Talk:IDigBio Retreat 2015

Ideas regarding the Retreat format

Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary
Status update about the project
- Status of the portal and use
- Scope of data storage (ACIS)
- Role of postdocs and students in iDigBio — what are they supposed to be doing?
- Citizen Science
- K-12 initiatives
- FLMNH Events

How to make our training sustainable
- Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability
  - Perhaps partner with Coursera (or a firm like them)
- Funding for participant support will be declining after 2017
Sustainability issues for iDigBio + TCNs
- Historical Knowledge and Documents
  - Do TCNs have robust plans for sharing developed workflows / protocols / policies (on digitization, imaging, archiving, communication strategies,...)
  - Do they archive plans for these documents?
    - Can we provide this?
  - TCN Staff (at high, middle, and in-the-trenches) are amassing a wealth of knowledge about digitization. When their funding ends, a great deal of this may be lost.
    - How do we include these TCNs in future summits?
    - Is there a role for some Video Exit Interviews (oral interviews), to capture this knowledge? Perhaps Shari and Betty could set something up?
- What does it mean for iDigBio for "TCNs to continue to exist?"
  - Upcoming IAC Meeting - topic to discuss & perhaps clarify: What does it mean for a TCN to continue to exist? This needs clarification in the TCN community.
    - What implications (if any) does this have for us at iDigBio? Example: A TCN gets some small funding by taking on a new PEN, but iDigBio does not.
Automation and Scaling Up Digitization (I also put this in the Summit section).
- Ideas from Summit V and 5 years of progress
- Next steps implementation of the Webinars suggested at the Summit.

Increase role of community in maintaining content -> Larger role for Wiki; lesser role for Drupal
Content organization/re-organization
- Facelift? (In consultation with Jeremy - he is against this.: JM)
Mendeley vs. Biblio
- Improved discoverability & functionality?
- All content in one location?
- Get a Library Science grad student to help us with our document repository concerns (I asked Greg R. to look for someone: JM)

Developing a strategy for sharing what tools are out there
- Example: Biovel
Sharing information about skills researchers need to use particular tools
- Could get lots of info from iPlant and Data Carpentry about the skills problems people run into when trying to use any of the community tools for research.
  - Use this to strategically point people to where they can transform their data, or learn a skill.
- NOTE: skills needed are mostly the same across the data providers and researchers based on the experience of COLLAB-IT, Data and Software Carpentry.
Everyone watch this video together (DP, KL, MC)
- Data training programmes in large natural history museums to tackle their digital challenges Dimitris Koureas & Clare Valentine, NHM
The value of blitzes and hackathons

Annotations workflows - Analyzing the needs, expectations and desires of submitters, curators, and observers around the collection and presentation of annotations.
- Greg R. would like a break-out group on this topic.
The new iDigBio Outlier Detection and Documentation by Collectors (or the ODD Collectors) Working Group (Austin and Katie S)

Audiences for iDigBio E&O (Shari proposed -- we can use ADBC Audience Table or the discussion slides developed from the Summit V E&O breakout session)
- Should we prioritize?
E&O Workshops proposed by NSF
- iPlant
- How to work with K-12 for TCNs/Collections Community (Proposed by Roland Roberts at the Summit)
The value of blitzes and hackathons
New directions for the Libraries of Life Augmented Reality app and cards; sustainability of them (Austin)
New directions for WeDigBio and its sustainability (Austin and Libby)
2016 Education and Outreach Webinar Series (Here are the voting results from the Summit with the top 8 that we can start with)
What about developing a MOOC (Proposed by Austin at the Summit)

Topics that come up at the Summit:
- Day 1 Discussion Group Summaries
- Day 2 Discussion Group Summaries
- Suggestion for Summit VI: emphasize use of the data in research and E&O; less on progress at the TCNs
Issue certificates to collections that participate in ADBC, perhaps meeting some quota set by iDigBio.
Automation and Scaling Up Digitization (this is in the Sustainability section too -- also fits in Tools and Knowledge section).
- Ideas from Summit V and 5 years of progress
- Next steps implementation of the Webinars suggested at the Summit.
Workshops Overview
- What are folks planning / thinking about?