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Agenda and Logistics

• Tentative Workshop Agenda
• Activities Description
• Workshop Logistics
• Agenda, invited follow-on meeting, 7 May

Presentations

Monday, 4 May 2015

• Introduction to iDigBio (Gil Nelson)
• Mechanisms of community input and the future of digitizaiton at NSF (Scott Edwards)
• Why digitize vertebrate collections? (Cody Thompson)
• Introduction to media (Mike Webster)
• Challenges facing small museums with moderate collections and minimal resources (Curtis Schmidt)
• Resource challenges for small institutions (Luis Ruedas)
• Getting started with digitization (Molly Hagermann)
• Data standards (Greg Riccardi)
• Digitizing catalog and ledger data for scientific research (Norma Salcedo)
• Arctos as a database management system for vertebrate specimens and images (Aren M. Gunderson, Link Olson)
• Specify as a database management system for vertebrate specimens and images (Andy Bentley)
• Symbiota as a database management system for vertebrate specimens and images (Ed Gilbert)

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

• Is specimen imaging important in vertebrate collections? (Molly Hagemann)
• What to database and image? (Molly Hagemann)
• Online measuring (Kevin Nixon)
• Imaging wet collections (Andy Bentley)
• Imaging wet collections (Andy Williston)
• Imaging Birds and Mammals (Gil Nelson)
• Explore your world: Non-invasive high resolution CT in reserarch, outreach, and teaching (Mark Riccio)
• CT scanning of museum specimens in research: a case study
• Specimen CT imaging/3D modeling at MCZ (Andy Williston)
• VertNet/GBIF (Carla Cicero)
• Getting your data out there: Data publishing & data standards with iDigBio (Molly Phillips)
• Global Genomic Biorepositories Network (Jon Coddington)

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

• Integration of citizen science activities with research collection databases (Andres Lopez)
• Creative methods for utilizing collections for education and outreach (Randy Singer)
• eBird (Steve Kelling)
• Restoring natural history collections of native amphibians and reptiles in South Dakota (Gabrielle Maltaverne)
• Leveraging library resources for storing and curating media (images primarily) associated with specimens (Heather Prestridge)
• Introduction to media (Ed Scholes)
• Digitizing, managing and future proofing media yourself (Greg Budney and Matt Medler)
• Co-collection of physical and media specimens: why bother? (frogs) (Rafe Brown)
• Co-collection of physical and multimedia bird specimens: opportunities and challenges in the field (Brent Benz)
• Co-collection of physical and media specimens: why bother? (fish) (John Sullivan)

Thursday, 7 May 2015

• Biodiversity media in the 21st century (Mike Webster)
• Discussion 1: What should be preserved? (Gil Nelson)
• Discussion 2: How to preserve it? (Ed Scholes)
• Discussion 3: Maximizing scientific impact (Greg Riccardi)
• Discussion 4: Databasing and linking (David Winkler)

Advancing the Accessibility of Digital Media for Biological Research in the 21st Century, May 7

• Discussion One Notes
• Discussion Two Notes
• Discussion Three Notes
• Discussion Four Notes

Workshop Recordings

Monday, 4 May 2015

• 8am-9am: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p21s7w1n1io/
• 1pm-2:30pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p5vbgmx1jv5/
• 3pm-5:30pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p58a01rpjy4/

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

• 11am-12pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4z27tsnll9/
• 1pm-3pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p50h9eskjv2/
• 3:15pm-6pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3nk938dsn9/

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

• 11am-12:30pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3asuxgidho/
• 1:30pm-3pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p17as30mw1d/
• 3:10-4:30pm: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p5tjnpo05y0/

Thursday, 7 May 2015

• 8am-8:30am: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p1jpevg7rox/
• Discussion 1 Summary: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3omjapol1c/
• Discussion 2 Intro: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p8rvxthd0pk/
• Discussion 2 Summary: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p6dr15vthyk/
• Discussion 3 Intro: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p1cm705q2n7/
• Discussion 3 Summary: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p1wgt1w78s0/
• Discussion 4 Intro: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p249jpobua1/
• Discussion 4 Summary: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p2v7dmqbcuj/
• End of day discussion and wrap up: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4fkd813luf/

Workshop Resources

• NIBA Strategic Plan
• NIBA Implementation Plan
• Small Collections Network (SCNet) website
• Global Repository of Biological Collections
• Mammal Collections in the Western Hemisphere
• Scientific Collections and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Report of an Interdisciplinary Workshop
• Publications Utilizing UTCT Data
• iDigBio Workflow Modules and Task Lists
• Link to paleo imaging wiki
• Omeka
• Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation
• iNaturalist.org

Planning Team

• Molly Hagemann (Bishop Museum)
• Gil Nelson (iDigBio/Florida State University)
• Cody Thompson (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
• Mike Webster (Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology)