IDigBio Summit 2015

The annual iDigBio Summit is a meeting of representatives from TCNs, iDigBio, and other activities related to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit focuses on discussions of shared goals, challenges, opportunities, and collaboration.

Digitizing the Past and Present for the Future
Summit Quick Links
Announcement
Agenda-at-a-Glance
Biblio Entries
Summit Report

General Information

When: November 4-6, 2015
Where: Hilton Arlington, Arlington, Virginia

Remote Access

To the extent possible, the Summit sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect, and the meeting hosts will monitor the chat to address questions/concerns. To connect, go to https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/summit5/ and choose Enter as Guest, type your first and last name, and then click Enter Room. Remote participants are encouraged to visit the iDigBio Web Conferencing Wiki prior to connecting.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

The Washington Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. We encourage all Summit participants to make use of the Metro when travelling in and around D.C. Some useful Metro links: Metrorail Frequency, Trip Planner, and Metrorail Fares.

• Metrorail Pocket Guide
• DIRECTIONS from Reagan National Airport to the Hilton Arlington
• DIRECTIONS from the Hilton Arlington and the United States Botanic Garden.

Area Restaurants

The following is a map of the restaurants in the vicinity of the Hilton Arlington: https://www.google.com/maps/search/restaurants+near+hilton+arlington/@38.8813204,-77.1123815,16z/data=!3m1!4b1

Hilton Arlington Meeting Space Floor Plan

Agenda-at-a-Glance

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Travel Day for Microfungi TCN, EPICC TCN, iDigBio EAB, and iDigBio Planning Team
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
5:00pm
5:30pm
6:00pm
6:30pm
7:00pm	Summit Check-In (Dan & Brad's) Informal Welcome Gathering Dinner on Your Own
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Business Meetings; Travel Day for All Other Attendees
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00am	Breakfast (provided) Summit Check-In
8:30am
9:00am			Microfungi TCN Meeting The Microfungi Project (Andrew Miller) Digitization Workflows & the MyCoPortal (Elizabeth Lippoldt)	GBIF Task Force Meeting
9:30am					iDigBio EAB Meeting (closed session)
10:00am
10:30am	Break (provided)
11:00am			Microfungi TCN Meeting (continued) The Voice Data Command Control (Phil Anders) The MyCoPortal Taxonomic Thesaurus (Scott Bates) Questions & Answers	GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
11:30am
12:00pm
12:30pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00pm
1:30pm		Welcome to iDigBio for New TCNs (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey, Dan Stoner)		GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
2:00pm
2:30pm
3:00pm	Break (provided)
3:30pm		Introduction to Project Management (David Jennings)		GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
4:00pm
4:30pm		Questions & Answers (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey, Dan Stoner)
5:00pm
5:30pm	Summit Check-In
6:00pm
6:30pm
7:00pm	Informal Welcome Gathering (Dan & Brad's) Dinner on Your Own
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm

Thursday, November 5, 2015

iDigBio Summit Day 1
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00am	Breakfast (provided) Summit Check-In		Poster Setup
8:30am
9:00am		Welcome & Orientation (David Jennings) Welcome from the National Science Foundation (James Olds) NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (Roland Roberts) iDigBio Presentations Progress and Challenges for the National Digitization Effort (Larry Page) Digitized Data in Biodiversity Research (Pam Soltis) Education & Outreach (Bruce MacFadden) Enabling Digitization (Greg Riccardi) Cyberinfrastructure Status Report (Jose Fortes) 2015 TCN Presentations The Microfungi Collections Consortium (Andrew Miller) Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrates of the East Pacific (Charles Marshall)
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am
	Break (provided)
11:00am
		2014 TCN Presentations Great Lakes Aquatic Invasives: Where are we one year later? (Ken Cameron) InvertEBase: Current Status (Petra Sierwald) SERNEC - TCN: Current status, citizen science and outreach activities (Michael Denslow) 2013 TCN Presentations Fossil Insect Collaborative (Dena Smith) Vouchered Animal Communication Signals (Matthew Medler) Macroalgal Herbarium Digitization Project (Christopher Neefus)
11:30am
12:00pm
	Group Photo (Joanna McCaffrey)
12:30pm	Lunch (provided)
1:00pm
1:30pm		Data Management (Kevin Love, Alex Thompson)	Education & Outreach (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden)	iDigBio Resources (Joanna McCaffrey, David Jennings)	Ad hoc discussion
2:00pm
2:30pm
	Break (provided)		Working Group & Interest Group Poster Session Augmented Reality Public Education/Outreach (Anne Basham) Augmenting OCR (Deb Paul) Data Management Interest Group (Shelley James) Developing Robust Object to Image to Data (Gil Nelson) Education & Outreach (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden, Mari Roberts) Georeferencing Working Group (Deb Paul) WeDigBio: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood) Small Collections Network & North American Network of Small Herbaria (Gil Nelson) Paleo Digitization Working Group (Talia Karim)
3:00pm
3:30pm
		Research Tool Development (Pam Soltis)	iDigSTEAM Workshop (Anne Basham)	Project Management (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey)	Ad hoc discussion
4:00pm
4:30pm
5:00pm		DAY 1 WRAP-UP - Breakout Group Summaries
5:30pm
6:00pm
6:30pm	Reception at the United States Botanic Garden
7:00pm
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm

Friday, November 6, 2015

iDigBio Summit Day 2
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00am	Breakfast (provided)
8:30am
9:00am		Orientation to the Day (David Jennings) Biodiversity Collections Network (Robert Gropp) 2012 TCN Presentations Mobilizing New England vascular plant data to track environmental change (Patrick Sweeney) Paleoniches (Susan Butts) The Macrofungi Collection Consortium (Barbara Thiers) Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (Neil Cobb) 2011 TCN Presentations InvertNet: Year 5 and Beyond (Christopher Dietrich) The Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network: A summary of four years of progress and learning (Katja Seltmann) Lichen, Bryophytes and Climate Change, 4.2 million records later (Thomas Nash)
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am	Break (provided)
11:00am		Presentations from National & International Biodiversity Informatics Initiatives Update on BISON, ITIS and EcoINFORMA activities relevant to iDigBio (Stinger Guala) GBIF’s Accelerating the Discovery of Biocollections Data Task Force (Siro Masinde) Getting More From Image Libraries – New Computer Vision Tools (John LaSalle) Brazil's Virtual Herbarium: Outputs, Outcomes and Challenges (Dora Canhos) Biodiversity Information and sharing status in China (Zheping XU) Canadensys: Biodiversity Across the Borders (David Shorthouse) A Network Connecting Science With Conservation (Mary Klein)
11:30am
12:00pm
	Lunch (provided)
12:30pm
1:00pm
		Citizen Science (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood, Betty Dunckel)	Sustainability (Larry Page, Mary Klein)	Symbiota Users (Neil Cobb)	Ad hoc discussion
1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm	Break (provided)		Working Group & Interest Group Poster Session Augmented Reality Public Education/Outreach (Anne Basham) Augmenting OCR (Deb Paul) Data Management Interest Group (Shelley James) Developing Robust Object to Image to Data (Gil Nelson) Education & Outreach (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden, Mari Roberts) Georeferencing Working Group (Deb Paul) WeDigBio: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood) Small Collections Network & North American Network of Small Herbaria (Gil Nelson) Paleo Digitization Working Group (Talia Karim)
3:00pm
3:30pm		Data Use in Research & Education (Pam Soltis, Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden)	Attribution (Shelley James, Gil Nelson)	Collaboration & Communication (Deb Paul)	Ad hoc discussion
4:00pm
4:30pm
		DAY 2 WRAP-UP - Breakout Group Summaries
5:00pm
		SUMMIT WRAP-UP (David Jennings, Larry Page)
5:30pm
6:00pm
6:30pm	Dinner on Your Own
7:00pm
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Travel Day for All Attendees
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00am	Breakfast on Your Own
8:30am
9:00am
9:30am
10:00am
10:30am
11:00am
11:30am
12:00pm	Check-out