4th Annual Digital Data Conference, Indiana University

Social Media

Twitter: #digidata, @idigbio

Conference Resources

• Virtual Meeting Resources
• iDigBio's Code of Conduct

Conference Registration

For those who would like to support the sustainability of in-person Digital Data Conferences, registration fees are $100.00 for professionals, $50.00 for students. Those who wish not to make a financial contribution to the conference may select the free option.

Registration is open - Click here to register through Eventbrite.

Final registration deadline: May 22.

Abstract Submissions

Options for submission include: discussion, oral, or poster presentations.

You must register to submit an abstract. The abstract submission link will be sent to you in your registration confirmation email.

Abstract submission deadlines: 24 April 2020

The conference will be structured to allow live presentations among different time zones. Recording of presentations are additionally being requested to be posted on the wiki to ensure their availability to any timezone.

Posters

All posters will be electronic and linked to this wiki page. There will not be a live session for posters. We are requesting that poster presenters provide a recorded description with their poster presentation.

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations should be 10 minutes long. Each oral presentation will be presented live and pre-recorded presentations will be posted on the wiki page. In the live sessions an additional 5 minutes will be given for questions.
Click here to view an example

Discussion sessions

Discussion sessions may be up to one hour long. These may begin with a presentation or introduction followed by discussion or may be completely devoted to open discussion.

Draft Agenda - Schedule Subject to Change

Monday, 1 June 2020

Day One - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT / 1:00PM - 4:00PM UTC
Keynote Session Location: - 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
9:00	Welcome - Michael McRobbie, President of Indiana University Logistics - Gary Motz, Indiana University, Indiana Geological and Water Survey Conference Framing - Jill Goodwin, iDigBio, University of Florida
9:30	Plenary Speaker - Lauren Sallan, Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 TED Senior Fellow
10:00	Plenary Speaker - Joseph Cook, Professor & Curator, Division of Mammals, The University of New Mexico
10:30-11:00	Break - Rooms open for discussion
Concurrent Sessions 1-3 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
	’’Session 1 – Harnessing the Data Revolution’’	‘’’Session 2 - Part I - The role and relevance of “Big Data” in biodiversity research’’’	‘’Session 3 - Pipelines that integrate digitization, data use, and research’’
11:00	Concurrent Session 1A; Developing Data infrastructures for environmental archaeology, palaeoecology and conservation palaeobiology Philip Buckland, Umea University; Francesca Pilotto	Concurrent Session 2A; A joint effort for the quality control of herbarium specimen data Ashton Welcome, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI);	Concurrent Session 3A The step beyond: from scientific work environment to reliable and effective conservation genomic tools Jutta Buschbom, Statistical Genetics
11:20	Concurrent Session 1B Reliable data use in R Jorrit Poelen, Ronin Institute; Carl Boettiger, UC Berkeley	’’Session 2 - Part II - Systematics and the use of digital specimen data’’ Concurrent Session 2B Rodents from Eastern Amazon, Brazil: specimens and digital data Alexandra M. R. Bezerra; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi	Concurrent Session 3B Developing the digitization practices of parasitic arthropod specimens from a university collection Jenna O'del, University of New Hampshire; Isaac A. Bergfalk, UNH; Holly A. Hoag, UNH; István Mikó, UNH
11:40	Concurrent Session 1C Increasing the usefulness of crowd-sourced citizen science data to monitor and understand biodiversity Giovanni Rapacciuolo, California Academy of Sciences; Alison Young, California Academy of Sciences; Michael Esgro, California, Ocean Protection Council; Sara Worden, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Rebecca Johnson, California Academy of Sciences	‘’Session 2 - Part III - Ongoing research projects that utilize digital data’’ Concurrent Session 2C Florida plants and climate change: Scripts and pitfalls for utilizing digitized data in course-based undergraduate research Michelle Gaynor, University of Florida; Douglas E. Soltis, Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida; Pamela S. Soltis, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

Day One - Block Two
‘1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT / 5:00PM – 9:00PM UTC ’
Discussion Sessions 1&2 Theme: Gaps and deficiencies in currently available digital data that hinder effective use
Time	Room 1
1:00 - 2:15	Discussion Session 1 Taxonomically intelligent biodiversity data: Taking stock of our progress and next steps to scale up implementation Beckett Sterner, Arizona State University; Nate Upham, Arizona State University; Steffi Ickert-Bond, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Jeff Gerbracht, eBird; Atriya Sen, Arizona State University; Nico Franz, Arizona State University
2:15 – 2:45	Break - Rooms open for discussion
2:45 – 3:30	Discussion Session 2 Reliable dataset identifiers are essential building blocks for reproducible research Jorrit Poelen, Ronin Institute; Michael Elliott, Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida; Jose Fortes, Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Day One - Block Three
6:00PM - 9:00PM EDT / 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Evening Reception
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
6:00 - 6:20	Welcome Description of Evening
6:20 - 6:50	Irene Moon
6:50 - 7:30	Natural History Show and Tell and Happy Hour Theme #1	Natural History Show and Tell and Happy Hour Theme #2	Natural History Show and Tell and Happy Hour Theme #3
7:30 - 8:00	Break - Rooms open for discussion
8:00 – 9:00	IU Virtual Collection Tour

Tuesday, 2 June 2020

Day Two - Block One
6:00AM - 9:00AM PDT / 9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT / 2:00PM - 5:00PM LONDON / 9:00PM - 12:00 AM PERTH
Web Repository Workshop Facilitators:David Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History and Doug Boyer, Duke University
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
9:00 - 10:30	Web Repository Workshop
10:30-11:00	Break - Rooms open for discussion
11:00 - 12:00	Web Repository Workshop cont.

Day Two - Block Two
10:00AM - 1:00PM PDT / 1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT / 6:00PM - 9:00PM LONDON / 1:00AM - 4:00AM PERTH
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
1:00 - 1:30	Plenary Speaker - Katie Stanchak, Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, University of Washington
1:30 - 2:10	Plenary Speaker - Michelle LeFebvre, Assistant Curator of Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Concurrent Sessions 4-7 2:10 - 3:30 p.m.
2:10
2:30
2:50
3:10

Day Two - Block Three
3:00PM - 6:00PM PDT / 6:00PM - 9:00PM EDT / 11:00PM - 2:00AM LONDON / 6:00AM - 9:00AM PERTH
Unconference: Biodiversity Science from Perspectives in Other Disciplines Facilitators:Deb Paul, iDigBio, Florida State University; Kimberly Cook and Gary Motz, Indiana University Biodiversity Information Science (BIS) is an inherently multidisciplinary science that is supported by a wealth of perspectives and expertise in diverse fields such as data science, information and library science, computer science, and many others. This unconference session is intended to explore mechanisms by which we can increase and enhance the diversity of people working to advance biodiversity information science in ways that were NOT addressed in the formal program of the Digital Data conference. Unconferences are intentionally unstructured meetings where YOU, the participants (including and especially students), tell the organizers what is important to you and should be better represented in future programming and opportunities for practitioners in our field.
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
6:00 - 7:30	Unconference Event
7:30 - 8:00	Break - Rooms open for discussion
8:00 - 9:00	Unconference Event cont.

Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Day Three - Block One
6:00AM - 9:00AM PDT/ 9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT / 2:00PM - 5:00PM LONDON/ 9:00PM - 12:00 AM PERTH
Discussion Sessions 3&4
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
9:00 - 10:00	Discussion Session 3
10:00 - 10:30	Break - Rooms open for discussion
10:30 - 11:30	Discussion Session 4

Day Three - Block Two
10:00AM - 1:00PM PDT/ 1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT / 6:00PM - 9:00PM LONDON/ 1:00AM - 4:00AM PERTH
R and the iDigBio API Workshop Facilitators:Erica Krimmel, iDigBio, Florida State University and Ronald Canepa, ACIS Lab, University of Florida This workshop will focus on using the iDigBio API (Application Programming Interface) to work with biodiversity occurrence data in R. Topics will be determined unconference-style by workshop attendees, but could include those related to collections management, e.g. reviewing specimen data quality issues, and to downstream research, e.g. facilitating reproducible and reusable methods. Community members of all backgrounds (collections staff, researchers, IT, etc.) and levels of programming experience (including R novice!) are encouraged to attend this workshop as a way to discover and discuss API data access, issues, and solutions. This workshop is a product of the iDigBio API User Group (R-based).
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
1:00 - 2:30	R and the iDigBio API Workshop
2:30 -3:00	Break - Rooms open for discussion
3:00 - 4:30	R and the iDigBio API Workshop cont.

Day Three - Block Three
3:00PM - 6:00PM PDT / 6:00PM - 9:00PM EDT / 11:00PM - 2:00AM LONDON / 6:00AM - 9:00AM PERTH
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
6:00 - 6:30	Plenary Speaker - Andrew Miller, Mycologist and Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium, University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey
6:30 - 7:00	Plenary Speaker - Beth Plale, Science Advisor for Public Access, National Science Foundation; Director, Data to Insight Center of Pervasive Technologies, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University
7:00 - 7:30	Break - Rooms open for discussion
Concurrent Sessions 8-10 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
7:30
7:50
8:10

Remote Poster Session

Title		Authors