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==Ideas for discussion topics at the Retreat== | ==Ideas for discussion topics at the Retreat== | ||
* Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary | * Share information from our meeting with NSF, including the new cooperative agreement and panel review summary | ||
* Everyone watch this video together | |||
**[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 | * How to make our training sustainable | ||
** Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability | ** Converting our training materials for posterity/sustainability | ||
Revision as of 15:00, 10 November 2015
- When: Friday, November 20, 2015 - 8:00am to 5:00pm EST
- Where: 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
- 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
- Funding for participant support will be declining after 2017
- Perhaps partner with Coursera
- Website update and sustainability
- 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 they supposed to be doing?
- Citizen Science — is it in scope?
- K-12 initiatives
- The value of blitzes and hackathons