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*** 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. | *** 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. | ||
Revision as of 10:03, 12 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 (DP, KL, MC)
- 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 (or a firm like them)
- Website update and sustainability
- 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?
- Historical Knowledge and Documents
- 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
- K-12 initiatives
- The value of blitzes and hackathons