BioDigiCon 2023

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iDigBio is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually on 19-20 September 2023.

Social Media

Twitter: #biodigicon2023, @idigbio

Announcement Page

BioDigiCon 2022 Announcement page

Conference Registration

Registration is open! Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-biodigicon-tickets-673866140767

Abstracts

Registration is required to submit an abstract. The submission link will be in your registration confirmation from Eventbrite.

  • Abstract submission deadline is Friday, September 1st.
  • Lightning Presentations will be 15 minutes including time for questions.
  • All presenters will be asked to provided a pre-recorded presentation and additionally present live virtually.

Conference Resources

Zoom Information

  • Make sure you have upgraded your Zoom client.
  • We suggest using the desktop client or mobile app, which use less bandwidth than Zoom in your browser. See Zoom help for more: https://bit.ly/2RM0rzQ.
  • We will be using the Zoom webinar platform. Only speakers' cameras and microphones will be enabled.
  • Please use the Zoom Q&A feature if you have questions for the presenters. The chat function will only be used for discussion.

Recording Policy

By attending iDigBio’s online events, you accept that the event will be recorded and posted for later asynchronous viewing.

Presenters have submitted pre-recorded presentations for the option to watch asynchronously but all sessions will take place live.

DRAFT Conference Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday, 19 September 2023

iDigBio Updates
Time EDT Zoom link
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome from iDigBio - Gil Nelson
9:10 - 9:20 2023 Statistics - David Jennings
9:20 - 9:30 E&O - Libby Ellwood
9:30 - 9:40 Cyberinfrastructure - Jose Fortes
9:40 - 9:50 Symbiota - Nico Franz
9:50 - 10:00 Workforce Development - Austin Mast
10:00 - 10:10 Research - Pam Soltis
10:10 - 10:20 Events for 2024 - Jill Goodwin
10:20 - 10:40 Q &A
2023 Collection Digitization Spotlight: NHM London
Time EDT Zoom link
11:00 - 11:30 Plenary Presentation: 10 years of Digitisation at the Natural History Museum, London
Helen Hardy, Natural History Museum, London
11:30 - 11:45 How can communicating about digitisation save our broken planet?
Jennifer Pullar, Natural History Museum, London
11:45 - 12:00 Digital Services at the Natural History Museum, London
Peter Wing, Natural History Museum, London
12:00 - 12:15 NHM Data Portal - Past, Present, and Future
Josh Humphries, Natural History Museum, London
12:15 - 12:30 Transcription & geo-referencing for international collections
Krisztina Lohonya, Natural History Museum, London
12:30 - 12:45 Using Excel Macros for Data Quality Assurance: Lessons Learned from a Coding Beginner
Larissa Welton, Natural History Museum, London
12:45 - 1:00 Developing documentation from a team of two to nine - changes along the way
Louise Allan, Natural History Museum, London
Lightning Presentations
Time EDT Zoom link for Day 1, Room 1 Zoom link for Day 1, Room 2
2:00 - 2:15 Adopting Equity in Research and Data
Dominik Bednarczyk, World Data Systems - International Technology Office
Big-Bee Thematic Collection Network: Key Achievements and Insights Over the Past Two Years
Katja Seltmann, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:15 - 2:30 Advancing FAIR Principles: Internship-driven Data Transfer from the Paleobiology Database to MorphoBank
Shreya Jariwala, Phoenix Bioinformatics
Ranges Digitization Network - Extending mammal specimens from the changing landscapes of western North America
Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2:30 - 2:45 Online resources for supporting remote learning (Wilson) Using Programmed Stacked Imaging to Accelerate Digitization Efforts
Christine Johnson, American Museum of Natural History
2:45 - 3:00 Remote Operating Vehicle Observation Data Contributions to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Sean Tippett, Ocean Networks Canada
The future of natural history transcription: navigating AI advancements with VoucherVision and the Specimen Label Transcription Project (SLTP)
Will Weaver, University of Michigan
3:00 - 3:15 Mobilizing PDF-Embedded Biodiversity Data Tables
Chandra Earl, UNESCO
Rapid and reproducible specimen data formatting
Rick Levy, Denver Botanic Gardens
3:15 - 3:30 Georeferencing Aotearoa New Zealand for Natural History collections
Johno Ridden, Canterbury Museum
Building and Sustaining Community through Symbiota Portal Advancement Campaigns
Lindsay Walker, Symbiota Support Hub, Arizona State University
3:30 - 3:45 PILSBRy (Yeung) (Blomberg?)
3:45 - 4:15 ESB's PBS Film: Mollusks: More than a Shell (Bieler)

Day 2 - Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Lightning Presentations
Time EDT Zoom link for Day 2, Room 1 Zoom link for Day 2, Room 2
9:00 - 9:15 The supporting database of collectors: an important step in the digitization way
Andriy Novikov, State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine
From collection room to virtual museum - South Africa's vertebrate type specimen photography by the Natural Science Collections Facility
Margaret Bartkowiak, Natural Science Collections Facility - South Africa
9:15 - 9:30 From tape2tape: problems of long-term storage of animal sounds
Klaus Riede, Museum Koenig Bonn ZFMK
Advancing Biological Collections with Specify 7
Grant Fitzsimmons, Specify Collections Consortium
9:30 - 9:45 Turning plants into pictures: Our Big Project
Maxine Manickum, Natural Science Collections Facility
Building a Digital Extended Specimen One Association at a Time: What Does It Take to Extend OBI Herbarium Records with their Associated GenBank Sequences?
Jorrit Poelen, Ronin Institute, UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
9:45 - 10:00 All the world's a stage—just not the one I need
Craig Brabant, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Themed Discussion Groups
Time EDT Zoom link for Day 2, Room 1 Zoom link for Day 2, Room 2
10:30 - 11:30 Building the Digitization Coordinator Network (DigiCoordNet) BIOFAIR Data Network
11: 30 - 12:30 Designing for success—initiating new digitization and strategic planning for your collection Innovative Approaches to E&O
12:30 - 1:30 SERNEC Herbaria Digitization Lessons Learned: Symposia and Discussion (Czako) ?


Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center
Time EDT Zoom link
1:30 - 3:30 Presentations from Organizers
1:30 Libby Ellwood
1:40 John Bates
1:50 Emily Sessa
2:00 Breda Zimkus
2:10 Matt Borths
2:20 Jill Goodwin
2:30 Pam Soltis
Closing Plenary
Time EDT Zoom link
3:30 - 4:30 Visionary Plenary: Diane DiEullis, CIV US NDU: Bioeconomy Presentation & Discussion
4:30 - 4:45 Thank you for attending: Gil Nelson