Summit 2014

This wiki provides resources for iDigBio's fourth annual Summit held at the University of Florida, October 27-28, 2014. The Summit is a meeting of representatives from TCNs, iDigBio, and other initiatives related to the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit focuses on discussion of shared goals, challenges, opportunities, and collaboration.

Agenda, Logistics, and Other Information

• iDigBio Summit IV Agenda [Updated 10/21/2014] Schedule including talks, posters, demonstrations, & discussion sessions
• iDigBio Summit IV Technical Information [Updated 10/13/2014] Info about length of talks, electronic posters, demonstrations, etc.
• iDigBio Summit IV Logistics Information [Updated 9/30/2014] Info about transportation, check-in, wireless, reimbursements, etc.
• iDigBio Summit IV Walking Map [Updated 9/30/2014] Walking map from the Hilton to the Florida Museum of Natural History
• iDigBio Summit IV Participants [Updated 10/30/2014] Contact information for the onsite and remote participants in Summit IV
• Downtown Gainesville Restaurant Map [Updated 10/28/2014] Map of restaurants in downtown Gainesville

Remote Access

To the extent possible, the Summit sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect. The meeting hosts will monitor the chat to address any questions or concerns.

• To connect, go to https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/summit4/ and choose Enter as Guest, type your first and last name, and then click Enter Room.

Remote participants are encouraged to visit the iDigBio Web Conferencing Wiki and view the Adobe Connect Quick Start Guide.

Discussion Notes

• Advancing Education and Outreach Discussion Group
• Project Management, Administration, and Mentoring Discussion Group
• Future Uses of Data in Research Discussion Group
• Data Management Discussion Group
• Using the iDigBio API to Address Research Uses
• Citizen Science Projects Discussion Group
• Next Steps for the iDigBio Portal Discussion Group
• Open Forum Discussion Group

Report

• Summit IV Report

Presentations

Day 1

• Day 1 Intro to iDigBio Summit IV- David Jennings
• Introduction to Summit IV; Overview, Progress and Challenges- Larry Page
• Research Coordination & Scientific Community Outreach: Summit 2014- Pamela Soltis
• Education & Public Outreach- Bruce MacFadden
• Optimization of Digitization Workflows and Processes- Gil Nelson
• iDigBio Search Portal CYWG- Jose Fortes
• Great Lakes Invasives- Ken Cameron
• The Key to the Cabinets to Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot- Zack Murrell
• Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts in North America- Petra Sierwald
• Fossil Insect Collaborative- Talia Karim
• Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals- Matthew Medler
• Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium TCN iDigBio Summit- Chris Neefus
• Mobilizing New England vascular plant data to track environmental change- Patrick Sweeney
• Paleoniches: digitizing fossils to enable new syntheses in biogeography- Una Farrell
• The Macrofungi Collections Consortium- Barbara Thiers
• SCAN: A Data Portal Built to Visualize, Manipulate, and Export Species Occurrences- Neil Cobb
• InvertNet: 2013-14 Progress and Goals- Chris Dietrich
• Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the study of Tri-Trophic Associations- Katja Seltmann
• Digitizing North American lichen and bryophyte specimens- Corinna Gries/ Edward Gilbert/ Thomas Nash III

Day 2

• Day 2 Intro to iDigBio Summit IV- David Jennings
• Updates from NSF- Judith Skog
• NIBA RCN: Organizing and Sustaining a National Community- Robert Gropp
• National Specimen Information Infrastructure of China- Keping Ma
• GBIF and iDigBio- Donald Hobern
• Digitization for Conservation: A natural partnership- Mary Klein
• Atlas of Living Australia- John La Salle
• Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation- Elizabeth Martin
• Chinese Field Museum- Keping Ma
• Wrap up Summit IV- Larry Page

Recorded Presentations

Day 1

• Research Coordination & Scientific Community Outreach: Summit 2014- Pamela Soltis
• Education & Public Outreach- Bruce MacFadden
• Optimization of Digitization Workflows and Processes- Gil Nelson
• iDigBio Search Portal CYWG- Jose Fortes
• Great Lakes Invasives- Ken Cameron
• Education & Public Outreach- Bruce MacFadden
• Optimization of Digitization Workflows and Processes- Gil Nelson
• iDigBio Search Portal CYWG- Jose Fortes
• Great Lakes Invasives- Ken Cameron
• Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts in North America- Petra Sierwald
• Fossil Insect Collaborative- Talia Karim
• Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals- Matthew Medler
• Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium TCN iDigBio Summit- Chris Neefus
• Mobilizing New England vascular plant data to track environmental change- Patrick Sweeney
• Paleoniches: digitizing fossils to enable new syntheses in biogeography- Una Farrell
• The Macrofungi Collections Consortium- Barbara Thiers
• A Data Portal Built to Visualize, Manipulate, and Export Species Occurrences- Neil Cobb
• InvertNet: 2013-14 Progress and Goals- Chris Dietrich
• Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the study of Tri-Trophic Associations- Katja Seltmann
• Digitizing North American lichen and bryophyte specimens- Corinna Gries/ Edward Gilbert/ Thomas Nash III

Posters

Invertebrate Imaging Working Group
International Whole Drawer Imaging Group

Recordings

Day1

9am-10:30am http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p200bwajs19/
10:45am-12:30pm http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p1mjexs764f/
Breakout Group: Future Uses of Data in Research http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4ehzygbmr1/
Breakout Group Reports http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p7chinsk1d8/

Day2

9am-10:50am http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p2l9zjiqc15/
Breakout Group: Next Steps for the iDigBio Portal http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p24yzfq3yfg/
Breakout Group Reports http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3ecdtpgo9e/
Demo Session http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p4gmkcdirbj/
Summit Wrap Up http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p7ti1l0sb95/

Planning Team

• Larry Page, iDigBio Project Director
• David Jennings, iDigBio Project Manager
• Kevin Love, iDigBio IT Expert
• Cathy Bester, iDigBio Project Assistant