UK-SWANSPracticalDigitisation

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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 funded by the John Ellerman Foundation and led by the UK's Bristol City Council's Culture Team as part of the 'South West Area Natural Sciences' (SWANS) project. Organizers include Bristol Culture, iDigBio and the Natural History Museum, London. People coordinating this workshop include: Isla Gladstone, Deborah Paul, Greg Riccardi, and Gil Nelson.

Agenda

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Time	Topic	Presenter / Facilitator
8:45	Coffee
9:00	Welcome & 5 minute stand ups your collection in focus Royal Albert Museum Exeter	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 Workflows 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	Data capture best practices, options, lessons learned Data Capture workflow tasks (.pdf) docx version	Deborah Paul
11:50	Practical: Data standards (Darwin Core+) making data shareable Darwin Core Terms Royal Albert Dataset Royal Albert Mapping Exercise Royal Albert mapped spreadsheet Bristol Cultural Museum - Biology University of Bristol - Geology Collection	Greg Riccardi, Deborah Paul
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Managing data, a new resource who will do it? workflows documentation and sharing personnel	Gil Nelson
14:30	Practical Exercise for Geo-referencing specimen data getting your specimens on the map Georeferencing Task Module (pdf) (assumes legacy data) Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide (pdf) Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing - Chapman, A.D. and J. Wieczorek (eds). 2006 Capturing New Locality Data - Good-Bad Localities (doc) Georeferencing Concepts and Locality Types (pptx) Georeferencing 5-day Course: materials at iDigBio GEOLocate by CSV web app DEMO localities to georeference iCollections – Digitising the British and Irish Butterflies in the Natural History Museum, London Internet Resources Streetmap Geonames	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 iDigBio Digitization Resources Grid Reference Finder Symbiota Sandbox	Deborah Paul, All
16:30	Wrap up final surgery assessment next steps group photo
16:45	Close