BioDigiCon 2022
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iDigBio is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually on 27-29 September 2022.
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Conference Agenda
Day 1 - Tuesday, 27 September 2022
| Time EDT | iDigBio Orientation Recording |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | iDigBio: Intro & What's New |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | iDigBio: Orientation |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | Discussion session for new and existing TCNs: Reporting, Tracking, Keeping people engaged |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
Day 2 - Wednesday, 28 September 2022
| Time EDT | Plenary Speaker Recording |
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| 10:00 - 10:10 | Welcome: Gil Nelson Introduction of speaker: Pam Soltis |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Visionary Plenary: BIODIGICON 2022: Impacts and Importance of Biodiversity Digitization Dena Smith, National Science Foundation |
| Time EDT | Recording for Day 2, Room 1 | Recording for Day 2, Room 2 | Recording for Day 2, Room 3 |
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| 10:30 – 10:40 | Updates From the Biological Sciences Directorate at National Science Foundation Steven E. Ellis, Division of Biological Infrastructure, National Science Foundation |
Arctos: A Collaborative and Scalable Collection Management Solution Emily Braker, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History |
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| 10:40 – 10:50 | US National Science Foundation TIP Program | Post Mortem It Sorts 'Em - Specify 6 and 7: An Overview from a User Perspective Randy Singer, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology |
Using digitisation data to move a herbarium Claire Brandenburger, National Herbarium of NSW, Australian Institute of Botanical Science; Hannah McPherson, National Herbarium of NSW; Andre Badiou, National Herbarium of NSW; Mel Wong, National Herbarium of NSW; Guy Lowe, National Herbarium of NSW. |
| 10:50 – 11:00 | CHIPS, Science, and Collections. Reed S. Beaman, National Science Foundation |
Symbiota: Managing and Mobilizing Biodiversity Data and Supporting Data Providers Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub; Edward Gilbert, Arizona State University; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Jenn Yost, California Polytechnic State University; Samanta Orellana, Arizona State University; Greg Post, Arizona State |
I’m Lichen These Images: Workflows established for the GLOBAL TCN project. Laura Briscoe, New York Botanical Garden; Leanna McMillin, New York Botanical Garden |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | US National Science Foundation Review, Q&A | EMu at the Smithsonian Michelle Brown, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Beth Gamble, NMNH; Ducky Nguyen, NMNH; Rebecca Snyder, NMNH |
Digitisation & Mobilisation of CSIRO’s Biological Collections Nicole Fisher, CSIRO; Pete Thrall, CSIRO |
| 11:10 – 11:20 | Specimen Digitization as Art Zach Randall, Florida Museum of Natural History |
10 minutes of Q&A with database panel | A workflow for cleaning Notes from Nature data transcriptions Peter Oboyski, Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley |
| 11:20 – 11:30 | Histological slides and other sequentially sectioned objects in museums can be re-born digital 3D resources Doug Boyer, Duke University (MorphoSource); Jocelyn Triplett, MorphoSource; Julie Winchester, MorphoSource; Jim Hanken, Harvard; Stephen Turney, Harvard; Brendan Haley, Harvard; Breda Zimkus, Harvard |
Herbarium Pomeranicum Marta Jarosińska, University of Gdańsk |
New data models create new challenges for data sharing: looking at collections through the lens of events Ely Wallis, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO |
| 11:30 – 11:40 | Extending the Digital Extended Specimen Amanda Harmon, A.C. Moore Herbarium (USCH); Csilla Czako, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Avery Browning, University of South Carolina School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; Herrick, Brown, A.C. Moore Herbarium (USCH) |
Tracking biotic association claims across platforms, collections, and institutions. Jorrit Poelen, Ronin Institute / UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Institute for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration |
Digitization and Dissemination of Phylogenetic Data: Using MorphoBank for Morphological Matrix Management Brooke Long-Fox, Phoenix Bioinformatics; Kenzley Alphonse, Kenx Technology, Inc.; Maureen O’Leary, Stony Brook University; Tanya, Berardini, Phoenix Bioinformatics |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Break | Break | Break |
| 11: 50 – 12:00 | A Fully Digitized Herbarium - Workflows to Keep Up 100% Sylvia Orli, Smithsonian Institution; Ingrid Lin, Smithsonian Institution; Nathan Anderson, Smithsonian Institution |
ArcGIS Online for born digital data: our experience 6 months in Rick Levy, Denver Botanic Gardens; Michelle DePrenger-Levin, Denver Botanic Gardens |
DAM it All: Media Metadata and Asset Management Across the Museum Alyson Wilkins, Natural History Museum of Utah |
| 12:00 – 12:10 | Digitizing the USNM dragonfly and damselfly collection Torsten Dikow, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Department of Entomology; Jessica Bird, USNM, Department of Entomology; Erin Kolski, USNM, Department of Entomology; Jeanine Nault, Smithsonian Digitization Program Office; Peter Grisafi, Picturae |
Introducing taxastand and dwctaxon, a pair of R packages for standardizing species names in Darwin Core format Joel Nitta, The University of Tokyo; Wataru Iwasaki, The University of Tokyo |
Reading Others’ Herbarium Specimen Barcodes During Mass Digitization Projects David Shorthouse, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Shannon Asencio, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada |
| 12:10 – 12:20 | Creation of the NMNH Informatics and Data Science Center Rebecca Snyder, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |
Digi-Leap: Connecting Novel Tools, Machine Learning and Public Participation to Label Digitization Efforts Robert Guralnick, University of Florida; Michael Denslow, University of Florida; Julie Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Samantha Blickhan, Zooniverse & Adler Planetarium; Raphael LaFrance, University of Florida; Mark Bouslog, Zooniverse & Adler Planetarium; Sean Miller, Zooniverse & Adler Planetarium |
Integrating Wikidata into collection management software Wai-Yin Kwan, Seth Kaufman, Eve Perry |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | What does digitizing fossils in situ mean for museum collections and our data ecosystem? Holly Little, Smithsonian Institution; Jessica Nakano, Smithsonian Institution; Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian Institution |
Once Upon a Time, in TaxonWorks Matthew Yoder, Deborah Paul, Species File Group, INHS, University of Illinois; Tommy McElrath, INHS Insect Collection, University of Illinois; José Luis Pereira, División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, UNLP, Argentina |
Conveyor-driven mass-digitization of a million specimens does not cost a million Hannu Saarenmaa & Janne Karppinen, Bioshare Digitization Ltd, Ilomantsi, Finland |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | ||
| Time EDT | Click to join the BiotaPhy Webinar |
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| 12:30 - 1:30 | BiotaPhy Webinar 2: Resolving Nomenclature: Making Appropriate Taxonomic Choices Maria Beatriz de Souza Cortez, University of Florida; Aimee Stewart, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas |
| Time EDT | Recording for Day 2, Room 1 | Recording for Day 2, Room 2 |
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| 1:30 - 2:30 | Solution for long-term image storage and accessibility Dave Blackburn, University of Florida; Doug Boyer, Duke University; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Michelle Koo, University of California - Berkeley; Nelson Rios, Yale University; Julie Winchester, Duke University |
Data quality: most common data dealbreakers Cat Chapman, iDigBio; Margot Schneider, Atlas of Living Australia; Dora Canhos, CRIA; Andrea Hahn, GBIF; Elspeth Haston, RBGE |
| 2:30 - 3:30 | GBIF, ALA, iDigBio: Aligning systems to benefit data mobilization Maureen Kelly, iDigBio; Federico Mendez, GBIF; Javier Molina, Atlas of Living Australia; Chris Wilson, iDigBio (Molina) Click for pre-recorded presentation |
Sustaining Institutional Digitization of Biodiversity Collections: Considerations and Examples Austin Mast, iDigBio, Florida State University; Jenn Yost, CalPoly; David Jennings, iDigBio, University of Florida |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Including Indigenous Metadata in Collection Records Maui Hudson, University of Waikato; Jane Anderson, New York University |
Digital Extended Specimen Discussion Session Libby Ellwood, iDigBio; Katja Seltmann, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, UC Santa Barbara; Julie Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Katie Pearson and Ed Gilbert, Symbiota Support Hub; Abby Benson, USGS |
Day 3 - Thursday, 29 September 2022
| Time EDT | ||
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| 11:00 - 1:00 | Digitization Workflows in Symbiota-based Biodiversity Specimen Data Portals Recording for Day 3, Room 1, Symbiota Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub, Arizona State University; Lindsay Walker, Symbiota, ASU |
Capturing trait data: broad, across different taxonomic groups Recording for Day 3, Room 2, Traits |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Break | Break |
| 1:30 - 3:30 | Digitization Coordination: Combining Project Management & Digitization Efforts to Benefit Collections, Big and Small Recording for Day 3, Room 1, Digitization Coordination Jackie Chapman, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Frederik Berger, MfN Berlin; Helen Hardy, NHM London; Sylvia Orli, NMNH Smithsonian; Mareike Petersen, MfN Berlin; Kira Sobers, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Alyson Wilkins, NHMU Utah; Jill Goodwin, iDigBio, FLMNH |
Imaging Biodiversity Specimens: First Steps to a Great Start (and Beyond) Recording for Day 3, Room 2, Imaging |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Wrap-Up |