Digitizing-From-Source-Materials

Workshop Date: 9-13 March 2014

• Workshop Announcement

Pre-workshop Survey

• Results of pre-workshop survey

Agenda and Logistics Documents

• Tentative Agenda
• Collaboration Document

Logistics

• Workshop logistics
• Breakfast places and opening times near the Omni
• A few recommendations for eating in New Haven
• Walking map from the Omni to the Peabody Museum

Presentations

• Introduction to iDigBio (Gil Nelson)
• Digitizing From Source Materials: Developing a Shared Definition (Rusty Russell)
• Source Materials: Standards, exchange,dissemination, and integration (James Macklin)
• Moving to Sharing Relationships among Things (Greg Riccardi
• Digital Object and Text Encoding Standards (Terry Catapano)
• Archival Standards in Practice (Christina Fidler)
• Archive Standards (Larry Gall)
• Strategies for Integrating Source Materials and PaleobiologyCollections (Pat Holroyd)
• Original Source Documentation--Botany (Rich Rabeler)
• Digitizaton of Source Materials in Vertebrate Collections (Andy Bentley)
• Absence Data and Digitizing Source Material for Research (Sarah Schmits)
• Notes From Nature (Rob Guralnick)
• Transcribing the Joseph Grinnell field notes (Christina Fidler)
• iDigBio Original Sources FromThe Page (Ben Brumfield)

Shared Documents

• Pre-Workshop Homework 1 - List Source Materials (xlsx)
• Pre-Workshop Homework 2 - Why Digitize Source Materials (docx)
  • Shari Ellis, Project Evaluator, coded our responses.
• Mapping Source Materials to Standard Terms (google doc)
  • Christina Fidler mapped Pre-Workshop Homework 1 to the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
  • We can use this to help document where we have standards gaps or need to look at other standards.
• Original Source Workflows Categorization: Group the terms (google doc)
• Field Notebook Digitization: Richer data augments narratives (Mark O'Brien, UMMZ)

Workshop Recordings

Day 1:

• Day1 8:30am-10am
• Day1 10:30am-11:15am
• Day1 11:45am-12pm
• Day1 1pm-1:45
• Day1 3pm-3:30pm

Day 2:

• Day2 8:30am Intro
• Day2 10:40am-12:30pm
• Day2 1:40pm-2:30pm
• Day2 3pm-5pm

Day3:

• Day3 8:30am-

Planning Meeting Agendas

• First meeting summary, 18 June 2013
• Meeting agenda, 30 August 2013

Planning Team Documents

• Workshop proposal
• iDigBio Steering Committee approval
• Planning Notes
• Survey review notes
• Email text to accompany survey

Planning Team

• Christina Fidler, U. C. Berkeley
• Larry Gall, Yale
• Michelle Koo, U. C. Berkeley
• James Macklin, AAFC
• Gil Nelson, iDigBio
• Deb Paul, iDigBio
• Rusty Russell, Smithsonian
• Carolyn Sheffield, Smithsonian
• Barbara Thiers, NYBG
• Tim White, Yale

Remote Participation

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