Finding Field Station Data Workshop

This wiki provides information about the virtual mini-workshop Finding Field Station Data for Research Use. Link to this wiki using bit.ly/obfs-idigbio-2020.

General Information

When: September 29, 2020 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern
Where: Zoom
Organizers: Erica Krimmel (iDigBio), Gil Nelson (iDigBio)
To Register: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qf--hpzMqHtKxz7apfRhYbZF415bGXYRU

This workshop will follow iDigBio's Code of Conduct.

Goals & Outcomes

The discovery and use of digital field station data for place-based biodiversity research as well as species discovery within a station’s boundaries and service area are essential contributions. Although many field stations curate their own biological collections, at least some of which have been digitized and made available online, field stations have traditionally served as important specimen collecting localities for a variety of researchers across taxonomies, resulting in a potential plethora of station-relevant digital data curated by non-station universities and museums. The rapidly expanding online availability of these data, motivated in large part by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, has made these data readily available to station scientists. As the U.S. center for enabling and facilitating specimen data digitization and mobilization, iDigBio’s portal (http://portal.idigbio.org/) serves approximately 124 million transcribed specimen records and 25 million associated images. This virtual mini-workshop will teach participants how to find and download records that are relevant to a specific field station and its surroundings, as well as how these records might be used to augment existing station data.

Logistics and Registration

Participation is free and but advance registration is required.

• Shared Google Doc for collaborative notes: [TBD]
• Tips for using Zoom: https://bit.ly/2wV6j2v
• Post-workshop feedback survey for participants

Agenda

Workshop Zoom meeting will be held on September 29, 2020. All times here are in Eastern.

1:00 - 1:45 PM Introduction and demonstrations
1:45 - 2:00 PM Break
2:00 - 3:00 PM Hands-on activities

Reports and Resources

• iDigBio Field Station Interest Group
• Slides from OBFS 2020 Lightning Talk
• iDigBio workshop at OBFS 2018
• iDigBio workshop at OBFS 2016
• iDigBio workshop at OBFS 2015
• Presentation from SPNHC 2019, If a small collection exists in the forest, does anybody know it's there? Research value and digitization progress of field station collections