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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 35 million associated media records. 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.
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 35 million associated media records. 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=
= Logistics=


'''Participation is free and but [https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qf--hpzMqHtKxz7apfRhYbZF415bGXYRU advance registration is required]'''.
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* [https://fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cT53Bz5UUqFz6rr Post-workshop feedback survey for participants]
* [https://fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cT53Bz5UUqFz6rr Post-workshop feedback survey for participants]


== Agenda ==
Workshop will be held on Zoom from 1-3pm Eastern on September 29, 2020. Participants will receive the Zoom link when they [https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qf--hpzMqHtKxz7apfRhYbZF415bGXYRU register].


== Agenda ==


Workshop Zoom meeting will be held from 1-3pm on September 29, 2020. All times here are in Eastern.
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= Reports and Resources =
= Reports and Resources =

Revision as of 11:34, 25 September 2020

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
Cost: Free
Organizers: Erica Krimmel, Gil Nelson, Cat Chapman, David Jennings, Molly Phillips
Registration (required): 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 35 million associated media records. 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

Participation is free and but advance registration is required.

Agenda

Workshop will be held on Zoom from 1-3pm Eastern on September 29, 2020. Participants will receive the Zoom link when they register.


1:00 PM EDT Workshop introduction (Gil Nelson)
1:05 PM EDT Overview of the iDigBio Portal (Erica Krimmel)
Searching by geospatial bounding box
1:15 PM EDT Demo (Gil Nelson)
1:20 PM EDT Discovery time in Zoom breakout rooms
1:35 PM EDT Demo 2: Searching by text locality string (Cat Chapman)
1:40 PM EDT Discovery time in Zoom breakout rooms
1:55 PM EDT break
2:05 PM EDT Demo 3: Other ways to search (Molly Phillips)
2:10 PM EDT Discovery time in Zoom breakout rooms
2:25 PM EDT Demo 4: Search via the API (Erica Krimmel)
2:35 PM EDT How to get data to iDigBio (Cat Chapman)
2:45 PM EDT Wrap up, additional resources, remaining Q&A

Reports and Resources

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