Paleo Digitization Workshop

Paleontology Digitization Workshop wiki

This is the wiki page for the paleo digitization workshop held at the Yale Peabody Museum, late September, 2013.

Digitizing the Past and Present for the Future
Quick Links for Paleontology Digitization Workshop
Paleontology Digitization Workshop Agenda
Paleontology Digitization Workshop Biblio Entries
Paleontology Digitization Workshop Report

Agenda

• Working Draft Agenda

Workshop Recordings

• Day 1 AM Session 8am-10:15am
• Day 1 AM Session 10:30-11:45am
• Day 1 PM Session 1pm-2:45pm

• Day 2 AM Session 8am-10:30am
• Day 2 AM Session 10:45am-12pm
• Day 2 PM Session 1:15-3:05pm
• Day 2 PM Session 3:15-4:25pm

Logistics

• A few last minute details from email of 2013-09-04
• Breakfast places and opening times near the Omni
• A few recommendations for eating in New Haven
• Walking map from the Omni to the Peabody Museum

Collaborative Notes Documents

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Database discussion notes

Presentations

• Introduction to iDigBio and Data Standards, Gil Nelson
• Digitization of paleontology collections: An overview, Chris Norris
• Engaging downstream users of paleocollections through iDigBio E&O (Education and Outreach), Bruce MacFadden
• Integrating with existing digitization initiatives, Dena Smith
• Fossil Insect Collaborative A deep-time approach to studying diversification and response to environmental change, Dena Smith
• PaleoNiches TCN, Una Farrell
• Digitization workflow lightning rounds
• Managing digitization personnel and workflows, Larry Gall
• iDigBio 3D Objects in drawers and boxes workflows, Gil Nelson
• YPM-IP workflow with voice recognition imaging, Susan Butts
• Creating workflows for effective data migration and imaging in an invertebrate paleontology collection, Ann Molineux
• Undertaking digitization in the NMNH paleobiology collection and digitization strategies at the Smithsonian Institution, Kathy Hollis
• Specimens from federal lands, Dena Smith
• Workflows for digitizing vertebrate paleontology, Chris Norris
• Predigitization practices, Jessica Utrup
• Georeferencing paleontology collections, Una Farrell & Jessica Utrup
• Digital Imaging Basics:From Y2K to the Present, Roger Burkhalter
• 3D Digitization of Biological Specimens, Binil Starly
• Digitizing Peabody Paleo: history, EMu, portals & campus-wide digital infrastructures at Yale, Larry Gall
• Specify, Una Farrell & Talia Karim
• Arctos for paleontology collections: Examples from the University of Alaska Museum earth sciences collection digitization project, Julie Rousseau
• OpenRefine, Una Farrell
• Digitizing multi-disciplinary collections: a collaborative approach at the University of Iowa, Tiffany Adrain
• Imaging in amber, Dave Grimaldi
• How to photograph paleobotany & micropaleontology specimens at SNOMNH: A work in progress, Margaret Landis
• Imaging lightning rounds, Jessica Utrup, emcee

Workflows

• DROID 4 Workflows (DRAFT): 3D Objects in Boxes and Drawers

Documents

• NMNH Unit Digitization Plan 2013, Kathy Hollis
• NMNH Digital Asset Management Plan Template, Kathy Hollis
• NMNH Digital Asset Management Plan EMU, Kathy Hollis
• University of Texas scripts
• Comparison between Arctos and Specify (from a decidely Arctos perspective)
• NMNH Paleo Guidelines for Specimen Images
• Paul Selden's workflow (including hardware and software notes) for imaging fossil spiders

Workshop Planning Team

• Gil Nelson, iDigBio
• Susan Butts, Yale Peabody Museum
• Una Farrell, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas
• Austin Hendy, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Talia Karim, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Chris Norris, Yale Peabody Museum
• Jessica Utrup, Yale Peabody Museum