Leveraging Digitization

This wiki supports the Leveraging Digitization Practices across Multiple Domains workshop, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 6-9 October 2014.

Agenda and Logistics

• Workshop agenda
• Logistics document
• Loma Pelona Center, workshop venue
• Things to see and do and nearby places to eat in Santa Barbara (including a map)
• Tour Assignment Lists

Report and Photos

• Leveraging Digitization Practices across Multiple Domains Workshop Report

• Leveraging Digitization Facebook Photo Album

Presentations

Tuesday, 7 October, 2014

• Introduction to iDigBio (Gil Nelson)
• Digitizaton Task Clusters and Workflows (Gil Nelson)
• Challenges for small town, rural natural history collections (Mary Beth Prondzinski)
• Citizen science programs (Erica Clites)
• Getting an insect collection ready for digitization at the Illinois Natural History Survey’s InvertNet project (Dmitry Dmitriev)
• NIBA RCN: Organizing and Sustaining a National Community (Robert Gropp)
• Digitization Challenges (Margaret Landis)
• Pre-Digitization Challenges for Wet Collections (N. Dean Pentcheff)
• Getting a collection ready for digitization (Dawn Roberts)
• Challenges In Database Selection and Design (Laura Brenskelle)

Wednesday, 8 October, 2014

• Imaging 3D objects (birds, mammals, butterflies) with stacking for deep focus (Gil Nelson)
• Data Standards: What we can Learn from the Information and Library Sciences (Larry Schmidt)
• Selecting a Camera and Imaging Station (Joanna McCaffrey)
  • Reference: iDigBio Imaging Equipment Recommendations (Joanna McCaffrey) Shopping list
• Moving Data to iDigBio and Other Aggregators (Joanna McCaffrey)
  • Reference: Data Ingestion Guidance (Joanna McCaffrey)
• Databasing Workflows for Paleontology (Erica Clites)
• Databasing workflows for 3D objects in trays and drawers, fluid-preserved invertebrates, and microscopic slides (Paul Valentich-Scott)
• Imaging workflows, equipment configuration, and challenges for 3D objects in drawers and trays (Paul Mayer)
• Database schemas for natural history collections (Laura Brenskelle)
• Imaging Challenges for 3D Objects in Trays and Drawers (Ron Eng)
• Collection Digitization Process and Workflow (Krista Fahy)
• Imaging herbarium specimens (Janet Bala)
• Standards for biodiversity data (Greg Riccardi)
• Specify as a database management tool (Roger Burkhalter)
• Imaging station set­up and configuration (Roger Burkhalter)
• Imaging Standards and Workflows for Dried Insect Collections (Jennifer Thomas)
• Databasing workflows at the University of Wisconsin herbarium (Mark Wetter)
• Digitizing Practices for Invertebrate Collection and Leveraging Beyond (Dan Young)
• Using digitized data in scientific research (Pam Soltis)

Resources

http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm Darwin Core Terms

Remote Access

Remote access will be provided via Adobe Connect and can be reached through the following URL:

http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/santabarbara/

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

Recordings

Tuesday, 7 October, 2014

• 8:30am-10:30am http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p76gkljnn50/
• 11am-12:30pm http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p7kzrqpxxy4/
• 1:15-2pm http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p5eaucqjszz/

Wednesday, 8 October, 2014

• 8:30am-10am http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3q1hg6qqcw/
• 10:15-12pm http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p50txezh291/
• 1-2pm http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p3pbyo3iqe3/
• 3-5pm http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/p8bkuaqw0d8/

Planning Team

• Jennifer Thorsch, Katherine Esau Director, CCBER
• Laurie Hannah, Librarian & Digital Resource Coordinator, CCBER
• Mireia Beas Moix, Collections Manager, CCBER
• Gil Nelson, iDigBio