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| This "train-the-trainers" workshop is designed to provide the community with more trainers across the USA available to train others to georeference specimen label locality data. Participants are expected to organize and facilitate at least one multi-day georeferencing workshop targeted at the TCNs and other digitization projects of which the participants are representative. The workshop is an intensive 5-day event in Gainesville, Florida October 8 - 12, 2012. The participant list is posted (see column to the right).  
| This "train-the-trainers" workshop is designed to provide the community with more trainers across the USA available to train others to georeference specimen label locality data. Participants are expected to organize and facilitate at least one multi-day georeferencing workshop targeted at the TCNs and other digitization projects of which the participants are representative. The workshop is an intensive 5-day event in Gainesville, Florida October 8 - 12, 2012. The participant list is posted (see column to the right).  

Revision as of 17:44, 17 September 2012

Overview

Materials from completed workshops will typically be archived in the iDigBio Forum to enable ongoing discussion. Codified documentation will reside on the iDigBio Documentation page. Other material may be displayed via Wikis or external publications. The iDigBio Workshops page will serve as the index to link to deliverables produced by each workshop.


Workshop Documentation

Date Workshop Name Brief Summary Links
09/2011 iDigBio Summit 2011 Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.
03/2012 IT Standards Workshop Bring together experts in biodiversity informatics and related fields. Priorities include: 1) harmonizing data and metadata requirements for digital collections; 2) examining semantic and linked-data approaches to biodiversity data interoperability; 3) developing training and testing resources for georeferencing; 4) defining storage capabilities, interoperability, and computational requirements for the national resource.

Audio/Visual Recordings

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Breakout Groups (Day 1):

Breakout Groups (Day 2):

Breakout Groups (Day 3):

Presentation Slide Decks

Lightning Talks

04/2012 Paleocollections Workshop Address the digitization needs, opportunities and Grand Challenges of the US Paleontological collections community throughout the US.
05/2012 DROID Workshop This research workshop addresses the design, documentation, and optimization of Object-to-Image-to-Data workflows for digitizing biological specimens which are curated in thousands of museum and herbarium collections worldwide.

Audio/Visual Recordings

Main Room:

Breakout Groups (Day 1):

Breakout Groups (Day 2):

Presentation Slide Decks

07/2012 Botany 2012 The workshop is designed to introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections.
09/2012 Digitizing Plant Collections Workshop iDigBio is offering a series of preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing, launching, and maintaining a biological collections digitization program. The first of these workshops will focus on vascular and non-vascular plant digitization and will be held at Valdosta State University, September 16­–18, 2012.

All workshop materials can be accessed via the Workshop Wiki Page

Live Audio/Video

Audio/Visual Recordings

Main Room:


Breakout Groups:

Presentation Slide Decks Considerations When Choosing Collections Management Software

09/2012 This workshop seeks to identify ways to engage the public in the ongoing digitization of biodiversity specimens. Live Audio/Video

Main Room: Adobe Connect


Breakout Groups:

Presentation Slide Decks

10/2012 iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group workshop In order to identify best practices and to develop tools for this process and plan a hackathon, iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) will hold an “iDigBio Augumenting OCR” workshop October 1-2, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida.

Audio/Visual Recordings

Main Room:


Breakout Groups:

Presentation Slide Decks

10/2012 *iDigBio's first Train-the-Trainers Georeferencing Workshop This "train-the-trainers" workshop is designed to provide the community with more trainers across the USA available to train others to georeference specimen label locality data. Participants are expected to organize and facilitate at least one multi-day georeferencing workshop targeted at the TCNs and other digitization projects of which the participants are representative. The workshop is an intensive 5-day event in Gainesville, Florida October 8 - 12, 2012. The participant list is posted (see column to the right).

Audio/Visual Recordings

Main Room:


Breakout Groups:

Presentation Slide Decks