UK-SWANSPracticalDigitisation

UK-SWANS Practical Digitisation Workshop Quick Links
Date: 9 March 2018, 8:45 AM - 16:45 PM
Agenda
Abstract

Abstract

UK-SWANS Practical Digitisation Workshop. Participants at this event are staff caring for small and regional collections, essentially, non-national museum curators. This workshop will key in on ideas, models, and training for incorporating digitization at this level. The goals are to focus on practical recommendations that require very little in the way of additional budget or expertise where possible. Practical training may be offered in one or two key areas, for example, georeferencing, data standards, and review of recommendations based on the Five Task Clusters paper (Nelson, et al 2012). Future plans include repeating this event for other regional (non-national museum) UK curators.

Organizers

This one-day event is sponsored by the UK Bristol City Council, Culture Team, SWANS, and the NHM. Organizers include SWANS, the NHM and iDigBio. People coordinating this workshop include: Isla Gladstone, Deborah Paul, Greg Riccardi, and Gil Nelson.

Agenda

Time	Topic	Presenter / Facilitator
8:45	Coffee
9:00	Welcome & 5 minute stand ups your collection in focus	All
9:45	Workshop goals & structure why are we here?	Isla Gladstone
9:50	What is digitisation? Getting to GBIF and beyond	Greg Riccardi
10:00	A framework: the 5+ task clusters pre-digitization curation and staging specimen image capture specimen image processing electronic data capture georeferencing specimen data + personnel + workflows + biodiversity informatics managers (or not)	Gil Nelson
10:05	Pre-digitisation curation decisions, decisions, practical and policy
10:30	Specimen image capture & processing best practices, current trends	Gil Nelson
11:00	Coffee
11:20	Electronic data capture best practices, options, lessons learned	Deborah Paul
11:50	Practical: Data standards (Darwin Core+) making data shareable	Greg Riccardi
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Managing data, a new resource who will do it? workflows documentation and sharing personnel	Gil Nelson
14:30	Practical: Geo-referencing specimen data getting your specimens on the map	Deborah Paul
15:30	Coffee
15:50	Data publishing pathways to publishing importance of metadata expectations, benefits, research	Greg Riccardi
16:20	Community resources sharing knowledge of worldwide expertise, materials	Deborah Paul, All
16:30	Wrap up final surgery assessment next steps group photo
16:45	Close