 2016-01-12, Kathy Hollis and Scott Foss: Federal collections discussion session, Part I (video recording)
  • 2016-02-16, Scott Foss and Elizabeth Varner: Federal collections discussion session, Part II (video recording)
  • 2016-03-09, Dana Ehret: Makerspace and 3D printing (video recording)
  • 2016-03-23, Laura Vietti: Digitizing small paleo collections (presentation PDF)(video recording)
  • 2016-05-03, Kerstin Lehnert: Using the International Geo Sample Number (IGSN) for tracking and registering samples in the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) (video recording)

2015 Activity

Webinars

2014 Activity

Webinars

Workshops

2013 Activity

Webinars

  • 2013-12-17, Roger Burkhalter: Standard views for paleo images (video recording)

Workshops

Standard Views for Fossil Images

Stratigraphy Resources

Controlled Vocabularies

Related Media

  • Formed in Stone: The Natural Beauty of Fossils A YouTube video from Sam Noble, contributed by Roger Burkhalter, that accompanies an exhibit of large-scale images of various fossils taken with the museum's macrophotography setup. The video goes from collecting, to preparation, to blackening and whitening of the fossil, then photography using image stacking.