Specimens Full Circle SPNHC 2015

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This wiki supports the SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use, Gainesville, Florida, 20 May, 2015.

This symposium has three tracks: collection of museum specimens, digitization (includes imaging and other media), and use of the resulting digitized data in research.

Abstract. Novel field-collecting methods providing richer specimen data, maturing transcription and imaging techniques, and up-dated end-user interfaces are resulting in greater access to and use of specimen data for a variety of purposes. This has led to increasing use of museum specimen data for analysis and the development of visualization tools that facilitate research and support educational needs and outreach opportunities.

As a collector, have you updated your field-collecting protocols? Do you map your field-collected data to current standards (like Darwin Core or Audubon Media)? Do you use hand-held devices and apps when collecting specimens? Or are you designing an app? Are you attaching globally unique identifiers in-the-field? As a collection manager, curator, technical assistant, informatics manager, programmer,…have you sped up transcription and imaging at your institution? Are you implementing novel methods for assuring data quality and fitness-for-research use? Have you incorporated crowd-sourcing and georeferencing into your digitization workflows? How are you incorporating digitization, social media, and use of specimen data into your education and outreach strategies? Have there been new research outputs and capabilities made possible by the changes you have made in your workflows? As a graduate student or current researcher do you have new research to share using specimen data? To all in the SPNHC community and beyond, please come show us what is working, what is still challenging, and what you’re accomplishing with specimen data.

SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle - Agenda and Logistics

• Agenda (see below or google doc)
• All Day Wednesday May 20th, 2015. Start time: 8:30 am
• SPNHC 2015 Symposium - Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use - Calendar Announcement
• Twitter: @iDigBio @SPNHC #collectingspecimens #digitization #datause and conveners: @denasmithnufio @vblago @idbdeb

General SPNHC 2015 Information

• SPNHC 2015 Program
• SPNHC at-a-glance meeting schedule
• SPNHC 2015 Conference Web Site

Collaborative Documents

• Google Doc for Symposium Group Notes
  • Schedule is embedded in the Google Doc

Conference and Symposium Blog Post

Blog post

Photos

• Facebook album

Symposium Presentations Day 1

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Specimens Full Circle, Day 1

	Time	Title	Presenter
first morning session
1	8:30 - 8:50	Introduction to the Symposium, Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use	Dena Smith, Deb Paul, Vladimir Blagoderov
2	8:50 - 9:10	Using museum data for large-scale questions: modeling Florida plant diversity	Charlotte Germain-Aubrey, Julie Allen, Robert Guralnick, Kurt Neubig, Jose-Miguel Ponciano, Thomas Lamy, Douglas Soltis, Lucas Majure, Pamela Soltis
3	9:10 - 9:30	Natural history museum collections provide information on phenological change in British butterflies since the mid-19th century	Angela Self and Stephen J. Brooks
4	9:30 - 9:50	Accelerating Digitization of Biodiversity Research Specimens through Online Public Participation	Libby Ellwood, et al.
5	9:50 - 10:10	Open Discussion Session (or possible talk slot)
	10:10 - 10:50	BREAK
second morning session
6	10:30 - 10:50	Using Accessioned Collections for Assisted Breeding of Endangered Species	Samantha Wisely (University of Florida)
7	10:50-11:10	Training the next generation of biodiversity scientists	François Michonneau, Deb Paul
8	11:10-11:30	The new and improved Armchair Botanist	Richard Rabeler (University of Michigan)
9	11:30-11:50	The digital roundabout: data flow from field project to archive to new project	nn Molineux (University of Texas)
	11:50-12:00	Open Discussion Session
	12:00 - 1:30	LUNCH
first afternoon session
10	1:30-1:50	The contribution of small collections: A case study for Fuireneae (Cyperaceae)	Heather Dame and Anna Monfils (Central Michigan University)
11	1:50-2:10	An herbarium informatics study of the Order Ranunculales within West Virginia with emphasis on plants of key ethnobotanical importance using herbarium specimens	Joshua Hamrick and Emily Gillespie (Marshall University)
12	2:10-2:30	The scrub-lovin' grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplus: The Puer Group) of the southeastern U.S.: integrating specimen data from then and now for maximum effect	Derek Woller and Hojun Song (Texa A & M)
13	2:30-2:50		Evan Anderson
14	2:50 - 3:10	Open Discussion Session (or talk from another potential student).
	3:10 - 3:30	BREAK
second afternoon session
15	3:30-3:50	Taxonomic concept resolution for voucher-based biodiversity information platforms	Nico Franz, et al
16	3:50-4:10	A mobile approach. The use of mobile devices for in field and collection based digitization	Steen Dupont, et al (NHM, ...)
17	4:10-4:30	Specimen label digitization using OCR/NLP tools integrated within the Symbiota processing toolkit	Ed Gilbert, et al (Arizona State University)
18	4:30-4:50	BioAcoustica: an open repository and analysis platform for wildlife sounds	Ed Baker (NHM)
19	4:50 - 5:10	Open Discussion Session (or possible talk slot)
	5:10 - 5:30	Open Discussion Session

Symposium Presentations Day 2

Thursday, 20 May 2015

1. A picture is worth a thousand words: imaging in digitisation workflows. Vladimir Blagoderov (Natural History Museum, London)
2. Inselect: an innovative tool for automating digitisation of natural history collections. Laurence Livermore (Natural History Museum, London)
3. Putting Our Images to Work: Using Digitized Fossil Beetles to Study a Global Climate Transition Lindsay Walker (University of Colorado)
4. Integrating Imaging into Curatorial Workflows. Talia Karim (University of Colorado)
5. Joining up for digitisation – a pilot project between Kew and the Natural History Museum. Sandy Knapp (NHM and KEW)
6. Transforming Time into Space: Collections Digitization and Educational Opportunities for the SDSM&T Museum of Geology. Sally Shelton
7. Inclusion of botany-naïve undergraduates in digitization workflows: it is possible! Emily Gillespie (Marshall University)
8. Joining up for digitisation – a pilot project between Kew and the Natural History Museum. Kew - Alan Paton, Sara Phillips, Elizabeth Woodger, et al. NHM - Sandy Knapp, Theresa Howard, Jonathan Gregson, Steve Cafferty, Jacek Wajer, Ben Atkinson