Talk:IDigBio Retreat 2015

Ideas regarding the Retreat format

• Breakout groups
• One large discussion group
• Presentations

Ideas for discussion topics at the Retreat

General discussion

• Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary
• Status update about the project
  • Status of the portal and use
  • Scope of data storage (ACIS)
  • Role of postdocs and students in iDigBio — what are they supposed to be doing?
  • Citizen Science
  • K-12 initiatives
  • FLMNH Events

Sustainability

• How to make our training sustainable
  • Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability
    • Perhaps partner with Coursera (or a firm like them)
  • Funding for participant support will be declining after 2017
• Sustainability issues for iDigBio + TCNs
  • Historical Knowledge and Documents
    • Do TCNs have robust plans for sharing developed workflows / protocols / policies (on digitization, imaging, archiving, communication strategies,...)
    • Do they archive plans for these documents?
      • Can we provide this?
    • TCN Staff (at high, middle, and in-the-trenches) are amassing a wealth of knowledge about digitization. When their funding ends, a great deal of this may be lost.
      • How do we include these TCNs in future summits?
      • Is there a role for some Video Exit Interviews (oral interviews), to capture this knowledge? Perhaps Shari and Betty could set something up?
  • What does it mean for iDigBio for "TCNs to continue to exist?"
    • Upcoming IAC Meeting - topic to discuss & perhaps clarify: What does it mean for a TCN to continue to exist? This needs clarification in the TCN community.
      • What implications (if any) does this have for us at iDigBio? Example: A TCN gets some small funding by taking on a new PEN, but iDigBio does not.
• Automation and Scaling Up Digitization (I also put this in the Summit section).
  • Ideas from Summit V and 5 years of progress
  • Next steps implementation of the Webinars suggested at the Summit.

Website update and sustainability

• Increase role of community in maintaining content -> Larger role for Wiki; lesser role for Drupal
• Content organization/re-organization
  • Facelift? (In consultation with Jeremy - he is against this.: JM)
• Mendeley vs. Biblio
  • Improved discoverability & functionality?
  • All content in one location?
  • Get a Library Science grad student to help us with our document repository concerns (I asked Greg R. to look for someone: JM)

Tools Knowledge in the Community

• Developing a strategy for sharing what tools are out there
  • Example: Biovel
• Sharing information about skills researchers need to use particular tools
  • Could get lots of info from iPlant and Data Carpentry about the skills problems people run into when trying to use any of the community tools for research.
    • Use this to strategically point people to where they can transform their data, or learn a skill.
  • NOTE: skills needed are mostly the same across the data providers and researchers based on the experience of COLLAB-IT, Data and Software Carpentry.
• Everyone watch this video together (DP, KL, MC)
  • Data training programmes in large natural history museums to tackle their digital challenges Dimitris Koureas & Clare Valentine, NHM
• The value of blitzes and hackathons

Value added services

• Annotations workflows - Analyzing the needs, expectations and desires of submitters, curators, and observers around the collection and presentation of annotations.
  • Greg R. would like a break-out group on this topic.
• The new iDigBio Outlier Detection and Documentation by Collectors (or the ODD Collectors) Working Group (Austin and Katie S)

E&O

• Audiences for iDigBio E&O (Shari proposed -- we can use ADBC Audience Table or the discussion slides developed from the Summit V E&O breakout session)
  • Should we prioritize?
• E&O Workshops proposed by NSF
  • iPlant
  • How to work with K-12 for TCNs/Collections Community (Proposed by Roland Roberts at the Summit)
• The value of blitzes and hackathons
• New directions for the Libraries of Life Augmented Reality app and cards; sustainability of them (Austin)
• New directions for WeDigBio and its sustainability (Austin and Libby)
• 2016 Education and Outreach Webinar Series (Here are the voting results from the Summit with the top 8 that we can start with)
• What about developing a MOOC (Proposed by Austin at the Summit)

Other

• Topics that come up at the Summit:
  • Day 1 Discussion Group Summaries
  • Day 2 Discussion Group Summaries
  • Suggestion for Summit VI: emphasize use of the data in research and E&O; less on progress at the TCNs
• Issue certificates to collections that participate in ADBC, perhaps meeting some quota set by iDigBio.
• Automation and Scaling Up Digitization (this is in the Sustainability section too -- also fits in Tools and Knowledge section).
  • Ideas from Summit V and 5 years of progress
  • Next steps implementation of the Webinars suggested at the Summit.
• Workshops Overview
  • What are folks planning / thinking about?