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 V Quick Links
Calendar Announcement
Agenda-at-a-Glance
Summit Program

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

The meeting rooms will be arranged in the following manner (see diagram):

• Gallery I-II = Classroom (~144 seats)
• Gallery III = Conference (~36 seats); extra chairs may be available
• Picasso-DaVinci = Conference (~35 seats); extra chairs may be available
• Matisse = Conference (~18 seats)

Summit Program

A PDF of the iDigBio Summit V program is available at the link below. Note that a hard copy will be provided to all registered participants, so please do not print unnecessary copies. The program includes a wealth of reference information, including logistics, the agenda, information about TCNs, and participant biographies.

iDigBio Summit V Online Program

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
7:00pm	Summit Check-In (Dan & Brad's) Informal Welcome Gathering Dinner on Your Own

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
8:00-9:00	Breakfast (provided) Summit Check-In
9:00-9:30			Microfungi TCN Meeting The Microfungi Project (Andrew Miller) Digitization Workflows & the MyCoPortal (Elizabeth Lippoldt)	GBIF Task Force Meeting
9:30-10:30					iDigBio EAB Meeting (closed session)
10:30-11:00	Break (provided)
11:00-12:30			Microfungi TCN Meeting (continued) The Voice Data Command Control (Phil Anders) The MyCoPortal Taxonomic Thesaurus (Scott Bates) Questions & Answers	GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
12:30-1:30	Lunch (provided)
1:30-3:00		Welcome to iDigBio for New TCNs iDigBio Overview (David Jennings) Welcome to iDigBio: The Walking Tour (Joanna McCaffrey)		GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
3:00-3:30	Break (provided)
3:30-4:30		Introduction to Project Management (David Jennings)		GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
4:30-5:00		Questions & Answers (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey, Dan Stoner, Alex Thompson)
5:30-6:30	Summit Check-In
7:00-Evening	Informal Welcome Gathering (Dan & Brad's) Dinner on Your Own

Thursday, November 5, 2015

iDigBio Summit Day 1
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00-9:00	Breakfast (provided) Summit Check-In		Poster Setup
9:00-9:30		Welcome & Orientation (David Jennings) Welcome from the National Science Foundation (James Olds) NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (Roland Roberts)
9:30-10:20		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)
10:20-10:40		2015 TCN Presentations The Microfungi Collections Consortium (Andrew Miller) Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrates of the East Pacific (Charles Marshall)
10:40-11:15	Break (provided)
11:15-11:45		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)
11:45-12:15		2013 TCN Presentations Fossil Insect Collaborative (Dena Smith) Vouchered Animal Communication Signals (Matthew Medler) Macroalgal Herbarium Digitization Project (Christopher Neefus)
12:15	Group Photo (Joanna McCaffrey)
12:30-1:30	Lunch (provided)
1:30-2:45		Data Management (Kevin Love, Alex Thompson)	Education & Outreach (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden)	iDigBio Resources (Joanna McCaffrey, David Jennings)	Ad hoc discussion
2:45-3:45	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)
3:45-5:00		Research Tool Development (Pam Soltis)	iDigSTEAM Workshop (Anne Basham)	Project Management (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey)	Ad hoc discussion
5:00-5:30		DAY 1 WRAP-UP - Discussion Group Summaries
6:30-9:00	Reception at the United States Botanic Garden

Friday, November 6, 2015

iDigBio Summit Day 2
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00-9:00	Breakfast (provided)
9:00-9:20		Orientation to the Day (David Jennings) Biodiversity Collections Network (Robert Gropp)
9:20-10:00		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)
10:00-10:30		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 (Christine Johnson, Mari Roberts, Katja Seltmann) Lichen, Bryophytes and Climate Change, 4.2 million records later (Thomas Nash)
10:30-11:00	Break (provided)
11:00-12:15		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) Interoperability: Fomenting opportunities at the intersection of collections and ecology (Brian Wee)
12:15-1:15	Lunch (provided)
1:15-2:30		Citizen Science (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood, Betty Dunckel)	Sustainability (Larry Page, Mary Klein)	Symbiota Users (Neil Cobb)	Ad hoc discussion
2:30-3:30	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)
3:30-4:45		Data Use in Research & Education (Pam Soltis, Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden)	Attribution (Shelley James, Gil Nelson)	Collaboration & Communication (Deb Paul)	Ad hoc discussion
4:45-5:15		DAY 2 WRAP-UP - Discussion Group Summaries
5:15-5:45		SUMMIT WRAP-UP (David Jennings, Larry Page)
6:30-Evening	Dinner on Your Own

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Travel Day for All Attendees
Time	Pre-Function Space or Other	Gallery I-II	Gallery III	Picasso & DaVinci	Matisse
8:00-12:00	Breakfast on Your Own Checkout by 12 noon