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*2015 TCN Presentations
*2015 TCN Presentations
**[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/The_Microfungi_Collections_Consortium:_A_Networked_Approach_to_Digitizing_Small_Fungi_with_Large_Impacts_on_the_Function_and_Health_of_Ecosystems The Microfungi Collections Consortium] (Andrew Miller)
**[[The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems| The Microfungi Collections Consortium]] (Andrew Miller)
**Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrates of the East Pacific (Charles Marshall)
**[[Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrate Communities of the Eastern Pacific - Faunal Responses to Environmental Change over the last 66 million years|Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrates of the East Pacific]] (Charles Marshall)
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*2014 TCN Presentations
*2014 TCN Presentations
**Great Lakes Aquatic Invasives: Where are we one year later? (Ken Cameron)
**[[Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes|Great Lakes Aquatic Invasives: Where are we one year later?]] (Ken Cameron)
**InvertEBase: Current Status (Petra Sierwald)
**[[InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts|InvertEBase: Current Status]] (Petra Sierwald)
**SERNEC - TCN: Current status, citizen science and outreach activities (Michael Denslow)
**[[The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot|SERNEC - TCN: Current status, citizen science and outreach activities]] (Michael Denslow)
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*2013 TCN Presentations
**Fossil Insect Collaborative (Dena Smith)
**[[Fossil Insect Collaborative: A Deep-Time Approach to Studying Diversification and Response to Environmental Change|Fossil Insect Collaborative]] (Dena Smith)
**Vouchered Animal Communication Signals (Matthew Medler)
**[[Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals|Vouchered Animal Communication Signals]] (Matthew Medler)
**Macroalgal Herbarium Digitization Project (Christopher Neefus)
**[[The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment|Macroalgal Herbarium Digitization Project]] (Christopher Neefus)
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*Augmented Reality Public Education/Outreach (Anne Basham)
*[[Augmented Reality Public Outreach Working Group|Augmented Reality Public Education/Outreach]] (Anne Basham)
*Augmenting OCR (Deb Paul)
*[[Augmenting OCR]] (Deb Paul)
*Data Management Interest Group (Shelley James)
*[[Data Management Interest Group]] (Shelley James)
*Developing Robust Object to Image to Data (Gil Nelson)
*[[IDigBio Working Groups|Developing Robust Object to Image to Data]] (Gil Nelson)
*Education & Outreach (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden, Mari Roberts)
*[[E&O Working Group|Education & Outreach]] (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden, Mari Roberts)
*Georeferencing Working Group (Deb Paul)
*[[Georeferencing|Georeferencing Working Group]] (Deb Paul)
*WeDigBio: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood)
*[https://wedigbio.org WeDigBio: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections] (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood)
*Small Collections Network &amp; North American Network of Small Herbaria (Gil Nelson)
*[http://scnet.acis.ufl.edu/ Small Collections Network] &amp; [http://nansh.org/portal/ North American Network of Small Herbaria] (Gil Nelson)
*Paleo Digitization Working Group (Talia Karim)
*[[Paleo Digitization Working Group]] (Talia Karim)
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Revision as of 16:58, 19 October 2015


The annual iDigBio Summit is a meeting of representatives from TCNs, iDigBio, and other activities related to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program. The Summit focuses on discussions of shared goals, challenges, opportunities, and collaboration.

Digitizing the Past and Present for the Future
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Summit Quick Links
Announcement
Agenda-at-a-Glance
Biblio Entries
Summit Report

General Information

When: November 4-6, 2015
Where: Hilton Arlington, Arlington, Virginia

Remote Access

To the extent possible, the Summit sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect, and the meeting hosts will monitor the chat to address questions/concerns. To connect, go to https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/summit5/ and choose Enter as Guest, type your first and last name, and then click Enter Room. Remote participants are encouraged to visit the iDigBio Web Conferencing Wiki prior to connecting.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

The Washington Metro is the rapid transit system serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. We encourage all Summit participants to make use of the Metro when travelling in and around D.C. Some useful Metro links: Metrorail Frequency, Trip Planner, and Metrorail Fares.

Area Restaurants

The following is a map of the restaurants in the vicinity of the Hilton Arlington: https://www.google.com/maps/search/restaurants+near+hilton+arlington/@38.8813204,-77.1123815,16z/data=!3m1!4b1

Hilton Arlington Meeting Space Floor Plan

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Agenda-at-a-Glance

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Travel Day for Microfungi TCN, EPICC TCN, iDigBio EAB, and iDigBio Planning Team
Time Pre-Function Space or Other Gallery I-II Gallery III Picasso & DaVinci Matisse
7:00pm
  • Summit Check-In (Dan & Brad's)
  • Informal Welcome Gathering


  • Dinner on Your Own

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Business Meetings; Travel Day for All Other Attendees
Time Pre-Function Space or Other Gallery I-II Gallery III Picasso & DaVinci Matisse
8:00-9:00
  • Breakfast (provided)
  • Summit Check-In
9:00-9:30 Microfungi TCN Meeting
  • The Microfungi Project (Andrew Miller)
  • Digitization Workflows & the MyCoPortal (Elizabeth Lippoldt)
 GBIF Task Force Meeting
9:30-10:30 iDigBio EAB Meeting

(closed session)

10:30-11:00 Break (provided)
11:00-12:30 Microfungi TCN Meeting (continued)
  • The Voice Data Command Control (Phil Anders)
  • The MyCoPortal Taxonomic Thesaurus (Scott Bates)
  • Questions & Answers
 GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
12:30-1:30 Lunch (provided)
1:30-3:00 Welcome to iDigBio for New TCNs (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey, Dan Stoner) GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
3:00-3:30 Break (provided)
3:30-4:30 Introduction to Project Management (David Jennings) GBIF Task Force Meeting (continued)
4:30-5:00 Questions & Answers (David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey, Dan Stoner)
5:30-6:30 Summit Check-In
7:00-Evening
  • Informal Welcome Gathering (Dan & Brad's)


  • Dinner on Your Own

Thursday, November 5, 2015

iDigBio Summit Day 1
Time Pre-Function Space or Other Gallery I-II Gallery III Picasso & DaVinci Matisse
8:00-9:00
  • Breakfast (provided)
  • Summit Check-In
 Poster Setup
9:00-9:30
  • Welcome & Orientation (David Jennings)
  • Welcome from the National Science Foundation (James Olds)
  • NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (Roland Roberts)
9:30-10:20
  • iDigBio Presentations
    • Progress and Challenges for the National Digitization Effort (Larry Page)
    • Digitized Data in Biodiversity Research (Pam Soltis)
    • Education & Outreach (Bruce MacFadden)
    • Enabling Digitization (Greg Riccardi)
    • Cyberinfrastructure Status Report (Jose Fortes)
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:15 Break (provided)
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:15
12:15 Group Photo (Joanna McCaffrey)
12:30-1:30 Lunch (provided)
1:30-2:45 Data Management
(Kevin Love, Alex Thompson) 		Education & Outreach
(Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden) 		iDigBio Resources
(Joanna McCaffrey, David Jennings) 		Ad hoc discussion
2:45-3:45 Break (provided) Working Group & Interest Group Poster Session
3:45-5:00 Research Tool Development
(Pam Soltis) 		iDigSTEAM Workshop
(Anne Basham) 		Project Management
(David Jennings, Joanna McCaffrey) 		Ad hoc discussion
5:00-5:30 DAY 1 WRAP-UP - Breakout Group Summaries
6:30-9:00 Reception at the United States Botanic Garden

Friday, November 6, 2015

iDigBio Summit Day 2
Time Pre-Function Space or Other Gallery I-II Gallery III Picasso & DaVinci Matisse
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (provided)
9:00-9:20
  • Orientation to the Day (David Jennings)
  • Biodiversity Collections Network (Robert Gropp)
9:20-10:00
  • 2012 TCN Presentations
    • Mobilizing New England vascular plant data to track environmental change (Patrick Sweeney)
    • Paleoniches (Susan Butts)
    • The Macrofungi Collection Consortium (Barbara Thiers)
    • Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (Neil Cobb)
10:00-10:30
  • 2011 TCN Presentations
    • InvertNet: Year 5 and Beyond (Christopher Dietrich)
    • The Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network: A summary of four years of progress and learning (Katja Seltmann)
    • Lichen, Bryophytes and Climate Change, 4.2 million records later (Thomas Nash)
10:30-11:00 Break (provided)
11:00-12:10
  • Presentations from National & International Biodiversity Informatics Initiatives
    • Update on BISON, ITIS and EcoINFORMA activities relevant to iDigBio (Stinger Guala)
    • GBIF’s Accelerating the Discovery of Biocollections Data Task Force (Siro Masinde)
    • Getting More From Image Libraries – New Computer Vision Tools (John LaSalle)
    • Brazil's Virtual Herbarium: Outputs, Outcomes and Challenges (Dora Canhos)
    • Biodiversity Information and sharing status in China (Zheping XU)
    • Canadensys: Biodiversity Across the Borders (David Shorthouse)
    • A Network Connecting Science With Conservation (Mary Klein)
12:15-1:15 Lunch (provided)
1:15-2:30 Citizen Science
(Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood, Betty Dunckel) 		Sustainability
(Larry Page, Mary Klein) 		Symbiota Users
(Neil Cobb) 		Ad hoc discussion
2:30-3:30 Break (provided) Working Group & Interest Group Poster Session
  • Augmented Reality Public Education/Outreach (Anne Basham)
  • Augmenting OCR (Deb Paul)
  • Data Management Interest Group (Shelley James)
  • Developing Robust Object to Image to Data (Gil Nelson)
  • Education & Outreach (Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden, Mari Roberts)
  • Georeferencing Working Group (Deb Paul)
  • WeDigBio: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (Austin Mast, Libby Ellwood)
  • Small Collections Network & North American Network of Small Herbaria (Gil Nelson)
  • Paleo Digitization Working Group (Talia Karim)
3:30-4:45 Data Use in Research & Education
(Pam Soltis, Molly Phillips, Bruce MacFadden) 		Attribution
(Shelley James, Gil Nelson) 		Collaboration & Communication
(Deb Paul) 		Ad hoc discussion
4:45-5:15 DAY 2 WRAP-UP - Breakout Group Summaries
5:15-5:45 SUMMIT WRAP-UP (David Jennings, Larry Page)
6:30-Evening Dinner on Your Own

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Travel Day for All Attendees
Time Pre-Function Space or Other Gallery I-II Gallery III Picasso & DaVinci Matisse
8:00-12:00 Breakfast on Your Own

Checkout by 12 noon

Report

Participants

Photos

Presentations

Recorded Presentations

Recordings

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