IDigBio Workshops

Overview

Materials from completed workshops will typically be archived in the iDigBio Forum to enable ongoing discussion. Codified documentation will reside on the iDigBio Documentation page. Other material may be displayed via Wikis or external publications. The iDigBio Workshops page will serve as the index to link to deliverables produced by each workshop.

Workshop Documentation

Date	Workshop Name	Brief Summary	Links
09/2011	iDigBio Summit 2011	Foster communication and cohesion between iDigBio and Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), clarify objectives, identify challenges and needs.	Summit Summary Participant Survey Presentations
03/2012	IT Standards Workshop	Bring together experts in biodiversity informatics and related fields. Priorities include: 1) harmonizing data and metadata requirements for digital collections; 2) examining semantic and linked-data approaches to biodiversity data interoperability; 3) developing training and testing resources for georeferencing; 4) defining storage capabilities, interoperability, and computational requirements for the national resource.	Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 AM Day 3 PM Breakout Groups (Day 1): Minimum Information for Scientific Collections (MISC) Semantics of Biodiversity Cyberinfrastructure Breakout Groups (Day 2): MISC Media Requirements Breakout Groups (Day 3): Cyberinfrastructure Georeferencing Ingestion Presentation Slide Decks Lightning Talks
04/2012	Paleocollections Workshop	Address the digitization needs, opportunities and Grand Challenges of the US Paleontological collections community throughout the US.	Presentations
05/2012	DROID Workshop	This research workshop addresses the design, documentation, and optimization of Object-to-Image-to-Data workflows for digitizing biological specimens which are curated in thousands of museum and herbarium collections worldwide.	Agenda Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Day 1 AM Day 1 AM2 Day 1 PM Day 1 PM2 Day 2 AM Day 2 AM2 Day 2 Final Session Breakout Groups (Day 1): Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Breakout Groups (Day 2): Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Presentation Slide Decks Training session: Workflow Core Concepts Workflow Elements and Concepts - Common Practices Social Issues in Collaborative Digitization Business Process Modeling
07/2012	Botany 2012	The workshop is designed to introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections.	Botany 2012 Workshop Presentations Botany 2012 Symposium Presentations
09/2012	Digitizing Plant Collections Workshop	iDigBio is offering a series of preparation-specific workshops focusing on organizing, launching, and maintaining a biological collections digitization program. The first of these workshops will focus on vascular and non-vascular plant digitization and will be held at Valdosta State University, September 16­–18, 2012. All workshop materials can be accessed via the Workshop Wiki Page	Live Audio/Video Digitizing Plant Collections Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Breakout Groups: Presentation Slide Decks Considerations When Choosing Collections Management Software
09/2012	Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Subject Workshop	This workshop seeks to identify ways to engage the public in the ongoing digitization of biodiversity specimens.	Live Audio/Video Main Room: Adobe Connect Breakout Groups: Presentation Slide Decks
10/2012	iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group workshop	In order to identify best practices and to develop tools for this process and plan a hackathon, iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) will hold an “iDigBio Augumenting OCR” workshop October 1-2, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida.	Introduction to iDigBio Slide Set Intro to iDigBio pdf file [Attendee List] [Agenda] Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Breakout Groups: Presentation Slide Decks
10/2012	iDigBio's first Train-the-Trainers Georeferencing Workshop	This "train-the-trainers" workshop is designed to provide the community with more trainers across the USA available to train others to georeference specimen label locality data. Participants are expected to organize and facilitate at least one multi-day georeferencing workshop targeted at the TCNs and other digitization projects of which the participants are representative. The workshop is an intensive 5-day event in Gainesville, Florida October 8 - 12, 2012. The participant list is posted (see column to the right).	Introduction to iDigBio Slide Set Intro to iDigBio pdf file Pre Workshop Survey Questionnaire Attendee List Train the Trainers Map [Agenda] Audio/Visual Recordings Main Room: Breakout Groups: Presentation Slide Decks