Strategies for Vertebrate Digitization Workshop

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Agenda and Logistics

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

Presentations

Monday, 4 May 2015

• Introducditon 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 imagesb (Andy Bentley)
• Symbiota as a database management system for vertebrate specimens and images (Ed Gilbert)

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

• Imaging Birds and Mammals (Gil Nelson)

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

• Leveraging library resources for storing and curating media (images primarily) associated with specimens (Heather Prestridge)

Thursday, 7 May 2015

• Discussion 1: What should be preserved? (Gil Nelson)

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

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)