TORCH IX Meeting

This wiki provides resources for the TORCH IX meeting hosted by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) in Fort Worth, TX, August 13, 2014. TORCH is the Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (http://www.torcherbaria.org/). iDigBio was invited to give them a refresher about mobilizing data and to give advice about organizing their overall collaborative data efforts. iDigBio's Joanna McCaffrey attended. Local BRIT hosts: Peter Fritsch, Tiana Rehman, Jason Best.

Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria
Quick Links for TORCH
iDigBio/TORCH Biblio Entries
TORCH VIII Report TORCH VIII Blog

Previous Workshop Report

• Workshop Report: iDigBio Digitization Workshop at TORCH VIII, 2014

Agenda and Attendees

• TORCH Business Meeting: This was held the evening of Friday, August 12, from 6-6:30.
• Agenda and attendees with meeting notes

Presentations and Working Materials

Zack Murrell: What can TORCH glean from the history, development and challenges of another regional herbarium network

George Yatskievych: Advancing Plant Specimen Digitization in the Texas-Oklahoma Region: Creating a Framework Across Institutions and a Portal for Shared Data

Joanna McCaffrey: How to Submit Data to iDigBio 4.0

Jason Best: Digitization Workflow Automation at BRIT

Marcy Revelez

Workshop Recording

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p94niodokyp/