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 - National Laboratory of Computer Science 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.

Important Links

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