SiBBr Launching Event

iDigBio, Digitarium, GBIF, and others were invited by SiBBr (Brazilian Biodiversity Information System or Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira) to present a one-day workshop on Best Practices in managing and digitizing biological collections. This event was held as part of the launch, the kick-off, of the SiBBr project at CNPq, Brasília, DF, on November 25, 2014.

Description of the SiBBr project

• Overview of Day 1 (from Andrea)

Agenda for Day 1 (Nov 24, 2014)

10:00-12:00	Opening Panel: Roberto Cavalcanti - Biodiversity and Forest Secretary - MMA Rogério Gribel - Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden Research Director - JBRJ Alexandre Leib Grojsgold - computer Science National Laboratory Director - LNCC Nelson Simões - National Education and Research Network - RNP Denise Hamú - Brazilian Representative of the United Nations Environment Programme - PNUMA Marcelo Morales - Director of Agricultural Sciences, Biological and Health - CNPq Osvaldo Luiz Leal de Moraes - Director of the Department of Policies and Programs of Research and Development - MCTI Glacius Oliva - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development President - CNPq
10:40-11:00	SiBBr presentation and current implementation
11:00-11:20	SiBBr Species Occurrence Portal Features
11:20-11:40	SiBBr Data Repository Features
2:00pm-5:00pm	Round Table: Roadmap for building a national infrastructure for biodiversity data Plants and Animals Species List: building the taxonomic base for SiBBr - Rafaela Campostrini Forzza - JBRJ MMA and Partners' Biodiversity Portal - Rodrigo S. P. Jorge - ICMBIO, and Carlos Scaramuzza - MMA SISS - Wild health Information System (Sistema de Informação em Saúde Silvestre) - Marcia Chame - Fiocruz The importance of a Spatial Data Infrastrucure for Brazil - Hesley Py - IBGE INDBIO - Biodiversity Data National Infrastructure (Infraestrutura Nacional de Dados em BIOdiversidade) - Eduardo Dalcin - JBRJ
5:00pm-6:00pm	Incentives for publishing data to SiBBr - Danny Velez

Agenda and Presentations for Day 2 (Nov 25, 2014)

9:00-10:30	Introduction and Overview of Digitization Welcome, Introductions and Goals of Workshop – Andrea Nunes Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (USA) – Greg Riccardi GBIF Global Perspectives (in Portuguese (ppt) – Tim Hirsch Introduction to the Five Task Clusters of Digitization (ppt) – Deb Paul Questions and Discussion
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00	Data Mobilization and Data Management: Data Mobilization through GBIF: the global infrastructure (in Portuguese) (ppt) – Tim Hirsch Data mobilization from the perspective of a GBIF Node (in Portuguese) (ppt) - Rui Figueira
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:15	Task Cluster 1: Pre-digitization curation and staging (ppt) – Deb Paul
14:15 – 15:00	Task Cluster 2: Specimen Image Capture Photography equipment and techniques – Paul Mayer Insects on Pins – Riitta Tegelberg Drawer imaging – Paul Mayer Specimens in fluids – Paul Mayer Questions and Discussion
15:00 – 15:30	Task Cluster 3: Specimen image processing Managing images –Paul Mayer Advanced photography, stacking and 3d – Greg Riccardi
15:30 – 16:00	Task Cluster 4: Electronic data capture Collection data management and data capture (ppt) – Deb Paul Transcription and crowd sourcing – Greg Riccardi Digitization Tools Optical Character Recognition, Parsing, Consensus in Crowdsourcing (ppt) – Andréa Matsunaga Questions and Discussion
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00	Task Cluster 5: Georeferencing and Enrichment of specimen data Georeferencing (with GeoLocate) (ppt) – Deb Paul GBIF data: research use cases (in Portuguese) (ppt) – Tim Hirsch
17:00 – 17:30	Automation of digitization activities Digitarium – Riitta Tegelberg
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion and wrap up

Recordings

The event was recorded and when these become available, will be linked here from the Brazilian website.

Acronyms and Translations

Acronym	English	Portuguese
CNPq	National Council for Scientific and Technological Development	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
iDigBio	Integrated Digitized Biocollections
JBRJ	Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden	Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
LNCC	Computer Science National Laboratory	Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica
MCTI	Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation	Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Inovação
MMA	Ministry of the Environment	Ministério do Meio Ambiente
PNUMA	United Nations Environment Programme	Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente
RNP	National Education and Research Network	Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa
SiBBr	Brazilian Biodiversity Information System	Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira

Important Links

• Canadensys
• GBIF
• iDigBio
• Digitarium
• Digitization Resources
• SiBBr