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* When: Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:00am to 5:00pm EST
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* Where: [http://sfrc.ifas.ufl.edu/forestcampus/ Learning Center at the Austin Cary Forest] (10625 NE Waldo Rd, Gainesville, FL 32609)
 
==Ideas regarding the Retreat format==
* Breakout groups
* One large discussion group
* Presentations
 
==Ideas for discussion topics at the Retreat==
* Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary
* Everyone watch this video together (DP, KL, MC)
**[https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/workshop-presentations/tdwg-2015/data-training-programmes-TDWG2015.mp4 Data training programmes in large natural history museums to tackle their digital challenges] Dimitris Koureas & Clare Valentine, NHM
* How to make our training sustainable
** Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability
*** Perhaps partner with Coursera (or a firm like them)
** Funding for participant support will be declining after 2017
* Tools Knowledge in the Community
** Developing a strategy for sharing what tools are out there
*** Example: [http://www.biovel.eu/ Biovel]
* Sharing information about skills researchers need to use particular tools
** Could get lots of info from iPlant and Data Carpentry about the skills problems people run into when trying to use any of the community tools for research.
*** Use this to strategically point people to where they can transform their data, or learn a skill.
** NOTE: skills needed are mostly the ''same across the data providers and researchers'' based on the experience of COLLAB-IT, Data and Software Carpentry.
* Website update and sustainability
** Increase role of community in maintaining content -> larger role for Wiki; lesser role for Drupal
** Content organization/re-organization
** Facelift? (In consultation with Jeremy -  he is against this.: JM)
* Sustainability issues for iDigBio + TCNs
** Historical Knowledge and Documents
*** Do TCNs have robust plans for sharing developed workflows / protocols / policies (on digitization, imaging, archiving, communication strategies,...)
*** Do they archive plans for these documents?
**** Can we provide this?
*** TCN Staff (at high, middle, and in-the-trenches) are amassing a wealth of knowledge about digitization. When their funding ends, a great deal of this may be lost.
**** How do we include these TCNs in future summits?
**** Is there a role for some Video Exit Interviews (oral interviews), to capture this knowledge? Perhaps Shari and Betty could set something up?
* Topics that come up at the Summit
* Automation
* Mendeley vs. Biblio
** Improve discoverability
** Keep iDigBio content and published articles separate
* Get a Library Science grad student to help us with our document repository concerns (I asked Greg R. to look for someone: JM)
* "Common knowledge" about the project
** Status of the portal and use
** Scope of data storage (ACIS)
** Role of postdocs and students in iDigBio — what are they supposed to be doing?
** Citizen Science
** K-12 initiatives
* The value of blitzes and hackathons
* Annotations workflows - Analyzing the needs, expectations and desires of submitters, curators, and observers around the collection and presentation of annotations.

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