Paleo Digitization Workshop

Paleontology Digitization Workshop wiki

This is the wiki page for the paleo digitization workshop held at the Yale Peabody Museum, late September, 2013.

Agenda

• Working Draft Agenda

Workshop Recordings

• Day 1 AM Session 8am-10:15am
• Day 1 AM Session 10:30-11:45am
• Day 1 PM Session 1pm-2:45pm

• Day 2 AM Session 8am-10:30am
• Day 2 AM Session 10:45am-12pm
• Day 2 PM Session 1:15-3:05pm
• Day 2 PM Session 3:15-4:25pm

Logistics

• A few last minute details from email of 2013-09-04
• 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

Collaborative Notes Documents

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Database discussion notes

Presentations

• Introduction to iDigBio and Data Standards, Gil Nelson
• Digitization of paleontology collections: An overview, Chris Norris
• Engaging downstream users of paleocollections through iDigBio E&O (Education and Outreach), Bruce MacFadden
• Integrating with existing digitization initiatives, Dena Smith
• Fossil Insect Collaborative A deep-time approach to studying diversification and response to environmental change, Dena Smith
• PaleoNiches TCN, Una Farrell
• Digitization workflow lightning rounds
• Managing digitization personnel and workflows, Larry Gall
• iDigBio 3D Objects in drawers and boxes workflows, Gil Nelson
• YPM-IP workflow with voice recognition imaging, Susan Butts
• Creating workflows for effective data migration and imaging in an invertebrate paleontology collection, Ann Molineux
• Undertaking digitization in the NMNH paleobiology collection and digitization strategies at the Smithsonian Institution, Kathy Hollis
• Specimens from federal lands, Dena Smith
• Workflows for digitizing vertebrate paleontology, Chris Norris
• Predigitization practices, Jessica Utrup
• Georeferencing paleontology collections, Una Farrell & Jessica Utrup
• Digital Imaging Basics:From Y2K to the Present, Roger Burkhalter
• 3D Digitization of Biological Specimens, Binil Starly
• Digitizing Peabody Paleo: history, EMu, portals & campus-wide digital infrastructures at Yale, Larry Gall
• Specify, Una Farrell & Talia Karim
• Arctos for paleontology collections: Examples from the University of Alaska Museum earth sciences collection digitization project, Julie Rousseau
• OpenRefine, Una Farrell
• Digitizing multi-disciplinary collections: a collaborative approach at the University of Iowa, Tiffany Adrain
• Imaging in amber, Dave Grimaldi
• How to photograph paleobotany & micropaleontology specimens at SNOMNH: A work in progress, Margaret Landis
• Imaging lightning rounds, Jessica Utrup, emcee

Workflows

• DROID 4 Workflows (DRAFT): 3D Objects in Boxes and Drawers

Documents

• NMNH Unit Digitization Plan 2013, Kathy Hollis
• NMNH Digital Asset Management Plan Template, Kathy Hollis
• NMNH Digital Asset Management Plan EMU, Kathy Hollis
• University of Texas scripts
• Comparison between Arctos and Specify (from a decidely Arctos perspective)
• NMNH Paleo Guidelines for Specimen Images
• Paul Selden's workflow (including hardware and software notes) for imaging fossil spiders

Workshop Planning Team

• Gil Nelson, iDigBio
• Susan Butts, Yale Peabody Museum
• Una Farrell, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas
• Austin Hendy, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Talia Karim, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Chris Norris, Yale Peabody Museum
• Jessica Utrup, Yale Peabody Museum